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Slow speed is the rule on this freeway at Enyu Island.

Jack Tobin, a representative of the Trust

Territory, is advising the cleanup force on what
material and which buildings will be of use to the

Bikinians. Of the thousands of concrete padsscat-

tered over the atoll most are being removed, but
a few will be retained for use as copra drying
yards. Useable wood ts being stacked for future
utilization.
Debris on Bikini, principally rusted metal and

broken concrete, is being stacked for disposal

after Enyu is cleaned. Main activity in late April
on Bikini, the largest island in the atoll, was the
stripping operation. Twenty-four-foot-wide planting strips are bulldozed 56 feet apart. Sixty-thousand coconut trees will be planted in the strips.
The undergrowth is knocked down and allowed
to remain tor humus and mulch for the young

trees. The strips are laid out with a transit line

and run the long way of the two-mile-long island.
Following rehabilitation of the two largest
islands, Bikini and Enyu, cleanup operations will
continue on the smaller islands. Perhaps in six
months time the whole atoll will be clean of
debris and scrub vegetation and agricultural development mayproceed.
First step in the agricultural redevelopment

will occur soon when eight Bikinians will be

brought from Kili to their homeatoll. Here they
will be employed by the Department of Interior/ Trust Territory to start a coconut nursery.
Coconuts are first planted in nursery beds, then
transplanted after sprouting to permanent plantation rows. On Bikini they begin bearing at
six to eight years. Sometime next month a rodent10

Charles Dunlap, Holmes and Narver, with transit and

radio directs bulldozer hidden in the overgrowth which

is being knocked down in 24-foot-wide strips for coconuttrees.

The chapel on Enyu Island, built for the men on nuclear
test operations, has been refurbished for use. E. L.
“Dutch” Robertson, an electrician and lay minister, devoted his spare time to restoring this building and conducted regular Sunday services for the men of the clean-

up crew.

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