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Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2014 (open access)

Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2014

Proceedings of the 50th regional archeological symposium including the text of papers presented during the conference. It also includes the SWFAS by-laws, May 3, 2014 financial report, and 50st SWFAS symposium meeting minutes.
Date: 2015
Creator: Katz, Paul & Shaller, Rolla
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Comprehensive Annual Financial Report: 2014 (open access)

Texas Comprehensive Annual Financial Report: 2014

Annual financial report of the state of Texas for fiscal year 2014 including introductory materials; a financial section containing an independent auditor's report, management's discussion and analysis, basic financial statements, required supplementary information other than MD&A, other supplementary information (combining financial statements and schedules), enterprise funds, fiduciary funds, and discretely presented component units; and a statistical section detailing financial trends, revenue capacity, debt capacity, demographic and economic information, and operating information.
Date: February 2015
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Driving scraper 1,000 miles LT21 (open access)

Driving scraper 1,000 miles LT21

Magazine article for Country Extra Magazine about the author driving a used LeTourneau D Pull Scraper for around $7,000 in 1957 and driving it more than 1,000 miles from Shreveport, Louisiana to Ulysses, Nebraska. :Published 2015-03.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Novak, Gene E.
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 10, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 26, 2015 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 10, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 26, 2015

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 26, 2015
Creator: McGathey, Liz
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 345, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 8, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 345, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 8, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 335, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 23, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 335, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 23, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 23, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 321, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 4, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 321, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 4, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 315, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 26, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 315, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 26, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 26, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 311, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 311, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 295, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 28, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 295, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 28, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 28, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 270, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 24, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 270, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 24, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 24, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 244, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 244, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 17, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 212, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 4, 2015 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 212, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 4, 2015
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Leo Bowden, September 28, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Leo Bowden, September 28, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Leo Bowden. Bowden joined the Army Air Forces in October of 1943. He served as a B-29 gunner with a replacement crew in the Pacific. He traveled to Saipan, Tinian and Guam, and shares his living conditions on the Pacific islands. Bowden flew around 15 missions from May of 1944 through August of 1945. He conducted several bombing missions over Japan. He received his discharge in March of 1946.
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Bowden, Leo
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lile Springs, December 20, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Lile Springs, December 20, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Lile Springs. Springs was born 14 April 1925, in Hope, Arkansas. He worked on a farm with his father until 1943. He received a draft notice, though after his examinations he received a 4-F classification, unfit for military service. Springs went on to welding school in Little Rock. He later worked on welding war ships in Mobile at the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, and in Bremerton, Washington at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. In 1945, he joined the Washington State Guard, and in November Springs was accepted into the Army Air Forces. He made the Air Force his career for the following 30 years. He retired in November, 1975 from the 12th Air Force at Bergstrom AFB in Austin, Texas. During his military career, Springs served as Base Sergeant Major and Cofounder and Commandant of the NCO Leadership School at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. He also served as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to Major General Davis, Headquarters 19th Air Force, Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina. Springs also served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Date: December 20, 2015
Creator: Springs, Lile
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William E. Craig, December 21, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with William E. Craig, December 21, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Craig. Craig was born in Freeport, Pennsylvania in 1918. Following graduation from high school he was employed by Allegheny Steel Corporation. He was drafted into the United States Army Air Forces in May 1942 and completed basic training at Miami Beach, Florida. He was then sent to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama as a clerk in an Army Airways Communications System (AACS) unit. He describes the unusual living accommodations during that period. He recalls being transferred to Casablanca, North Africa to the 4th AACS Wing in 1944. He returned to the United States during 1945 and was discharged.
