New Jersey Series continued
Box 36: Jersey City-Housing Authority (1959-1972) - League of Women Voters (1962, 1964-1967, 1970-1971).
F 1 - 7: Jersey City - Housing Authority (1959-1972).
Topics and document types include news clippings; news releases; pamphlets; speech; housing for the elderly; low-rent housing development; tenant relations; removal of Conrad Vuocolo as director of the housing authority; housing authority sponsored trips to Washington, D.C.; nursery schools in housing developments; memorial for Jersey City Barracks; copy of H. R. 760 to increase outside earnings permitted annually under the Social Security Act; employment of elderly; copy of H. R. 11284 to permit widows at the age of 60 to occupy low-rent public housing units; John F. Kennedy Memorial Award for community service; Citizens Advisory Commission; Operation Medicare Alert; Project FIND; television reception; Modernization Plan; food programs and nutrition; security and vertical policing; funding and Federal grants; Boy Scouts; newsletter; Neighborhood Youth Corps; and Congressional Record remarks. Correspondents include Conrad Vuocolo, Jersey City Housing Authority (F 1-7); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Jersey Branch (F 1); United States Public Housing Administration (F 1); United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (F 1-3, 6, 7); United States Office of Economic Opportunity (F 1, 4, 5); New Jersey Department of Conservation and Economic Development (F 1); Dominick V. Daniels (F 1); United States Department of Agriculture (F 2, 4-7); United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (F 2-7); Hubert H. Humphrey (F 2); United States Department of Justice (F 4, 5); New Jersey State Law Enforcement Planning Agency (F 4, 5); Hugh Scott (F 4); United States Department of the Interior (F 4, 6); United States Department of labor (F 5, 6); Boy Scouts of America, New Jersey Branch (F 6); White House Conference on Aging (F 6); and William T. Cahill (F 6).
F 8: Jersey City - Housing Authority - Operation Service (1963, 1965-1968).
Folder concerns "Operation Service," (Senior Employment Referrals-Volunteers in Community Endeavor), a work program for senior citizens. Topics and document types include correspondence; memorandums; and news clippings. Correspondents include Unites States Office of Economic Opportunity; New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity; United States Department of Labor; Conrad J. Vuocolo, Director of Jersey City Housing Authority; and Thomas J. Whelan.
F 9: Jersey City - Jay-Cee Voice (1965-1967).
Topics and document types include articles prepared by Gallagher to appear in the Jay-Cee Voice; and Jay-Cee Voice: The Voice of the Jersey City Postal Union, January, June 1966 and April 1967. Correspondents include Raymond P. Truchan.
F 10: Jersey City - Jersey City Industrial Properties, Inc. (1962).
Topics and document types include development of the Jersey City waterfront. Correspondents include Atwood C. Wolf, Wolf and Baumann; and Thomas Gangemi.
F 11: Jersey City - Jersey City Legal Services Corporation (1967-1968).
Folder concerns the transfer of the Jersey City Legal Services Corporation to the Hudson County Legal Service Corporation; and Office of Economic Opportunity warned Jersey City Legal Services about poor performance. Correspondents include Hudson County Bar Association.
F 12: Jersey City - Jersey City State College (1964-1968, 1970-1972).
Topics and document types include funding and grants; closing of the speech and hearing center; proposal for assistance; and Special Services Program for Disadvantaged Students. Correspondents include Michael B. Gilligan, President Jersey City State Teachers College; and United States Office of Education.
F 13 - 14: Jersey City - Jersey Journal (1959-1970, 1972).
Topics and document types include Jersey Journal articles and news clippings; John F. Kennedy inaugural address essay contest; various correspondence dealing with possible articles for Jersey Journal; correspondence with personnel of the Jersey Journal; Hudson County Science Fair; 100th anniversary of the Jersey Journal; and Women of Achievement luncheon. Correspondents include Eugene Farrell, editor (F 13, 14); John F. Kennedy (F 13); Adlai E. Stevenson (F 13); Conrad J. Vuocolo (F 13); Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (F 13); and Lady Bird Johnson (F 14).
F 15: Jersey City - Jewish Standard (1964-1966).
Topics and document types include "Community Salute," dinner to honor publisher and editor Morris J. Janoff; news clippings; and various correspondence regarding articles and possible articles for the Jewish Standard. Correspondents include Lyndon B. Johnson; Alfred B. Scolnick; and Morris J. Janoff.
F 16: Jersey City - Job Corps/YWCA (1963, 1965-1968).
Topics and document types include a proposal by the Jersey City YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) to establish a Women's Job Corps Center; news clippings; grant and training for the Job Corps; news release; pamphlets; YWCA program and schedule; appropriations for the Job Corps; and fact sheet. Correspondents include Office of Economic Opportunity; and Mary Howard, Executive Director Jersey City YWCA.
