Box 5: Arkansas River Basin: Oolagah Project (1960) --- Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (1957)
F 1: Arkansas River Basin: Oolagah Project (1960).
Correspondence.
F 2: Arkansas River Basin: Oolagah Project (1961-1962).
a. Correspondence.
b. Resolution: Cherokee Nation Executive Committee, re: naming dam for Will Rogers.
c. Draft Bill, re: naming dam and reservoir for Will Rogers.
F 3: Arkansas River Basin: Polecat Creek (1947, 1949).
a. Correspondence.
b. House Document 290. Eightieth Congress; First Session (1947).
F 4: Arkansas River Basin: Poteau River Basin (1953, 1954, 1957-1958, 1961-1962).
Correspondence.
F 5: Arkansas River Basin: Sallisaw Creek Project (1949-1950, 1958, 1961).
a. Correspondence.
b. Corps of Engineers: "Notice of Public Hearing on Proposed Improvements for Flood Protection and Drainage on Sallisaw
Creek, Oklahoma" (1949).
c. Corps of Engineers: "List of Those Sent Notice of Public Hearing to Be Held at Sallisaw, Oklahoma, on July 6, 1949,
Relative to Proposed Improvements for Flood Protection: Sallisaw Creek, Oklahoma" (1949).
d. "The Story of Sallisaw Creek Watershed Association" (1958).
F 6: Arkansas River Basin: South Canadian River Basin (n.d., 1949-1951).
a. Correspondence.
b. H. R. 2733. Eighty-first Congress; First Session (1949).
c. House Report 1096. Eighty-first Congress; First Session (1949).
d. H. R. 3482. Eighty-first Congress; First Session (1949). Two copies: one dated March 11, 1949, and one dated May 17,
1949.
e. House Report 542. Eighty-first Congress; First Session (1949).
f. Bureau of Reclamation: "Plan for Development: Canadian River Project, Texas" (June, 1949).
g. "Statement of Robert S. Kerr Before the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee in Support of the South Canadian River
Project" (April 18, 1950).
h. Senate Report 1319. Eighty-first Congress; Second Session (1950).
i. Public Law 491. Eighty-first Congress; Second Session (1950).
F 7: Arkansas River Basin: South Canadian River Basin (1952, 1957-1958, 1960-1961).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Joseph O'Mahoney; Stanley Draper.
b. Public Law 345. Eighty-second Congress; Second Session (1952).
c. Statement: Water Use and Control Group, Texas and Oklahoma: "Statement of Needs and Possible Solutions: AWR Area
No. 7, Canadian River Basin" (December 12, 1952).
F 8: Arkansas River Basin: Tenkiller Reservoir Project (1950-1953).
a. Correspondence.
b. Corps of Engineers: "Notice of Public Hearing" (October 20, 1950).
c. Corps of Engineers: "Mailing List, Notices of Public Hearing for Master Plan: Tenkiller Ferry Dam and Reservoir"
(November 21, 1950).
d. Report: Francis J. Wilson and Associates: "Report on Illinois River Water Supply for Oklahoma City" (August 31, 1953).
F 9: Arkansas River Basin: Tenkiller Reservoir Project (1954-1956).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Ed Edmondson.
b. S. 2833. Eighty-third Congress; Second Session (1954).
c. S. 2961. Eighty-third Congress; Second Session (1954).
d. General Services Administration: "Invitation for Bids and Specifications of Sale of Land" (1955).
F 10: Arkansas River Basin: Tenkiller Reservoir Project (1957-1959, 1961-1962).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Ed Edmondson.
b. Advertisement: W. H. Heldenbrand and Company: "Government Surplus Disposal Auction."
c. Advertisements: O. T. Peck, re: lake tracts.
F 11: Arkansas River Basin: Upper Red Rock Watershed Project (1961-1962).
Correspondence.
