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Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0011 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0011

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a public school district may expend funds for the management of county school lands to determine if a lessee of a mineral estate is fulfilling its duty to explore and develop the mineral estate (RQ-1225-GA).
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0012 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0012

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of a salary increase for the sheriff that exceeded the amount listed in the initial public notice required by section 152.013 of the Local Government Code (RQ-1226-GA).
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0013 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0013

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Commencement of term of office of a person elected sheriff as a successor to an individual who was appointed to fill a vacancy in that office (RQ-1227-GA).
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Cecil  Vernon Wellborn, March 31, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Cecil Vernon Wellborn, March 31, 2015

Transcript of interview with Cecil Vernon Wellborn, a retired civil engineer who helped construct the Dallas City Hall, from Center Point, Texas. Wellborn speaks of his time as a civil engineer, specifically his work on the Veterans Administration Hospital in Kerrville and the Dallas City Hall.
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Webb, Jeanie Archer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Lynch, March 29, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Lynch, March 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Lynch. Lynch joined the Army in May of 1945. He completed basic training at Fort Hood, Texas in September. He learned how to drive Army trucks, and qualified as a marksman. In October, he was transferred to Fort Ord in California. Lynch shares details of his training, and his travels to and through California. He deployed to Nagasaki, Japan and served with the 32nd Infantry Division occupation forces. He returned to the US and received a discharge in October of 1946.
Date: March 29, 2015
Creator: Lynch, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Hector Mendieta, March 26, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Hector Mendieta, March 26, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Hector Mendieta. Mendieta was born in Laredo, Texas in 1924. After graduating from high school in 1941, he attended Texas A & M University until March 1943. When he was inducted into the Army he underwent nine weeks of basic training at Camp Roberts, Texas and was then sent to Camp Abbot, Oregon. In February 1944, he was selected to attend Officers Candidate School. Upon receiving his commission on 14 June 1944 he was sent to Camp Claiborne, Louisiana where he joined the 1326th Engineer General Service Brigade. The unit, composed primarily of African American soldiers, received training in various types of construction. On 12 February 1945 the regiment left Camp Kilmer, New Jersey for France. After landing at Le Havre, the unit moved to Marville. Mendieta’s unit converted a school into a hospital. Casualties from the 3rd Army arrived before reconstruction was completed. After Germany surrendered, his unit was sent to Mondorf les Bains, Belgium to convert a hotel into a prison for high ranking German officers. He saw Hermann Goering and Karl Doenitz arrive prior to the trials in Nuremburg. Afterward, the unit boarded the USS …
Date: March 26, 2015
Creator: Mendieta, Hector
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calculating 2017 NO(x) Emissions (open access)

Calculating 2017 NO(x) Emissions

This table can be used to calculate the 2017 Base Case emissions and produce a flat file for air quality modeling.
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Second Meeting (open access)

UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Second Meeting

Document created by UNT's 125th Anniversary Steering Committee about the prioritization of possible events, programs, and activities for the 125th Celebration. A list of attending committee representatives is included as well as a detailed agenda.
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: University of North Texas 125th Anniversary Steering Committee
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Third Meeting (open access)

UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Third Meeting

Document created by UNT's 125th Anniversary Steering Committee about the prioritization of possible events, programs, and activities for the 125th Celebration. A list of attending committee representatives is included as well as a very detailed agenda.
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: University of North Texas 125th Anniversary Steering Committee
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Third Meeting (open access)

UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Third Meeting

Document created by UNT's 125th Anniversary Steering Committee about the prioritization of possible events, programs, and activities for the 125th Celebration. A list of attending committee representatives is included as well as a brief agenda.
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: University of North Texas 125th Anniversary Steering Committee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Troy Edward Shakles, March 19, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Troy Edward Shakles, March 19, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Troy Edward Shakles. Shakles joined the Navy in early 1943. He completed communications school, serving as a quartermaster and signalman. He speaks about the Golden Thirteen, who were the thirteen African American enlisted men who became the first African American commissioned and warrant officers in the United States Navy. On Treasure Island in California, Shakles worked in a signaling tower. He notes that segregation was still in effect at this time. He served aboard a minesweeper, and in 1945 the USS Ebert (DE-768), traveling to Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, Guam. Shakles returned to the US and received his discharge around October of 1945.
Date: March 19, 2015
Creator: Shakles, Troy Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Willie Morin Bill, March 18, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Willie Morin Bill, March 18, 2015

