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Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press
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Reconnaissance in the Western Part of the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas

Description: Abstract: The Trans-Pecos region of southwest Texas is noted for the production of quicksilver, lead, silver, and copper from its several mining districts. Reconnaissance, which was concentrated in and around these districts, revealed many areas of slightly abnormal radioactivity. Only a few areas, however, showed uranium mineralization.
Date: January 23, 1953
Creator: Hadfield, Jonathan P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Oil well on college campus]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont giving up their baseball field to Stanolind oil company for drilling.
Date: July 2, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Largest sign is lighted by mayor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ford Motor Company lighting the largest neon sign in the Southwest, in Dallas, for their 50th anniversary.
Date: June 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Blaze destroys clothing factory]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a three-alarm fire at a Dallas garment manufacturing company. Seven employees escaped without injury.
Date: July 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: TCU building]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about completion of a new religious studies building at Texas Christian University.
Date: June 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Amputee is blood donor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a San Antonio blood drive organized by Korean War veteran and quadruple amputee Werner Reininger, who says he is determined to pay back his debt in blood donations to the U.S. Armed Forces for saving his life.
Date: July 16, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Burglary suspect faces dope charge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ex-convict Harris Peyton arrested in Dallas for burglarizing a pharmacy after a police officer remembered his face.
Date: July 10, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News briefs accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an automobile colliding with a commercial truck loaded with sand at a Dallas intersection. Both drivers escaped injury in the accident.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News brief (Helicopters)]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Western Hills motel in Fort Worth, utilizing their heliport and gaining a reputation for it, as "The Western Hills Helicopter Motel."
Date: July 3, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Driver loses cab]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U. R. Benton, a cab driver who claimed to have been robbed by Ray Bilbo and Melvin Young, resulting in the evacuation of his cab.
Date: October 23, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Explosion wrecks fireworks plant]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion at a Fort Worth fireworks plant destroying several buildings and seriously injuring one employee.
Date: June 19, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Trained seal act]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two trained seals, Jimmy and Guin, performing at the Fair Park Midway in Dallas.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bank robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mental hospital escapee captured shortly after attempting to rob a Dallas bank.
Date: June 18, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tidelands pen goes to museum]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the pen used by President Eisenhower to sign the Texas tidelands bill being obtained by the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin.
Date: July 7, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Billy Graham]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Evangelist Billy Graham conducting a revival at the Dallas Cotton Bowl.
Date: June 19, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fort Worth man shoots wife, self]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth woman's estranged husband shooting and killing her, then turning the gun on himself. The husband, L.J. Saling, survived the shot to the head.
Date: June 18, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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