F 17: Jersey City - Journal Square Transportation Center (n. d., 1967-1968).
Topics and document types include application by Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (PATH) for a "mass transportation facilities grant"; Jersey City commuter train disaster; news release; news clippings; and commuter service issues addressed. Correspondents include Port of New York Authority; and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
F 18: Jersey City - M. W. Kellogg Company (1959-1960).
Topics and document types include news release; and sub-contract manufacture of missile hardware resulting in employment reduction. Correspondents include United States Department of the Navy; Warren L. Smith, President M. W. Kellogg Company; Joseph Campbell, Comptroller General of the United States; and Peter Joseph Wasielewski.
F 19: Jersey City - Mayor's Council on Narcotics (1969-1972).
Topics and document types include city wide effort to curb narcotics; news clippings; Federal funding of program; proposal; and budget for drug education program. Correspondents include Anthony A. Amabile.
F 20: Jersey City - Model Cities (1967-1968, 1971).
Topics and document types include news clippings; Federal funding from the Model Cities Program for Jersey City; statement; grant notification; and Project BOLD. Correspondents include U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (press release); and Thomas J. Whelan.
F 21: Jersey City - Post Office (1961, 1964-1965, 1967-1968, 1970-1971).
Topics and document types include renovation and modernization of postal facilities; proposals; employee working conditions; establishment of a branch postal office in Lafayette section of Jersey City; petitions; hiring practices; placement and removal of collection boxes; and postal service reform. Correspondents include General Services Administration; Jersey City Postal Union; Houston R. Smith; U. S. Post Office Department; National Alliance of Postal Employees, Jersey City Tri-County Branch; William Heffernan, Postmaster; Post Office Department, Philly Regional Office; and Robert N. C. Nix.
F 22: Jersey City - Saint Peter's College (1965-1972).
Topics and document types include various correspondence regarding funding; student loans; various departments within the college; housing issues; higher education amendments; news release; news clippings; pamphlet; grant from the Raskob Foundation; Glee Club ambassadors; Gallagher's service on the Centennial Council; memorandums; Work Study Program; and newsletter. Correspondents include Rev. Victor R. Yanitelli, President Saint Peter's College; Francis J. Mertz; and United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
F 23: Jersey City - Waterfront Improvements (1963, 1967-1968, 1971).
Topics and document types include Federal funding; development of Jersey City waterfront; and news clipping. Correspondents include United States Department of the Army; and Department of Housing and Urban Development, Region II.
F 24 -25: John F. Kennedy Memorial Boulevard/Hudson County Boulevard (n. d., 1963-1965, 1969).
Topics and document types include correspondence dealing with reconstruction of John F. Kennedy Boulevard (formerly Hudson County Boulevard) and development into a state highway; Federal funding of the Bayonne section of the Hudson Boulevard and possible designation as a secondary Federal highway; news clippings; news release; statements; and resolution. Much of the correspondence in folder 25 deals with preserving the beauty of John F. Kennedy Boulevard. Correspondents include Bayonne Advanced Civic League (F 24); Richard J. Hughes (F 24); U. S. Department of Commerce (F 24); Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (F 25); and Citizens Committee to Save John F. Kennedy Boulevard (F 25).
F 26 - 28: Junior Achievement (1959, 1962-1968, 1971).
Topics and document types include journal articles; newsletter; Operation Free Enterprise project; news clippings; trip to West Germany, Ireland, and Washington with itineraries; reports; Ronja a Junior Achievement Company; many thank-you notes from Junior Achievers regarding Washington trip and visit with Hubert H. Humphrey; Operation Nova Scotia; Operation Belgium; and Operation Puerto Rico. Correspondents include K. Kenneth Roden, Junior Achievement of Union County, Inc. (F 26-28); Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President (F 26, 28); United States Civil Aeronautics Board (F 26); Richard R. O'Connor (F 26, 27); Daily Journal, Elizabeth (F 26, 27); and Hubert H. Humphrey (F 27).
F 29: Labor Unions (1965-1967, 1971-1972).
Topics and document types include employment of union workers at the Bayonne Naval Supply Center; strike issues; negotiations between Communications Workers of America and New Jersey Bell Telephone company; and resolution. Correspondents include New Jersey State Industrial Union Department; New Jersey State AFL-CIO; United States Department of the Navy, Third Naval District; Vincent J. Murphy; and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
F 30: League of Women Voters (1962, 1964-1967, 1970-1971).
Topics and document types include questionnaire for Voters Information Sheets; news clippings; and correspondence dealing with Gallagher's stance on legislative issues. Correspondents include League of Women Voters of New Jersey.
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