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Oral History Interview with Pete and Jessie Mendez, June 6, 2016

Description: Pedro "Pete" Mendez was born in South Texas and arrived in the Texas Panhandle through migrant labor with his parents in the 1930s. His father died in Clarendon, TX and he was raised between Amarillo and Tucumcari, NM. He joined the Marines during WWII and served in Northern China. Upon returning, he began a small construction business and helped start the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He spoke on the opportunities he and other minority business owners had through government grants and contract… more
Date: June 6, 2016
Duration: 45 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel; Mendez, Pete & Mendez, Jessie
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

[News Script: Plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Roland Scheid after a plane crash and the police investigating his double life.
Date: April 12, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 8, 1944]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes written on Hutson Hotels stationary, discussing flying a Cessna to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, her current layover in Amarillo and pending trip back to Wichita. In postcript, she asks the recipient to send a friend a fruit box.
Date: January 8, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[News Script: Agriculture]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the secretary of Agriculture has announced a new grain Sorghum Program permitting all-out production in a news conference in Amarillo.
Date: August 29, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Santa Fe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a 45-year-old man who is in jail after allegedly threatening to wreck Santa Fe railroad trains between Los Angeles and Chicago.
Date: April 24, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: FBI]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about FBI agents who arrested a 45-year-old man on charges of attempting to exhort $150,000 from the Santa Fe Railway.
Date: April 24, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: APO 98]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a few showers which are moving inland from the gulf of Mexico but bright sunshine is prevailing over most of Texas.
Date: July 2, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: AP 111]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about another hot day which appears to be shaping up for Texas despite a new cool front that has edged into the Panhandle.
Date: June 27, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Texas Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of heavy thunderstorms which are mixed with widespread showers along a cold front moving through the Texas coastal plains and in areas behind the front in east, south and west Texas.
Date: January 23, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Tucumcari

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Tucumcari, New Mexico, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights and includes location and sectionalized township diagrams. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1955
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Oral History Interview with Alan Fouts, December 6, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Fouts. Fouts joined the Navy in 1939 and trained in San Diego. Upon completion of basic training, Fouts joined the USS Argonne (AG-31). Later, he was stationed at the submarine base at Pearl Harbor when the war started. He recalls witnessing the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. He managed to get guns operational on the USS Widgeon (AM-22) before it got underway during the attack. Between the attacks, Fouts went alongside the US… more
Date: December 6, 2001
Creator: Fouts, Alan
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Tucumcari

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date: 1965
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 35.50 -103.00
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tucumcari

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date: 1958
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 35.50 -103.00
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tucumcari

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 35.50 -103.00
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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