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Bill Jason Priest, Community College Pioneer
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There are few things that are purely American. On that short list are baseball and the two-year community college. Bill Jason Priest possessed skill and acumen for both. The better part of his life was spent developing and defining the junior college into the comprehensive community college. His contributions earned him a prestigious place in the annals of higher education, but his personality was not one of a stereotypical stodgy educator, nor is the story of his life a dry read. After working his way through college, Priest played professional baseball before serving in Naval Intelligence during World War II. His varied experiences helped shape his leadership style, often labeled as autocratic and sometimes truculent in conservative convictions. The same relentless drive that brought him criticism also brought him success and praise. Forthright honesty and risk-taking determination combined with vision brought about many positive results. Priest’s career in higher education began with the two-year college system in California before he was lured to Texas in 1965 to head the Dallas County Junior College District. Over the next fifteen years Priest transformed the junior college program into the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) and built it up to seven colleges. …
Date:
February 15, 2004
Creator:
Whitson, Kathleen Krebbs
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Both Sides of the Border: A Scattering of Texas Folklore
Collection of Tex-Mex folklore and related essays, including papers presented at Texas Folklore Society meetings. The book is organized into four topical categories: I. Remembering Our Ancestors, II. Texas-Mexican Folklore, III. Miscellaneous Memorabilia, and IV. The Family Saga (Cont'd).
Date:
November 15, 2004
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward & Untiedt, Kenneth L.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Life in Laredo: a Documentary History From the Laredo Archives
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Based on documents from the Laredo Archives, Life in Laredo shows the evolution and development of daily life in a town under the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Isolated on the northern frontier of New Spain and often forgotten by authorities far away, the people of Laredo became as grand as the river that flowed by their town and left an enduring legacy in a world of challenges and changes. Because of its documentary nature, Life in Laredo offers in sights into the nitty-gritty of the comings and goings of its early citizens not to be found elsewhere. Robert D. Wood, S.M., presents the first one hundred years of history and culture in Laredo up to the mid-nineteenth century, illuminating--with primary source evidence--the citizens' beliefs, cultural values, efforts to make a living, political seesawing, petty quarreling, and constant struggles against local Indians. He also details rebellious military and invading foreigners among the early settlers and later townspeople. Scholars and students of Texas and Mexican American history, as well as the Laredoans celebrating the 250th anniversary (in 2005) of Laredo's founding, will welcome this volume. "Although there have been a number of books on the history of Laredo, …
Date:
March 15, 2004
Creator:
Wood, Robert D.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Eleven Days in Hell: the 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege in Huntsville, Texas
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From one o’clock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o’clock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texas’s Huntsville State Prison. The ringleader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former boss of the largest drug-running operation in south Texas, was serving life for assault with intent to commit murder on a police officer. Using his connections to smuggle guns and ammunition into the prison, and employing the aid of two other inmates, he took eleven prison workers and four inmates hostage in the prison library. Demanding bulletproof helmets and vests, he planned to use the hostages as shields for his escape. Negotiations began immediately with prison warden H. H. Husbands and W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director of the Texas Department of Corrections. The Texas Rangers, the Department of Public Safety, and the FBI arrived to assist as the media descended on Huntsville. When one of the hostages suggested a moving structure of chalkboards padded with law books to absorb bullets, Carrasco agreed to the plan. The captors entered their escape pod with four hostages and secured eight others to …
Date:
August 15, 2004
Creator:
Harper, William T.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Life of the Marlows: a True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days
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The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). Violent, full of intrigue, with characters of amazing heroism and deplorable cowardice, their story was first related by William Rathmell in Life of the Marlows, a little book published in 1892, shortly after the events it described in Young County, Texas. It told how Boone, the most reckless of the brothers, shot and killed a popular sheriff and escaped, only to be murdered later by bounty hunters. The other four brothers, arrested as accessories and jailed, made a daring break from confinement but were recaptured. Once back in their cells, they were forced to fight off a mob intent on lynching them. Later, shackled together, the Marlows were placed on wagons by officers late at night, bound for another town, but they were ambushed by angry citizens. In the resulting battle two of the brothers were shot and killed, the other two severely wounded, and three mob members died. The surviving brothers eventually were exonerated, but members of the mob that had attacked them were prosecuted …
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Rathmell, William
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 155, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 15, 2004
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 155, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 58, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 2004
Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
January 15, 2004
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unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Weekly student newspaper from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Dickens, Jodi
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Fowler, Whitney
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0136
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 company in which the Leon County Judge has a substantial interest may sell fuel and oil products to the county (RQ-0084-GA)
Date:
January 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0137
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 House Bill 3534 invalidates or prohibits sales tax rebate contracts between a municipality and certain businesses (RQ-0085-GA)
Date:
January 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0164
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 court reporters who are full-time state employees may receive a fee for a transcript in addition to the court reporter’s salary (RQ-0111-GA)
Date:
March 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0165
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 surety operating as an agent for a corporation must obtain a licenser separate from that of the corporation (RQ-0112-GA)
Date:
March 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0166
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: City council’s authority to prohibit the use of the municipal jail as a holding facility for persons arrested by deputy constables for violations of state law (RQ-0115-GA)
Date:
March 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0167
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 under Finance Code section 156.209(c), a hearings officer must schedule a hearing for a date not later than thirty days after the date the Savings and Loan Commissioner receives the applicant’s appeal (RQ-0117-GA)
Date:
March 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0178
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, under sections 25.001 and 25.002 of the Education Code, a child who is newly enrolled in a public school may be prohibited from attending the school during the thirty-day period allowed to produce (1) immunization records; (2) proof that the child is not required to be immunized; or (3) proof that the child may be provisionally admitted under section 38.001(e), Education Code (RQ-0124-GA)
Date:
April 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0179
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 the Texas Automobile Thef Prevention Authority may assess a fee for insurance on, and use its funds to investigate the theft of, self-propelled farm equipment, construction equipment, boats, and aircraft (RQ-0127-GA)
Date:
April 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0180
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 the Texas Commission for the Blind may impose costs for providing information to its licensees under the Federal Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 United States Code section 107 (RQ-0134-GA)
Date:
April 15, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alternate to Delegate Elevation Form
Photocopy of an Alternate to Delegate Elevation Form and fax to Charles McGarry from Al Daniels on June 15, 2004, including a message: "Alternate Delegate Elevation Form."
Date:
June 15, 2004
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Becky Levy to General-Purpose Political Committees]
Letter from Becky Levy to General-Purpose Political Committees County Executive Committees on June 18, 2005 discussing a semiannual campaign finance report with the Texas Ethics Commission due on July 18, 2005. Includes information regarding electronic filing, exemption from electronic filling, cash on hand, corporate expenditures for administration or solicitation purposes, civil penalty for late filing, filing deadline, filing schedules, website address, questions, and software instructions for reporting "cash on hand."
Date:
December 15, 2004
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Becky Levy to General-Purpose Political Committees]
Letter from Becky Levy to General-Purpose Political Committees County Executive Committees on June 15, 2004 discussing a semiannual campaign finance report with the Texas Ethics Commission due on July 15, 2004. Includes information regarding electronic filing, exemption from electronic filling, cash on hand, corporate expenditures for administration or solicitation purposes, civil penalty for late filing, filing deadline, filing schedules, website address, questions, and software instructions for reporting "cash on hand."
Date:
June 15, 2004
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
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The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2004
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 15, 2004
Creator:
Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. [128], No. [45], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 2004
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 15, 2004
Creator:
Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History