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Show Uranium and Coal Impact Challenges Set for Discussion On Friday. April 16. 1976 at 8 p.m. in the Multipurpose . Room of the San Juan Library in Monticello, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University will present the third in its series of lecture-discussions lecture-discussions on issues of importance to the people of Southeastern Utah. At that time, Professor Gary L. Shumway, a native of Blanding, Utah and currently Associate Professor of History at California State University at Fullerton will speak on "Challenges of the Uranium and Coal Industries in Southeastern South-eastern Utah." Following the lecture a panel discussion by Howard Balsley, mining manager and uranium miner and Calvin Black, Chairman of the San Juan County Commission, will discuss the question. Thereafter, There-after, questions and comments will be entertained from Jhe audience. The progran is sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University and is supported by a grant from the Utah Endowmeit for the Humanities, a state-based affiliate of the National Endowment En-dowment for theHumanities. An authority fl the history of the uraniun industry in Southeastern Uah, Dr. Gary L. Shumway hs also conducted conduc-ted and supervsed the collection collec-tion of a largenumber of oral history intervews in Southeastern South-eastern Utah and elsewhere. He has beentfesponsible for the establishment of oral history programs at a number of institutions including California Cali-fornia State University at Fullerton, the Historical Department De-partment of the LDS Church, and at Brigham Young University. Univer-sity. A graduate of Brigham Young University, he earned his Ph.D. in American History with a dissertation on the uranium industry from the University of Southern California. Cali-fornia. Howard Balsley has been active in the uranium liusiness for more than 60 years. Born in Pennsylvania, he has been a resident of Moab for 76 years and has been manager of the Yellow Circle Mining Company Com-pany and the Plateau Mining Company. His work in the uranium business has recently been recognized in a feature story in the Grand Junction Centennial. Born in Blanding, Calvin Black has been active in the trucking and uranium busi ness, and currently operates Calvin Black Enterprises. Mayor of Blanding from 1961 to 1964. he has served in the state legislature, and is currently chairman of the San Juan County Commission. Active in a number of commissions and boards dealing deal-ing with counties and public lands, he has worked to secure legislation for payments in lieu of taxation for public lands owned within counties and states. |
