Box 11: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1951) --- Soil Conservation (1944).
F 1: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1951).
a. Correspondence.
b. "Population Study of the Washita River Basin" [1951].
c. Membership Lists, re: county and community committees (1951).
d. Congressional Record -- Senate (May 16, 1951). Pages 5519-5520.
e. Report: Department of Agriculture: Draft Interim Survey Report: "Review, Washita River Watershed: Oklahoma and
Texas (Appendices)" (September 8, 1951).
f. Graham, N. R.: "Notes on AWR Meeting on Washita Sub-Basin" (October 26, 1951).
g. Report: Department of Agriculture: Review Survey Report: "Washita River Watershed: Oklahoma and Texas"
(November, 1951).
h. Report: Department of Agriculture: Review Survey Report: "Washita River Watershed: Oklahoma and Texas
(Appendices)" (November, 1951).
F 2: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1952).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include A. S. Mike Monroney; Toby Morris; Victor Wickersham.
b. Form Letter: RSK, re: Washita alternate projects [1952].
c. Soil Conservation Service: "The Washita River Watershed" [1952].
d. "Report to Inter-Agency Committee of State Coordinators Meeting on Washita River Basin" [1952].
e. Report: Department of the Interior: "Plan for Improvement for Washita River Sub-Basin" (1952).
f. Graph: "Washita River: Schedule for Use of Federal Funds for Watershed Works of Improvement" (January 7, 1952).
g. Peterson, Elmer T.: "Dams that Build and Dams that Destroy" (February 16, 1952).
h. "Washita River Watershed, Oklahoma, Texas" (February 26, 1952).
i. Press Release: Bureau of Reclamation: "Water for Oklahoma Cities and Farms Planned in Washita River Basin Report"
(March 3, 1952).
j. "Meeting Relative to Washita Project Report of Department of Interior, Held in Room 457, Senate Office Building,
March 11, 1952."
k. Petitions, re: projects support (March 28, 1952). Five petitions.
l. Statement: RSK, re: soil conservation (April 10, 1952).
m. Soil Conservation Service: "Where Floods Begin" (May, 1952).
n. Bureau of Reclamation: "Pertinent Data for Recommended Foss and Fort Cobb Reservoirs: Washita River Basin,
Oklahoma" (September 25, 1952).
o. S. 3133. Eighty-second Congress; Second Session (1952).
F 3: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1953 Jan.-July).
a. Correspondence.
b. Jackson, S. K.: "The Present Drought in Oklahoma" [1953].
c. Speech Fragment, re: Presidential projects budgets (April 23, 1953).
d. Statement: Fort Cobb, Washita Basin Improvement Association, re: reservoir (February 6, 1953).
e. Statement: Bessie, Washita Basin Improvement Association, re: projects (March 13, 1953).
f. Statement: Verden, Washita Basin Improvement Association, re: projects (March 17, 1953).
g. Statement: Clinton, Washita Basin Improvement Association, re: projects (March 18, 1953).
h. Statement: Corn, Washita Basin Improvement Association, re: projects (March 18, 1953).
i. Statement: Gotebo, Washita Basin Improvement Association, re: projects (March 18, 1953).
j. Statement: Hobart, Washita Basin Improvement Association, re: projects (March 18, 1953).
k. Statement: Anadarko, Washita Basin Improvement Association, re: projects (March 19, 1953).
l. Statement: Oklahoma Health Department, re: projects (March 23, 1953).
m. Statement: Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, re: projects (March 23, 1953).
n. Statement: RSK, re: S. 118 and H. R. 1097 (March 23-24, 1953).
o. Press Release: Bureau of Reclamation: "Secretary McKay Proposes Washita River Water Resources Development Plan"
(July 30, 1953).
p. "Proposed Reclamation Project Construction" (July 31, 1953).
F 4: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1953 Aug.-Dec.).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Hugh Butler; Dwight D. Eisenhower; A. S. Mike Monroney; Johnston
Murray.
b. University of Oklahoma Bureau of Business Research: "An Analysis of the Economic Potential and Water Requirements
of the Upper Washita Basin" (August, 1953).
F 5: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1954).
a. Correspondence.
b. "Summary of Study for Repayment of Irrigation Cost Allocations: Fort Cobb Alone and Foss and Fort Cobb Combined"
(January 15, 1954).
c. Statement: RSK and Mike Monroney, re: appropriations (February 11, 1954).
d. House Report 2621. Eighty-third Congress; Second Session (1954).
e. Senate Report 1315. Eighty-third Congress; Second Session (1954).
f. S. 118. Eighty-third Congress; Second Session (1954).
g. "Description of the Washita Project" [1954].
h. "Washita Project, Oklahoma" [1954].
i. "Washita River Project" [1954].
F 6: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1955).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Fred G. Aandahl; Donald R. Belcher; Dennis Chavez; James E. Murray.
b. Press Release: "The Washita Project" (January 14, 1955).
c. Statement: RSK: "The Washita Project" (April 25, 1955).
d. Statement: Region 5, Bureau of Reclamation, re: project (April 25, 1955).
e. Statement: Mike Monroney, re: S. 180 (April 25, 1955).
f. Senate Report 361. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
g. S. 180. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
F 7: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1956).
Correspondence.
F 8: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1956-1957).
a. Sugar Creek Watershed Improvement Association: "Detailed Plan of Action (Book No. I)" [1956].
b. Sugar Creek Watershed Improvement Association: "Preliminary Field Examination (Book No. II)" [1957].
