| 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 35 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055384 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 in the pilot plant. But Burwell was the type, he scared me. There wasn't any question about it. But he scared just everybody that was under some way or another. Well, a lot of these fellows, and one of them could be classified as Jack Robson who at that time was superintendent there at the Uravan mill. CE: He's in Oklahoma City now, isn't he? WH: Right. He's vice president of Kerr-McGee I guess, in charge of uranium operations. Jack could argue and talk to Burwell real well, but lots of times he didn't get anyplace. So Jack was the type, he'd just bypass it and go do it if he wanted and if it ever came up he'd hope he could talk Burwell out of it. Well, this is what had happened on these filters. Jack had just quietly bypassed them and gone and put another piece of equipment in and hadn't gotten around to explaining the difference to Burwell yet, so this happened quite frequently. I saw this happen there and I've seen it happen at Bishop and at Las Vegas, Nevada too. MH: Well, Burwell was just a doer. I mean he, "Let's get things done." He was a real-- WH: But in later years the minerals operation--of course Ray Sullivan is this same type, aggresive and "Do it now and see what the consequences are," you know, and 31 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055384 |
