Series 3: U.S. House of Representatives Files, 1926-1942 (continued)
Defense
F 1 Pittsburg County (1941).
Proposed methanol or formaldehyde plant at Hartshorne. Correspondence and clippings.
F 2 Pittsburg County (1941).
Proposed defense projects for Quinton. Correspondence.
F 3 Pittsburg County (1941).
Proposed army reception/training center at McAlester. Correspondence.
F 4 Pittsburg County (1941).
Proposed ammonia plant at McAlester. Correspondence.
F 5 Pittsburg County (1940-1941).
Miscellaneous proposals and need for some county project. Correspondence (May - June) and clippings.
F 6 Pittsburg County (1941).
Miscellaneous proposals and need for some county project. Correspondence (June) and clippings.
F 7 Pittsburg County (undated and 1941).
Miscellaneous proposals and need for some county project. Correspondence (June - Dec.) and clipping.
F 8 Pittsburg County (1942).
Designation of Hartshorne, McAlester, and Atoka as eligible for National Housing Act funds. Correspondence.
F 9 Pittsburg County (1942).
Hospital relocation and relation of W.P.A. to defense projects. Correspondence and clippings.
F 10 Pittsburg County (1942).
Naval Ammunition Depot and shell-loading plant at McAlester. Correspondence (Mar. - June) and clipping.
F 11 Pittsburg County (1942).
Naval Ammunition Depot and shell-loading plant at McAlester. Correspondence (June). Includes Office of Government Reports' "Information Digest" for June 11, 1942.
F 12 Pittsburg County (undated and 1942).
Naval Ammunition Depot and shell-loading plant at McAlester. Correspondence (July - Sept.) and clipping.
F 13 Pittsburg County (1942).
Naval Ammunition Depot at McAlester: job requests (June - July).
F 14 Pittsburg County (1942).
Naval Ammunition Depot at McAlester: job requests (July - Nov.).
F 15 Pushmataha County (1940-1941).
New munitions plant and Civilian Pilot Training Center.
F 16 Out-of-District (1941-1942).
Osage and Tulsa counties.
F 17 Miscellaneous Defense Project Materials (1942).
Extension of Remarks by WC: "Selection of Military Sites and Location of War Industries" (May 20, 1942). Typescripts with originals and copies of letters included in extension of remarks.
F 18 Miscellaneous Defense Project Materials (1941-1942).
a. Miscellaneous correspondence.
b. Newsletter, Clyde T. Ellis (Sept. 18, 1941) re: defense.
c. Congressional Record. "Patriotic Rally at Ardmore, Oklahoma." (May 22, 1941). Extension of remarks by WC regarding
letter from the Honorable Wilson Wallace, president of the Ardmore Defense Council, and an article in the Daily
Ardmoreite on a defense rally.
d. Congressional Record. (June 2, 1941). Extension of remarks by WC regarding resolutions adopted at the national defense
meetings in Atoka and McCurtain counties.
e. Telegram to Thelma Levering. (1942).
Alien Internment Camps
F 19 Alien Internment Camps (1942).
McAlester camp. Correspondence (Mar. - Apr.) and clippings.
F 20 Alien Internment Camps (1942).
McAlester camp. Correspondence (Apr. - July).
Civilian Conservation Corps
F 21 Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1934-1936).
a. Correspondence (1935-1936).
b. "CCC Camps Approved for Third Period (1934), 200 Man Company Unit, State of Oklahoma."
c. "CCC Camps Approved for Fifth Period (1935), 200 Man Company Unit, State of Oklahoma."
d. "CCC Camps Approved for Sixth Period (1935-1936). 200 Man Company Unit, State of Oklahoma."
e. "Civilian Conservation Corps Camps, Seventh Period (1936), Oklahoma."
f. Miscellaneous C.C.C. data for nation, state, and district.
g. Clipping.
F 22 Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1935).
Hill, Frank Ernest Hill. The School in the Camp: The Educational Program of the Civilian Conservation Corps. New York: American Association for Adult Education, 1935.
