The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 50, July 1946 - April, 1947 Page: 271
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Texas Collection
The Dallas Morning News, Sunday, July 28, 1946, carried
the following editorial on the Handbook.
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS
Word comes from the Texas State Historical Association headquarters
at Austin that progress is being made toward bringing out the encyclo-
pedic Handbook of Texas. The project was started during the late thirties
but was hove to during the stormy war years. That it is getting under
sail again is good news. The publication of this work will be of inesti-
mable value to the people of Texas in all of their fields of endeavor-in
their economic and civic development and in the whole field of their cultural
affairs.
If there was ever a community that could profit by the Greek maxim,
"Know thyself," it is big, loose-jointed, diversified Texas. Both chron-
ologically through the years and horizontally across the geography of the
state today, Texas has been, and is, many things. It needs integration.
Its people need education on the subject of their state. With its highly
individual history and its claims to a cultural autonomy, Texas is today
peopled largely by those who are either natives of other states, or else
the immediate descendants of natives of other states. It is in this field that
the Handbook of Texas will serve its principal and most nearly concrete
purpose. There will be others. For one thing, its publication soon will
preserve a good deal of history that might otherwise be lost.
Of course, Texas already has other publications and organizations work-
ing to these ends, but a great permanent reservoir of information is needed.
All good Texans should take an active interest in it.
Eugene M. Emme, now a member of the history department
at the State University of Iowa at Iowa City but formerly Lieu-
tenant (jg), USNR, has upon request furnished the Association
a typescript copy of his history of the Naval Air Station at Dal-
las. Emme was stationed at the Dallas Naval Air Station for two
years. The history of the field began May 15, 1941, when it was
commissioned a Naval Reserve Aviation Base under the Defense
Act of 1940. Emme brings the story through four commands
down to the time his work was submitted on October 15, 1944.
At the September 9 meeting of the Texas Historical and
Library Commission, L. W. Kemp was selected as chairman,
succeeding John Gould. Mrs. Herbert Gambrell was continued
as secretary.
Just off the press is G. H. Baird's seventy-six-page booklet,
A Brief History of Upshur County, published by the Gilmer271
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 50, July 1946 - April, 1947, periodical, 1947; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101117/m1/318/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.