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[News Script: Coin]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man in Fort Worth having a copper penny from 1943 that could be worth up to 10,000 dollars.
Date: September 1, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Penny saver]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a cafe business that saves pennies as they glue them on their counter. It now reaches fifteen feet and is covered with 5,787 pennies.
Date: August 9, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Coin collections]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the State Niusmatic Society's conference in Fort Worth.
Date: October 14, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Coins]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two El Paso teenagers being arrested in Fort Worth for using Mexican ten-centavo pieces in a machine that made change for a quarter, ultimately making the pair a 250% profit.
Date: September 23, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Legal Sales vote]

Description: Photograph of two drawings on the vote for legal sales. The top drawing is of two hands cupped holding coins with even more coins stacked up behind them. Writing below it says, "Vote for legal sales - Saturday, July 9th." The drawing underneath this is of a man in a trench coat and hat trading a bottle for cash while holding a cigarette in his mouth. The same writing is printed below this drawing as well.
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Legal sales advertisement]

Description: Photograph of two slides advertising the vote for legal sales. The top slide is a drawing of a cop using a cloth to cover up a body laying on the ground, with a car parked in the background. There is writing below the picture that says, "Vote for legal sales - Saturday, July 9th." The bottom slide is a picture of an old woman sitting in a rocking chair with a huge, drawn bag with "$90,000000," written on it. Dollar signs are also drawn around the top of the bag.
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Money changer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a machine that made change for a dollar at the Wishy-Washy Washateria in Dallas.
Date: October 22, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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