Box 3: Agriculture: Soil Bank (1958) -- Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1963)
F 1: Agriculture: Soil Bank (1958).
Soil bank payment to President Dwight Eisenhower; rejected applications; sign-up period for land to be placed into soil bank; protection for farmers who rent land; acreage reserve program; cotton acreage allotments; wheat allotments; protest against expanded soil bank program; supplemental appropriations for soil bank; price supports for dairy products; destruction of surplus crops; problems of tenant farmers with soil bank program.
F 2: Agriculture: Wheat (1958).
Destruction of wheat that is in excess of allotment; letter from Senator James Murray about Agricultural Act amendment re: price supports.
F 3: Agriculture: Agricultural Conservation Program (1959).
Budget cuts; Pawnee County report; ACP Summary by States 1959 (booklet).
F 4: Agriculture: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee (1959).
Salary increase for county employees; Civil Service retirement benefits for ASC employees; acreage allotment and marketing quota records; criticism of ASC officials; state and county ASC reports; removal of committee member; wheat acreage allotment; Bermuda grass; ASC budget reduction; peanut allotment.
F 5: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1959).
Storage space in abandoned mine; wheat price supports; grain storage facilities.
F 6: Agriculture: Commodity Stabilization Service (1959).
Wheat and cotton allotments; grain storage; Soil Bank; handling of cotton sales; wheat loans.
F 7: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1959).
Deferred grazing; drought emergency program; loans; closing of county offices and transfer of employees.
F 8: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1959).
Trimble Bill; electric service; loan approvals; Humphrey-Price Bill re: loan-making powers of REA administrator; Markham Ferry Dam; Aspinall Bill; propaganda advertising; letter from Carl Albert forwarding a letter that he received (re: Trimble Bill) to Kerr; revolving fund for Southwestern Power Administration and Southeastern Power Administration; power marketing policies of Southwestern Power Administration; telephone service; contract between Southwestern Power Administration and Tex-La Cooperative. Correspondents include the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives; National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
F 9: Agriculture: Soil Bank (1959).
Rejected contract applications; criticism of Soil Bank program.
F 10: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1959).
Social Security benefits for SCS clerks; unfavorable recommendation for re-employment; copy of amendment to Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act; transfer of funds from Agricultural Conservation Program to SCS. Correspondents include: Hubert H. Humphrey.
F 11: Agriculture: Agricultural Conservation Program (1960).
Budget reduction; drainage ditch construction; results of survey of county agents' views of ACP.
F 12: Agriculture: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee (1960).
Cost-sharing funds; ASC programs in Oklahoma; wheat marketing quota program; wheat allotment; conservation reserve contract; sale of excess stored wheat; cotton allotment.
F 13: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1960-1961).
Securing of grain for storage facilities; removal of CCC-CSS office from Dallas to Temple, Texas.
F 14: Agriculture: Commodity Stabilization Service (1960).
Grain storage; grain movement; wheat acreage allotment; grain elevator construction.
F 15: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1960).
Loans; tax exemption for FHA loan interest.
F 16: Agriculture: General (1960-1961).
Grass for horse pasture; projects eligible for federal construction money; problem with drainage ditch; estimated cost of Department of Agriculture activities in Oklahoma; furnishing of machinery to foreign countries for processing food; placement of turkey producers under federal marketing orders; peanut price supports.
F 17: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1960).
Construction of building for Pioneer Telephone Cooperative; installation of telephone system; loan approvals; resolutions adopted by Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives; REA report for fiscal year 1959; study of Potomac River; interest rate restrictions; hydroelectric power resources; Headwater Benefits Bill; REA Quarterly Statistical Summary (Sept. 1960); telephone and electric service; municipal water supply; tight money policy as it relates to REA loans; information on cooperatives, income taxes, and interest rates; resolutions re: operation of Eufaula Reservoir; lists of Oklahoma cooperatives; wholesale power contract between Western Farmers Electric Cooperative and Southwestern Power Administration; resolutions of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Region VIII; river basin development projects in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and eastern Kentucky.
F 18: Agriculture: Agricultural Conservation Program (1961).
ACP Handbook for 1961: Oklahoma; ACP statistics.
F 19: Agriculture: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee (1961).
Noxious weeds on reserve acres; cotton acreage allotment for a church; wheat yield; correspondence from Secretary Orville Freeman re: questionable exhibit financed by ASC; loan application; planting of blue stem grass; farm base acreages under feed grain program; failure of ASC office to display U.S. flag; wheat and peanut allotments; withholding of Soil Bank and ACP payments; cost-sharing practice; eligibility of land for conservation reserve program; approval of conservation reserve contract; list of federal cost-shares paid to farmers; county accomplishments.
