Box 5
Contains 12 Results:
Special Articles on Specific Locations, 1951-1955
Articles about Arco, Idaho's involvement with atomic development, 1951; Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Park, 1955; Las Vegas, Nevada's development in tourism, 1951; and Phoenix, Arizona's rapid growth as a retirement mecca, 1951.
Trains
One article muses over the favorite pastime of "watching" trains, and the other articles concern a major rail-freight battle initiated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad against the Union Pacific Railroad.
Music and Art, 1950-1951
This folder contains several articles written for the "Musical Chatter and Data" column of the Utah Symphony's Programs.
Personality Sketches
Businesses in Utah
Some of the articles include Pratt Seegmiller's uranium find, "Big Rock Candy Mountain"; Downtown Salt Lake merchants agreeing to stay open one night a week; the 1957 financial slump for retailers in downtown Salt Lake City; the dedication of Thiokol Chemical Corporation's new plant; a history of the Deseret Newspaper; and "Tip Top Tower," an article about the highest television relay tower in the nation.
Agriculture in Utah
Includes such topics as raising turkeys; fluorine and its effect in raising cattle; the killer weed, halogeton, and its effect on Utah sheep; and, smoke pollution and its effect on crop production.
Uranium Boom in Utah
This folder contains articles pertaining to mining uranium in southeastern Utah; uranium as a health hazard to uranium miners; and the building of roads to reach uranium mines.
Environmental Development in the West
This folder includes the Department of the Interior's Colorado River-Great Basin Field Committee's meeting in Salt Lake City; the effect of proposed dams and irrigation on national parks particularly in Vernal, Utah; supersonic research near Zion National Park; and the new bridge over Glen Canyon Dam.
Goodman's Memories of Brooklyn, New York
This folder contains five short papers on Goodman's memories of growing up in Brooklyn, New York. The titles of the stories are "Parkie," "New York Hay," Dear Mr. Niles," "One Hundred Percent Union," and "The Disembodied Head at Coney Island."
Weekly Columns, 1953
This folder contains "Meet Your Legislators," 1953; "Up and Down the Street," 1953; and "Nothing Serious," year not recorded.
Manuscript, 1950
"North-south Airline Through Western States Opens Spectacular Scenery in Mountain-desert Regions", Frontier Airlines' Magazine.