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The article focuses on "Texas Observer," the biweekly newspaper established by Ronnie Dugger, who has a passion to reveal various corruptions. It says that the newspaper was able to provide enthusiasm and sensibility for Texas. It states that the newspaper started to become weak due to various losses, but it has exhibited signs of revival wherein its issue reported the presence of black athletes at the El Paso, Texas branch of University of Texas.

The article presents information on the winning papers related to marketing which will be presented in the 1972 AMA fall conference in Houston. More than 65 papers were selected from around 200 submitted in three competitions for three program tracts--education, research and, public and professional issues. Around 100 papers were submitted to the research tract, and 60 for education. More than 40 comprehensive digests were received by the doctoral dissertation competition. There will be no separate session in which doctoral dissertation award winners will present their research.

This article presents information on the technical meetings and workshops held by a number of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Groups and Committees during the Fall 1970 Joint Computer Conference in Houston, Texas. Among the more ambitious ACM-related events held in Houston was an evening panel session on Social Implications of Computer Technology. Sponsorship support came jointly from the ACM Special Interest Committee on Computers and Society, the Social Implications Committee of the IEEE Computer Group, and the AFIPS Social Implications Committee. The high caliber of the panelists was matched by that of the discussion which took place during the session. Shortly before the ACM Council authorized its conversion into a Group, the Special Interest Committee on File Description and Translation brought together representatives from commerce, industry, government and universities, meeting to exchange technical information on data description and access. Papers and discussions alike reflected interests going from the theoretical to the practical, and efforts ranging from individual projects to large committee undertakings.

The article discusses how U.S. companies conduct Christmas parties and Christmas giving. It highlights the two-day Christmas party of Boeing Airplane Co., which was attended by 85,000 employees, relatives, and children and held at the athletic pavilion of University of Washington. It states that a natural gas company in Houston, Texas gives tailor-made suit to its employees while a law firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania gives electric alarm clock.

The article features Gene Howe, also known as Old Tack, who is the publisher of the "Amarillo Glone and News." He is a high school dropout who also worked as a reporter on the "Portland Oregonian" and later took over the "Atchison Globe" when his father, Ed Howe, the paper's publisher, retired in 1911. Howe later started the "Amarillo Globe" in Texas and bought the morning "News." At the age of 66, Howe shot himself inside his car.

The article focuses on the controversies surrounding Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, owner of Freedom Newspapers Inc. following his arguments against some local newspapers in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Freedom Newspapers acquired the three main valley daily newspapers "Brownsville Herald," "Harlingen's Morning Star" and "McAllen's Evening Monitor." The convictions of Holies against the local newspapers in the valley, Herbert Hoover and the National Association of Manufacturers are cited. The actions taken by those who oppose Hoiles are also considered.

The article focuses on Scripps Howard Inc.'s daily newspaper "Press," which by most standards, allegedly rated last in the U.S. Having only 102,590 in circulation, the "Press," was behind evening "Chronicle," with 199,128 and morning "Post," with 215,063. Serving as a municipal watchdog, the "Press," yipped at several issues ranging from murder to pay raises. The daily newspaper was believed the first to expose kickbacks at the city-owned farmer's market in Houston, Texas.

The article reports on the versatility of the 20,000 ton forging press constructed by Cameron Iron Works Inc. in Houston, Texas. The machine has been considered more versatile to other big presses in terms of forgings with undercuts, and capacity to turn out huge backward extrusions. The machine has been estimated to cost four to five million U.S. dollars.

The article presents information on the chronology of events related to the field of computer industry. Workshop on Quantized Computer Graphics Systems, Argonnc National Laboratory, to be held from November 14-15, 1972 in Argonne, Illinois. Data Centre 72, to be held from November 15-17, 1972 in Sheraton-Copenhagen Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Sixth Asilomar Conference on Circuits and Systems, to be held from November 15-17, 1972 in Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California. Conference 72, organized by Data Processing Management Association, to be held from November 16-17, 1972 in New York City, New York. The 8th Data Processing Conference of the Information Processing Association of Israel, to be held from November 20-21, 1972 in Hilton Hotel, Tel Aviv. The U.S. Exhibition at COMPUTER 72, to be held from December 4-8, 1972 in Olympia Exhibition Hall, London, England. The American Mathematical Society 79th Annual Meeting, to be held from January 25-29, 1973 in Dallas, Texas.

The article reports on the arrest of Brent Stein of Dallas, Texas. It reveals that Stein, who appeared as Stoney Burns on most of his works as a publisher, was busted by the police on obscenity charges due to some early expletives in the paper, the "Dallas Notes." It notes other charges on Brent including the resistance to police officers during a 1970 rock concert and the possession of marijuana. The article also indicates the decision of the jury.

The article discusses the trend toward formal management development programs. The new six-week executive development program offered by the University of Houston in Texas was modelled after the Advanced Management Course of Harvard University. John O. Parrott, an assistant general superintendent of Champion Paper & Fibre Company, had to do specialized reading, had a chance to express himself, and learned more about marketing and labor relations.

