100th Anniversary Celebration -- Wichita Falls Country Club: February 18, 2012 (open access)

100th Anniversary Celebration -- Wichita Falls Country Club: February 18, 2012

Document containing a program and photographs from the NSDAR Major Francis Grice Chapter's 100th Anniversary celebration on February 18, 2012.
Date: February 18, 2012
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
System: The UNT Digital Library
Locomotion: Romancing the rails at Texas train museums, or Two Longs and a Short: Highballin' it through Texas train museums!, or Two Longs and a Short: Museums toot the whistle of railroading's colorful past. (open access)

Locomotion: Romancing the rails at Texas train museums, or Two Longs and a Short: Highballin' it through Texas train museums!, or Two Longs and a Short: Museums toot the whistle of railroading's colorful past.

Draft of an article about train museums across Texas that was published in the February 2001 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2001-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Concordia Lutheran College Bank Statement and Checks] (open access)

[Concordia Lutheran College Bank Statement and Checks]

Documents including checks and a bank statement from Concordia Lutheran College of Austin, Texas, showing deposits and bank balances.
Date: February 28, 1949
Creator: Wichita National Bank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Harley Wright, February 18, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Harley Wright, February 18, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Harley Wright. Wright volunteered for service in the Army Air Forces in January 1942. He trained in Wichita Falls as an aircraft mechanic and then served as an instructor after aircraft engine specialist school. Eventually, Wright was assigned to Lowry Field in Denver where he became the base aircraft inspector. He spent the rest of the war there and recalls several experiences. He was discharged in December, 1945. After the war, Wright wrote technical manuals and extension course books for Air University and other entities.
Date: February 18, 2016
Creator: Wright, Harley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Claude Cummins, February 17, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Claude Cummins, February 17, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Claude Cummins. Cummins joined the Army Air Corps around 1940. He completed Aircraft and Mechanics School in Wichita Falls, Texas. In early 1942, he worked as a crew chief with the Douglas Aircraft Company in Washington State, pre-flighting B-17 aircraft for air crew. Cummins was assigned to Dum Dum, India, through the end of the war. While there, he set up an overhaul facility for C47s. He continued in the Army Air Forces after the war ended, completing 30 years of service.
Date: February 17, 2015
Creator: Cummins, Claude
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remembering railroads (open access)

Remembering railroads

Text about railroad museums across Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a February 2001 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 2001-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clinton L. Henderson, February 11, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clinton L. Henderson, February 11, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clinton Henderson. Henderson joined the Army Air Force before graduating high school and received basic training in Wichita Falls, aerial gunnery training in Las Vegas, and combat crew training in Ardmore. Upon completion, he was assigned as a ball turret gunner for the 384th Bombardment Group, stationed in England. Toward the end of his 36-mission tour, his plane was hit by antiaircraft fire above Germany. His crew aborted the mission and landed safely at a British airfield. Henderson returned to the States and trained to become a B-29 gunnery instructor. The work was dangerous, as the planes flew at twice the speed bomber pilots were accustomed to. Henderson transferred to Randolph Field and finished his time in the service as a supply clerk. He was discharged in October 1945.
Date: February 11, 2015
Creator: Henderson, Clinton L
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John V. Hilliard, Jr., February 28, 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John V. Hilliard, Jr., February 28, 2002

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Hilliard. Hlliard went into the Army right after he graduated from high school in August 1943 and was accepted into pilot training. After going through basic training in Wichita Falls, Texas he went to Henderson State College in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He was there five months taking college courses and 10 hours of flight training. From there, he went to a base near San Antonio where they put everyone through all kinds of tests, for classification; he was classified as a pilot. Then they were marched across the street and he started more training. He finished that and was sent to Ballinger, Texas for primary flight training and then to San Angelo to fly Vultee BT-13s. Hilliard didn't enjoy flying the Vultee and had a 'personality conflict' with the instructor so he left the aviation cadet program and ended up at Truax Field in Madison, Wisconsin as a private where he studied to be a radio mechanic. After graduation, they sent him to Rantoul, Illinois for electronics training and then on to Boca Raton, Florida where he was moved to radar. Hilliard was there when the war ended. …
Date: February 28, 2002
Creator: Hilliard, John V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Horace Thomas Edwards, February 16, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Horace Thomas Edwards, February 16, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Horace Edwards. Edwards joined the Army Air Forces in February 1943. He received basic training at Sheppard Field, radio training at Harlingen, and aerial gunnery training in Sioux Falls. He completed his training as a B-24 radio operator gunner in Holyoke. He was transferred to Godman Field, where he served as a B-25 radio instructor to the Tuskegee Airmen. Towards the end of the war, he was stationed at Columbia Army Air Base as part of a ground control approach unit, helping pilots learn to land blind in preparation for poor weather and blackouts. Edwards returned home and was discharged in 1945. He remembers V-J Day as a time of celebration in crowded streets.
Date: February 16, 2015
Creator: Edwards, Horace Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1072 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1072

