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An hour and a halfs flying time from Adelaide is Woomera, Australian atom town, which will probably be the base for the Explosion, some time this year, of Britain's Arst atomia weapon.

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WOOME

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ATOM TOWN Protect Your FAMILY'S

More hush-hush than

Siberia-and that

is only the start

from PETER DUFFIELD

the

Pr

Ice- fac- week

Nor 'can the girl mbaning her, theodolite, and instruments for tracking missiles, relata her filings to the whole

Meanwhile every observer in Austraila expects the existing al- security regulations, that ready make Woomera Aus- tralia's least known town, to be doubled or tripled for the atom test.

Ever since 1047, when 20 scientists set up house

and grimy tents

comfortless mess-halls, each Woomera, ar-

PRIACINAM

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In

FOOD ENERGY

next front gardens, a cinema, a rival has been closely. guard-

ed,

closely watche... church or two, and, an

Security work for the atom cream worka a cordial

tert will conkaus under the cary and a urines of en plane trip three times a Australian Army and Common- under wealth security service to Adelaide,

Colonel Spry, but it is expect- ed her

here that security will bo lightened and eventufully given over to Sir Percy Suite, of the British Secret Service.

MELBOURNE. 16N Dr William

un horizon gat, as that of Penney, Sir John the ocean is

real Chelteroft and Sir Woomeru. This is the rocket Harry Garner range, the nuclear test beach in any part of which Britain's lea Britain's firat ntom- atom bomb may be

dropped, Bring team to Australia, or fired, or projected. rone time this year, they

UTTERLY DESOLATE will move-unless there is a double bluff more complex Phan any security double THIS part of the country is sh and Australlant

already "inner secret" bluff yet envisaged into a and not merely prohibited. desert area 48 hush-hush Woomera rockei range, where

good as any part of the world, any

Australian book- maker will give you adds-on outside Siberia.

today that Britain's Arst alem area is currently will be spent, torth-western That

stretches 1,200 known as Woomera..

And the name Woomera

—

what

is a kind of bluff in itsell. might have been design the

DR

IT'S THE FRINGE

\RIVE a score of mica pre- side Adelaide heading north and little west from the capital of South Australia, the place where the fourth Test matches are played, and where the bes:

wines are marketed-and you An Salisbury.

That

jy the beginning of Australia's laboratory for rac ket, electronica and seere

armaments.

iniles on to -the hor

Australia ceas.

through of what 15 by nature and

territory in moat forbidding the Commonwealth.

utterly desolate, Geologically prehistoric try of sand, gibberstones, sait- bush and rough grass.

An

coun-

A further 1,500 ssa mile beyond the coes he tat Chris mas Islands, giving nearly 3,000

range.

like វព

It is a place where the climate allows for 350 open-air rocket research days a year and where they grow One Eng

cabbages and strawberries.

Meanwhile what of opinion--- outside the people who today form the population. of Wcamera? Most

mil

There is electricity for as well as refrigerators. people have washing machines.

of But the proximity

the town of Woomern suburban to the South Australian capital

and not.

Will has not, does never mean that it is easy to get either up to or down from Woomera,

SWORN TO SECRECY

MOST

OST housewives stay to: one year in the e shantytown

NEXT—THE MOON?

AUSTRALIA

on the whole Icels pride not the Com- major evcat in monwealth's alean research should take place In thele

homeland-but there are some misgivings at the im- minent arrival of the atom in- to the corner of the unguarded Southern Hemisphere.

doesn't know." "One

one

would

for

without a trip into Adelaide.stic garage man said: "quite Men and women alike are whether to laugh or cry,"

Even mece advanced was the Australian miles of sea and land artillery sworn to secrecy. They are vet- forecast that Australia

ted and screened more closely become not only the base on the fringe of the central

atomic ex- Woomera itself, pocket capl- Australian desert than anywhere the fist British tal of the rocket range.

lies

plosion but also the launching else on earth. virtually on the coast, a mero

itsel In Woomera

elmast for the first British rocket 300 miles inland. It is a capi nothing is known of the work is the moon, toi

grown

Anglo- Iranian oil town in Persia, out dens la the rocket range piyona, The usual security process of sand and rock and sweat, whereby one individual knows

There you find Suburbin

OWI: only the detalls of his with men and women leaning

phase of work and none. or discussing fences

the whole fully operative. another's gardens and their

Only tiny handful of men children.

at the top, for instance, know the complete results of trials of recent rocket flights. A man who drives a another loon tyre jeep searching deep modernity in the desert for pleces

brick, fallen rocket will know noth- houses, ing of what his findings prove.

