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[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about the NAACP, visiting senators, bank refund, a gas explosion killing two in Southmayd, Texas, court cases, a man murdered by a 14 year old, and two plane accidents.
Date: October 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Draftee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the induction of Edward Thomas Murphy into the army. He is personally accompanied by Colonel Morris B. Schwartz, the State Director of Selective Service, because Murphy is the one-hundred-thousandth draftee in Texas since the Korean War.
Date: July 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Brief--Train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident concerning a five-car Fort Worth connection of the Katy Texas Special train near Denison.
Date: February 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hometown honors mother-of-year]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Rolla C. Vestal being named mother of the year.
Date: August 20, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bank building]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the opening of the new First National Bank in Sherman. They are preparing for its opening.
Date: September 11, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Margaret McDonald at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant]

Description: Photograph of Margaret McDonald and another woman in a kitchen. The woman is holding a silicone spoon in her hands. They appear to be in a conversation and dressed in formal attire. Behind them, there is a glass window into another room. They are at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant in Sherman, Texas.
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Margaret McDonald at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant]

Description: Photograph of Margaret McDonald and Laura Albertine Barry at Mrs. Tucker’s shortening products. They are both facing one another and dressed in formal attire. Behind them, two women are visible working at machinery stations at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant in Sherman, Texas.
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dog Hero]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tang, the dog who saved the lives of children by pushing them out of the path of oncoming cars.
Date: August 17, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Oil wells]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Shell Oil Company drilling wells in Lake Texoma in an attempt to find oil while the water level is low due to drought.
Date: July 1, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonn… more
Date: September 7, 1956
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Study to Determine the Effectiveness of Certain Methods for Developing Reading Readiness

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether certain methods employed for the development of reading readiness among first-grade pupils in the Washington Elementary School of Sherman, Texas were effective. Careful evaluation was made by means of standardized tests for the purpose of ascertaining the results accomplished in the course of a school year by the methods used for the development of reading readiness.
Date: 1951
Creator: Rutherford, Mary Mildred Lupher
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Evaluation of Filmstrips in the Teaching of Reading in the First Grade in Tom Bean, Texas.

Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the use of filmstrips as an aid in teaching reading to a group of first grade children in the Tom Bean Consolidated School. A further purpose, and probably the most important as it deals with the ultimate objective of education, is the effect that visual aid has upon the behavior of boys and girls.
Date: 1951
Creator: Odle, Neva S.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Texoma Park]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about dedication ceremonies at the Eisenhower State Park near Denison.
Date: May 18, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Activities of the Week]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about the Colonial National Invitation Golf Tournament held in Fort Worth where thirty-five golfers compete for fifteen thousand in prize money. The champion, Slammin' Sammy Snead took home the prize money. Austin College in Sherman marked its 100th commencement with dedication ceremonies which featured the appearance of Speaker of the House Representatitve, Sam Rayburn.
Date: May 17, 1950, 7:10 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Katy moves to Dennison]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the offices of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad secretly moving from Kansas and St. Louis to Denison.
Date: March 28, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Von Braun]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the joint conference of the American Rocket Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with guest speaker Wernher Von Braun.
Date: March 18, 1958
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Von Braun]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the joint conference of the American Rocket Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with guest speaker Wernher Von Braun.
Date: March 18, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dog is star of school pageant]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Denison Collie named Tang honored at the Centennial Cavalcade of Texas Teaching convention in Dallas. Tang is credited with saving the lives of several children.
Date: September 5, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Status of Democratic Practices in the Ten Fifth Grade Groups in Denison, Texas

Description: This is a study of the democratic practices in ten fifth grade groups of Denison, Texas, in administration, methods, and curriculum. The purpose of this study is three-fold: 1. To make criteria to be used in evaluating democratic action in the elementary schools. 2. To evaluate the democratic practices in ten fifth grade groups of Denison, Texas. 3. To offer recommendations for changes that could be made for the improvement of these groups.
Date: 1950
Creator: Burris, Ethel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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