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Pressure Wave and Acoustic Properties Generated by the Explosive Removal of Offshore Structures in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Pressure Wave and Acoustic Properties Generated by the Explosive Removal of Offshore Structures in the Gulf of Mexico

This paper explores the processes and effects of the removal of oil and gas equipment off the Louisiana coast line in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Barkaszi, M. J.; Frankel, A.; Martin J. S. & Poe, W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Barbara Burton, March 4, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Barbara Burton, March 4, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Barbara Burton. Upon graduation from high school, Burton completed nursing school in 1947 at the University of California. Burton gives detail of civilian life during World War II. She talks about being in Los Angeles on August 15th and the celebration in the streets. After college she became a civilian Navy employee and took a position in the Aleutian Islands in 1947, working for the dispersing officer in the supply department. She provides details of her experiences there. Burton completed her work in 1950. Towards the end of her interview she gives much information about her husband’s experiences in World War II and 32 years in the Navy, James Fred Imlay.
Date: March 4, 2016
Creator: Burton, Barbara
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Analysis of the Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Gulf of Mexico Seafood Industry (open access)

An Analysis of the Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Gulf of Mexico Seafood Industry

This study analyzes the effects of the various economic impacts on the seafood industry in the Gulf of Mexico due to the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Carroll, Michael; Gentner, Brad; Quigley, Kate; Dehner, Lisa & Perlot, Nicole
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Cletus Ernster, March 31, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Cletus Ernster, March 31, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Cletus Ernster. Ernster went to Conrad Flying School in Winona, Minnesota in 1939. He joined the Army Air Forces in 1942 and was commissioned as a service pilot. He was assigned to Wilmington, Delaware to deliver planes throughout the United States and overseas. He discusses the various planes that he flew and the locations he delivered planes to. He was assigned to Chanyi, China in September of 1944, where he spent the remainder of his service. He was in the 1342nd Army Air Forces Base Unit in China. He gives detail of flying missions and transporting Chinese soldiers from one battle area to the next. He was discharged in November of 1945.
Date: March 31, 2016
Creator: Ernster, Cletus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sheldon Gerson, March 16, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Sheldon Gerson, March 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Sheldon Gerson. Gerson was drafted into the Army in August 1944. He completed basic training at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Arkansas. He took infantry training, preparing him for combat. He was an expert rifleman and was the acting Sergeant of the First Platoon. He was taken out of his company and transferred into the Army Specialized Training Program at Penn State University. There he studied electrical engineering. He was then transferred to work on the atomic bomb. He was placed in the 9812th Technical Service Unit. He explains his experiences with a top-secret mission to Oak Ridge, Tennessee in April 1945. He was working as a chemical engineer to help develop and produce an atomic bomb under the auspices of the Manhattan Engineer District. He details what he did in the laboratory. From there he went to another ultra-secretive facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico where the atomic bomb was being developed by Robert Oppenheimer. Gerson was discharged in June 1946.
Date: March 16, 2016
Creator: Gerson, Sheldon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Harmon Harris, March 6, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Harmon Harris, March 6, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Harmon Harris. Harris joined the Navy in May of 1944. He served with the 141st Construction Battalion. They traveled to the Marshall Islands and Kwajalein, building airstrips, houses and defensive structures.
Date: March 6, 2016
Creator: Harris, Harmon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Louis Janosek, March 21, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Louis Janosek, March 21, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Louis Janosek. Janosek joined the Army Air Forces in March of 1943. He completed training in radio navigation and served as an Air Transport Command C-46 Flight Officer. They traveled to Liberia, West Africa, Ascension Island and China, Tunisia, Egypt, Bagdad, transporting supplies, food and equipment. He shares his experience flying over the Hump, the Himalaya Mountains. He received his discharge in 1946. In 1947, he renewed his service with the Air Force, retiring in 1964.
Date: March 21, 2016
Creator: Janosek, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Willis Lott, March 1, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Willis Lott, March 1, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Willis Lott. Lott joined the Navy in May 1944 and went to basic training in Samson. After training, Lott went overseas and was assigned to the USS Wasp (CV-18) at the Admiralty Islands in October. He worked as an Airedale on the hangar deck. Lott was aboard when a Japanese plane bombed the ship in March, 1945. He stayed aboard the ship through the repairs and through a typhoon until the end of the war. When the war ended, he went with the Wasp to Europe delivering German POWs back home. Lott was discharged in June 1946.
Date: March 1, 2016
Creator: Lott, Willis
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART Teams Up with Lyft, Uber and MADD for St. Patrick's Events (open access)

DART Teams Up with Lyft, Uber and MADD for St. Patrick's Events

News release about a partnership between DART, Uber, Lyft, and MADD to make it more convenient to travel to St. Patrick's Day celebration via public transit and ridesharing services in order to reduce the number of intoxicated drivers during the holiday. These efforts include DART running trains more frequently and Uber and Lyft offering discounts to first time riders.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Glenn Heights gets new DART bus design starting March 14 (open access)

Glenn Heights gets new DART bus design starting March 14

News release promoting the introduction of DART's On-Call bus service to the city of Glenn Heights.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Maxwell, March 15, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Richard Maxwell, March 15, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Maxwell. Maxwell joined the Navy in September of 1941. He completed Officer Candidate School, and served as Yeoman Second Class aboard a landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP), and later served as Captain aboard an amphibious command ship (LCC). In 1942, Maxwell deployed to Hawaii. In the Solomon Islands, he worked as an administrator of a PBY outfit. After the war, he served with occupation forces in Japan.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Maxwell, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Selects GlobeSherpa to Provide New Mobile Ticketing System for Dallas-Fort Worth Commuters (open access)