F 12: Arkansas River Basin: Verdigris River Basin (1953-1959, 1961).
a. Correspondence.
b. Two newspaper clippings, re: bridge in Wagoner County.
c. Resolution: Nowata Chamber of Commerce, re: Toronto Dam (February 2, 1953).
d. Resolution: Verdigris Valley Conservation and Flood Control Association, re: Toronto Dam (February 7, 1955).
e. Resolution: Oklahoma Water Resources Board, re: Verdigris River Basin (December 5, 1961).
F 13: Arkansas River Basin: Verdigris River Basin (1962 Jan.-Mar.).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include James Maxwell; Walter McVey.
b. Soil Conservation Service: "Oklahoma's Double Creek Watershed" (January, 1962).
c. Resolution: Bartlesville Board of Commissioners, re: water storage in Sand Reservoir (January 15, 1962).
d. Resolution: City of Caney, Kansas, re: Copan Reservoir (February 5, 1962).
e. Newsletter: Caney Valley Soil and Water Conservation District. Vol. 5, No. 3 (March, 1962).
f. Resolution: Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, re: project support (March 6, 1962).
g. Caney Watershed Association of Oklahoma and Caney Valley Soil and Water Conservation District: "Flood Prevention
Progress on Caney River Watershed."
F 14: Arkansas River Basin: Verdigris River Basin (1962 Apr.-Dec.).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Dennis Chavez; J. Howard Edmondson.
b. Resolution: Dewey City Council, re: support for Copan Reservoir (April 2, 1962).
F 15: Arkansas River Basin: Webber Falls Reservoir (1962).
Correspondence.
F 16: Arkansas River Basin: Wister Project (1951, 1957, 1962-1963).
Correspondence.
F 17: Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (n.d.)
F 18: Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (1943-1945).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Harold Ickes.
b. "The States of Arkansas and Oklahoma Present Additional Benefits in the Proposed Comprehensive Improvement of the
Arkansas River Basin" (May, 1945).
F 19: Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (1946-1949).
a. Correspondence. Includes letter of transmittal from Secretary of War to Congress re: report on Arkansas River project.
b. Magazine Tulsa (June, 1947), includes article "Harnessing the Arkansas" which includes long quote from Kerr.
c. U. S. Army Engineer Projects Progress Report 1943-1947.
F 20: Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (1950-1951).
a. Correspondence.
b. "Memo: Civil Functions Appropriations, F. Y. 1951 -- House Hearings."
c. "Effect of Action of House Appropriations Committee on the Flood Control Program in Oklahoma" (April 10, 1950).
d. "Joint Requests for Funds for the Arkansas Basin by the States of Arkansas and Oklahoma."
e. "Statement of Congressman Carl Albert" (June 8, 1951).
f. Statement, re: projects (August 7, 1951).
g. Poem: Dromgoole, Miss Will Allen: "The Bridge Builder."
F 21: Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (1952-1953).
a. Statement: Water Use and Control Group, Kansas and Oklahoma: "Statement of Needs and Possible Solutions: AWR
Area No. 2, Arkansas River Basin Above Keystone Dam Site, Oklahoma, and Below Great Bend, Kansas" (October 28,
1952).
b. Statement: Water Use and Control Group, Kansas and Oklahoma: "Statement and Supplemental Statement of Needs and
Possible Solutions: AWR Area No. 8, Verdigris and Grand (Neosho) River Basins" (1952-1953).
c. Statement: Water Use and Control Group, Oklahoma: "Statement and Supplemental Statement of Needs and Possible
Solutions: AWR Area No. 9, Arkansas River Basin Below Keystone Dam Site, Oklahoma, and Above Fort Smith,
Arkansas" (1952-1953).
d. Statement, re: projects (October 17, 1952).
e. "Statement in Behalf of Dardanelle-Carden Bottom-Holla Bend Levee Districts Area: Pope and Yell Counties, Arkansas"
(May 12, 1953).
f. Public Law 273. Eighty-third Congress; First Session (1953).
