| 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 63 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055412 |
| OCR Text |
Show MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 CE: Seventeen?! WH: Seventeen of them. What happened was they had come in to make a surprise raid on Uravan and Long Park and Club Mesa for illegal venison. But one of the vehicles they had had a flat tire about five miles out of Uravan and Marge was coming home with a fellow that was then superintendent, Al Coleman, from the weekend. This was a Monday morning. These 1 7 game wardens came in and they went into Marge's boss, Dick Morris and Dick would say, "Well, fellows," this was during the war; this was I guess the Christmas of '41. War had just been declared and he's saying, "You know this is a war industry, and I want to cooperate with you fellows, but you'll have to have passes to get everyplace, you know." So by the time he gave his pass book out then something would happen. He'd knock his pencil off on the floor, his passbook on the floor and he stalled these guys for about two hours in getting this out, and about this time Al Coleman comes in and Marge and Al helped stall them, you know, saying, "We'd like to cooperate, but we don't like this type of business of you corning in and raiding us this way." Well, by this time the word was going out all over the place, you know. This young kid that was working for me says, "My God," he says, 59 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055412 |
