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Interview No. 910, Evaristo Valdés López Mar 1996

Interview No. 910, Evaristo Valdés López

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; describes early job experiences in San Pedro, San Luis Potosí, and Santa Eulalia; recalls starting his manufacturing company and supplying Mexican mining industry followed Mexicanization.

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Interview No. 898, José J. García Jan 1996

Interview No. 898, José J. García

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project ; details job activities and responsibilities; changes in working conditions, personnel makeup, and social life in mining camp after Mexicanization; mining communities of San Antonio and San Luis at San Francisico del Oro Mine.

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Interview No. 905, Kelly Spilsbury Jan 1996

Interview No. 905, Kelly Spilsbury

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; discusses working and living conditions in Mexican mining operations; details changes in ASARCO after Mexicanization; impressions of Jorge Larea, former CEO of ASARCO Mexicana.

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Interview No. 893, Robert C. Byrd Jan 1996

Interview No. 893, Robert C. Byrd

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; recounts first jobs as junior engineer at Charcas and shift boss at Huayapa Mine; Taxco; describes and compare working and living conditions at O'OKiep Mine, South Africa to those in Mexican mines; describes mining units at La Prieta and Santa Bárbara; experiences at Bonanza Mine, Nicaragua, during Sandinista rebellion; later experiences in Bolivian tin mines.

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Interview No. 904, José Anthony Quintana Dec 1995

Interview No. 904, José Anthony Quintana

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; describes hospital facility and medical services provided to 3,000 mine employees and their dependents; treatment of work related injuries; surgical procedures performed at mine hospital, which were a "first" in Mexico; living conditions at mine camp of Colonia San Antonio.

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Interview No. 885, World War Ii Border Homefront Nov 1995

Interview No. 885, World War Ii Border Homefront

Combined Interviews

Topics presented and discussed by lectures and panelists include women's labor during the war; Mexican American women and the war, American's response to the Holocaust; the war in the lives of children; children on the homefront. Summary and Program included.

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Interview No. 894, Gabriel Elizondo Ruiz Nov 1995

Interview No. 894, Gabriel Elizondo Ruiz

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project ; describes career steps taken to become general manager at Santa Bárbara, the first Mexican national to hold this position; recounts methods implemented by IMMSA following Mexicanization to increase mine production and modernize mines and mills.

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Interview No. 903, Melchor Moriel Nov 1995

Interview No. 903, Melchor Moriel

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; details complexities of negotiating union labor contracts with mining companies; shares recollections of living conditions at La Prieta and San Francisco Mines.

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Interview No. 884, Richard C. White Nov 1995

Interview No. 884, Richard C. White

Combined Interviews

Family history; childhood; WWII combat experiences; political career (Texas House of Representatives, 1954-1958, U.S. House of Representatives, 16th Congressional District, 1964-1981); anecdotes about U.S. Presidents Johnson, Kennedy, Mexican Presidents Meteos López and Díaz Ordaz; his major Congressional accomplishments (Chamizal National Memorial; Border Highway, Casther Range, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Guadalupe Mountains National Park); Congressional trips and personal meetings with world leaders. A complete outline accompanies cover sheet.

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Interview No. 899, Arturo M. Domínguez Morales Oct 1995

Interview No. 899, Arturo M. Domínguez Morales

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; Experiences as manager of small mine in remote sierras of Chihuahua; operating practices and the environment; living and working conditions at mining camps; especially San Francisico del Oro Mine, prior to Mexicanization; changes at mines after Mexicanization; activities and changes in mission of Mexican government agencies, Comisón de Fomento Minero and Consejo de Recursos Minerales.

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Interview No. 924, Radio Series World War Ii Oct 1995

Interview No. 924, Radio Series World War Ii

Combined Interviews

8 part radio series entitled "Legacy: The Impact of World War II" written by Barthy Byrd, member of UTEP faculty, communications Department. Topics included are: the physical impact of the war, the psychological impact of the war, the impact on African Americans and Jews, the impact on El Paso, and social impact on the war. The programs aired on PBS affiliated KTEP-FM, El Paso in September and October, 1995, Script of 8 programs accompanies cover sheet.