F 23 Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1936-1937).
a. Correspondence.
b. "Civilian Conservation Corps Camps, Eighth Period (1936-1937), Oklahoma."
c. Newsletter, Civilian Conservation Corps, "Oklahoma" (Dec. 28, 1937).
d. Letter for publication, WC, re soil conservation (1936).
e. Congressional Record excerpt, John C. "Jack" Nichols, "Civilian Conservation Corps" (Mar. 6, 1936).
f. Congressional Record excerpt, Jed J. Johnson, Sr., "A Plea to Save the C. C. C. Camps" (Mar. 23, 1937).
g. House Report 687 (H. R. 6551): "Making Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency." Seventy-fifth Congress;
First Session (1937).
h. "The Future of the Civilization Conservation Corps." (1937).
F 24 Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1937-1938).
a. Correspondence (1938).
b. Press Release, Civilian Conservation Corps, re closing of certain C.C.C. camps (Mar. 10, 1938).
c. Booklet: "Civilian Conservation Corps Activities, July 1, 1937 - June 20, 1938."
F 25 Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1938-1939).
a. Correspondence (1939).
b. Press release, Soil Conservation Service, re project in McCurtain County (Feb. 27, 1939).
c. Press release, Civilian Conservation Corps, re Oklahoma camps (Sept. 8, 1939).
d. Booklet, "Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1939."
e. Clippings.
F 26 Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1940-1941).
a. Correspondence.
b. Miscellaneous data.
c. Press release, Civilian Conservation Corps, re Oklahoma program (n.d.).
d. Press release, Civilian Conservation Corps, containing list of Oklahoma camps for Sixteenth Period (Oct. 1, 1940 - Mar.
31, 1941) (Oct. 31, 1940).
e. Speech, WC, "Keep the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps" (Mar. 27, 1940).
F 27 Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1941-1942).
a. Correspondence, especially concerning the closing of the Wilburton camp.
b. Speech, Harry H. Schwartz, "C.C.C. Contributing Toward Winning the War" (Aug. 3, 1942).
c. Clippings.
F 28 Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (n.d.).
Miscellaneous typewritten data.
Flood Control Projects (1926-1942)
F 29 Denison Dam (1930).
a. Booklet, "Navigation in Red River -- Report Submitted by the Board of State Engineers of Louisiana to the Board of
Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, Apr. 20, 1930." 106 pages; contains maps.
b. House Report 1265 (H. R. 11781): "River and Harbor Bill." Seventy-first Congress; Second Session (1930). Original bill
by S. Wallace Dempsey - New York.
F 30 Denison Dam (1930).
Miscellaneous clippings.
F 31 Denison Dam (1930).
a. Correspondence (A - K).
b. Proposed bill for navigation/flood control of the Mississippi and other navigable rivers.
F 32 Denison Dam (1930).
Correspondence (L - W) and clipping. Letters to or from include Thomas D. McKeown.
F 33 Denison Dam (1931).
Slip opinion, Supreme Court of the United States, "State of Arizona vs. State of California, et al." (May 18, 1931). Concerns Colorado River and Boulder Canyon Project Act.
F 34 Denison Dam (1930-1931).
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include Red River Flood Control Navigation Association.
b. Congressional Record excerpt, Extension of Remarks, Sam Rayburn, "Flood Control in Red River Valley" (Feb. 2, 1931).
F 35 Denison Dam (1932).
Correspondence.
F 36 Denison Dam (1933).
Public Law 17 (H. R. 5081): "To improve the navigability of and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands in the Tennessee Valley; to provide for the agricultural and industrial development of said valley; to provide for the national defense by the creation of a corporation for the operation of Government properties at and near Muscle Shoals in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes." Seventy-third Congress (1933). Original bill by Lister Hill - Alabama.
F 37 Denison Dam (1933).
a. Correspondence (A - G) and clippings.
b. Booklet, Circular No. 1, Federal Emergency Administration for Public Works, "The Purposes, Policies, Functioning, and
Organization of the Emergency Administration: The Rules Prescribed by the President, July 31, 1933." Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1933.
c. Booklet, Circular No. 2, Federal Emergency Administration: "Information Required with Applications for Loans to
States, Counties, Municipalities, and Other Public Bodies, Aug. 1, 1933." Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933.
F 38 Denison Dam (1933).
Correspondence (H - M). Letters to or from include Harold L. Ickes.
F 39 Denison Dam (1933).
Correspondence (N - Z). Letters to or from include William H. Murray, Fletcher B. Swank, and Claude Weaver.