Date: December 21, 2015
Creator: Craig, William E
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with T. Fred Harvey, August 3, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with T. Fred Harvey, August 3, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Fred Harvey. Harvey was born in Memphis, Texas on 29 October 1923. He relates some of the hardships the family of eight children endured during the Great Depression. Upon quitting high school, he joined the United States Marine Corps in 1942. Following boot camp, he was selected for the Paramarines and relates his experiences during his training as a Marine paratrooper. He remembers the conditions aboard the transport ships, the mission to Vella Lavella and incidents on Bougainville and New Caledonia, including an overdose of Atabrine. He recalls landing on Iwo Jima and his experiences there including being severely wounded.
Date: August 3, 2015
Creator: Harvey, T. Fred
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Paul Medley, December 22, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Paul Medley, December 22, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Paul Scott Medley. Medley joined the Navy around the spring of 1943. In late summer, he deployed to Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. He then served as Seaman First Class aboard USS Crescent City (APA-21), and traveled across the equator, where he shares his pollywog hazing stories. His battle station aboard the ship was loading ammunition in the anti-aircraft and five-inch guns. He shares combat experiences in shuttling Marines aboard a Higgins boat at Guadalcanal and for the invasions of Peleliu and Leyte. Medley shares experiences of kamikaze planes trying to attack the Crescent City. He returned home in late 1945.
Date: December 22, 2015
Creator: Medley, Paul
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Irvine, November 10, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Irvine, November 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Elizabeth L. (Liz) Irvine. Irvine was born 5 July 1927 in Baguio, Philippine Islands, where her parents were teachers. They lived most of the time in Manila, until the outbreak of WWII, at which time they were imprisoned in 1942 by Japanese forces in Santo Tomas Internment Camp for the next three years, until liberation in early 1945. After the war ended in 1945, she and her parents moved to the United States. Liz shares intimate details of their experiences in the camp.
Date: November 10, 2015
Creator: Irvine, Elizabeth
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Yvonne Goodier Charles, November 10, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Yvonne Goodier Charles, November 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Yvonne Goodier Charles. Charles was born 10 September 1926 in Silver City, New Mexico. In November of 1933, her father was offered a mining job in Manila, Philippines and their family moved. In early 1942, after the outbreak of WWII, Charles and her family were imprisoned by Japanese forces in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, where they remained until their liberation in early 1945. Charles shares intimate details of their experiences in the camp.
Date: November 10, 2015
Creator: Charles, Yvonne Goodier
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Meacham, October 10, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Charles Meacham, October 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Meacham. Meacham was born in Roanoke County, California in 1925. At the age of 17, he dropped out of high school and joined the Marine Corps. Upon completion of boot camp, he volunteered for the Marine Raiders. In 1943, Meacham was assigned to Company K, 3rd Marine Raider Battalion. He tells of serving in combat on Bougainville, Guam and Okinawa and the use of Navajo Code Talkers and war dogs during various operations. He suffered a debilitating injury that led to a lengthy hospitalization and a medical discharge in November 1945.
Date: October 10, 2015
Creator: Meacham, Charles
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Luther Bookout, November 29, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Luther Bookout, November 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Luther Azel Bookout. Bookout joined the Marine Corps in July of 1941 to attend Officer Training School, and was called to active duty in 1942. He was assigned to Field Artillery School and joined C Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, and was promoted to first lieutenant. He landed in Auckland, New Zealand on early 1943, then redeployed in July to Guadalcanal. Luther participated in the battles of Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Bookout resigned his commission on 7 June 1946.
Date: November 29, 2015
Creator: Bookout, Luther
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Nicholas Fedesma, December 5, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Nicholas Fedesma, December 5, 2015

The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Nicholas Fedesma. Fedesma joined the Navy when he was 17 in 1942. After training, he was assigned to Composite Squadron 21 (VC-21) and went aboard USS Marcus Island (CVE-77) in March 1944. He specialized in aviation hydraulics. Fedesma recounts several anecdotes about his experiences aboard the Marcus Island. After he left the Navy in 1848, Fedesma studied mechanical engineering in Chicago on the GI Bill.
Date: December 5, 2015
Creator: Fedesma, Nicholas
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Gregory, November 20, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with William Gregory, November 20, 2015

The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with William Gregory. Gregory finished high school in 1938 and qualified for the Army Air Corps aviation cadet program. Gregory earned his wings in mid-1942 and was assigned to England, arriving in late 1942 where he joined the 49th Pursuit Squadron. He then traveled to North Africa. He also escorted bombers during the invasion of Sicily. He flew a P-38. He completed 50 missions by October 1943 and returned to the US, where he remained until the war ended. He stayed in the Air Force, working as an operations officer within a U-2 reconnaissance squadron in Japan.
Date: November 20, 2015
Creator: Gregory, William
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History