RADIUM SEARCH PUTS COUNTERS TO TEST 
The team cf monitors that mil 
steer Bikini 
Re survey personnel away from and around whatever 
hazards last summer’s two Crossroads atomic bomb 
have left, had a full dress rehearsal Sunday. 
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Resurvey Project Officer, Captain C. L. Engl era n sent the 
Geiger counter equipped teams scurrying through the CHILTON Sunday 
in search of a missing container of radium. 
This radium, carried aboard the CHILTON for instrument cali¬ 
bration purposes, had been secreted earlier by CDR E. S. Gilfillan, 
Jr,, Technical Director, 
The first two monitors to locate the missing radium were 
LTJG B. D. LaMar and ENS J. T. .fatson. They checked in with 
Captain Engl email 70 minutes later, proving that you can’t hide 
radium on the CHILTON and get away 'with it. 
Twenty minutes later all the monitors had located the radium 
where it had been secreted inside a furled flag attached to a 
halyard on the CHILTON’S mainmast. 
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Captain Engleman’s ’’witch hunt" demonstrated that Geiger 
counters can sniff out radioactivity wherever it exists. One 
group of monitors including Mr. P. T. Ellard, 2nd LT C. B. 
Mackenzie, and 1st LT E. G. Haliigan were convinced they had 
found the radium in the ship’s tailor'shop, 
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Their radiation source turned out to be a locker full of 
luminous buttons used during the war. Another monitor located 
a second radium instrument calibration source in a stateroom.- 
Others picked up the x-ray equipment in the ship’s dental office 
and Sick Bay. \ . 
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The CHILTON’S skipper, Captain W. R. Lajeunesse, was so 
impressed with the bloodhound-like qualities of the Geiger 
counters that he’s all for mixing up some radioactive potion 
for the stray rats in the ship’s hold and sending monitors out 
looking for it. CDR Gilfillan, on hearing the suggestion,, said 
monitors wouldn’t be necessary. The diet itself would be lethal... 
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DR. SCHULTE FINDS SIX FORMER STUD MTS IN RL SURVEY GROUP 
when Dr. L. P. Schultz, curator cf fishes for the U. S. 
National Museum, addressed the CHILTON seminar last Thursday, 
he could look around the audience and count six former students. 
All of them are new members of the University of Washington 
group, headed by Dr. L. A. Donaldson. The six, including Dr* 
Donaldson, who is now director of Applied Fishery at the University 
of Washington and Consultant for the Atomic Energy Commission, 
wore students in the College of Fisheries at Seattle when Dr. 
Schultz was on the faculty there from 1928 to 1936. 
During that time, Dr. Donaldson, Dr. A. D. Welander, 
Clarence pautzko, R. C. Meigs, A. H. Seymour, and Richard Foster 
were students in his classes* 
Pacific expeditions are no novelty to Dr. Schultz. He 
rerticipated in Operation Crossroads last year, spanning near y 
five months at Bikini. In 1939 Dr. Schultz accompanied a Navy 
expedition to the riioenix Islands and diu men research on 
tropical fishes there. 
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ddition to his three Pacific trips, Dr. Schultz, in 1942, 
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participated in a scientific expeuition to Venezuela, 
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