F 22: Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (1954-1955).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Dennis Chavez.
b. "Statement of Senator Robert S. Kerr Before the Subcommittee on Civil Functions of the House Appropriations
Committee" (February 16, 1954).
c. "Statement of Senator Robert S. Kerr Before the Subcommittee on Civil Functions of the Senate Appropriations
Committee" (February 17, 1954).
d. Extract: Census of Agriculture: "Statistical Data -- Pittsburg County: 1954."
e. Statement: "Arkansas River Comprehensive Development Project" [1955].
f. Transcript of discussions between Kerr and Don McBride and between Kerr and Samuel Sturgis, Chief of Army
Engineers [1955].
g. H. R. 208. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
h. House Report 463. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
i. H. R. 1787. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
j. S. 730. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
k. S. 731. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
l. Corps of Engineers: "Advance Notice No. 55-59" (January 31, 1955).
m. Corps of Engineers: "Information on Civil Works Program" (April 18, 1955).
n. Statement: "Bank Caving in Recent Years" (May 9, 1955), includes five of six river charts (one is missing).
o. "Statement by Walter Adleman Before the Public Works Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committees of the House
and Senate, May 16, 1955."
p. Statement: Beard, Lyman B., and Scoggins, Harold B.: "Statement in Support of Appropriations for the Oologah,
Eufaula, and Keystone Dams" (May 16, 1955).
q. "Statement of N. R. Graham, Before the Public Works Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committees of the House
and the Senate, U. S. A." (May 16, 1955).
r. Statement: Husky, Ira C., re: flood control projects (May 16, 1955).
s. "Statement of Senator Robert S. Kerr Before the Subcommittee on Public Works of the Appropriations Committee" (May
16, 1955).
t. "Statement of Lester Lee, . . . , Before the Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee of the Public Works
Committee of the House of Representatives, . . . , May 16, 1955."
u. "Statement of Senator A. S. Mike Monroney Before the Subcommittee on Public Works, House of Representatives"
(May 16, 1955).
v. Statement: Treat, Guy B., re: appropriations (May 16, 1955).
w. "Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Works of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees" (May 17,
1955).
F 23: Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (1956).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Ed Edmondson.
b. Statement: Itschner, General E. C., "Arkansas River Comprehensive Plan" [1956].
c. Statement: Byrns, Clarence, re: development of Arkansas River Basin [1956].
d. Statement: Sanders, Emmett, re: development of Arkansas River Basin.
e. Testimony: Wilson, Francis, re: development of Arkansas River Basin [1956].
f. Statement: Treat, Guy B., re: appropriations (March 21, 1956).
g. "Statement of Arthur V. Ormond Before the Public Works Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee of the House,
March 26, 1956."
h. "Statement Presented by J. C. Murray to Public Works Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, House of
Representatives, March 26, 1956."
i. Statement: Edmondson, Ed: "A Plea for Justice on the Arkansas Basin" (March 26, 1956).
j. Newsletter: "A Report from Senator Kerr in Washington" (June 19, 1956).
k. Newsletter: "A Report from Senator Kerr in Washington" (August, 1956).
l. Newsletter: "A Report from Senator Kerr in Washington" (December, 1956).
F 24: Arkansas River Basin: Miscellaneous (1957).
a. Correspondence.
b. List of Names and Addresses (May, 1957). Three varied copies.
c. Statement: Kerr, Robert S. (?), re: appropriations (May 14, 1957).
d. "Statement of Glade R. Kirkpatrick Before the Public Works Subcommittees of the Senate Appropriations Committee
and the House Appropriations Committee of the Congress of the United States" (May 14, 1957).
e. "Petition of the Arkansas Basin Association, the Pulaski County Flood Control and Navigation Association, and the Little
Rock Chamber of Commerce" (May 14, 1957).
f. Statement: Treat, Guy B., re: appropriations (May 15, 1957).
g. Article for Work Boat magazine, re: river navigation (November 18, 1957).
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