The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 73, July 1969 - April, 1970 Page: 547
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The West Texas State University history department has received a
bequest of $50,000 from the late Dr. L. F. Sheffy, who died in 1967.
The money will be placed in a special fund, the Mrs. W. B. Sheffy
Memorial Library Fund, and will be used for the study, research,
writing, and publication of the history of West Texas and the Great
Plains area.
Dr. Sheffy was head of the history department at West Texas from
1918 until his retirement in 1957, and was a Fellow of the Texas State
Historical Association.
The increased use of newspapers by historians and a corresponding
demand for newspaper indexes has led to the establishment of the
Newspaper Indexing Center in Flint, Michigan. The center, under
the direction of Norman M. Lathrop, will make unpublished and
out-of-print newspaper indexes available to the public, and will also
provide indexing and consulting services. These services should be
a real boon to historical researchers. Anyone wishing to inform the
center of an extant newspaper index should write to the center at
P. O. Box 83, Flint, Michigan 48501. The center will welcome your
assistance.
A new museum, the Star of the Republic of Texas Museum, has
been opened at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas. The exhibits are
devoted to the history of Texas during the period from 1821 to 1846,
and curator John Landers is collecting documents, artifcats, paintings,
photographs, and anything else connected with the lives of Texans
during that period. The museum is part of a project started nearly
four years.ago by the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park Association
to improve the park and its facilities. Other improvements now com-
pleted include the reconstruction of the wooden building in which
the Texas declaration of independence was signed and the restoration
of "Barrington," the home of Anson Jones. The group also intends to
erect a reconstruction of the Village of Washington as it appeared in
1836.
San Antonio's Archbishop Francis J. Furey and Chamber of Com-
merce hosted a buffet supper in the portales of Mission Concepcion
February i6 to announce the Texas Heritage Tours. The tours, spon-
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 73, July 1969 - April, 1970, periodical, 1970; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117147/m1/593/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.