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Oral History Interview with Peter Terpstra, December 31, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Peter Terpstra, December 31, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Peter Terpstra. Terpstra joined the Navy in February of 1944. He served in the Pacific aboard the USS Ara (AK-136). They traveled to Pearl Harbor with Seabees and Marines on board. They stopped at a staging area at Eniwetok where they collected all the ships heading out to invade Guam. Terpstra provides detail of the ship and equipment and weapons aboard. They went to Guam and he provides detail of some of the battle. He discusses life in the Navy in general and working up to 3rd Class Petty Officer. He manned the captain’s gig as helmsman. They made stops at Kwajalein, Leyte, Auckland, New Zealand, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian Island delivering troops and supplies.
Date: December 31, 2005
Creator: Terpstra, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wendell Tombaugh, December 31, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Wendell Tombaugh, December 31, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Wendell C. Tombaugh. Tombaugh joined the Navy in November of 1944. He was trained in radar and provides some detail of his training experiences. He served aboard the USS Perkins (DD-877). His rank was Seaman First Class, and he shares stories of life aboard the destroyer. He was discharged in February of 1946.
Date: December 31, 2005
Creator: Tombaugh, Wendell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Reconciliation Summary (open access)

Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Reconciliation Summary

Reconciliation summary with an ending balance of $3,340.25 for the period ending on December 30, 2005.
Date: December 30, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clearinghouse Response to Inquiry JCS 75 (open access)

Clearinghouse Response to Inquiry JCS 75

Clearinghouse response to inquiry JCS 75 concerning a modified cost of base Realignment and Closure Actions (COBRA)report for Secretary of Defense recommendation "Create an Integrated Weapons & Armaments Specialty Site for Guns and Ammunition."
Date: December 29, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eve Tice, December 28, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eve Tice, December 28, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Eve Tice. Tice was born 7 August 1923 in Calumet, Michigan. Graduating from high school in 1942, she went to work as a timekeeper at a Chevrolet Motor Company plant in Detroit, Michigan. She describes her duties. She met her future husband, who joined the Navy, and they were married when he came home on leave following boot camp. Her husband was assigned to the USS Franklin (CV13) at Newport, Rhode Island. She tells of seeing her husband when he came home on leave after the Franklin went to Bremerton, Washington for repairs November 1944. She and her husband took the train to Bremerton where they rented one room in a private home. She stayed there until the Franklin departed. She comments on censoring and V-mail letters. On 19 March 1945 she was notified that the USS Franklin had been damaged, her husband was a survivor and that the ship would be returning to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs. The ship arrived April 1945 and Mr. and Mrs. Tice remained in the area until he was discharged November 1945.
Date: December 28, 2005
Creator: Tice, Eve
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0387 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0387

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Government Code section 51.961(g), which requires one-half of the family protection fee collected in divorce suits to be deposited in the child abuse and neglect prevention trust account, violates the open courts provision, Texas Constitution article I, section 13 (RQ-0362-GA)
Date: December 28, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0388 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0388

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Chamber's County has authority to contract with a bank to invest and manage its permanent school fund (RQ-0364-GA)
Date: December 28, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0389 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0389

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether section 693.002 of the Health and Safety Code requires a justice of the peace to allow an organ procurement organization to remove organs of a deceased person before the justice of the peace has determined whether an autopsy should be performed (RQ-0365-GA)
Date: December 28, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0390 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0390

