| 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 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055358 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 he presented his crede ntia l s a s being an FBI agent out of the Chicago off ice. He s aid , "Now this is highly classified, great security. My job is to come out and get a job, he brought another fel l ow with him, another FBI agent but there job was to get a j ob in these uranium mills in which I was the only person to know that they were, who they were. Well, I know that these people did this to Manhattan District also had me, that the army, the security men of this nature in the plan. But anyhow I made arrangements for one of them to go to work at Durango and the other to go to work at Uravan. And I know in my later trips around this one fellow there in Uravan working on the boats, the boat gang, this is just manual labor, digging ditches and installing pipes and so on. Just in there working his head off and he stayed around for about six weeks and again one evening along about nine or nine-thirty I got a call form him saying that he had concluded his assignment and he was on his way out. But this, so actually we established codes for uranium and vanadium. i established a basic code, was later changed and modified a little bit, but my designation was the letter P for vanadium and the letter Q for uranium. And any of our discussions with mill personnel or 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055358 |
