Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners have to buy tuners costing about
$30 to receive the UHF transmissions. Nevertheless, last week six
pioneer educational TV stations-four run by universities and two by
cities-were on the air. If their progress has been slow, it has
nonetheless been sure. Items:
...talk and look like oceanographers from Massachusetts or California, but some of them wear high Texas boots while they probe the depths of the Gulf. The system most used for drilling in the open Gulf is a sophisticated outgrowth of the simple, pile-supported platform. Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston starts with what it calls a "jacket": eight heavy-walled steel cylinders, 34 inches in diameter and up to 100 feet long. It sets them upright in two widely spaced rows, and braces them with a criss-crossing network of strong piping welded to their sides. It loads the massive...
...lines with tufts of silk placed at regular intervals to show how much line was out; for one-armed fishermen there were special devices to wind the reels. Both the expedition-and the fishing aids-were the productions of Columnist Ralph Alexander ("Andy") Anderson of Scripps-Howard's Houston Press. A little...
...Legged Bowlers. Newsman Anderson, who was born in Pittsburgh, moved to Texas after a hitch in the Army in World War I and became sports editor of the Houston Press. It was not till early in World War II, when he saw a planeload of wounded soldiers from overseas arriving at a hospital, that he became interested in professional good works. Anderson was so shaken that he decided to help them regain their health through sports...
When a citizens' committee asked him to head the "Hire the Handicapped Week" for Houston in 1949, Anderson accepted, but only on condition that hiring the handicapped be a year-round project for local industries. On his return to the Press, where he writes a fishing column, he also found time to write stories on the handicapped and chivvy personnel managers into hiring them. As a result, Houston employers hired 2,280 handicapped people in 1953. When a crippled vet gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours...