| Title |
Cecil Thompson, Moab, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Cecil Thompson, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Thompson, Cecil, 1899-1983 |
| Contributor |
Guttman, Steve; Donnely, John |
| Date |
1971-07-29 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Moab, Grand County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Thompson, Cecil, 1899-1983--Interviews; Truck industry--United States; Teamsters--Utah--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Utah; Moab (Utah) |
| Description |
Transcript (46 pages) of an interview by Steve Guttman and John Donnely with Cecil Thompson, on July 29, 1971. From tape number 43 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
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). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
46 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64f3xph |
| Topic |
Teamsters; Truck industry; Uranium mines and mining; Utah--Moab |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054612 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64f3xph |
| Title |
Page 25 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054588 |
| OCR Text |
Show CECIL THOMPSON #1 SG: happened most of the time. The biggest part of it is ---?--- and the promotion. And so I think the buyer has to beware. That's one of the things you finally grow up at after you've been shaved a few times. Why, you just go into these things with your eyes open, and you don't expect to make a million dollars every time you put in a few bucks. When the boom hit, you had your own school kids here and your small limited places for schooling, what happened when all these families brought their kids in? CT: Well, I think the school board generally tried to provide for them. Of course, they were a little slow at some times, and they had the old problem, well, we don't have enough tax base. And if things blow up, why, here we are stuck with all these bonds and things. But eventually they got the job done, and I'm not sure that children can't get as good an education in a log cabin as they can in a some architect's notion of what a schoolhouse is, you know. The teachers not the buildings that get the kids motivated. That's the key to the whole damned thing. It's not the buildings, that's for a cinch. I've been in Europe three times, and I went to Trinity College in Ireland. I think it's about five or six hundred 23 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64f3xph/1054588 |
