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[Historic Marker Application: Rabb Plantation] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Rabb Plantation]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Rabb Plantation, in Brownsville, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date: January 23, 2013
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0907 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0907

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; Vacancies on a junior college district's board of trustees (RQ-0987-GA)
Date: January 23, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0908 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0908

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 members of the board of trustees of the Clear Lake City Community Association may hold a meeting by means of a telephone conference call (RQ-0989-GA)
Date: January 23, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0909 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0909

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; Transportation of a paitient after a preliminary examination by a mental health facility (RQ-0990-GA)
Date: January 23, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eugene Volcik, January 23, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eugene Volcik, January 23, 2016

The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Eugene Volcik. Volcik grew up on a farm in Texas and was 13 when the war started. Volcikā€™s brothers served and urged him not to join the service too quickly as their mother needed help at home. Volcik was 17 when the war ended. After the war, he joined the Navy in February 1946 and recalls several experiences from his time in the post-war Navy aboard USS Huntington (CL-107).
Date: January 23, 2016
Creator: Volcik, Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Wicker, January 23, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Wicker, January 23, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Wicker. Wicker joined the Navy in mid-1944. He served with the ship repair crew aboard the USS Corregidor (CVE-58). They traveled to Eniwetok, Guam, Pearl Harbor, conducting anti-submarine patrol, providing air cover and qualifying pilots in carrier operations. Wicker returned to the US and received his discharged in late 1945.
Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: Wicker, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George Gresko, January 23, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Gresko, January 23, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Gresko. Gresko joined the Army Air Forces in January 1944 and trained at Miami Beach. He then went to aerial gunnery school, then overseas to Tinian where he joined the 6th Bomb Group, 24th Bomb Squadron in April, 1945. He flew 11 combat missions before being sent back to the US to train as a lead crew. He was discharged in February 1946. In 2005, Gresko returned to Tinian for the 60th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack.
Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: Gresko, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
City officials to celebrate South Oak Cliff Three Line extension (open access)

City officials to celebrate South Oak Cliff Three Line extension

News release celebrating the opening of DART's South oak Cliff Three Line light rail extension.
Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Davis, Gaytha F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lois Shaw and Evelyn Shields, January 23, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lois Shaw and Evelyn Shields, January 23, 2018

Transcript of an interview with Lois Lorraine Green Shaw and Evelyn Mills Shields who have been friends for 49 years and live on the same street. Lois Shaw moved to Kerrville with her husband. She attended nursing school and worked in the operating room at Sid Peterson Hospital for many years, and later as a geriatrics administrator at a care facility. She is active in her church, St. Paul Methodist, and has served on many community boards. She and her husband Charles (deceased) had seven children. Evelyn Shields graduated from Doyle High School, she worked as therapist at Kerrville State Hospital for 33 years. She enjoys cooking and is active in her church, Mount Olive Baptist. She and her husband Vernon (deceased) had four children. Both women are members of the Red Hatters. Photographs relating to the interview follow the transcript text.
Date: January 23, 2018
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes; Shaw, Lois Lorraine Green & Shields, Evelyn Mills
System: The Portal to Texas History