People

: Reuben A. Pitts; He was born in Beulah, Colorado and his pioneering family came to the Collbran area when he was three years old. His father, C.B. Pitts, was the editor of the Plateau Valley Voice newspaper in Collbran, and Reuben worked for a time as a typesetter for the newspaper. Also, he was a cattle rancher and stayed in that line of work until 1966. On top of that, Reuben played with a dance band that toured around the Western Slope for 60 years.