Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort; disagreements between conservative democrats and liberal democrats in Fort Worth; and the arrival of a 16-pound baby girl gorilla, from New York, at Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. or Mrs. W. W. Overton, Jr., discussing his trip to Gainesville at the Texas Chief. He further discusses the check-in times and the brief itinerary for Saturday and Sunday.

Letter from Kelley M. Fogg to Mr. I. H. Kempner discussing the schedule of Kempner's trip from Dallas to Houston and the reservation of a Pullman car on the Southern Pacific train.