ROBERT S. KERR COLLECTION
DEPARTMENTAL SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory
Box 2

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Box 2: Agriculture: Farm Credit Administration (1953, 1955-1956) -- Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1958)

F 1: Agriculture: Farm Credit Administration (1953, 1955-1956).

National farm loan associations; Farm Credit Act of 1953 (note: copy of act itself included); organizational charts; reservation of mineral rights by federal land banks.

F 2: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1953).

Loans to farmers.

F 3: Agriculture: Farmers Union (1953).

Drought relief; emergency food reserve; wheat storage; processed beef buying; food and fiber policy. Correspondents include: Charles Brannan.

F 4: Agriculture: General (1953).

German horses; endorsement for reclamation commissioner; fertilizer supply; pay for federal employees.

F 5: Agriculture: Grange (1953-1954).

Transmittal of advance copy of annual address; correspondence with National Grange.

F 6: Agriculture: Livestock (1953).

Cattle industry; resolution of Oklahoma legislature. Correspondents include: Edwin Johnson; Stuart Symington.

F 7: Agriculture: Production and Marketing Administration (1953).

Emergency feed for drought relief; approved wheat; grain inspection; wheat storage; accomplishments of Cotton County PMA and Okfuskee County PMA; Drought Emergency Program.

F 8: Agriculture: Reorganization of Department (1953).

Announcement of intention to reorganize; correspondence re: Plan No. 2; Democratic National Committee Fact Sheet; message from Dwight D. Eisenhower. Correspondents include: Margaret Chase Smith.

F 9: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1953).

Reorganization; flood control program; personnel; requests of state soil conservation districts.

F 10: Agriculture: Wheat (1953).

Transportation; allotments.

F 11: Agriculture: Agricultural Marketing Service (1954-1955, 1957).

Tulsa meat survey; farm income; price support data; livestock purchasing.

F 12: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1954).

Statement by Ezra Taft Benson; grain storage contract; grain elevator approval.

F 13: Agriculture: Cotton (1954).

Allotments and price supports.

F 14: Agriculture: Dairy (1954).

Price supports; butter surplus; marketing orders.

F 15: Agriculture: Drought (1954).

Oklahoma relief.

F 16: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1954).

Oil and gas leases; loans; Enoch Jordan as FHA supervisor; disaster loans; loan pamphlets.

F 17: Agriculture: Farmers Union (1954).

Cotton allotments; public power policies; wool bill; convention.

F 18: Agriculture: Forest Service (1954-1955).

Manganese deposit in Ouachita National Forest; summer home permits in San Isabel National Forest.

F 19: Agriculture: General (1954).

Extension work; allotments; agricultural census; price supports; importation of African cattle into the U.S.; resolution of Producers Grain Corporation; peanut acreage allotments; correspondence re: Ezra Taft Benson.

F 20: Agriculture: Livestock (1954).

Cattle prices. Correspondents include Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association.

F 21: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1954).

Appointment of Harry Chambers; relocation of state offices to Stillwater; mineral rights.

F 22: Agriculture: Wheat (1954).

Allotments.

F 23: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1955).

Loans; changes in county offices; foreclosures; appraisals; flood damage. Correspondents include: Raymond Gary.

F 24: Agriculture: Farmers Union (1955).

Eisenhower campaign card; statement of Oklahoma Farmers Union attorney William Franklin. Correspondents include: National Farmers Union President James Patton.

F 25: Agriculture: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (1955-1956).

Wheat insurance contracts.

F 26: Agriculture: General (1955).

Four-H (4-H) Club schedule; correspondence re: rumors of supplying wheat to the USSR; question from graduate student conducting research; unofficial agricultural delegation to the USSR; letter of introduction to Italian minister of agriculture.

F 27: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1955).

Steam plant; loan approval.

F 28: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1955).

Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act; list of county office managers; aerial photo maps; soil survey of Noble County.

F 29: Agriculture: Commodity Stabilization Service (1956).

Acreage allotments for peanuts, cotton, and wheat; telegram sent by Kerr, Mike Monroney, Carl Albert, and Ed Edmondson to Ezra Taft Benson.

F 30: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1956).

Loans; Emergency Hay Program; release of mortgages; loan applications; changes in county offices.

F 31: Agriculture: Forest Service (1956-1957).

Timber business; national forest timber-for-land exchange case in LeFlore County.

F 32: Agriculture: General (1956).

School lunch program; USDA Superior Service Award.

F 33: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1956).

Hearings on Southwestern Power Administration electric rates; cooperatives in SPA service area; electric service; telephone service; telegram from Oklahoma congressional delegation re: increase in SPA rates; list of electric companies and income tax deferral amounts.

F 34: Agriculture: Soil Bank (1956).

Soil Bank program; acreage reserve program; wheat storage; drought aid; watershed project development; telegram from Kerr, Mike Monroney, Carl Albert, and Ed Edmondson to Ezra Taft Benson re: cotton acreage.

F 35: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1956).

Qualification changes; soil survey of Noble County; watershed projects.

F 36: Agriculture: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee (1957).

Marketing penalties for wheat growers; peanuts; corn legislation; wheat allotment; suspension of Choctaw County Commission; county reports; deferred grazing bill; stored wheat for seeding; disaster appropriations; cotton allotment; loans; investigation of Kiowa County ASC.office; wheat price supports; peanut allotment.

F 37: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1957-1958).

Emergency Feed Program; peanut allotment; parity income proposal; drought feed distribution; damaged wheat and company financial difficulties; change from bushel to hundredweight; Wool Payment Program.

F 38: Agriculture: Commodity Stabilization Service (1957).

Seed wheat; wheat loan.

F 39: Agriculture: Commodity Surpluses (1957).

Donations to penal institutions; surpluses sent overseas by religious organizations.

F 40: Agriculture: Cotton (1957).

Exports; allotments; acreage reserve program.

F 41: Agriculture: Dairy (1957).

Price supports for milk and butter.

F 42: Agriculture: Drought (1957).

Oklahoma relief; Soil Ban program; Protein Feed Bill. Correspondents include: Raymond Gary.

F 43: Agriculture: Farm Bureau (1957).

Resolutions of Oklahoma Farm Bureau and Garfield County Farm Bureau.

F 44: Agriculture: Farm Credit Administration (1957-1958).

Grain elevator for Wagoner County; increase in interest rates.

F 45: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1957).

Grading of grain; emergency feed program; loans and loan problems.

F 46: Agriculture: Farmers Union (1957).

Kerr policies and drought relief.

F 47: Agriculture: General (1957).

Agricultural policy; ginseng; Future Farmers of America; Farm Bureau; legislation; resolution of Texas County Farm Bureau; Hoxsey treatment for cancer; crop insurance; beekeeping; agriculture-related articles from the Hugo Daily News and the Dewey Herald; typed copy of Congressional Record entry re Don Paarlberg's nomination as assistant secretary of agriculture.

F 48: Agriculture: Grains (1957).

Rye import duties; grain sanitation; grain storage.

F 49: Agriculture: Livestock (1957).

Anthrax; meat inspectors; bangs control; livestock sale legislation; cattle ranching.

F 50: Agriculture: Peanuts (1957-1958).

Grading; allotments.

F 51: Agriculture: Poultry (1957).

Inspection; powdered eggs; investigation of industry; Bill of Rights for Poultry Farmers from American Poultry Farmers Association.

F 52-53: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1957).

Agency independence; Service Under Oklahoma Contract; propaganda advertising; Missouri River Basin problems; loan approvals; Internal Revenue Act of 1954; rate increase; interest rates; Niagara power development bill; resolution adopted by the Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest; correspondence re: Trimble Bill; history of REA; returns of electric utilities; Niagara Bill; REA administrator position; statement of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; resolutions of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Region VIII; graphs.

F 54: Agriculture: Soil Bank (1957).

Acreage reserve; amendment for grazing land; bills re: corn base acreages; grazing privileges; usage of tested and non-tested seeds; grass lands; flood relief; wheat allotment.

F 55: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1957).

Payments to local farmers; stock pond; budget; wind erosion; Progress Report of Small Watershed Program; Pawnee County soil survey; Creek County soil survey; storm reports; watershed survey party; Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act; proposed project for Chickasha; Timber Creek project.

F 56: Agriculture: Wheat (1957).

Allotments.

F 57: Agriculture: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee (1958).

Accomplishments of counties; restoration of flood-damaged land; wheat allotments; ASC county employee salary increase; statement made by Senate Appropriations Committee; wheat storage warehouses; conservation reserve program; list of leading cotton allotment counties in U. S.; marketing quota excess of wheat; Agricultural Act of 1958; cotton; feed grain situation; letter from angry farmer concerning wheat allotment; soil bank schedule of payments; certificate of interest forms.

F 58: Agriculture: Commodities/Surpluses (1958).

Butter; beef; school lunch programs

F 59: Agriculture: Cotton (1958).

Loans; price supports.

F 60: Agriculture: Dairy (1958).

Butter surplus; price supports; marketing orders.

F 61: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1958).

Complaints about Bailey County, Texas committee; Emergency Feed Program; loans; employee transfer.

F 62: Agriculture: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (1958-1960, 1962).

Grain sorghum; wheat insurance; crop insurance acreage report; counties that are eligible for wheat insurance; expansion and improvement of federal crop insurance in Oklahoma.

F 63: Agriculture: Forest Service (1958).

Sale of 3,800 acres of land in LeFlore County to Forest Service.

F 64: Agriculture: General (1958).

Price gap; Soil-Conserving Tillage Systems for Corn (booklet); farm programs; gasoline taxes; price supports; cooperatives; burro importation; transcript of portion of press conference with Ezra Taft Benson; correspondence with attachments from the National Farmers' Union.

F 65: Agriculture: Livestock (1958-1959).

Copy of bill re: Brucellosis Eradication Program; cattle imports; Brucellosis: Pocket Reference to Federal Requirements Governing Interstate Movement of Cattle (publication); Regulations and Laws Administered by the Animal Disease Eradication Division (publication).

F 66-67: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1958).

Resolutions of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Region VIII; competition between REA cooperatives and liquefied petroleum (LP) industry; loan for telephone service; appraisals; petition against electric rate increase; increased interest rates; tables of statistics; relocation of electric lines; statements and testimony re: Trimble Bill; multipurpose dams program; electric service applications; hearing on rate filed by Public Service Company; "Water Resource Development for Prosperity, Prestige, and Power" (study) by NRECA; loan approvals; resolution re: income tax deductions; clippings from Tulsa Tribune re: development of water resources; claim of cooperative against Southwestern Power Administration; Atomic Energy Commission authorization bill; propaganda advertising; conservation of migratory fish and game; requests for electric service; Stand Your Ground (booklet) by Clyde T. Ellis; resolutions of NRECA Region VIII; Comptroller General's ruling re: REA loans; telephone number change; removal of tax benefits of cooperatives; Russian electric power; UN meetings on European electric power; article about interest rates.

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