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[News Script: Range fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a grass fire which destroyed 50 square miles of rangeland in Coleman and adjoining Runnels county.
Date: April 3, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Texas weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about summer rains which are soaking into drought plagued area in Texas and are continuing in many places.
Date: August 7, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with William O. Holston, September 20, 2000

Description: Interview with William O. Holston, an Army Air Forces veteran (370th Bomb Squadron, 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a navigator on a B-24 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enrollment in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1940; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1942-43; College Training Detachment, Southwestern University, Memphis, Tennessee, 1943; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas… more
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Holston, William O.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Spoetzl Brewery, 1980

Description: Interviews with several employees of varying positions within the Spoetzl Brewery. interview with L. J. Beal, a general sales manager at the Spoetzl Brewery. The interview discusses his family and educational background; the history of the brewery and his recollections of founder Kosmos Spoetzl; the management of the brewery by Celie Spoetzl; his experience as a salesman for the brewery; his lobbying activities during Texas legislative sessions; the sale of the brewery to Bill Bigler in 1966; t… more
Date: 1980-01/1980-05
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Beal, L. J.; Green, Joe; Wallace, Calvin Kosmos; Schramm, Alfred; Roeder, Marie et al.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Early Settlement of the Concho Country

Description: Early general history up to 1900. "I have listened to the stories told about it by the old time cowboys, by the old settlers, and by some of the old Fort Concho soldiers themselves. As a result of this experience, I have wanted to go into its past more carefully and search for more facts regarding the region, its first inhabitants, and its early history in general."-- leaf iii.
Date: August 1941
Creator: Allen, S. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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