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[News Script: SDX]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the newspaperman of the year party, held by the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity. Ethel Solomon, a student at Texas State College for Women, is given a two-year journalism scholarship. Ed M. Pooley, editor of the El Paso Herald, wins the newspaperman of the year award.
Date: October 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Blind Columnist to Address Convention]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Victor Riesel, a newspaper columnist, who was blinded earlier this year by a youth who threw acid at him. He arrives in Dallas on his way to Fort Worth, where he will address the Texas Manufacturers Association's thirty-fourth annual conference.
Date: November 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trailer yields no clues to ex-cons]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police searching for Edward Eugene Townley, Betty Jo Townley, and Wilbur Jay Hunt. A gang member and ex-convict, Townley bought a trailer on credit, but doesn't seem to have lived there for nearly a month.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Newspaper Election Coverage]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and its work to gather and report election results.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Final Rites Held for James M. North]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about funeral services for James M. North, editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He passed away at the age of seventy.
Date: October 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Florence finally receives award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas Press Club award presented late to Republic National Bank President Fred Florence, who missed the original ceremony.
Date: May 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grand Jurors Hear Radio Announcer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dick Smith, a radio announcer for KCUL, presenting the Tarrant County grand jury with what he believes to be evidence supporting Laredo Times publisher William Prescott Allen.
Date: February 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Publisher jailed in gambling probe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the jailing of William Prescott Allen, publisher of the Laredo Times, for false charges of gambling and bribe taking against Fort Worth police officers.
Date: February 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grand Jury quizzes newsman on gaming]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an editorial in the Laredo Times, which charged a group of police officers with taking payoffs on vice and gambling in Fort Worth. A subpoena has been issues for the Laredo Times publisher, William Prescot Allen, because the charges are apparently unfounded.
Date: February 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Allen out of jail, city bans pinballs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the continued trial of William Prescott Allen, publisher of the Laredo Times, which ran an editorial charging Fort Worth police with rampant gambling and taking bribes.
Date: February 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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