The missionary world of Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson (open access)

The missionary world of Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson

This study surveys the dreams and ideas of the missionary movement as shown in the life of the Worcester-Robertson family who lived among the Cherokee and Creek Indians. The sources include pertinent material in the papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia; the Indian Archives and Alice Robertson papers, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City; the Alice Robertson Collection, University of tulsa; family papers, interviews and correspondence.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Brown, Nettie Terry
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memo to T. D. Tolleson from Joe B. Millhollon, August 28, 1978] (open access)

[Memo to T. D. Tolleson from Joe B. Millhollon, August 28, 1978]

Memorandum addressed to Captain T. D. Tolleson of the Intelligence Division in Dallas, Texas. The memorandum states that an individual called the office and said that Joe Linthicum was seen drinking at a bar. At the time, Joe Linthicum said that he had worked for Jack Ruby for eight years.
Date: August 28, 1978
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crossing the colorline: three decades of the United Packinghouse Workers of America's crusade against racism in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1936-1968 (open access)

Crossing the colorline: three decades of the United Packinghouse Workers of America's crusade against racism in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1936-1968

This study examines the role of southern black union workers in the struggle against racism in the United Packinghouse Workers America's activities in the Trans Mississippi region of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico and south Kansas.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Adedeji, Moses
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
James Keenan, United States Consul to Hong Kong (open access)

James Keenan, United States Consul to Hong Kong

James Keenan served as United States consul to Hong Kong for eight years beginning in 1853. Keenan's career demonstrated the difficulties faced by United States consuls in the Far East. Many of the problems Keenan faced during his career resulted from the juxtaposition of a man predisposed to controversy with one of the most ambiguous posts in United States consular service. Keenan's career involved him in difficulties with a United States naval commander, British authorities in Hong Kong, a United States commissioner to China, his temporary successor in Hong Kong, and even the State Department. During his career, Keenan anticipated legislative changes regarding United States consuls. Nevertheless Keenan's colorful career won him many British and American friends. However, his predeliction for controversy damaged his effectiveness as United States consul.
Date: August 1978
Creator: King, Amelia Kay
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chronic Alterations in Joint Flexibility Associated with Aerobic Dance Instruction of College Age Females (open access)

Chronic Alterations in Joint Flexibility Associated with Aerobic Dance Instruction of College Age Females

The purposes of this study were (1) to determine if three selected aerobic dance related conditions would result in chronic alterations of flexibility of college women and (2) to compare flexibility measures of college age females during a semester of aerobic dance instruction. Subjects were sixty-three college women enrolled in aerobic dance, bowling, and archery classes. Eight flexibility measures were obtained during the third and eleventh weeks of the experimental period. Data were analyzed by a factor analysis the Pearson Product Moment Correlation, and eight oneway analyses of covariance. Conclusions of the investigation were (1) a program of aerobic dance alone is not sufficient to promote flexibility, and (2) supplemental flexibility activities of ten minutes duration used with aerobic dance training are beneficial in increasing hip flexion.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Cooper, Melisa Lynne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1978 (open access)

The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1978

A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: August 3, 1978
Creator: Heard, Michelle
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
In vivo study of cadmium-induced chromsomal changes in somatic and germinal tissue of C57BI/6J male mice (open access)

In vivo study of cadmium-induced chromsomal changes in somatic and germinal tissue of C57BI/6J male mice

The objectives of this study were to determine if cadmium would induce chromosomal aberration, to determine if simultaneous aberration events occurred in somatic and germinal tissue, and to determine an estimated minimum exposure time required for significant chromosomal change. Bone marrow chromosome aberrations, specifically breaks and deletions, were found to increase after acute cadmium exposure both at MTD and normal exposure levels. Subacute exposure also resulted in increased occurrences of breaks, deletions, and despiralization. With longer in vivo exposure to cadmium, bone marrow cells continued to show increased numbers of breaks, as well as a physiological effect, despiralization, and more severe break-related aberrations; rearrangements and pulverization. In spermatocytes of the same animals, gaps, breaks, rearrangements, stickiness, and autosomal univalents were the principle aberrations. Correlation of bone marrow and spermatocyte aberrations indicated that in treated mice significant relationships existed for gaps, breaks, rearrangements, and stickiness in the tissues. An estimate of the minimum exposure time to produce chromosomal damage, based on the acute exposure experiment, would be 6 hours for bone marrow. This was confirmed by the exposure duration experiment. Spermatocytes also had chromosomal damage within 24 hours.
Date: August 1, 1978
Creator: Felten, T. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship between parent adjustment and pre-adolescent adjustment to divorce within a specific time sequence (open access)

Relationship between parent adjustment and pre-adolescent adjustment to divorce within a specific time sequence

