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Box 11

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Contains 15 Results:

Jimmie Singer, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Singer, a Navajo miner, spoke briefly with Kathy Biel about his work experiences and mining accidents (8 pages).

Dates: 1970

Harry Sombrero, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
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Sombrero, a young Navajo miner, spoke with Kathy Biel about his schooling and the Navajo police force (6 pages).

Dates: 1970

Esther Somerville, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
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Somerville, a Moab school teacher, was interviewd by Steve Guttman. Subjects: background, job as city recorder, claims, uranium boom and Moab, schools, post office, other counties (32 pages).

Dates: 1970

Germaine Steele, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 7
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Steele spoke with Clare Engle in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: schooling in Uravan, parents and teachers, high school, activities, minorities, the "old house," tailings and health hazards, lung cancer, radiation, community activities, poaching and food, women employees, graduates, politics (55 pages).

Dates: 1970

Raymond Sullivan, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 8
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Sullivan, a mining engineer, spoke with Clare Engle in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: mining in the 1940s, the Manhattan Project, discoveries on the Colorado Plateau, forming a company, the AEC and VCA, drilling at Calamity, Charlie Steen, air drilling and Tungsten-Carbide bits, USGS and AEC supervision, buying and selling ore, the Geiger counter, opportunities and current activities (47 pages).

Dates: 1970

Robert Sundwall, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 9
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Sundwall was interviewed by Steve Guttman. Subjects: job as school principal, problems of boom, effect of boom on education (11 pages).

Dates: 1970

Eugene Tapahonso, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 10
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Kathy Biel spoke with seventy-three year old Eugene Tapahonso at his home in Shiprock, New Mexico. Subjects: personal background, staking claims, Navajo workers, sheep reduction program, schools, oil and uranium royalties, tribal council, Navajos and Utes, young Navajos, Navajos and Anglos, his farm, army experience, land rights, mining accidents (43 pages).

Dates: 1970

Estalee Silver, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 1
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Clare Engle interviewed Silver in Uravan, Colorado. Subjects: housing in Uravan, social groups, schools, bussing, the local Parent-Teacher Association, high school and the Navajos, mail delivery, false bonanzas (33 pages).

Dates: 1970

Allan Simpson, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 2
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Clare Engle, Greg Brolin, and Richard Gibbs interviewed Simpson, a mining engineer, at his home in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: personal background, cheating on ore samples, drilling on Beaver Mountain, mine safety, AEC's leasing policy, Uranium Ore Producers Association, Uravan, Union Carbide exploration (30 pages).

Dates: 1970

Lewis Smith, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
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Smith talked with Steve Guttman about natural gas service in the Moab area. Subjects: Public Service Commission, gas line, work force, Moab, Monticello (19 pages).

Dates: 1970

Samuel Taylor, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 11
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Samuel Taylor, of the Moab Times-Independent, spoke with Steven Guttman. Subjects: the newspaper, uranium boom, Moab's isolation, Moab as a tourist spot, environment, police, water system, drug use, teaching positions (32 pages).

Dates: 1970

John K. "Jack" Thamm, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 12
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Thamm, an employee of Union Carbide, was interviewed by Clare Engle and Richard Gibbs. Subjects: the Uravan Mineral Belt, bearing formations, drilling, theory of uranium deposition, costs of drilling (20 pages).

Dates: 1970

Cecil Thompson, 1971

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 13
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Steve Guttman and John Donnely spoke with Cecil Thompson (b. 1899), a native of Moab and member of the Utah State Land Board. Subjects: trucking business, uranium boom, water supply, miners, alcoholism, grubstaking, uranium stocks, Frontier Airlines, tourism, dams, state lands, potash plants, uranium mines, politics, El Paso Gas line (46 pages).

Dates: 1971

Ralph Thul, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 14
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Thul, a safety engineer at Union Carbide, spoke with Clare Engle in Uravan, Colorado. Subjects: water, people of Uravan, safety, contract miners, smoking, utilities, Navajos, maintenance of company property, qualifying for housing, flat tops and bunkhouses, schools, recruiting teachers, racism, disposal of mill waste, public relations (65 pages).

Dates: 1970

Marjorie Tomsic, 1970

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Tomsic, a member of the school board, talked with Steve Guttman in Moab, Utah. Subjects: personal background, Moab businesses, uranium boom, school board, district problems, vocational education, teachers, bonds, problems with utilities (46 pages).

Dates: 1970