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Flyin Vee

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  1. Just a kid born and growing up in the blue collar town across the river. I fished the stretch of river from day island to ferry street. I remember the landfill that was the river bank. My favorite book was Huck Fin.

     

    in 1959 my mother worked at Del Hoffs ice cream Parlor for several years. Del Hoffs was a popular hang out for the basketball team. We went to a basketballs game. I do not remember who the ducks played, it did not matter, I was hooked. If truth were told I waited until half time or snuck into more games in my youth than I have paid for as an adult.

  2. Dotted along the rim of the grand canyon are remnants of uranium mines. The NRC regulates the closure, under the uranium mine and tailings reclamation act (UMTRA). My point is one of his films was shot in the Utah staircase area. Also known now, but unknown at the time to have very high background levels of uranium. The company had finished with the outdoor shooting and the director John Ford decided to load 90 rail cars of soils and rock to use on the movie set in Hollywood. Uranium from a external Gamma dose is not that high. However the primary radiation hazard is the alpha radiation through ingestion of dust, etc..

     

    within 20 years of that movie -all who worked on it died of some form of cancer.

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