| Title |
Lester Erbes, Moab, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Lester Erbes, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Erbes, Lester |
| Contributor |
Guttman, Steve |
| Date |
1970-08-12 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Moab, Grand County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Erbes, Lester--Interviews; Moab (Utah); Broadcasters--United States |
| Description |
Transcript (40 pages) of an interview by Steve Guttman with Lester Erbes, on August 12, 1970. From tape number 40 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Steve Guttman interviewed Erbes, a broadcaster, in Moab. Subjects: personal background, recreational activities, television station, Moab as tourist center, poverty, politics, problems in Moab, future of Moab, Canyonlands (40 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
23 pages, 49 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/s6fb78x2 |
| Topic |
Broadcasters; Utah--Moab |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056188 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb78x2 |
| Title |
Page 38 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056180 |
| OCR Text |
Show LES TE R ERBES 111 SG: In terms of mining in this area, do you think it's going to keep playing the present role? LE: It's quite likely to, allowing for the conversion of Texas Gulf reducing personnel, which will happen within a year. But I think it's fairly likely. Atlas Minerals is scrounging for ore, but there'll be more uranium developed when the price gets right. It's bound to. SG: So you think that uranium is going to continue to play a role in this area? LE: I do. I may be uninformed, but I think it's going to. T.G.S. has fourteen years, no twenty-four years, something like that. They had longer than that. They figured when they came in here that they had forty years, and now, with solution mining, they can probably get more · years out of it than they figured. Right around the part that's cut out now, they have some fourteen years of development without any expansion. SG: Do you see any other type of industry coming in besides tourism or mining? LE: Yeah. We got a little local industry here now that's getting under way. You've heard about Carol Archery Bows haven't you? Archery Bows? SG: No one's mentioned that. LE: Haven't they? Well, Bobby Doug Carol has been building bows with one other person for, I don't know, five or six 34 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb78x2/1056180 |
