Summary

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort; disagreements between conservative democrats and liberal democrats in Fort Worth; and the arrival of a 16-pound baby girl gorilla, from New York, at Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.

Source University of North Texas - Willis Library
Title News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla
Description Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort; disagreements between conservative democrats and liberal democrats in Fort Worth; and the arrival of a 16-pound baby girl gorilla, from New York, at Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.
Collection View details on University of North Texas - Willis Library site
Create Date 9/7/1956
Subjects Television news programs,Television broadcasting of news.,Business, Economics and Finance - Communications - Media,news stories,video footage,news segments,video clips,tree-savers,Business, Economics and Finance - Transportation - Aviation - Airplanes,Page, Patty,drinking water,gorillas,Evans, Sonny,Democrats,Wood, T. M.,horticulture,inventions,Soloman, Frank,deaths,Walker, Charles,bulcher,Perrin Air Force Base,singers,televisions,O'Curran, Charles,Social Life and Customs - Customs - Weddings,Settle, H. L.,drinking water,Lyte, Lou,Mike,contests,Convair Management Club,zoos,Wilson, Jimmy,Sandlin, George,Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 1903-1996.,Daniel, Price,Hawkins, George,Whaley, Jimmy,arrests,Business, Economics and Finance - Saloons, Bars, Taverns,Government and Law - Law Enforcement - Police,burglaries
Duration 659
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