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a deputy sheriff is an "individual who acts in any capacity for permitting authority" for purposes of title 30, section 285.50(g) of the Texas Administrative Code, which prohibits such persons from working as an installer for an on-site sewage facility withing the permitting authority's jurisdiction (RQ-0366-GA)
Date: December 28, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arlie Asmussen, December 27, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arlie Asmussen, December 27, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Arlie Asmussen. Asmussen joined the Navy in 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He served aboard the USS Owl (AM-2) beginning in February of 1942. His job aboard was to cook and serve as a deck ape, scrubbing the decks and bulkheads, and tying up the boats. In March they traveled to Bermuda and remained for 2 years. They provided target practice for submarines and went out on distress calls, rescuing a torpedoed cargo ship from Argentina. He describes their experiences in Bermuda. They later traveled to England, where they carried breakwaters to Normandy in preparation for D-Day. In June of 1944 Asmussen and the crew participated in D-Day, aiding in the flow of men and equipment to the front. In September he returned to the states on a troop ship carrying 150 German prisoners of war. In the summer of 1945 he served aboard the USS Comstock (LSD-19), where he served as a cook. They traveled to Okinawa and he was discharged in late 1945.
Date: December 27, 2005
Creator: Asmussen, Arlie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Tice, December 27, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Tice, December 27, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Tice. Tice was born in Detroit 3 January 1924. After joining the Navy in 1943 he went to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center for boot training. Upon completion of training he entered gunnery school in preparation for Armed Guard duty. After training, Tice served as instructor at the Armed Guard school for four months. He then volunteered for aircraft carrier duty and was assigned to a gunnery crew aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13). He went aboard late in December 1943. Tice recalls meeting a childhood friend, Bob Harrison, an armament specialist who was also on board. Soon after arriving at Pearl Harbor the Franklin sailed to the Marianas. He recalls the ship being involved in many operations including the Bonin Islands, Peleliu, Guam, Luzon and Iwo Jima. It was also involved in the Battle of Leyte Gulf where a Japanese aircraft crashed on the deck. He went into an ammunition magazine to wet down the area with water. He received a citation from Admiral Halsey for this action. He also describes burials at sea. The ship returned to Bremerton for repairs. On 19 March 1945 a …
Date: December 27, 2005
Creator: Tice, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0385 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0385

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a nonprofit organization that sponsors a "poker run" violates gambling statutes (RQ-0357-GA)
Date: December 27, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0386 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0386

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a legislator may simultaneously serve as president of a municipal management district operating under chapter 375, Local Government Code (RQ-0385-GA)
Date: December 27, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Deposit Summary (open access)

Deposit Summary

Dallas National Bank deposit receipt and summary of $100.00 made on December 23, 2005.
Date: December 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deposit Summary (open access)

Deposit Summary

Deposit summary and receipt of $835.00 made on December 23, 2005.
Date: December 22, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Audit: Restatements to the National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2003 Financial Statements (open access)

Financial Audit: Restatements to the National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2003 Financial Statements

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Secretary of Treasury, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is required to annually prepare and submit audited financial statements of the U.S. government to the President and Congress. We are required to audit these consolidated financial statements (CFS) and report on the results of our work. An issue meriting concern and close scrutiny that emerged during our fiscal year 2004 CFS audit was the growing number of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies that restated certain of their financial statements for fiscal year 2003 to correct errors. Errors in financial statements can result from mathematical mistakes, mistakes in the application of accounting principles, or oversight or misuse of facts that existed at the time the financial statements were prepared. Frequent restatements to correct errors can undermine public trust and confidence in both the entity and all responsible parties. Further, when restatements do occur, it is important that financial statements clearly communicate, and readers of the restated financial statements understand, that the financial statements originally issued by management in the previous year and the opinion thereon should no longer be relied …
Date: December 22, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Clark, December 22, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gilbert Clark, December 22, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Gilbert Clark. Clark joined the Navy in February 1941 and trained at Great Lakes. After optical training, he joined the USS Helena (CL-50) at San Diego and served aboard as a rangefinder. Clark was aboard when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He also describes some action he was involved in later around the Solomon Islands and describes when the Helena was sunk at Kula Gulf. Clark made it to an island and was rescued off it. He then was assigned to the USS Franklin (CV-13) when it was commissioned. He was aboard the Franklin when she was hit by a kamikaze. Clark was evacuated and assigned to shore duty in San Diego. He was discharged after the war ended.
Date: December 22, 2005
Creator: Clark, Gilbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pilot Project to Expand Merchandise Sold in Commissary Stores Will Likely Have a Negligible Impact on the Exchange Dividend (open access)