Take a acornfly for an hour and a half from Ade- laide in the sume direction and you

hit Woomern. A convenient site name for wha: is really the fringe or begin- ning of a vast, largely un- known, largely uncharted de- seri tract.

Woomera the town-ihe name

is aboriginal for a spear or catapult is a "prohibited"

area.

What lies beyond-an enor mous red dust desert sea, with

over

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At 48, with the most promising part of his to come, Brock is career piling up such astonishing a,c.chlevements, that I believe he will be remembered as the greatest surgcon of апу previous

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HE is the first man who has dared to operate Inside the heart with such BUCCESS that his methods have been copied throughout the world.

HE. is the first to remedy, a. acfective human heart by operat- ing directly on

ly on its faulty valves. ITE is the first to save life by thu reemingly impossible process

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For these Intricate operations

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Brock was greatly tempted to play safe and sbandon this operation. But that would have been to admit defeat which has never been the nature of the ploneer.

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Doctors say it is the only disorder in which tempera- ture reactions are reversed.

Reports of the latest case are being studied with much interest by British doctors.

A U.S. naval officer com- plained of feeling ill after eating some "amberjacka fish found along the Atlan- tie coast of America, from equal promise? New Jersey to Brazil. give you Arst Bristol's 42-year-old Grey Walter and London's John Zachary Young, 44;

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-The poison does tot stem to harm the fish. But their flesh is made poisonous to human beings and animals."

laboratory Amberjacks are believed doctor writes in a case report with the hospital ward is Peter to feed on plankton (tiny "The Medawar, at 36 a full promarine creatures) which on a 42-year-old man, result was excellent, and the fessor in London University.

Helped by a first-rate team re themselves contaminat- THOUGH Brock is outwardly patient is now back at his job.”,

ed by some, unidentified at arsiulants Medawar. 13 unassuming, unly a man with Brock's own records describe making Important discoveries poison. an almost swashbuckling con- fidence in his capability would almost daily experiences in the about skin grafts on which the 1

operation theatre which are as plastic surrcons build have dared to take auch risks, matters of life and death in the hopes. But to men of his temperament grind harole manner, professional honour is

on his 41st highly prized than personal This case-report

"blue baby" operation-on FN Merrie And etch time Brock makes a five-year-old girl who had never thon 350 years ago, bold

forward step which other had the strength to walk-is portunity for exploration restricted discovery wun surgeons rate to dangerous he typical- risks that greas reputation of "She sopped breathing and favoured few. Now the fletd his,

It was only with the greatest is open to anyone with access In their usually impersonal difficulty that the anaesthetist to a laboratory or the key to a reports Brock's colleagues feel could influe her lungs. Then backroom. compelled repeatedly to pay him her heart stopped.

The laboratories arc buzzing public tribute.

"Adrenalin was given and with new ideas and there is courage artificial respiration continued. youth and ability with ⠀ considerable

enough to to again, but bring glory

the Second Mr R C. Brock agreed tą per The heart started form pulmonary valvulotomy spontaneous, respiration did not Elizabethan Era.

(& 'heart-valve Operation), begin for, 40 minutes.

(London Expreza Service)

prestige.

By Ernie Bushmiller

At first lohthyoloxism causes sickness and abdominal pain.

Later symptoms are nervous, including paralysis, tingling of the skin, and an upset. of the mechanism by which we can judge the temperature of objects by touch,"

A doctor Investigating an epi demic of fich poisoning in the Gilbert Islands, Paciflà. Ocean, found that patients believed thelf hands were being washed in ley? 'water,.

In reality was quite warm.

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