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Interview No. 895, Louise Ferrari De Petrucci Sep 1995

Interview No. 895, Louise Ferrari De Petrucci

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; details duties as camp administrator; reflect on changes after Mexicanization.

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Interview No. 906, Joseph De Bastiani Sep 1995

Interview No. 906, Joseph De Bastiani

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project ; recounts experience as underground miner in Canada; discusses changes after Mexicanization of mining industry; compares operating practice of Canadian mines to Mexican mines in late 1940s and early 1950s; Eagle Picher sale of Mexican labor secretary Adolfo Lopez Mateos, later president of Mexico.

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Interview No. 897, Enrique Gaitán Cortez Sep 1995

Interview No. 897, Enrique Gaitán Cortez

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; recounts early experiences of operating gold mine at Minillas, Durango, mercury mines at Atontonilco, Zacatecas, and Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, and antimony mines at Tanger and Pacheco, Zacatecas; first flotation mill at Velardeña, Durango; Mexican government agency Comisión de Fomento Minero; mining property selection; decline of independent miners.

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Interview No. 902, Wilfredo García Reyes Sep 1995

Interview No. 902, Wilfredo García Reyes

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; recounts general working conditions at Torreón smelter in late 1940s and 1950s; relations of foreign supervisors with Mexican workers in 1950s; changes at smelter after Mexicanization; demise of independent mining; increased awareness of effect of mining on environment.

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Interview No. 901, Aurelio Torres Felix Sep 1995

Interview No. 901, Aurelio Torres Felix

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; praises ASARCO as the "best engineering school in Mexico"; discusses effect of Mexicanization on mining industry in Mexico.

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Interview No. 900, John T. Humphreys Aug 1995

Interview No. 900, John T. Humphreys

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; shares memories or early jobs in mining industry in Montana, Honduras and Nicaragua in 1940s; working and living conditions; high points of career managing San Francisco del Oro near Parral, Chihuahua; economic factors affecting mines in 1950s; Mexicanization.

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Interview No. 896, Alejandro Gaitán Cortez Aug 1995

Interview No. 896, Alejandro Gaitán Cortez

Combined Interviews

Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; shares recollections of silver, lead, and zinc mines in vicinity of San Juan de Guadalupe, Durango, at Sierra de Ramírez; gold, silver, and lead mines at Minillas, Zacatecas; developing and operating mercury mines in district of La Rosa, Durango; recognition of mercury minerals, especially calomel (HgCI); methods of retorting mercury ores; retort fuels; general working conditions.

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Interview No. 1664, Ramon A. Salas Aug 1995

Interview No. 1664, Ramon A. Salas

Combined Interviews

Ramon A. Salas was born in Mexico and migrated to Smeltertown in the 1920’s. He attended school in Mexico and then finished his education at a public school in Smeltertown. He attended vocational classes which help him learn a trade. This is where he was introduced to construction. Salas worked in construction and was employed by El Paso Natural Gas for 20 years until he retired. Salas detailed demographic of Smeltertown where Anglos occupied houses ASARCO owned on a hill and the Mexican workers lived below them. Some of the Mexican houses did not have running water. Times were difficult …

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Interview No. 873, George Concha Mar 1995

Interview No. 873, George Concha

Combined Interviews

Part of WWII: El Paso Homefront Project; biographical data; recollects active duty in Pacific Theater, including bombardment of Tarawa, central Pacific island, and battle of Okinawa; reflects on role models in Company E, the all-Hispanic unit from El Paso , 141st Regiment, 36thTexas Division.

