| Title |
William Everett & Marge Haldane, Grand Junction, Colorado, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
William Everett & Marge Haldane, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Everett, William; Haldane, Marge |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Everett, William--Interviews; Haldane, Marge--Interviews; Vanadium industry--United States; Uranium industry--United States; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Keywords |
Union Carbide |
| Description |
Transcript (62 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with William Everett and Marge Haldane, on August 4, 1970. From tape number UR-179 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engle interviewed the Haldanes in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: uranium plants in the 1940s, army engineers, Manhattan district, exploration program and the VCA, the boom, fixed scales and unfair pricing, conflict with oil leases, Mr. Burwell, the demise of VCA, the town of Uravan, Doc Haldane, family situation, politics and unions, crime, individual miners (62 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 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/s6156q49 |
| Topic |
Uranium industry; Vanadium industry; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055417 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49 |
| Title |
Page 5 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055354 |
| OCR Text |
Show THE FOLLOWI NG I S AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE, MINING ENGINEER. THE INTERVIEWER IS CLARE ENGLE. THE DATE IS AUGUST 4, 1970. THE SUBJECT IS THE URANIUM INDUSTRY AND THE UNION CARBI DE CORPORATION. [TAPE #1. GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO.] CE: Thank you very much, Mr. and Mrs. Hal da ne for inviting me into your home. I appreciate very much the opportunity to talk with both of you. I'm sur e that this will be a very enlightening experience f or me since you've both been working in the uranium industry for many years. Before I begin discussing your particular role in industry, however, would you tell me please, Mr. Haldane, where you were born and where you were raised and educated? WH: I was born and raised in Denver, attended East Denver High School. I attended Purdue University for three years and then transferred to Colorado School of Mines and received an engineer of mines degree in spring of 1942. That's about the extent of my education. CE: Then what did you do before you got your degree? WH: Well, I 'd been out of school for a couple of years and worked down in Uravan area in the, from 1936 to the time I graduated, and along with John Hill, I was one of the two engineers hired for the Metal Reserve program for the vanadium war effort in the early par t of the war. CE: You were hired by Uni on Carbide, USV? |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055354 |
