Show L LLADY LADY MILL HAND DIGS HER BLUE COLLAR JOB Mrs Mabel Gulliford whose job category is listed as utility man at a mill in Colorado certainly has an unusual position for a 41 year-old year woman mother of seven children and a grand grand- mother 1 f r J f F li lit t Specifically her job is to check water samples from the river flowing past the huge vanadium uranium-vanadium mill in Uravan operated by Union Carbide Corporation It is part of the company's pollution control program to keep the waters clean Im not working here to show anybody she says but because I want to support support support sup sup- port my children Theres There's al always always always al- al ways plenty to do Like hauling machinery cleaning sludge out of pipes and digging digging digging dig dig- ging ditches I do whatever jobs need doing she continues As Asfor Asfor Asfor for ditch-digging ditch I was raised on a farm with 14 brothers and sisters and I learned a afew afew afew few things about shoveling I know what hard work is Mabel was the first woman woman woman wom wom- an we ever hired because she was the first woman ever to apply for work at the mill personnel manager Bernard Jones points out Our intentions intentions intentions are to give equal opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- for work and we consider females right along with males Today there are seven other oth oth- er women in this male world working at the company's mining and milling operations in Wyoming and California in such blue collar jobs as ore laborer driller and tailing operator The foot five-foot six-inch six utility man roan at nt the Uravan mill observes There are arc a alot alot alot lot of oC real nice people working working working work work- ing here and I like being one of the boys buys L |