F 20: Agriculture: Commodity Stabilization Service (1961).
Control of competitive shrubs; removal of CCC-CSS office from Dallas to Temple, Texas.
F 21: Agriculture: Conservation Reserve Program (1961).
Noxious weeds on reserve acreage; pecan trees on conservation reserve land; limitation on conservation reserve land; Soil Bank suggestions.
F 22: Agriculture: Crop Reporting Board (1961-1962).
Agricultural price bulletins.
F 23: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1961).
Possible reopening of Coalgate office; FHA loans; livestock loan; emergency loans; special livestock loan for Pat Bell.
F 24: Agriculture: Forest Service (1961).
Free range in Ouachita National Forest.
F 25: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1961).
Problems between Western Farmers Electric Cooperative and Southwestern Power Administration; Hanford Reactor Project; Upper Colorado River Project; electric power for missile complexes; American Indian easements on Sugar Creek watershed; loan approval; The Light that Did Not Fail (booklet); information on Southeastern Electric Cooperative; Rural Community Improvement program; status of telephone loan; "New Frontiers For Power Pioneers" (speech); meeting notes; Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives annual meeting; resolutions of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Region VIII; power rate for irrigation; securing of electric service; easements on American Indian lands; Cobb Creek project.
F 26: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1961).
Kingfisher County soil survey; compensation claimed to be owed to a constituent by SCS; SCS financial obligations in Oklahoma; appropriations for SCS; The Soil Conservation Service: What It Is and What It Does (booklet); table of obligations incurred by SCS since 1934.
F 27: Agriculture: Agricultural Conservation Program (1962).
Appropriations reduction; shortage of ACP funds in Pushmataha County; lost sight draft; ACP 1962 handbook for Oklahoma County .
F 28: Agriculture: Agricultural Marketing Service (1962).
Butter as welfare commodity; establishment of grain inspection service; office space required for additional inspector for poultry company.
F 29: Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service (1962).
Chemical residue in beef; Nutria industry.
F 30-31: Agriculture: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (1962).
Investigation of Kingfisher County ASC office; barley loan rates; farm income; transfer of wheat allotments between states; prohibition of ASC committee members from trying to influence congressional action; travel expenses for suspended personnel; grain storage; operation of local ASC committees; supply management problem; eastern Oklahoma drought; Kerr's remarks re: Land and People conferences; feed grains; placement of grass land in Soil Bank; Soil Bank problem; Feed Grain Program payments; agricultural budget and employment; wheat allotments; pond construction; peanut allotments; wheat transfers; criticism of ASC program; contract cancellation; transfer of cotton allotments; condition of government wheat in storage; subsidies; penalty for growing excess wheat; county ASC reports.
F 32: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1962-1963).
Transfer of CCC jurisdiction over Oklahoma from Dallas to Kansas City; discrimination against Oklahoma grain storage operators; butter oil contract extension; bonds on stored grain.
F 33-34: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1962).
Maximum size of houses built with FHA loans; development of rural resources; shortage of funds; accomplishments of FHA in 1961 and 1962; residency requirements for emergency loans for citrus growers; insurance requirements for obtaining FHA loans; criticism of Stephens County FHA office; emergency loans; watershed loan. Correspondents include: Ed Edmondson.
F 35: Agriculture: Forest Service (1962).
Appointment of new supervisor; fact sheet critical of Forest Service; Liberty Amendment; proposed repeal of federal personal income tax.
F 36: Agriculture: Land Bank (1962).
Criticism of Farm Credit Administration; copy of Farm Credit Act of 1953; resolutions of Oklahoma Federation of Federal Land Bank Associations and Federation of Federal Land Bank Associations of the United States; financial statement of Federation of Federal Land Bank Associations of the United States; Cooperative Farm Credit System administrative chart.
F 37: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1962).
Electricity consumption figures; G & T loans; report of the administrator of REA; unfair competition from REA; . Correspondents include the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company; National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
F 38: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1962).
Conservation assistance; Deep Fork watershed project; timber spraying; Fourche Maline Creek watershed; study of Poteau River watershed. Correspondents include: Senator Richard Russell.
F 39: Agriculture: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (1963).
Peanut allotments; grain warehousing; payments for land in conservation reserve program that is flooded by watershed projects; emergency loans.
F 40: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1963).
Budget amendment; federal funds for Garfield County projects.
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