The problem of this study was to investigate the relationship between parent and pre-adolescent adjustment within intact families, short-term divorced families, and long-term divorced families, and to compare the adjustments of parents from intact families, short-term divorced families, and long-term divorced families.
Date: August 1978
Creator: McGinness, Susan K.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Iconographical Significance in Selected Western Subjects Painted by Thomas Moran (open access)

The Iconographical Significance in Selected Western Subjects Painted by Thomas Moran

The popular image of the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries incorporates radically opposing images: the West is viewed as a Garden of Eden at times, but it is also frequently seen as violent, a land inimical to man. The region both attracted and repelled. Among those attracted were artists who carried back some of the first images of the land. Thomas Moran (1837-1926) became associated quite early with the West because a pair of his paintings of western canyons was purchased by the United States Government.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Patrick, Darryl
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Weight Loss Maintenance and Physical and Emotional Effects in Obese Subjects Treated with a Protein-Sparing Modified Fast (open access)

Weight Loss Maintenance and Physical and Emotional Effects in Obese Subjects Treated with a Protein-Sparing Modified Fast

Weight loss maintenance and emotional and physical problems were investigated in subjects on a protein-sparing modified fast. Four months following a weight reduction program using the protein-sparing modified fast, twenty of the forty-two subjects were contacted. Each was asked to complete a questionnaire related to emotional and physical effects of the diet and a diet history checksheet. Each subject was weighed to determine if weight loss had been maintained. Results of the questionnaire, diet history, and blood chemistry analysis indicate that for these subjects, the modified fast may be safe and effective in reducing and maintaining weight loss over a short time period under close supervision by a physician.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Jacobs, Hilarie H.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assassin Syndrome: Threateners Compared to Other Psychiatric/General-Inmate Groups (open access)

Assassin Syndrome: Threateners Compared to Other Psychiatric/General-Inmate Groups

Thirty-seven male prisoners who had been convicted or indicted on a charge of threatening the President or national political figure were compared to state inmates, federal inmates, and normative samples on psychometric and demographic variables. Results indicated that assassin/threateners were significantly more paranoid, schizophrenic, and socially alienated than comparison samples. Their heterosexual adjustment and work record tended to be poorer than comparison inmates. Data suggested that the probability of organic impairment was greater for assassin/threateners than for the normative sample. In addition, political threateners were found to be self-destructive, apolitical, Caucasian, and products of disturbed family backgrounds.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Kinney, Delane Raye
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1978 (open access)

The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1978

Weekly newspaper from Cotulla, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 11, 1978
Creator: Reddell, Lewis A., II & Riley, Karen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Effect of Biofeedback Induced Physiological Arousal and Therapeutic Instructions on Indices of Test Anxiety and Test Performance (open access)

The Effect of Biofeedback Induced Physiological Arousal and Therapeutic Instructions on Indices of Test Anxiety and Test Performance

This study was concerned with determining the effect of two levels of electromyogram (EMG) induced physiological arousal and therapeutic instructions on self-reported test anxiety, test performance, and on-task behavior. The rationale for such a study is the fact that treatments of test anxiety have presented inconsistent results. Little research has been undertaken with regard to the effect of EMG biofeedback as a treatment for test anxiety or non-specific effects associated with such a treatment. Results indicated that self-reported test anxiety was significantly higher (p<.05) under the high physiological arousal condition than under the low physiological arousal condition and that self-reported on-task behavior was significantly greater (p < .05) for the positive therapeutic instruction group. Physiological arousal levels did not have any significant effect upon test performance or self-reported on-task behavior. Also, therapeutic instructions did not have a significant effect on self-reported test anxiety or test performance. The results indicated a cognitive change with regard to test anxiety which was not reflected in test performance. Also, on-task behavior did not enhance test performance
Date: August 1978
Creator: Davis, Ronald Lee
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Central Intelligence Agency : Organizational History (open access)

The Central Intelligence Agency : Organizational History

This report consists of the central intelligence agency : organizational history
Date: August 4, 1978
Creator: Lowenthal, Mark M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petroleum in Saudi-American Relations: The Formative Period, 1932-1948 (open access)

