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[News Script: Ma Ferguson feted on 80th birthday]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson, the only women at the time to have been governor of Texas, celebrating her 80th birthday in Austin.
Date: June 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Barefoot Sanders to Members of the Conservation & Reclamation Committee, February 14, 1955]

Description: Letter from Barefoot Sanders to members of the Conservation & Reclamation Committee; Mr. Sanders encloses a copy of House Bill 20, the bill that would create the Trinity River Authority. He says this copy is the one with the committee's amendment and not the original. He asks that they go over it and welcomes their questions.
Date: February 14, 1955
Creator: Sanders, Barefoot
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from L. D. Smith to Truett Latimer, March 14, 1955]

Description: Letter from L. D. Smith to Truett Latimer discussing his opposition to Senate Bill 301, the Port Area Bill. Mr. Smith is concerned with the regulation the bill will introduce and encourages free enterprise, siting the Port of Houston as a good example. He urges Mr. Latimer to vote against the bill.
Date: March 14, 1955
Creator: Smith, L. D.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from G. R. Webb, Jr. to Stanley Banks, Jr., March 14, 1955]

Description: Letter from G. R. Webb, Jr. of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers to Texas State Representative Stanley Banks, Jr. discussing HB 438 and SB 3. Webb says that HB 438 would endanger public safety by not requiring professional engineers to oversee public works, and expresses similar sentiments about SB 3. Webb then urges Banks and his fellow legislators to oppose both bills.
Date: March 14, 1955
Creator: Webb, G. R., Jr.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Telegram from Board of Pardons & Paroles, Texas to T. N. Carswell - March 14, 1955]

Description: A Western Union telegram sent to T. N. Carswell, Chairman, Taylor County Parole Board, Abilene, Texas, from the Texas Board of Pardons & Paroles (Austin, Texas), dated 1955 MAR 14 501PMC. The Board references a telephone call from Carswell regarding Subject 40-7940 advising the case is under consideration and no decision made as yet.
Date: March 14, 1955
Creator: Texas. Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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