Transcript of interview with Willie Morin Bill, a man who was raised on the Pinto Ranch on Highway 39 in West Kerr County, from Sonora, Texas. Bill speaks about his memories of ranching life and his childhood in Kerrville's Mexican-American community.
Date: March 18, 2015
Creator: Webb, Jeanie Archer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jim Roby, March 17, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jim Roby, March 17, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jim Roby. Roby was born in Nocona, Texas on 17 June 1927. After graduating from high school in Cunningham, Texas he signed up for the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program. Upon entering the program he was sent to Las Cruses, New Mexico for training. The program was terminated shortly thereafter and he was sent to Wichita Falls, Texas for basic training. In 1946, following basic training, he was assigned as a teletype operator with US Army Signal Corps. He was sent to Guam where he supervised the fixed communication facility with a personnel crew of fourteen. He describes the purpose and workings of the radio-teletype unit. While on Guam, it was struck by a typhoon and he describes the storm and its aftermath. War crimes trials were held on Guam during 1946 and Roby attended some of these trials. Returning to the United States in 1947 he became a commissioned officer after attending Officers Candidate School. He concludes the interview by telling of his career in the United States Air Force until his retirement in 1972.
Date: March 17, 2015
Creator: Roby, Jim
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Arlington Chapter meeting: March 14, 2015] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Arlington Chapter meeting: March 14, 2015]

Minutes from the March 14, 2015 Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution Arlington Chapter meeting.
Date: March 14, 2015
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Howard Wander, March 14, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Howard Wander, March 14, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Howard Wander. Wander joined the Army and received basic training at Camp Wheeler. He went on to Officer Candidate School and was commissioned in 1942. He then worked as a platoon leader all over the United States. He went as a replacement to the Americal Division, working beside Filipinos to capture Japanese holdouts. After the war ended, he was reassigned to the Eighth Army in Yokohama as head of military police. Wander returned home and was discharged in 1946.
Date: March 14, 2015
Creator: Wander, Howard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Luther Pierce, March 13 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Luther Pierce, March 13 2015

Transcript of an interview with Luther Pierce, a cedar chopper.
Date: March 13, 2015
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hayden named by Carrollton and Irving to DART Board (open access)

Hayden named by Carrollton and Irving to DART Board

News release about the appointment of Timothy A. Hayden to the DART board of directors, representing the cities of Carrollton and Irving.
Date: March 11, 2015
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Anna Gatti, March 10, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Anna Gatti, March 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Anna Gatti, nee Cocchi. Gatti graduated from Boston University as a French major in 1942. While volunteering at a settlement house, she met her future husband, Corry, who was a student at Harvard. In 1942, Corry was drafted into the Army. In 1943, Gatti joined the Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). She completed Meteorology School in New Jersey and served as Aerographer, Third Class on a base in California. By late 1943, she completed Midshipman’s School in Massachusetts, then went on to Officer Candidate School. Gatti was then assigned to the Office of Censorship in Miami, censoring national and international cables and radio messages, through mid-1945. From September, 1945 to January, 1946, she was assigned to the Gulf Sea Frontier as an Operations Officer, plotting ship and plane movements in the Gulf. Gatti finished her war service in March of 1946, as a Lieutenant j.g.
Date: March 10, 2015
Creator: Gatti, Anna
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Winn Pinkston, March 10, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Winn Pinkston, March 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Winn Pinkston. Pinkston was born in Chireno, Texas in 1921. After graduating from high school he attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas for two years. He entered the Civilian Pilot Training Program in 1941 and following this training he entered secondary Civilian Pilot Training in which aerobatics were taught. Upon graduating for this course, he accepted a job as an instructor with Coleman Flying School in Coleman, Texas. The school, having a contract with the US government, taught basic flying skills to new cadets. After eighteen months of the job, Pinkston joined the Army Air Forces. After receiving additional training, he was commissioned as a flight officer and sent to Love Field in Dallas, Texas to join the Fifth Ferrying Command. After being involved in various flying activities for eighteen months he was sent to Reno Army Air Field in Nevada for instrument flight training. While in training, Japan surrendered and Pinkston was discharged soon thereafter.
Date: March 10, 2015
Creator: Pinkston, Winn
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART plans minor schedule changes March 16 (open access)

DART plans minor schedule changes March 16

News release about minor schedule adjustments on ten DART bus routes.
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0007 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0007

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county commissioners court must compensate a justice of the peace who retires prior to the end of his term (RQ-1219-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0008 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0008

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Edwards Aquifer Authority may provide funding to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for the implementation of a refugia program (RQ-1220-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0009 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0009

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Qualification for early voting by mail under section 82.002 of the Election Code (RQ-1221-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0010 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0010

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Programs to which jurors may donate their juror reimbursement under subsection 61.003(a)(4) of the Government Code (RQ-1224-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History