F 40 Denison Dam (1934).
Booklet, "Letter to Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, and Supporting Documents Covering Comprehensive Plan for Improvement of Red River Valley in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas, and on the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana." Published by the Red River Basin Committee.
F 41 Denison Dam (1935).
Public Law 409 (H. R. 6732): "Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes." Seventy-fourth Congress (1935). Original bill by Joseph J. Mansfield - Texas.
F 42 Denison Dam (1935).
Correspondence.
F 43 Denison Dam (1936).
a. Public Law 678 (S. 3531): "To amend the Act entitled 'An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its
tributaries and for other purposes,' approved May 15, 1928." Seventy-fourth Congress (1936). Original bill by John H.
Overton - Louisiana.
b. Public Law 738 (H. R. 8455): "Authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood
control, and for other purposes." Seventy-fourth Congress (1936). Original bill by Riley J. Wilson - Louisiana.
c. Clipping.
F 44 Denison Dam (1936).
Correspondence.
F 45 Denison Dam (1937).
Report, Division of Water Resources, Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, "Comprehensive Plan for Development of Red River Basin" (Dec., 1937).
F 46 Denison Dam (1937).
House Committee Document No. 1: "Comprehensive Flood-Control Plan for Ohio and Lower Mississippi Rivers. Letter from the President of the United States and Report of the Chief of Engineers Transmitting Pursuant to a Resolution of the House Committee on Flood Control, Dated Feb. 10, 1937, a Comprehensive Flood-Control Plan for the Ohio and Lower Mississippi Rivers." Committee Print, Committee on Flood Control. Seventy-fifth Congress; First Session (1937).
F 47 Denison Dam (1937).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Phil Ferguson.
F 48 Denison Dam (1938).
a. H. R. 10618: "Authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other
purposes." Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938) (William M. Whittington - Mississippi). Introduced print; reported
print.
b. House Report 2353 (H. R. 10618): "Comprehensive Flood-Control Plans and Works for Reservoirs, Levees, and Flood
Walls." Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
c. House Report 2746 (H. R. 10618): "Comprehensive Flood-Control Plans and Works for Reservoirs, Levees, and
Floodwalls." Conference Report. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
d. Public Law 761 (H. R. 10618): "Authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood
control, and for other purposes." Seventy-fifth Congress (1938).
F 49 Denison Dam (1938).
a. Testimony: Proponents Committee for the Denison-Durant Red River Reservoir. Concerns H. R. 10618 (Title on the
booklet is a misprint.) Testimony before the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
b. House Document 541: "Denison Reservoir, Texas: Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting from the Chief of
Engineers, United States Army, Dated Mar. 4, 1938, Submitting a Report, Together with Accompanying Papers and
Illustrations, on Further Investigation of Denison Reservoir, Texas, with a View of Flood Control and Development of
Hydro-electric Power, Authorized by the Flood Control Act Approved June 22, 1936. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session
(1938). This document refers to Public Law 738 (H. R. 8455).
c. Typewritten extract from House Document 541.
F 50 Denison Dam (1938).
a. Testimony: Committee on Law and Legislation, American Association of Port Authorities: "Establishment of Title to
Certain Submerged Lands Containing Petroleum Deposits." Before the House Committee on the Judiciary, opposing Senate
Joint Resolution 208, Gerald P. Nye - North Dakota.
b. Report: Amounts That Can Be Profitably Expended During the Fiscal Year 1940 for River and Harbor and Flood Control
Work (Nov. 16, 1938).
c. Congressional Record excerpt, Remarks of Rep. Overton Brooks of Louisiana (May 19, 1938), concerning the Denison Dam.
d. Speech, WC, "Red River Dam" (May 19, 1938). Speech in the House of Representatives printed on franked cards.
F 51 Denison Dam (1938).
Various statements, fragments, and notes by WC concerning the Denison Dam. The Wister Dam is also mentioned.
F 52 Denison Dam (1938).
Miscellaneous clippings.
F 53 Denison Dam (1938).
Correspondence (A - B).
F 54 Denison Dam (1938).
Correspondence (C - D).
F 55 Denison Dam (1938).
Correspondence (E - H).
F 56 Denison Dam (1938).
Correspondence (I - M) and clippings.
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