Word: houston
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Little Del Northway, 4, of Houston was not happy. The kids would not play with him. He ran to his mother crying, "Why are they mean to me?" Mrs. Northway was not happy either. None of her neighbors had called on her, she said, "since the men with the Geiger counters came." Her bit of Houston was still trying to adjust itself to an accident that may become commonplace in the Atomic...
...trouble began March 13 when H. E. Northway, Del's father and manager of the Houston plant of M. W. Kellogg Co., was opening a shipment of intensely radioactive pellets of iridium 192, which Kellogg's nuclear division uses to take X-ray pictures of heavy metal objects. Helped by Jackson McVey and two other men, and working with remote-control apparatus from behind a thick shield, Northway opened the 800-lb. shipping container, took out the sealed metal canister full of deadly pellets and put it on a remotely controlled lathe. When the lathe's tool...
...April 11, 29 days after the accident, W. B. Converse, manager of Kellogg's nuclear division, made a routine visit to the Houston plant. The monitoring instruments told him that something was wrong. He shut the plant and called in experts of Tracerlab Inc. to check and decontaminate. He did not report the spill to the Atomic Energy Commission. The other Kellogg people tried to keep it quiet too-no easy job. The Tracerlab men with their instruments attracted unavoidable attention, and rumors flew thick. Both the Northway and McVey houses proved to be radioactive. So were the hair...
...last the spill was reported to the AEC, and a news item from Washington told the Houston papers. A wave of hysteria beat on the Kellogg plant and the people concerned with its accident. Friends of Mrs. Northway refused to ride to church in her car. Excitement increased when the Northway and McVey houses were vigorously decontaminated...
Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman Clint Murchison and others, the process eliminates the blast furnace and promises to smelt iron cheaper and faster...