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Selects GlobeSherpa to Provide New Mobile Ticketing System for Dallas-Fort Worth Commuters

News release about DART hiring GlobeSherpa to create its new mobile ticketing software.
Date: March 23, 2016
Creator: Niewolnoy, Patti; Stein, Kelly & Lyons, Morgan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Pampe, March 20, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William Pampe, March 20, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Pampe. Pampe joined the Army in June of 1943. He completed Coast Artillery training. He served as a Munitions Officer with the 290th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division, Headquarters Battalion, commanding 35 soldiers. They deployed to England in October of 1944, and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. From September of 1945 until January of 1946, he served as an Athletic Officer at Camp Philadelphia Redeployment Camp in France. Upon returning to the US, Pampe entered the Inactive Reserves, retiring in July of 1977.
Date: March 20, 2016
Creator: Pampe, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Reed, March 29, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Richard Reed, March 29, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Reed. Reed joined the Navy in late December, 1941 and trained at San Diego before reporting to motor torpedo boat school in Rhode Island. Reed relates many anecdotes about patrols and his experiences attacking Japanese barges around New Guinea in 1942. He recalls capturing only three Japanese POWs. Reed also tells stories about John Bulkeley. He returned to the US in February 1944 for treatment in a hospital before becoming an instructor at the PT boat school.
Date: March 29, 2016
Creator: Reed, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Archie Roberts, March 17, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Archie Roberts, March 17, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Archie Roberts. Roberts joined the Army in 1943. He was trained on the 240mm howitzer, and worked in the command center of the artillery operation in the 270th Field Artillery Battalion. They deployed to England, and participated in the pre-invasion of Normandy in June of 1944. They advanced into Belgium, participating in the Battle of the Bulge. Roberts returned to the US and was discharged in late 1945.
Date: March 17, 2016
Creator: Roberts, Archie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clyde Simpson, March 11, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clyde Simpson, March 11, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clyde Simpson. Simpson joined the Navy in June of 1940. He went to boot camp in San Diego, California. From there he went to Aviation Radio School to learn Morse Code. He also completed gunnery school. He was then transferred in early 1941 to the air group on the USS Saratoga (CV-3) and placed in Scouting Squadron 3 (VS-3). They traveled back and forth from San Diego to Hawaii for training cruises. Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor they traveled back to Hawaii. They were then sent out to look for the Japanese fleet, and ended up getting hit by a Japanese submarine. He talks about this experience. In July of 1942 he was back out to sea headed to the Solomon Islands, providing air support for the Marines at Guadalcanal. He provides details of the fighting at Guadalcanal. He was medically retired by the Navy in June of 1951.
Date: March 11, 2016
Creator: Simpson, Clyde
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Caramello Stramer, March 8, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Caramello Stramer, March 8, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Caramello Stramer. Stramer joined the Navy in February of 1942. He completed boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois, and he completed training in New London, Connecticut to serve aboard submarines. Stramer provides details on his experiences at both training locations. He served aboard the USS Puffer (SS-268) beginning April of 1943, as the motor machinist mate. He was stationed in the aft engine room, overseeing diesel engines. They went to Brisbane, Australia for additional training and repairs. In September 1943 they made their first patrol in the Makassar Straits. He goes into great detail of torpedoing a ship, coming under attack by the Japanese and other experiences through the Strait. Stramer discusses their other patrols through the South China Sea and around Singapore. Stramer also served aboard the USS Ray (SS-271) beginning July of 1944. He was discharged in December of 1945.
Date: March 8, 2016
Creator: Stramer, Caramello
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dispatch, March 2016 (open access)

The Dispatch, March 2016

Monthly magazine of the Texas Military Department discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to Texas defenses and military updates.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Texas Military Department
System: The Portal to Texas History
Meeting Minutes for TXSSAR Arlington Chapter #7, March 13, 2016 (open access)

Meeting Minutes for TXSSAR Arlington Chapter #7, March 13, 2016

A document that records the meeting minutes from the March 13 meeting of the Arlington Chapter of TXSSAR. Sections are given to each formal portion of the meeting's proceedings and smaller notes are included beneath the larger headers.
Date: March 13, 2016
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0068 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0068

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: Disposition of revenue collected pursuant to section 502.403 of the Transportation Code, authorizing an optional county fee for child safety (RQ-0052-KP).
Date: March 8, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0069 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0069

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 school district board of trustees may post on the district website the personal financial statements of board members submitted pursuant to section 11.0641 of the Education Code (RQ-0053-KP).
Date: March 14, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0070 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0070

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 Senate Bill 374, requiring state agency participation in the E-Verify program, supersedes Executive Order RP-80 (RQ-0055-KP).
Date: March 17, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0071 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0071

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: Constitutionality of Senate Bill 1876, relating to the appointment of attorneys ad litem, guardians ad litem, mediators, and guardians (RQ-0060-KP).
Date: March 17, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0072 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0072

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 school district, municipality, or county may reduce or repeal the local option homestead exemption from the amount that was adopted for the 2014 tax year through the 2019 tax year (RQ-0082-KP).
Date: March 17, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History