Oral History Interview with Roy J. Grogan, March 16, 2010

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Interview with Roy J. Grogan, longtime Weatherford resident and elected official, as part of the Weatherford Oral History Project. The interview includes Grogan's personal experiences of childhood and education in Weatherford, Depression-era struggles, enlisting in the U.S. Navy, and World War II. Additionally, Grogan talks about his studies at Weatherford College, Duke University, and Duke Law, his legal career with the FBI and as a land developer, his political career on the Weatherford City Council and Weatherford College Board of Regents, the integration of Weatherford schools, and his involvement in state party politics. The interview includes an appendix with Grogan's resume.
Date: March 16, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Grogan, Roy J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Special Drawing and Regular Permit Hunting Opportunities on Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Hunting Areas: 2010-2011 (open access)

Special Drawing and Regular Permit Hunting Opportunities on Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Hunting Areas: 2010-2011

Booklet describing hunting regulations, procedures, and opportunities on Texas public lands during the 2010-2011 fiscal year. It includes instructions and applications to apply for special hunting permits as well as reference information about which permits are required and a calendar of the hunting season. The book also includes descriptions of special permit categories, hunter education programs, regular permit hunts, and a description of state parks and other public lands where hunting is allowed.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Bob Glenn, March 30, 2010

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Interview with Bob Glenn, longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas, as part of the Weatherford Oral History Project. The interview includes Glenn's personal experiences of childhood and education in Weatherford, his 1961 enlistment in the U.S. Army, service at various stateside bases, and his career in the banking industry. Glenn also discusses changes in the Weatherford economy.
Date: March 30, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Glenn, Bob
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Texas State Parks (open access)

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Texas State Parks

Text describing the work completed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in various parks throughout Texas, with a brief background on the program.
Date: 2010
Creator: Steely, James Wright
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Opal Bowden, June 21, 2010

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Interview with Opal Bowden, a resident of Weathorford, Texas. Bowden, born in 1908, discusses her family history, various experiences growing up, the 1918 Influenza pandemic, school, working in a beauty shop, her first husband, having a family, the Depression, dogs, World War Two, and her neighbors.
Date: June 21, 2010
Creator: Liles, Deborah & Bowden, Opal
System: The UNT Digital Library
General Information Guide for Families of Offenders (open access)

General Information Guide for Families of Offenders

This pamphlet provides information about programs intended to assist and support criminal offenders and their loved ones.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth's Huge Deal: Unwinding Westside's Twisted Legend (open access)

Fort Worth's Huge Deal: Unwinding Westside's Twisted Legend

This book discusses Arlington Heights, a neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas that was founded in the late 1880s. It includes a history of the area and the development of the neighborhood, broken down by time periods. The preface includes information about the approach and methodology of the authors.
Date: 2010
Creator: Atkinson, Jim & Wood, Judy
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Billie Joyce Towles, February 18, 2010

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Interview with Billie Joyce Towles, longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas, as part of the Weatherford Oral History Project. The interview includes Towles' personal experiences of childhood and education in Weatherford, Depression-era struggles, and living in Weatherford during World War II. Towles also discusses her father's work with the Works Progress Administration, marriage to Norman Towles, her family's switch from Democratic loyalty to Republican, her personal evolution on race issues, and religious devotion.
Date: February 18, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Towles, Billie Joyce
System: The UNT Digital Library
Catalog for City of Denton Parks and Recreation, Spring & Summer 2010 (open access)

Catalog for City of Denton Parks and Recreation, Spring & Summer 2010

Catalog of seasonal activities offered by City of Denton Parks and Recreation, including special events, programs, and classes, broken down by age groups.
Date: 2010
Creator: Denton (Tex.). Parks and Recreation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2011-2015 (open access)

Texas Department of Criminal Justice Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2011-2015

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2011 through 2015.
Date: July 1, 2010
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style

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In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection outside their marriage. A nasty divorce ensued, and Gladys moved with her girls to her father’s luxurious ranch house, where she soon fell in love with famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. When Ed tried to take his daughters for a prearranged Christmas visit in 1916, Gladys and her brother Sid shot him dead on the Snyder square teeming with shoppers. One of the best lawyers in West Texas, Judge Cullen Higgins (son of the old feudist Pink Higgins) managed to win acquittal for both Gladys and Sid. In the tradition of Texas feudists since the 1840s, the Sims family sought revenge. Sims’ son-in-law, Gee McMeans, led an attack in Sweetwater and shot Billy Johnson’s bodyguard, Frank Hamer, twice, while Gladys—by now Mrs. Hamer—fired at another assassin. Hamer shot back, killed McMeans, and was no-billed on the spot by a grand …
Date: August 15, 2010
Creator: O'Neal, Bill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas County Mapbook (open access)