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Interview No. 874, Pollard Rodgers Mar 1995

Interview No. 874, Pollard Rodgers

Combined Interviews

Part of Chamizal Oral History Project; settlement of Chamizal dispute; organization Chamizal construction field force; construction of principal projects; relocation of railroad yards and track, International bridges, Rio Grande channel; construction of new river chanel; cooperation between U.S. Commissioner Joseph Friedkin and Mexican Commissioner David Herrera Jordan.

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Interview No. 872, Betty J. Ligon Mar 1995

Interview No. 872, Betty J. Ligon

Combined Interviews

Part of WWII: El Paso Homefront Project; discusses journalism career at PATEX Ordnance Plant, Amarillo TX, and various newspapers in West Texas; taking flying lessons; reflects on ethic isolation, discrimination and segregation during WWII.

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Interview No. 881, José Cisneros Jan 1995

Interview No. 881, José Cisneros

Combined Interviews

Recollects immigration from Mexico to U.S.; art career; friendship with artist/author Tom Lea, typography and book designer Carl Hertzog.

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Interview No. 876, Hanna Burstein Dec 1994

Interview No. 876, Hanna Burstein

Combined Interviews

Recollects early childhood and adolescence in Poland; ghetto life under Nazi occupation; slave labor camp at Plaszaw; Auschwitz experience; war effort in Czechoslovakia; liberation.

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Interview No. 871, Robert Upton Dec 1994

Interview No. 871, Robert Upton

Combined Interviews

Part of WWII: El Paso Homefront Project; recollects brief period spent in Los Alamos, NM. and his impressions of Manhattan Project physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi; work experience at Kirtland Air Force Base and Sandia Laboratory, Albuquerque, and Imperial Valley, CA; German POWs at Fort Bliss, including Werner von Braun.

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Interview No. 870, Reyes V. Torres Oct 1994

Interview No. 870, Reyes V. Torres

Combined Interviews

Part of WWII: El Paso Homefront Project; biographical data; provides detailed description of capture by German ski troopers after being shot down on combat mission to Regensberg, Germany; daily life in POW camps; liberation of camp by Russian Army; discrimination and prejudice in U.S. military.

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Interview No. 869, Mary A. Lacy Oct 1994

Interview No. 869, Mary A. Lacy

Combined Interviews

Part of World War II: El Paso Homefront Project; biographical data; childhood memories of WWII, including rationing, curfews, blackouts, contributions of school children, and fashions; recalls arrival of telegram notifying family of father's death while on active duty in Europe, reflects on mother's success in overcoming difficulties raising family as single parent; discusses attending Texas Western College under War Orphan Bill.

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Interview No. 863, Billy Pat Mckinney Aug 1994

Interview No. 863, Billy Pat Mckinney

Combined Interviews

Part of Big Bend National Park Oral History Project; extensive biographical information; recounts his experiences tracking, trapping, hunting and managing mountain lions, desert bighorn sheep, deer and bear in Black Gap Wildlife Management Area and Natural Area at Lajitas; establishment of Big Bend National Park and Black Gap Wildlife Management Area; how and why and why Big Bend residents sold land for creation of national park.

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Interview No. 848, Leona Starr Baker Aug 1994

Interview No. 848, Leona Starr Baker

Combined Interviews

Part of Big Bend National Park Oral History Project; biographical information; recounts settlement of parents, Mae Johnson Starr and Salomon Albert Starr, Alpine/Marathon area; mother's proprietorship and operation of boarding house in Marathon and management of Gage Hotel; father's operation of ranches in Rosillos Mts. and in Tornillo Creek; creation of Big Bend National Park; lifestyle of Big Bend area families, particularly during Depression; details life in Marathon, its industry, businesses, churches, and segregated schools; describes relationship with other families including the Burnams, Nails, and Greens.

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Interview No. 879, June Kruszewski Jul 1994

Interview No. 879, June Kruszewski

Combined Interviews

Relates memories of Poland during Nazi occupation, including the bombing, food, and living arrangement.

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