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Oral History Interview with James Macia, July 21, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Macia, July 21, 2000

Interview with James "Herb" Macia of San Antonio, Texas, who is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces during World War Two. In the interview, Mr. Thomas recalls memories about growing up as well as his days as a mining engineer, the Doolittle Raid, North Africa, Normandy, and D-Day.
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Macia, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia, July 21, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia, July 21, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia. He discusses being a navigator/bombardier on the 14th plane in the Doolittle Raid, including the training leading up to the raid, the trip on the USS Hornet, the raid itself, bailing out over China, the weeks spent there before making it out through India and Egypt and stories about other men in the Raiders. He also discusses meeting with Generalissimo and Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, seeing the Egyptian pyramids, crossing Africa then to Brazil before getting back to the US, landing in Miami, his later deployments in North Africa and Europe, his work after the war and reunions the Raiders have had since the war.
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Macia, James H. ""Herb""
System: The Portal to Texas History
Industrial and Hazardous Waste: Rules and Regulations for Small-Quantity Generators (open access)

Industrial and Hazardous Waste: Rules and Regulations for Small-Quantity Generators

Explanation of industrial and hazardous waste materials and the responsibilities of small-quantity waste generators.
Date: July 2, 2000
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Landes-McDonough House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Landes-McDonough House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Landes-McDonough House, in Galveston, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: July 29, 2000
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Sessums & Virginia Cleveland House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Sessums & Virginia Cleveland House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Sessums & Virginia Cleveland House, in Houston, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date: July 5, 2000
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-245 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-245

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Webb County may replace a cattle guard that was removed from a county road (RQ-0183-JC)
Date: July 7, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-246 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-246

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Amount of credit for time served in a county jail for failure to pay a fine assessed for a Class C misdemeanor (RQ-0184-JC)
Date: July 7, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-247 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-247

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a hospital district governed by chapter 286 of the Health and Safety Code may hold an election to increase the maximum tax rate set in its conversion election (RQ-0189-JC)
Date: July 7, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-248 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-248

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a state agency that is the subject of a public hearing before the Sunset Advisory Commission must post notice under the Open Meetings Act when its members attend the hearing (RQ-0193-JC)
Date: July 10, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-249 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-249

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county court at law judge who seeks the nomination of the executive committee of a political party to be the party's general election candidate for a new office automatically resigns from office by operation of article XVI, section 65 of the Texas Constitution (RQ-0195-JC)
Date: July 10, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-250 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-250

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The proper disposition and use of motor vehicle registration fees allocated to county (Rq-0182-JC)
Date: July 10, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-251 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-251

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether section 681.009, Transportation Code, which relates to designation by a municipality of parking spaces for the disabled, conflicts with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (RQ-0191-JC)
Date: July 10, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-252 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-252

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a municipal park board may authorize a hotel under its management and control pursuant to section 306.032 of the Local Government Code to offer memberships in the hotel's health and fitness center to non-hotel guests, including local residents (RQ-0194-JC)
Date: July 10, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-253 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-253

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether "area encompassed" by a school district in section 130.906 of the Local Government COde refers to the total area of the district or the portion of the district that includes a national forest (RQ-0170-JC)
Date: July 18, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-254 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-254

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether, under section 158.007 of the Local Government Code, a county may include community-supervision-and-corrections-department employees in an expanded civil service system (RQ-0186-JC)
Date: July 18, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-255 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-255

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of salary increases for elected county and precinct officers that exceed the amounts stated in the notice of proposed salary increases provided to the public under section 152.013(b) of the Local Government Code (RQ-0187-JC)
Date: July 18, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-256 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-256

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a county clerk is requried to accept for filing a UCC financing statement in which the listed secured party is the same person as is listed debtor (RQ-0196-JC)
Date: July 18, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-257 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-257

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a civil-service commission has jurisdiction to hear an appeal of written reprimand that does not include a suspension or disciplinary action, and related question (RQ-0176-JC)
Date: July 18, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-258 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-258

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of a peace officer to detain a motorcyclist riding without helmet to determine whether the motorcyclist insurance (RQ-0216-JC)
Date: July 18, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-259 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-259

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a recent amendment to article 42.01,section 2 of the Code of the Criminal Procedure precludes a code clerk from preparing a judgement(RQ-0198-JC).
Date: July 26, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-260 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-260

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether section 232.0015(a) of the Local Government Code permits a county to except ""specific divisions of land from the subdivision plat requirement in section 232.001, and related questions(RQ-0200-JC).
Date: July 26, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-261 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-261

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the salary cap established by section 659.0115 of the Government Code applies to a retired state employee who is reemployed by the state agency to perform the same services he performed for the agency for the last six months prior to his retirement and related questions.
Date: July 26, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-262 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-262

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether an area of northeastern Bexar County may be disannexed from the Alamo Community College district (RQ-0202-JC).
Date: July 26, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bosnia: Crime and Corruption Threaten Successful Implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement (open access)

Bosnia: Crime and Corruption Threaten Successful Implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the impact of crime and corruption on the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement, focusing on: (1) how organized crime and public sector corruption have affected implementation of the agreement in Bosnia; (2) what the international community has done to improve Bosnia's law enforcement and judicial system and reduce corruption; and (3) how international assistance resources are being safeguarded and whether such assistance is being used by Bosnia in place of domestic revenues lost due to crime and corruption."
Date: July 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library