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[Congressional Record - Senate - January 14, 1977] (open access)

[Congressional Record - Senate - January 14, 1977]

Photocopied text of an excerpt from the Congressional Record containing Senator Barry Goldwater's introduction of bill S. 247 to provide veterans' benefits to the WASPs. Goldwater's remarks are followed by five articles on the WASPs, their service during WWII, and their efforts to obtain veterans' status.
Date: January 14, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-924 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-924

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Medical liability insurance underwritten by the joint underwriting association.
Date: January 14, 1977
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-773 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-773

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a vending machine, converted from a slot machine, which returns an identical souvenir coin with each play without application of an element of chance, violates the provisions of Article 642a, Vernon's Penal Code.
Date: January 14, 1971
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1042 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1042

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Board of Pardons and Paroles to employ and pay two Deputy Compact Administrators
Date: January 14, 1972
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-493 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-493

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Applicability of Motor Carrier Act, V.T.C.S., art. 911b to livestock commission companies which furnish transportation services.
Date: January 14, 1975
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-494 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-494

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Conflict between section 34.01 of the Family Code, requiring report of child abuse, and section 87 of the Mental Health Code, requiring confidentiality of hospital records.
Date: January 14, 1975
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-763 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-763

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a firemen's reflief fund and retirement fund is eligible under Article 6243e.2, V.T.C.S., to recieve an annual apportionment from the state appropriation.
Date: January 14, 1976
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Shafer Saddlery] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Shafer Saddlery]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Shafer Saddlery, in Georgetown, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: January 14, 1971
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
It's a Corker (open access)

It's a Corker

History Thesis by Carleen Pirtle about glass bottles, written in januyary 1971. The paper gives a brief history of different types of glass bottles: whiskeys, bitters, medicines, house-holds, and drink bottles - beer, wine, soda water. It discusses why these bottles are so interesting and how some of them were made. It also has six pages of hand-drawn examples of bottles. Note cards are included at the end that may have been used to describe specific bottles.
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Pirtle, Carleen
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Businesses in Marfa] (open access)

[Businesses in Marfa]

Report by Glenn Garcia for an American History class at marfa High School in January 1974. It is about businesses in Marfa, Texas based on his interviews with Jesusita Brito of Chuy's Place and Robert Martinez of Sandy's Grocery Store.
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Garcia, Glenn
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disastrous Depression of the 1930's (open access)

Disastrous Depression of the 1930's

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the Great Depression of the 1930s, specifically in Presidio County, Texas, with numerous interviews from farmers and ranchers of the Depression era.
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Roman, Hallie Rey
System: The Portal to Texas History