Texas County Mapbook

Book of maps of Texas counties depicting major roads, military facilities, and state properties.
Date: 2010
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Transportation Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 (open access)

Texas Department of Transportation Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013

Report submitted by the Texas Department of Transportation containing background information on the department, and summaries of requests for appropriations and expenditures for the fiscal years 2012 and 2013 with supporting documentation.
Date: November 1, 2010
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
System: The Portal to Texas History

University of North Texas Alumni Directory, 2010

Directory containing alphabetical and geographic lists of all known alumni of University of North Texas through May 2010. Married women are listed with their maiden names in parentheses.
Date: 2010
Creator: University of North Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrogeophysics (open access)

Hydrogeophysics

Developing a predictive understanding of subsurface flow and transport is complicated by the disparity of scales across which controlling hydrological properties and processes span. Conventional techniques for characterizing hydrogeological properties (such as pumping, slug, and flowmeter tests) typically rely on borehole access to the subsurface. Because their spatial extent is commonly limited to the vicinity near the wellbores, these methods often can not provide sufficient information to describe key controls on subsurface flow and transport. The field of hydrogeophysics has evolved in recent years to explore the potential that geophysical methods hold for improving the quantification of subsurface properties and processes relevant for hydrological investigations. This chapter is intended to familiarize hydrogeologists and water resource professionals with the state-of-the-art as well as existing challenges associated with hydrogeophysics. We provide a review of the key components of hydrogeophysical studies, which include: geophysical methods commonly used for shallow subsurface characterization; petrophysical relationships used to link the geophysical properties to hydrological properties and state variables; and estimation or inversion methods used to integrate hydrological and geophysical measurements in a consistent manner. We demonstrate the use of these different geophysical methods, petrophysical relationships, and estimation approaches through several field-scale case studies. Among other applications, …
Date: April 1, 2010
Creator: Hubbard, S. S. & Linde, N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Program FY 2010 (open access)

Research Program FY 2010

List of continuing and new projects for fiscal year 2010, including descriptions, project budgets, relevant dates, and project managers. Project index is on page 143.
Date: 2010?
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Story Log: July 1 to December 31, 2010] (open access)

[News Story Log: July 1 to December 31, 2010]

Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from July through December in 2010.
Date: 2010-07/2010-12
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2010] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2010]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 14, 2010 to December 16, 2010.
Date: 2010-01-14/2010-12-16
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Written in Blood: the History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen

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In 2009 Fort Worth unveiled an elaborate, million-dollar memorial to its fallen police and firefighters going all the way back to the city’s beginnings in 1873. Fifty-eight of the ninety-five names on the memorial were policemen. Written in Blood is a more inclusive version of that idea because it covers more than just members of the Fort Worth Police Department; it includes men from all branches of local law enforcement who died defending law and order in the early years: policemen, sheriffs, constables, “special officers,” and even a police commissioner. Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster tell the stories of thirteen of those early lawmen—an unlucky number to be sure. They range from Tarrant County Sheriff John B. York through Fort Worth Police Officer William “Ad” Campbell covering the years from 1861 to 1909. York was the first local lawman to die—in a street fight. Campbell was last in this era—shot-gunned in the back while walking his beat in Hell’s Half-Acre. Co-authors Selcer and Foster bring academic credentials and “street cred” to the story, explaining how policemen got (and kept) their jobs, what special officers were, and the working relationship between the city marshal’s boys and the sheriff’s boys.
Date: October 15, 2010
Creator: Selcer, Richard F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2011-2015 (open access)

Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2011-2015

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation and Texas Department of Licensing and regulations describing the organizations' planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2011 through 2015.
Date: 2010-22~
Creator: Texas. Department of Licensing and Regulation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 25, No. 2, Pages 830 to 1765, January 22 - February 19, 2010 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 25, No. 2, Pages 830 to 1765, January 22 - February 19, 2010

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: February 2010
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophical Society of Texas, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting: 2010 (open access)

Philosophical Society of Texas, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting: 2010

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Philosophical Society of Texas held on December 3-5, 2010, including a list of attendees, text of addresses, changes to membership, and biographical information about members who have passed.
Date: 2010
Creator: Philosophical Society of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Story Log: January 1 to June 30, 2010] (open access)

[News Story Log: January 1 to June 30, 2010]

Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from January through June in 2010.
Date: 2010-01/2010-06
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Hunter Education Instructor Manual (open access)

Texas Hunter Education Instructor Manual

This document provides information about hunting to "reduce hunting accidents and violations, promote safe, responsible and knowledgeable hunting activities and enhancement of hunting traditions and values." (p. 9).
Date: July 2010
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History