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[News Script: Command change at Fort Sam]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a ceremony transferring command of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio from Lieutenant General William Hoge to Major General John E. Dahlquist.
Date: March 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Dallas water]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of the Dallas City Council discussing possible solutions to a water shortage in the city.
Date: March 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Eating crow]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a friendly fire prevention competition between the Houston and Dallas Chambers of Commerce. Whichever city suffered the fewest fires over a period of time would receive a banquet provided by the other city. Dallas wins the competition.
Date: March 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Goofballers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas youths and one man arraigned as part of a case prosecuting a large ring of young people charged with forging prescriptions for Dexedrine pills, more commonly known as "goofballs."
Date: February 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Gun smugglers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Thomas D. Park and Thurman Randle, two gun dealers , charged with smuggling small arms into Mexico.
Date: February 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Handicapped]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an award for handicapped achievement presented to Mrs. Daisy Mae Conroe, a woman partially paralyzed by polio who owns a Dallas sewing company.
Date: June 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Hunting is good on Alamo plaza]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about large flocks of cowbirds considered pests in San Antonio. Police shoot the birds with shotguns each night as they roost in trees around the downtown area, but the birds persist in flocking all over the city.
Date: December 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Legislature]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hearing in the Texas Legislature in Austin to redistrict the 79th State Judicial District, to reduce the power of political boss George Parr in Jim Wells County.
Date: April 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Marine gets bars]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth college student, Gerald Howe Totten, receiving a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve through a special program.
Date: March 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Mexican]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a stop in Fort Worth by Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Louis Padilla-Nevro, traveling from Mexico City to Washington and finally New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Date: September 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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