Pilot Project to Expand Merchandise Sold in Commissary Stores Will Likely Have a Negligible Impact on the Exchange Dividend

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) has three military exchanges--the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy Exchange, and the Marine Corps Exchange--that operate retail and other specialty stores. During fiscal years 2000 through 2004, the three exchanges provided more than $300 million annually, an average of 55 to 70 percent of their profits, in the form of a dividend to support the military services' morale, welfare, and recreation programs. DOD, through the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), also operates commissaries that sell groceries and authorized household products at the lowest practical price, charging patrons only for the cost of goods sold plus a 5 percent surcharge. The funds generated by the surcharge are used to construct new and modernize existing commissaries. The Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 authorized the Secretary of Defense to conduct a pilot project involving the sale of film, one-time use cameras, and telephone cards in not less than 10 commissary stores for a period selected by the Secretary, but not less than 6 months. Previously, these items had only been sold by the exchanges. Concerns were expressed by …
Date: December 22, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Invoice 75 (open access)

Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Invoice 75

An invoice from Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus to fundraiser of $835.00 on June 22, 2005.
Date: December 22, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Technology: Responses to Subcommittee Post-Hearing Questions Regarding the FBI's Management Practices and Acquisition of a New Investigative Case Management System (open access)

Information Technology: Responses to Subcommittee Post-Hearing Questions Regarding the FBI's Management Practices and Acquisition of a New Investigative Case Management System

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This letter responds to follow-up questions about our September 14, 2005, testimony before Congress. In that testimony, we discussed the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) progress in building management capabilities essential to successfully modernizing its information technology (IT) systems. Systems modernization is a vital part of the FBI's ongoing efforts to transform itself in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks."
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of Two Authorities Granted to the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (open access)

Status of Two Authorities Granted to the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Commerce's (Commerce) Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorization Act of 2004 directed us to regularly review the implementation of two authorities granted to the Secretary of Commerce: (1) allowing excess funds from projects constructed under projected cost to be reinvested in new or existing projects and (2) establishing a performance award process for grant recipients that meet or exceed performance measures established in connection with the grant. This report (1) discusses EDA's authority to reinvest excess funds and provides information on the portion of these funds EDA has had to return to the U.S. Treasury and (2) describes the status of the performance award system and identifies some steps EDA could take to develop a useful performance award system."
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0384 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0384

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether federal law preempts a portion of Senate Bill 410, enacted during the regular session of the Seventy-ninth Legislature, that purports to authorize the importation of Canadian pharmaceuticals into Texas, and the require the State Board of Pharmacy to assist in such importation (RQ-0355-GA)
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Invoice 77 (open access)

Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Invoice 77

Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus invoice of $150.00 made on December 21, 2005.
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lone Star Ride Fighting Aids 2005 Final Return Totals (open access)

Lone Star Ride Fighting Aids 2005 Final Return Totals

Photograph of four representatives smiling at the camera and standing behind a large printed check in the amount of $280,890.00 dated December 20, 2005. The paper that the photo is printed on reads, "LONE STAR RIDE FIGHTING AIDS 2005, FINAL RETURN TOTALS, $280,890.00", "Hurricane Rita may have forced the cancellation of the scheduled two-day event on September 24 and 25, but it did not cancel the enthusiasm of Lone Star Ride participants who participated in a one day ride on November 5." Left to right the individuals are Don Maison, president and CEO of AIDS Services of Dallas, Janie Bush, LSR Event Manager, Dara Austin, Executive Director AIDS Outreach Center of Tarrant County; Paul Scott, Executive Director Resource Center of Dallas.
Date: December 20, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library