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: Legality of adoption by Independent School District of Home Rule City's ordinance providing a 10% penalty on delinquent taxes.
Date: February 25, 1972
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with James I. Gipson, February 19, 1991

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with James Gipson concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Gipson worked at camps in Grand Junction, Colorado and Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Date: February 19, 1991
Creator: Houser, Cindy & Gipson, James I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leroy Cox, February 5, 2004 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Leroy Cox, February 5, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Leroy Cox. Cox was flying a crop duster in Colorado when he was drafted into the Army. He did not tell the Army he could fly and was trained as an armorer for B-17 bombers. Once someone found he could fly, he was sent to flight school. He eventually trained as a tow pilot for gliders, then as a glider pilot in South Carolina. He never was called to go overseas and was discharged in November 1945.
Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Cox, Leroy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-372 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-372

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Maximum number of hours a female employee may work under the provisions of Article 5172a in any one period of twenty-four consecutive hours.
Date: February 17, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO98-012 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO98-012

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: City's use of noncivil service personnel for fire frighting duties at NASCAR race track.
Date: February 20, 1998
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[TDNA 2007 Board of Directors] (open access)

[TDNA 2007 Board of Directors]

Texas Daily Newspaper Association's 2007 Board of Officers and Directors list. TDNA's officers are, president Charles Moser, vice president Gary Borders, treasurer Nelson Clyde IV, and chairman of the board of directors, Jeremy L. Halbreich. The board of directors are, Stephen A. Beasley, Belinda Gaudet, Patrick J. Birmingham, Matt Oliver, Darrell Coleman, Charles A. Spence, M. Olaf Frandsen and Doug Toney.
Date: February 5, 2007
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-604 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-604

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the residence property of the Cameron Independent School District, which is being used by the school superintendent, is exempt from ad valorem taxation under the stated facts.
Date: February 9, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-491 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-491

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The legality of the proposed criminal prosecution of a corporation for offering a lulterated food for sale.
Date: February 2, 1948
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pass-Through Financing (open access)

Pass-Through Financing

In addition to TxDOT's "Open for Business" initiative, this report discusses pass-through financing, which allows private-sector investment in the Texas transportation system.
Date: February 2009
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Government & Public Affairs Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-9 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-9

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: Questions relating to the Constitutional Amendment passed on November 7th, 1972 concerning the Homestead Exemption for persons over sixty-five years of age.
Date: February 14, 1973
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Raymond Renfro, February 6, 2006 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Raymond Renfro, February 6, 2006

Transcript of an oral interview with Raymond Renfro. Born in 1923, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in November 1942. After training in Camp Pendleton, California, he was assigned to a machine gun squad in the 4th Marine Division. He describes landing on the Marshall Islands of Roi and Namur during the Battle of Kwajalein. He also relates his experiences in a rifle platoon under Captain Houston Stiff during the Battle of Saipan. He was wounded by an exploding shell and evacuated to a hospital ship. He was given a medical discharge in January 1945. The interview contains information about his early family life as well as information about his brother, Robert Renfro, who was captured by the Japanese while serving in the Army Air Corps in the Philippines.
Date: February 6, 2006
Creator: Renfro, Raymond
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: First Evangelical Church] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: First Evangelical Church]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the First Evangelical Church, in Houston, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-238 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-238

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Construction of Article 504 of Penal Code
Date: February 9, 1939
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Southwestern Bell Telephone Bill, November 6, 1948] (open access)

[Southwestern Bell Telephone Bill, November 6, 1948]

Bill from Southwestern Bell Telephone Company addressed to D. W. Kempner listing charges for local service and equipment, toll calls, and telegrams along with tax and the total charges due and including an invoice for the toll services and telegrams.
Date: February 6, 1952
Creator: Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO98-008 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO98-008

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether state aid to community corrections facility may be used to provide services and programs to a person convicted of or charged with noncriminal offense.
Date: February 18, 1998
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History