F 9: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1957-1961).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Carl Albert; J. Howard Edmondson; Southern Oklahoma Development
Association.
b. Resolution: Red River Compact Commission, re: study appropriation (February 27, 1958).
c. Press Release: Bureau of Reclamation: Interior Department Reports on Arbuckle Project in Oklahoma" (June 9, 1961).
F 10: Red River Basin: Washita River Basin (1962).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Carl Albert; Clinton P. Anderson; J. Howard Edmondson; Walter E. Rogers;
Stewart L. Udall; Victor Wickersham.
b. Bureau of Reclamation: "Synopsis of Remarks by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall at the Dedication of Fort
Cobb Dam, Near Anadarko, Oklahoma, at 11 A.M. Monday, March 12, 1962."
c. Report: Hudgins, Thompson, Ball, and Associates, Inc.: "Report on the Economic Effect of Sources and Quality of Water
at Two Locations on a Carpet Mill" (December 13, 1962).
F 11: Red River Basin: Miscellaneous (n.d., 1943-1947).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Reuel Little; Red River Compact Commission.
b. "Red River Compact Commission Members: 1945."c. "News Letter of the Red River Valley Association" (July 24,
1946).
F 12: Red River Basin: Miscellaneous (1949-1950).
a. Correspondence.
b. House Concurrent Resolution No. 6: Oklahoma State Legislature, re: Basin.
c. "Proposed Report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors on Red River and Tributaries, Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, and Louisiana" (January, 1950).
d. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors: "Public Notice Relative to Report on the Investigations in the Interest of
Navigation, Flood Control, and Other Purposes in the Red River Basin, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana" (April
17, 1950).
e. "Report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors on Red River and Tributaries, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and
Louisiana" (June 20, 1950).
F 13: Red River Basin: Miscellaneous (1952-1954).
a. Correspondence.
b. Water Use and Control Group, Texas and Oklahoma: "Statement of Needs and Possible Solutions, AWR Area No. 4,
Red River Basin (Exclusive of Washita River Basin) Above Denison Dam" (October 21, 1952).
c. Corps of Engineers: "Notice of Public Hearings on Red River Bank Stabilization, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and
Louisiana" (February 13, 1953).
d. "Water Resources Development, Red River Valley, Southwestern Oklahoma" (August 26, 1953).
e. Public Law 273. Eighty-third Congress; First Session (1953).
F 14: Red River Basin: Miscellaneous (1955-1961).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Red River Valley Association.
b. Congressional Record -- House (April 19, 1955). Pages 4019-4022.
c. S. 2260. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
d. Congressional Record -- Senate (February 5, 1958). Pages 1484-1485.
e. Congressional Record -- Appendix (February 5, 1958). Pages 1056-1059, 1063-1065.
f. Statement: Fairbanks, C. A., re: appropriations.
g. Invitation: Red River Valley Association, re: thirty-sixth annual convention.
F 15: St. Lawrence Seaway Project (1949, 1951-1955, 1957-1961).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Hubert H. Humphrey; Charles E. Potter; Alexander Wiley; International
Longshoremen's Association; National Grange; National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; National St. Lawrence
Project Conference.
b. Speech: E. M. Richards: "The St. Lawrence Waterway Project" (October 25, 1951).
c. Press Release: National St. Lawrence Project Conference: "Bond Issue Plan of Financing St. Lawrence Waterway
Exposed" (February 28, 1952).
d. Richard B. Frost: "Congress Spends Billions for French Seaways -- But Not One Cent for Our Own St. Lawrence
Project" (March, 1952).
e. Press Release: Alexander Wiley, re: project bill (January 1, 1953).
f. Report: American Enterprise Association: "Analysis of S. 589" (May 14, 1953).
g. Resolutions: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, re: project (January 11-14, 1954).
h. Radio Commentary: Julian Barber, re: Seaway (July 28, 1959).
i. "The Compass" (January-February, 1960). Pages 3-11.
j. New York: State Power Authority: "Niagara-St. Lawrence Power Projects: Construction Progress" (April, 1960).
F 16: Snake River Development (1956).
Correspondence. Correspondents include James E. Murray.
F 17: Soil Conservation (n.d.)
Includes many items on tree planting.
F 18: Soil Conservation (1930, 1939-1942).
a. Phillips, George R.: "An Oklahoma Oasis" (September, 1930).
b. Brown, Nelson: "Community Forests Come of Age" (January, 1939).
c. Allan, Shirley W.: "Holland's School Forest" (May, 1940).
d. Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board: Publication No. 6: "Planting and Care of Forest Trees" (June, 1941).
e. March-Mount, Margaret: "Women as Forest Builders" (February, 1942).
F 19: Soil Conservation (1944).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include American Forestry Association.
b. Jordre, Roy J.: "Effectiveness of an Agricultural Conservation Program Which Offers Assistance in Conservation to All
Farmers" (February 12, 1944).
c. Oklahoma Education Association: "The Oklahoma Teacher" (February, 1944).
d. Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce: "Selected Resources of the Great Southwest and Comparison with United States"
(April 14, 1944).
e. "Oklahoma Handbook: 1944 Agricultural Conservation Program."
f. Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce: "The First Oklahoma Save-the-Soil Clinic" (March 27-28, 1944).
g. Miscellaneous documents, re: Save-the-Soil Clinic (March 27-28, 1944).
h. Miscellaneous documents, re: First Southwest Regional Chemurgic Clinic (May 18-20, 1944).
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