ERNEST ORLANDO LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LADORATORY ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE PROVENANCE STAMP LLCS Accession Number: oP EOFe File Code Number: __f > -7 ~a/ Division/DepartmenUGrou “PACA Series ‘(leasEXE SORROW 6 BETIS Box Number: Folder Title: MVECAIP TR) OF CHOE ny Bowie ore AS Doren >. Swe ivanscription ol lapes Date of Interview: 17 December 1979 Fanch bak ard Ok Fave FAMim nuches : Ln Seatry wt —Beeter Scott, would you tell me a little bit about aA your family Background? Maybe start with your grandparents and tell me their names and where they came from? Seott: Yes, I'm from Arizonag’originally, and my grandparents were imnigrante,Vtrong’nostly Wales. nine tt they settled in pis Arizona, and worked for the Ph eles: Dodge copper mines. no longer opert) ft's just a ghost town there. They're Aad T enjoyed ny thn] boyhood very much with them, I was around tH I was about six years old. Andthey lived right on a street. called Brewery Guich, which was loaded with second parid storesg and they'd budit the Saint George Hotel, which still stands on the land that they had. The original home was completely removedg 1 it was burned. out or sonething * 1 was born in Douglas, Arizona#’ Lacon Februatythe ‘16th in 1909. Mextco,. ; Aad’ I had some schooling in New + father was operating a steam shovel. FF ate en-ongihass) a locomotive engineer. He was sort of | Cyr went to the first grade ‘tn Santa:“Rita, New Mexico, and I found it 4 very interesting place Qsvee fe erie ~ it was ‘primarily Chicanos heor Mexicansg/or whatever we used to callthemg "greasers." GsFfrom there we moved back to ny ortetaaly “place of birth, Douglas, \qnd I went through two grades there.”tay mother and father were continuously fighting and Rev separating and: getting.back together again. ok, is oswith ihewhole,‘thing. “Gaaughingly) . I got a little fed mother n older brotherand a younger brother. axamy mother suring the latter part of he‘never did anything with her courses. Pose | RFhas \