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Oral History Interview with James N. Hall, November 10, 1999

Description: Interview with James N. Hall, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Burkburnett, Texas. Hall discusses joining the Air Force from college, basic training, classification, flight training, the P-47, fighter tactics, deplyoment to Le Culot Airfield in Belgium, his first mission, briefings and intelligence, Air Support Parties, close air support, flak, bomber escort, air-to-air encounters, casualties, logistics, German civilians, crash landings, V-E Day, and return to civilian life.
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Date: November 10, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hall, James N.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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The Power Politics of Hells Canyon

Description: This study examines the controversy regarding Hells Canyon on the Snake River, North America's deepest gorge. Throughout the 1950s, federal and private electric power proponents wrangled over who would harness the canyon's potential for generating hydroelectricity. After a decade of debate, the privately-owned Idaho Power Company won the right to build three small dams in the canyon versus one large public power structure. The thesis concludes that private development of Hells Canyon led to inc… more
Date: August 1999
Creator: Alford, John Matthew
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Application of Field Measurements and Computer Modeling to Evaluate Deep Mine Shaft Stability in Northern Idaho

Description: Abstract: Researchers at the U.S. Bureau of Mines have developed personal-computer-based data acquisition, instrumentation, and mine visualization and modeling techniques to evaluate a mine accessway in a deep hard-rock mine in northern Idaho. These techniques were applied to a mine shaft in a large silver mine that has been in operation for many years. A very deep, rectangular, timber-supported shaft extending to depths exceeding 2.3 km (7,500 ft) had been deforming continuously as a result of… more
Date: 1996
Creator: Beus, Michael J.; Orr, T. J. & Whyatt, J. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Odis Taylor, October 6, 1995

Description: Interview with Odis Taylor concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Taylor worked at camps in Pierce, Idaho (Company 5702) and Emida, Idaho (Company 229).
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Date: October 6, 1995
Creator: Ball, Paula & Taylor, Odis S.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Geology and Mineral Resources of the Hailey 1°x2° Quadrangle and the Western Part of the Idaho Falls 1°x2° Quadrangle, Idaho

Description: Report containing a series of chapters discussing the geologic and mineral resources of the Hailey Quadrangle and Western part of the Idaho Falls Quadrangle in Idaho.
Date: 1995
Creator: Worl, Ronald G.; Link, Paul Karl; Winkler, Gary R. & Johnson, Kathleen M.
Location: None
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shorter Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Upper Cretaceous Rocks in the Western Interior of the United States

Description: The following report presents measured sections and lithostratigraphic correlations of the units in the order to document a syntectonic unconformity in order to understand the tectonic history of the area.
Date: 1995
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term Surveillance Plan for the Lowman, Idaho, Disposal Site. Revision 1

Description: The long-term surveillance plan (LTSP) for the Lowman, Idaho, Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project disposal site describes the surveillance activities for the Lowman disposal site, which will be referred to as the Lowman site throughout this document. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will carry out these activities to ensure that the disposal cell continues to function as designed. The radioactive sands at the Lowman site were stabilized on the site. This final LTSP is being s… more
Date: April 1994
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Correlation of the West Canyon, Lake Point, and Bannock Peak Limestones (Upper Mississippian to Middle Pennsylvanian), Basal Formations of the Oquirrh Group, Northern Utah and Southeastern Idaho

Description: The following report presents detailed lethologic and conodont biostratigraphic data from four measured sections in the lower part of the Oquirrh Group in the Oquirrh Mountains of Utah and the Deep Creek and Samaria Mountains of Idaho.
Date: 1994
Creator: Davis, L. E.; Dyman, T. S. & Webster, G. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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