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pal Airport HopesfKoidol-rst-lies 15a nyyir5t,tomto•ydidingig-fm-mlief»enIndthet-then,Indrtsfpl|m,tinlelele-ledidlersstsISlefFirst of 7,000 Men Arrive for Atom TestPublic Atomic Weapon Test is Scheduled This Month in Southern NevadaBy UNITED PRESS The vanguard of more than 7,000 Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force personnel to participate in the forthcoming “public” atomic.weapon test will begin arriving at Laa Vegas today, it was disclosed last night. vThe test, first “public” A-bomb blast inside the continental U. S. A., is expected to be staged early in the week beginning April 20, weather permitting.Units of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division will beginlanding at Indian Springs Air Force -Base, about 25 miles from the a. a A ■ ■■Street Alley Paving Hearing Set for MondayOther Matters Slated For;Clty Council Sessionsouthern Nevada atomic test site, tomorrow morning. They will be flown to Indian Springs from Texas in C-124 transports by the 18th Air Force.Arriving by convoy tomorrow will be the Army’s 31st Truck Transportation Company, a unit of the Sixth Army on the Pacific coast.On Monday, selected units of the 31st Infantry Division will reach Indian Springs by plane, followed on Tuesday by participating units of the 47th Infantry Division.These unite plus the 82nd Airborne havejhst completed a two-month'joint Army-Air Force maneuver, Exercise Longhorn/' at Fort Hood, Tex.They will be joined by about 2,000 Marines, comprising two battalion combat teams, and about 750 Air Force and Navy personnel in the second maneuver in U. S. military history employing live atomic weapons.The leathernecks will participate In the A-bomb test for the first time in a role other than as observers.The atomic maneuver, to be witnessed at a distance of between seven and ten miles by observers from the nation’s press and radio, is expected to involve a so-called baby A-bomb packing a tremendous explosive wallop dropped from a speeding bomber overhead. There are indications the air burst may be the highest atomic blast in history.The military participants will be quartered at Camp Desert Rock, a dusty, wind-swept military camp built on the southern fringe of the vast southern Nevada atomic test site.TRVCKEE RIVER REPORTYesterday’s flow at 4:80 p.m.:Farad: No report. Believed to be 8,000 cubic feet per second.Reno: Approximately 8,500 cubic feel, per second.Forecatt: Very little change In the river flow Is expected today.Public hearing on Reno's 1952 ( street and alley paving program will feature Mohday night’s regular meeting of the Reno city councilAnyone either protesting or in support of proposed paving slated for doing this year Is asked to be present at the session, and make known his or her ideas.Deletions can be made from the tentative improvement program, but no new items can be added. Judging by letters to the council, several alleys in the southeast part of town may result in some controversy. At least one alley has supporters pro and con the paving this year.Among other items of city business are opening of bids for storm drain pipe and a petition for annexation. The annexation request, which is slated for presentation to the council Monday, concerns a small portion of land in the Arlington Ave.-Plumb Lane vicinity which was once a part of Freedom, a section whose residents heartily protested a proposed annexation Some years ago, and even suggested sotting up their own township.TTie storm drain is slated for installation in the vicinity of Eleventh St.Bids will not be ready for the proposed park lighting project, as the matter is still being investigated. -16 Nevada Menu u g. -u
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Nevada State Journal
Reno, Nevada, US
Sun, Apr 13, 1952
Page 4
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