PRIVACY ACT MALENIAL mums -—- _. Cont up vo prospect Lor uraniun. “A11 of a uudden thoir de bo Saat thoy bad to turn them down," ha gaid. or counters began clicking "Lt rinully daymoed on uo that this waa ag cay when it weon't heaitiy to ba outdoors, and juct about that time we hoard radio warnings telling us to got inside." > a dairy farmer on the south cdza of town, remembers the tests woll. th 9 docs Ais con, Walter, now a physics teacher at the high school. They woro half say ythrough tho milidng when the Mrst‘one wont off, tho father recallc. "It was cust getting lignt, carly in tho morning, and the whole sky suddenly lit up. Tho wlact Like te shook tho corzsals dowm, and tho cows wore so frightened thoy hold back ene malic! | "ie wag like a flash picture taken right in your face," said e "I counted wig time from the flashane 121 minutes and 20 seconds later you could feel and hoar “si Those are somo of tha atomic images that flicker through the memories of St. _Goorgo citdzens, What brings thom freshly to mind today is tho most intensivo, though long over-—duo, investigation of fallout effects on humans ever conductod ia tho United States. Subjects of the study are the children of this srca. Gai, TRee te Most of theny ware too young to remember the shots of the 1950's, but they wore defititely exposed, 4 mainly through fallout-contaminated milk, and presumably at the most vulnerable ages 3 Certainiy no one can doubt the importance of the study. For whother we like Av or not we Gre neck-deep in the atomic ora, taking 1ts risks along with its benefits, some of which are still debatable. What the oxperts hope to derive from the St. Csorge children is a better definition of "safe limits" of radiation, if, indeod a any Lovell can accurately be called safe. At the moment PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED