Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-464 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-464

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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the city of Childress is exempt from taxes under section 11.11 of the Tax Code, on city-owned airport land leased to individuals.
Date: March 31, 1986
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, March 3, 1998 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, March 3, 1998

Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, a physician from Kerrville, Texas, who also served as the city and Kerr County health officer. Dr. Bacon discusses his family history, as well as his education, medical career, brief stint in the Air Force, and general town life in Kerrville. While working at Peterson Hospital in Kerrville, he treated trauma victims from car accidents on Highway 27. In the Air Force, he briefly practiced psychiatry, served as a prison doctor, and finally switched to obstetrics and gynecology. He relates stories from his time as an obstetrician, as well as a general practitioner and family physician. He also discusses the history of minority communities in Kerrville, especially during integration, and the founding of the Kerrville Veteran's Hospital. Dr. Bacon's further remembrances, as well as a historical profile of the Kerrville VA Hospital, are included at the end of the interview transcript.
Date: March 3, 1998
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Bacon, Dan Wallace
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester (open access)

Cotton-Harvester

Patent for a cotton harvester "with an improved arrangement of combined gathering and picking arms" (lines 12-13) to more effectively obtain the cotton bolls (i.e. balls), including illustrations.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Stanton, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Childress County

Map of Childress County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The Initial Monument is located on border between Texas and Oklahoma, as shown on map. Scale ca. 1:66,667 (2000 varas per inch).
Date: March 15, 1892
Creator: MacBean, John
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History