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[News Script: Storms Strike Area But Damage Light]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a storm system hitting North Central Texas, along with two tornado-like cloud formations. Wind damaged several places, including a barn near Blum.
Date: February 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Krick's snow machine]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a machine that artificially produces snow at Doctor Irving Krick's American Institute of Aerological Research in Arlington. Victor Tarbutton demonstrates the process of cloud seeding.
Date: October 12, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bus accident]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a Dallas city bus spinning out of control on wet streets during a rainstorm and striking the wall of an underpass. Three of the eight passengers aboard suffered minor injuries, along with the driver.
Date: May 31, 1956
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Weather]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about flooding and damage from storms in central Texas.
Date: May 1, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Rainmaker]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a scientist experimenting with a cloud seeding device at the Grand Prairie Airport.
Date: May 9, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Golf tournament opening is postponed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the opening of the Texas International golf tournament being delayed due to rain and lightning.
Date: May 31, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Heat Wave Nipped by Cool Air, Rain]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about about a cold front in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that brought rain. Video clip shows children playing in the rain and water out in the streets and driveways.
Date: August 19, 1956
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas Weather, Lodge, Weather]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a severe storm in Dallas and the damage sustained in Richardson and South Oak Cliff, severe storms and tornadoes in Fort Worth, Boyd, and Eagle Mountain Lake and the damage throughout those areas. The video also includes a news story about Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and his address before the American Bar Association in Dallas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Mr. D. W. Kempner, August 20, 1956]

Description: Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner discussing general points of interest, such as losses amounted by the Merchants & Planters Compress & Warehouse Co., total amount of stock and sale for cotton bales, work being done on the Prudential building, Blackshear's upcoming trip to Paragould and communications with Bill Gatz regarding the heat and lack of rain.
Date: August 20, 1956
Creator: Blackshear, A. H., Jr.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from William L. Gatz to Mr. D. W. Kempner, August 6, 1956]

Description: Letter from William L. Gatz to Daniel W. Kempner discussing several pieces of news, such as damage to crops done by heat and lack of moisture, progress on shipments from the compress, business at the Hurt Grocer Company and Gas Company, preparations for ginning season, W. L. Gatz's upcoming departure for a soybean meeting.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: Gatz, William L.
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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