87R26769 BPG-D
 
  By: Wu H.R. No. 1272
 
 
 
R E S O L U T I O N
         WHEREAS, August 10, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of the
  birth of the late Marvin Harold Zindler, a well-known Houston
  television news personality and consumer advocate; and
         WHEREAS, The son of Austrian Jewish immigrants, Abe and Udith
  Zindler, Marvin Zindler was born in the Bayou City in 1921; he
  attended Tarleton State University and worked for the Bellaire
  Police Department and his family's clothing store before beginning
  his career in media; after breaking into radio in 1943 as a
  part-time DJ and spot news reporter for KATL, he created and hosted
  a half-hour crime news program; from 1950 to 1954, he was a reporter
  and cameraman for Southwest Film Production Company, which produced
  the evening news for KPRC, and in 1962, he began a 10-year stint
  tracking down fugitives as a Harris County sheriff's deputy; he
  also established a consumer fraud division; and
         WHEREAS, Mr. Zindler was hired by KTRK in 1973, and his
  exposé of the Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange led to its closure;
  the case inspired the musical and movie The Best Little Whorehouse
  in Texas; an early consumer champion and action reporter, he
  campaigned against scams, medical abuses, and, in his Friday "Rat
  and Roach Reports," unsanitary eateries; those popular segments
  featured his famed "Slime in the Ice Machine" rundown on sites with
  unhygienic ice production; and
         WHEREAS, Deeply compassionate, Mr. Zindler united prominent
  people from many realms in a team called Marvin's Angels to help
  those in need at home and abroad, from suffering children and
  innocents caught in the legal system to captives in foreign lands;
  during his final illness, he continued to file consumer reports
  from his hospital bed until just days before his death on July 29,
  2007, at the age of 85; and
         WHEREAS, A devoted family man, Mr. Zindler shared a
  fulfilling marriage of 56 years with his wife, Gertrude, before her
  passing in 1997; they were the parents of five children, Helen,
  Marvin, Donny, Mark, and Danny; and
         WHEREAS, Marvin Zindler informed and enlightened his viewers
  as a pioneering consumer advocate, and his commitment to fighting
  indifference and injustice made a positive difference in the lives
  of innumerable people in Texas and beyond; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 87th Texas
  Legislature hereby pay tribute to the memory of Marvin Zindler on
  the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth; and, be it
  further
         RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
  prepared for his family as an expression of high regard by the Texas
  House of Representatives.