Box 11
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Estalee Silver, 1970
File — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
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
Lewis Smith, 1970
File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
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
Harry Sombrero, 1970
File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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