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OH 0999
Her recollections about Texarkana, Texas, 1915-50. Education; local industries; church activities; social clubs and fraternal organizations; women’s issues.
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HARRELSON, M. T. (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

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OH 0666
Member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942-44; Changi Jail, Singapore, 1944; various railroad camps in Sumatra, 1944-45; liberation.
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HARRINGTON, Darrell (b. 1931) U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, Nurse Corps

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OH 1188
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1970-1971. Assignment to Chu Lai; temporary assignment to the 91st Evacuation Hospital at An Khe; TDY in Korea; combat experiences at An Khe and Da Nang; permanent assignment to Chu Lai; treatment of wounded troops; relationship between doctors and nurses; morale problems; recreation;…
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OH 1534
His recollections of the military service of his four brothers during World War II. His youth on the family farm near Van Alstyne, Texas, in the 1930s; comments about his parents; his brother “Bud’s” military experiences with the 6th Infantry Division in the Southwest Pacific Theater (New Guinea and the Philippines); his brother Bailey’s…
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HARRIS, O. H. (b. 1932) Texas Senate Republican

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OH 0042
Attorney, member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, Republican. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. Biographical information; decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; one-year budget versus two-year budget; revenue legislation; comments about Governor Preston Smith and Lieutenant Governor…
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OH 0089
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown Stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations; redistricting; personal legislation.
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OH 0167
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Legislature. Freshman senators; comments about Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; committee appointments; reform legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
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OH 0275
His experiences and personal views while serving as a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention, 1974. Need for constitutional revision; Price Daniel, Jr., as chairman of the Constitutional Convention; Finance Committee; right-to-work provision; failure of Constitutional Convention.
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OH 0295
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; personal legislation.
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OH 0480
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second Special Session of the Sixty-fifth Texas Legislature. Influence of Proposition 13 in California; opposition to special session; repeal of sales tax on utility bills; modification of inheritance tax exemptions; ad valorem tax; agricultural land; initiative­ referendum; Peveto Bill;…
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OH 0493
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Relationship with Governor William Clements; appropriations; Budget Execution Act; consumer legislation; Peveto Bill; public school financing; comments about “Killer Bees”; separate presidential primaries.
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OH 0149
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second, Third, and Fourth Special Sessions of the Texas Legislature. Financing primary elections; appropriations bill; “lame ducks”; nomination of Larry Teaver to the State Insurance Commission; insurance legislation; Senate rules revision; nomination of Bob Bullock to the State Insurance…
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OH 0398
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fifth Texas Legislature. Budget surplus; appropriations; highway bill; public school financing; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
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HARRIS, William (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0208
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1247
Auto mechanic His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma and Alvarado, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3804 at Camp SP-53-T near Cleburne, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
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OHB 0052
A founder of Spectra Biologicals of New Brunswick, N.J., and Nuclear Medical Labs of Dallas, Texas. Family background; employment at Wadley Blood Center, Dallas, and Herman Hospital, Houston: founding of Spectra Biologicals, 1961; innovations in blood typing serum products; involvement as salesperson for Texas and Louisiana territory; sale of…
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OH 0009
Public relations executive, executive director of the Texas Good Roads Association. His experiences as press secretary and appointments secretary to former Governors Beauford Jester, 1947-50, and Allan Shivers, 1950-57; head of the Texas Employment Commission; organization of a Texas political machine; lobbying for the highway construction…
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OH 1849
Retired Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas. Childhood in east Texas; education and work history; move to librarianship; changes at UNT over the years; work at UNT Libraries; move to digital libraries; creation of UNT’s digital repository and the Portal to Texas History; logistics of creating a digital library;…
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HATCHER, Carl (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0196
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the Assembly and Repair Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HATCHER, Jean Elizabeth Sheppard (b. 1924) U.S. Coast Guard SPARS WWII Veteran

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OH 1680
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II-era veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserves (or SPARs). World War II-era veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserves (or SPARs). Childhood and education in Edwardsville, Virden, and Girard, Ill.; father’s experience in World War I; waitressing and clerical work…
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HATCHER, William (b. 1923) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 1681
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in rural Tenn.; family’s experiences in the Great Depression; decision to attend University of Tennessee-Knoxville and major in mechanical engineering; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; decision to join U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in 1942; 1943 call-up; basic…
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OH 1697
Younger sister of Gen. Curtis LeMay. Family history; Ohio farm life during the Great Depression; brother’s visits, including a fly-over in a B-36 aircraft; Lemay’s World War II service and work in the Pentagon thereafter; feelings about his vice-presidential bid as George Wallace’s running mate in 1968; perceptions of LeMay’s legacy.
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OH 1367
Homemaker. Her experiences as the wife of a serviceman (William Haugh) who was in Europe during World War II. Her education and youth on the family farm; effects of the Great Depression on her family; effects of the Rural Electrification Administration on farm life; her marriage to William Haugh on October 4, 1941; birth of their first son on…
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HAUGH, Mervin E. (b. 1917) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, B Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Armored Division

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OH 1298
His experiences as a tank commander in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Europe during World War II. Prewar induction and training, Fort Benning, Georgia; North Africa landings, November, 1942; his role as a tank commander; evolution of tank tactics; invasion of Sicily, July, 1943; transfer of 2nd Armored Division to England, December, 1943;…
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HAUGH, William M. (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, H Company, 137th Regiment, 35th Infantry Division

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OH 1290
Foundry superintendent. His experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II. Educational background; youth on the family farm; employment as a patternmaker at Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1938; hand grenade production at Riverside Foundry; induction into the Army and basic training, Camp Blanding,…
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