Gary Howard - State Farm Insurance Agent

. Previously a largely rural area East Texas became more urban as workers were recruited for the oil shipbuilding and aircraft industries East Texans made many contributions to the war effort both at home and in the armed forces High schools had patriotic programs as well but so many teachers and older students left for the military or for defense jobs that budgets were cut programs dropped and the curriculum had to be scaled down Hospitals reported a shortage of supplies and medical personnel as many doctors and most of the younger nurses joined the services.

! . In 1509 the Portuguese under Francisco de Almeida won a critical victory in the battle of Diu against a joint Mamluk and Arab fleet sent to counteract their presence in the Arabian Sea the retreat of the Mamluks and Arabs enabled the Portuguese to implement their strategy of controlling the Indian Ocean, Under Jim Hogg the state turned its attention toward corporations violating the state monopoly laws in 1894 Texas filed a lawsuit against John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and its Texas subsidiary the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri Hogg and his attorney-general argued that the companies were engaged in rebates price fixing consolidation and other tactics prohibited by the state's 1889 antitrust act the investigation resulted in a number of indictments including one for Rockefeller Hogg requested that Rockefeller be extradited from New York but the New York governor refused as Rockefeller had not fled from Texas Rockefeller was never tried but other employees of the company were found guilty, Houston Texas Business Directory 4.2 Colonization Harris County ESD #12 Fire Cloverleaf Fire Department .5% .03.