Show Charles Steen At Atom Dm Age Pioneer Brought Many MallY Changes to Moab Ails I s. s special edition oo of the Times Inde pendent is published as a tribute to Moab's pioneers of an earlier day But Dut a word must be said too in recognition of a newer generation generation generation gen gen- of pioneers and their most outstanding In ing example example Charles Charles A. A Steen Moab has seen changes in the last three years that are arc comparable In some degree at I least to the changes that took place in the preceding 70 years To list Just a few of the themore themore more spectacular developments of the last I three years The new million-dollar million bridge across the Colorado and hundreds of thousands of dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars being spent In the Moab area on highway highway high high- way improvements The new million half-million dollar grade school opened this month with a second new school building planned Construction of an uranium processing mill started this summer A dozen or more new or remodeled buildIngs buildings build build- Ings in the business district along with much other business building Including more than half hall a dozen new motels Dozens of new homes built and hundreds of new homes planned Plans for a new hospital and new municipal municipal muni muni- cipal services And above all the designation of Moab as the uranium capital of the world I. I v CHARLES STEEN All those things have come as a result of the fabulous uranium strike made three years ago by Charles A. A Steen a slender young geologist from Texas who wh had known physical hardships as great as those of many earlier pioneers The story of Charley Steen and his MI Ml Vida Vi- Vi Vida Vida da strike has been told many times in the thelast thelast thelast last three years It will not be retold here But Dut Steen and the thousands drawn here by byword byword byword word of his uranium bonanza bonanza and and Steen more than any other individual Individual have have made Moab a familiar word the world over Moab's present generation owes much to Pioneer Steen as it owes much to the earlier earlier earlier ear ear- lier pioneers of the last century |