Petroleum in Saudi-American Relations: The Formative Period, 1932-1948

This dissertation is an examination of the American oil industry in Saudi Arabia and its influence on United States foreign policy. The study examines the Americans who went to Saudi Arabia, the effect of the oil companies on Saudi- American relations, and the American government's response to oil company actions. There is an attempt to answer such questions as: Did the oil companies exert pressure on the American government to influence governmental policy? How effective was this pressure? And, what benefits did the oil companies have from their relationship with the government? The study concludes that Aramco was instrumental in bringing official and nonofficial contact and representation between Saudi Arabia and the United States. Moreover, Aramco was instrumental in involving the American government directly in Saudi Arabia through the extension of lend-lease aid to that country. American government involvement thwarted potential British ambitions in the Saudi oil resources and resulted in the American dominance of oil interests in that kingdom. In addition, Senate investigations showed that the oil companies grossly overcharged the United States Navy on oil purchases and that the financial assistance to Saudi Arabia was made for the protection of Aramco's oil concession.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Nairab, Mohammad Mahmud
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Link to Link]: The President's Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 1, August 1978 (open access)

[Link to Link]: The President's Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 1, August 1978

Link to Link is the national newsletter for the The Links, Inc., issued by the organization's president. It contains letters from the president as well as information about the national assembly, regional conferences, financial statements (including pledged donations), the organizational charter and bylaws, officers and elections, service programs, and other activities of The Links, Inc.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Links, Inc.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 307, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 8, 1978 (open access)

Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 307, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 8, 1978

Daily newspaper from Stephenville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 8, 1978
Creator: Downs, Bob
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The History of the Granbury Opera House, 1886-1978 (open access)

The History of the Granbury Opera House, 1886-1978

This study of the history of the Granbury Opera House in Granbury, Texas, includes three divisions. The first division is the compilation of the early history of the Opera House, 1886 to 1911. The second division is the renovation of the Granbury Opera House, 1970 to 1975. The final division treats the production methods of the Granbury Opera House Stock Company, including choice of seasons and personnel involved. This study was drawn from newspaper clippings, histories, memoirs of the period, a traveling Shakespearean actor's diary of the period, Granbury's application for a Texas historical marker, interviews, releases, and theatre annual reports. A projection into the future is offered as a conclusion of the study,
Date: August 1978
Creator: Kemplin, Carolyn Ann
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attitudes of the Texas Film Industry Toward Film Studies Curriculum in Texas Institutions of Higher Learning (open access)

Attitudes of the Texas Film Industry Toward Film Studies Curriculum in Texas Institutions of Higher Learning

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is the ascertainment of the attitudes of members of the Texas film industry toward the film curriculum offered in Texas institutions of higher learning. Based on the findings the following conclusions have been reached. There is not a high regard overall for film-studies programs in Texas institutions of higher learning within the film industry. This may be overcome by an interaction of the professional film community as an active participant in curriculum planning and development. Of prime consideration should be an association of film schools coordinating programs in cooperation with the Texas Film Commission. An effective curriculum for film-studies education may be organized by utilization of learning modules. This plan would organize the learning experiences in a functional manner and would move toward involvement of a career nature.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Potter, Paul Eugene
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 98, Ed. 1 Monday, August 28, 1978 (open access)

The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 98, Ed. 1 Monday, August 28, 1978

Semi-weekly newspaper from Kermit, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 28, 1978
Creator: Brewer, Bert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Morning News Editorial Cartoonists: Influences of John Knott on Jack "Herc" Ficklen and William McClanahan (open access)

Dallas Morning News Editorial Cartoonists: Influences of John Knott on Jack "Herc" Ficklen and William McClanahan

This problem's investigation deals with gauging the artistic influence, if any, pioneer editorial cartoonist John Knott had on his successors, Ficklen and McClanahan. Information was gathered through interviews and the pages of the Dallas Morning News. Organization is as follows: introduction, biography and art of Knott, biography and art of Ficklen, biography and art of McClanahan, summary and conclusion. The study found minimal artistic influence by Knott on the cartoons of Ficklen and McClanahan. Compared to Knott, Ficklen and McClanahan had different art backgrounds, cartoon styles, personal and political beliefs. Knott's successors admired different artists, drew during a different editorial page emphasis and had more freedom in cartoon selection than Knott did. Neither Ficklen nor McClanahan listed Knott as an artistic influence.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Darden, Robert F.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 187, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 8, 1978 (open access)

Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 187, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 8, 1978

Daily newspaper from Sulphur Springs, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 8, 1978
Creator: Keys, Clarke
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1978 (open access)

The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1978

Weekly newspaper from Mercedes, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 10, 1978
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Health Physics Society: origins and development (open access)

Health Physics Society: origins and development

Events leading up to the birth of the Health Physics Society in June, 1955, are reviewed. Membership requirements, chapters, and sections are discussed. An international organization, International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), founded in 1963, was the outgrowth of the Health Physics Society. Other events in the history of the organization, such as the initiation of publishing of a society journal in 1957, the employment of the first Executive Secretary in 1965, and the establishment of awards, are reviewed. The two appendixes include lists of the officers of the society and award recipients. (JGB)
Date: August 1, 1978
Creator: Kathren, R. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library