Teletype Sequence Reports
Date: January 1970
Creator: Christy
Description: This booklet gives an overview of teletype sequence reports as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes "A complete explanation of the symbols and abbreviations used in teletype sequence reports." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Contributing Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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Terminal and Area Forecasts
Date: January 1970
Creator: Capener, Eugene J.
Description: This booklet gives an overview of terminal and area forecasts as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes an "Explanation of the information provided on terminal and area forecasts; to include valid time, forecast weather, and hazards to flight." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Contributing Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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Three Railroads to Mineral Wells
Date: 1976
Creator: Payne, H. L.
Description: Pamphlet containing a brief history of the Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway, the Gulf and Brazos Valley Railway, and the Gulf, Texas and Western Railway. It has a map of rail routes, photographs, and copies of schedules with ticket prices.
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Thunderstorms
Date: January 1970
Creator: Turgeon
Description: This booklet gives an overview of thunderstorms as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes information about "Factors necessary for thunderstorm formation, structures, types and dangers of thunderstorms, [and] flight techniques." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
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[Thurber Tipple and Thurber Monument]
Date: August 4, 1974
Creator: unknown
Description: Thurber in the 1920's was the largest city between Ft. Worth and Abilene. A Company town, wholly owned by Texas and Pacific Coal Company, it had its own school system, a hotel, a general store that stocked whatever the inhabitants wanted, two saloons, an opera house, a town band, a semi-professional baseball team, two city lakes, and a golf course. It was the first town in Texas to have gas and electricity in every home. The town furnished coal to the Texas & Pacific Railway. Pea coal that the T&P refused was used to start a brick plant, using local clay. Thurber brick was used to build the Galveston Sea Wall after the disastrous hurricane of 1900, to pave the streets of Ft. Worth, and a brick highway from Mineral Wells to Ft. Worth. The Company discovered the Ranger oil field in 1917 that fueled the World War I effort. When the T&P railway switched from coal to the more convenient oil to fuel its steam engines, it marked the end of the Thurber coal industry. The Company shut down the Thurber operation in 1931, and demolished the town except for the remnant shown in this picture. It has been ...
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[Time Was, 1st Edition, Auction, 1 of 8, Mayor H. Authur Zappe ]
Date: August 1975
Creator: unknown
Description: When the book, "Time Was in Mineral Wells," First Edition, by A. F. Weaver was published in 1975, the first ten copies were autographed by the author and auctioned to the highest bidder. The auction was held at the "Little Rock Schoolhouse", and shows Mayor H. Arthur Zappe addressing the crowd in attendance at the auction.
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[Time Was, 1st Edition, Auction, 2 of 8, A. F. Weaver]
Date: August 1975
Creator: unknown
Description: This picture shows Ed Ford, standing before the picture he had painted of Mineral Wells' First Public School. It was built in 1884, and restored in 1975 by The Mineral Wells Heritage Association as a museum to preserve the history of the city.
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[Time Was, 1st Edition, Auction, 3 of 8, Reverend Mr. Bobby Moore]
Date: August 1975
Creator: unknown
Description: The picture shows the auctioneer, the Reverend Mr. Bobby Moore, acknowledging a bid on a First Edition print of A. F. Weaver's "Time Was in Mineral Wells." To the auctioneer's right is author A. F. Weaver. The author's wife, Patsy, is standing in the window to the author's right.
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[Time Was, 1st Edition, Auction, 4 of 8, Reverend Mr. Bobby Moore Auctioneer ]
Date: August 1975
Creator: unknown
Description: The auction of copies of the first Edition of "Time Was in Mineral Wells," by A. F. Weaver, was held at the "Little Rock Schoolhouse." The auctioneer, the Reverend Bobby Moore, is asking for bids on a copy in this picture. The author, A. F. Weaver, stands between the windows to the auctioneer's right.
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[Time Was, 1st Edition, Auction, 5 of 8, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Dickens purchased 1st Book]
Date: August 1975
Creator: unknown
Description: The auction of copies of the first Edition of "Time Was in Mineral Wells," by A. F. Weaver, held at the "Little Rock Schoolhouse." Pictured here are auctioneer, the Reverend Mr. Bobby Moore, and successful bidders on Copy No. 1: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dickens. The author, A.F. Weaver, stands in the background, and Mrs. Bea Harris is in the corner to the right of the picture.
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