The current controversy between the newspaper, "The Daily Texan," and the University of Texas Board of Regents goes much deeper than one might believe. The controversy transcends the locale. It represents a typical intrusion of state politics into education. It underscores the coercion exercised by economic interests whose endeavors to mold conformity and stifle dissent are rather prominent in the U.S. today. And it calls attention to one of the less noble of the American traditions: the tradition of a kept college press, badgered by state legislatures, college administrators and students themselves, and all but ignored by professional journalism.

The article offers information on the expansion plans of Monsanto Chemical Co. in the plastic industry. It is stated that the company will install a major styrene plant at Texas City, Texas, along with the 50,000-ton styrene monomer plant of the company. Monsanto is purchasing the monomer plant from the War Assets Administration for 9,500,000 dollars. It is stated that with this expansion, the company will be producing polystyrene plastic at the rate of 80,000,000 pound a year in 1947.

The article reports on the move of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to build a library at Austin's University of Texas campus. It mentions that the library, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Gordon Bunshaft, will house papers recording Johnson's career in public service since the early 1930 and serves as his study after presidency. It states that the library features a 250-seat lecture hall and a 1,000-seat auditorium equipped with permanent television (TV) installations.

The article reports that Dresser Industries Inc. has come up with a nonchemical oxygen plant in Winshire, Texas which will use cooling water and fuel gas for oxygen production.

These statements appeared in San Antonio, Texas, papers during the three weeks following the granting of a permit by the city of San Antonio to the Communist Party for the use of a wing of the municipal auditorium for a meeting on August 25. On that night a mob of more than 8,000 broke through a cordon of 180 policemen using tear gas and fire hose to keep them back and smashed into the auditorium. Some seventy-five persons who had entered the building to attend the meeting had fortunately been evacuated through a side door by the police before the mob, shouting lynch the reds, could reach them.

The article reports that Texas has produced 100,000 barrels of oil daily, while the Texas Road Commission had been containing oil by imposing permits on selling petroleum products.

The article mentions about the business expansion plans of Paper Mills Inc. in Texas with the help of finances from Reconstruction Finance Corp. and publishers of the state.

The article reports on the flour contracted by the Mexican government from mills in Texas and Oklahoma. With the government's acquisition of 300,000 counterweight (cwt) flour, millers and the food industry believe that U.S. flour will flow across the border at the rate of 300,000 to 400,00 cwt a month. The Mexican government has acquired the flour without tariff barrier. The renewal of flour trade with Mexico is reportedly due to several factors including the boost of tariff to protect Mexican flour mills.

The article profiles Joe L. Allbritton, a banker in Houston, Texas. It says that Allbritton was born D'lo, a town in Simpson County, Mississippi and founded a savings and loan association after receiving a law degree from Baylor University in 1949. It states that he built a fortune in land, insurance and banking. It also discusses the signing of an agreement of Allbritton to pay 25 million dollars for a 37% interest in Washington Star Communications Inc., owner of the Washington Star-News plus three television stations, three radio stations and a syndication service.

The article reports on chemical manufacturer Diamond Alkali Co.'s selection of an industrial area around Houston, Texas as the site for its caustic soda-chlorine factory.

The article discusses the publication of Houston's three newspapers on the racial integration in the city. It notes that the three newspapers include the "Post," the "Chronicle," and the "Press" delayed the publications for one week, buried the issue on the back pages and met angered reactions from the people. It mentions that white and African American Houston civic leaders thrashed out an agreement desegregating the city's lunch counters last August 1960.

The article features former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson. According to Johnson's friends, he was a hill-country rancher who helps lay irrigation pipe, worries on the weather and his cattle and works on his papers and memoirs. It relates that the Austin, Texas became a major administrative center during his tenure as vice-president and president of U.S., adding about 5,000 jobs to the area. Moreover, Ronnie Dugger of "Texas Observer" speculates that Johnson has retreated into history.

The article reports on the 750,000 U.S. dollars expansion program of Converted Rice of Houston, Texas, which will involve the construction of a new and larger mill for the company in 1944.

The article reports that the new vacuum cooling process is quickly replacing the old-fashioned use of ice pack in the lettuce industry in Arizona, California and Texas in January 1954. It says that the dry pack or vacuum cool has taken over between 40 and 80 percent of the lettuce crop since 1948. The author adds that the lettuce heads are placed into cartons, after which the cartons are palletized and fork-lifted into vacuum chambers as the mechanization takes over. The lower costs and other benefits brought by the vacuum cooling are also discussed.

The article focuses on Mading's Esperson Drugstore in downtown Houston, Texas. The drugstore is usually jammed with oil men talking business. It serves as a meeting place for lease men, drilling contractors and geologists. It became a gathering place for oil men because it is housed in the adjoining Neils Esperson and Mellie Esperson buildings that hold more independent oil offices. The lease man is said to be the key man in the oil-leasing business whose principal job is to acquire leases for mineral rights on land.