Warren R. Deck, Bluff, Utah, Utah Uranium Oral History Project

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WARREN R. DECK are paid to come---?---. I think the thing that has brought the united front here, more than anything was this attitude of putting culinary water first. That was pointed out and brought up mostly by Ken McDonald, who was the mayor of---?--- He was the one who started talking like that. The very first thing we went after was water in Mexican Hat and the next thing was water in Monticello. So, Blanding didn't have anything to do with it and he was the one who brought up the idea of having---?---, as sort of a constitutional plan for our operation. So we do have a good united front in the board and when you get outside. Well, I'll tell you, when you get something about the recycling of water and this sort of thing, that just covers the whole doggone county, there's just no segregation there at all. There's no north or south or east or west, there's just the whole works. The amount of people that begin to study it--we got to talking about it and I tell you, he's­--?--- I can remember during World War II, Denver, we had Dr. ---?---, who was a bombing major, and they used to go out and have these practice runs on bombing in the afternoon class, and they'd get to talking to each other and the commander of the plane would say, "Well, do you boys want to dress for 46