Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Federal Welfare Department saying that number of states are going to get small government checks unless they cut down on the number of ineligible recipients and over-payments.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story tornadoes. Tornadoes swept through Harrison, Arkansas, and south-central Oklahoma. In Arkansas, one man was killed and 200 buildings were damaged. The damage in Oklahoma was estimated at 3-million dollars.

Interview with Jack Scroggs, a history professor at NTSU and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Little Rock, Arkansas. Before a group of students, Scroggs discusses his time in the CCC in the 1930s, including: his family background and education; the effects of the Depression on his hometown and family; the introduction of New Deal programs; his memory of Fireside Chats; entry into the CCC and orientation; organization in the Corps and its administration by the Army; benefits of the Corps; quality of life in a CCC camp; and the projects worked. Included in appendix is Scrogg's certificate of proficiency for a CCC course in engineering.