Ste Georgo = 2 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMGVED and Mevenchuan's Flatu, Ste. Goorge hau raceived the heavieut dugting of Palloutes 1C0 to 1,000 tines tha natlonal avaraye, doponding on now it'a counted. "Whon tho wind was consicorcd ‘favorable! for a chow, that moant tho cloud would como ‘ A cabbicts occupational cyndedan acide, the rocords do’ show that in tho decada batwooen 1952 and 1962 St. George and otImr communities of Washington CoundyLiurrieano, Enterprise, New Harmony--saw considerably more that thoir share oF awmic action. “eny wornspeople vividly recall tho dlasts that iit up tho oaray dawn and «mmited, as Ronald McArthur of tha school administration put it,fam —“liko a hord of cattle ona stampede down the valley." The mayor, i proprietor of the Dixie Appliance Store on North 1 ‘Maan Stroet, was deor-bunting on horseback when two of the autumn shots wore ‘fired. - "I wuld sit on my horse and watch the explosions," he recalled. "First a*d& sce the flash and thon foal the jay, and it would startle the horso. And then i'c hear the boom. On another occasion, a spring day, I was punching cattle on the Tools desert, near Mormon Mesa, much closer to the toast sito, and that tims i could plainly sco the cloud itself." | | tWhon I got back toward town, I found the police wore stopping cara, checking ¥ thon with Goiger counters to sce how 'hot' thoy were, and giving out slips for a froo wash job to got rid of tho radioactive dust." . who with his father, | does much of the toun's doctoring, tells how he was standing on that same day, May 19, 1953, Gutcide tho Twin Oaks Motel tallding with some geologists who'd ~ PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED ,