Valdez's competency had been raised before trial and was expected to be an issue in any appeal. â brian rogers, Houston Chronicle, Tomball man enters into 50-year plea deal for killing three in drunk driving crash, 1 Feb. 2018
The Hammond Organ story began in a loft over an Evanston grocery store, for it was there, even before an electric organ was contemplated, that the organization was born that was to become the founder and leading member of an industry. Today the Hammond name is known and respected around the world.
Joseph Ridges built the first organ in the Mormon Tabernacle, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1869. The same year witnessed the first Peace Jubilee held in Boston with an orchestra of 800, a chorus of 10,000, and a large organ made by the Hook & Hastings Organ Co.