Box 5: Defense: Air Force (1947) -- Defense: Surplus Property (1959)
F 1: Defense: Air Force (1947-1948).
Opening of Air Force base at Enid. Correspondents include: Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington.
F 2: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (n.d., 1948-1949).
Copy of a bill (possibly just a draft) re: regulation of use of flood plains; securing of maintenance/construction contracts; surplus land purchase; Eufaula Reservoir funds; Polecat-Rock Creek Joint Drainage District; table of current waterway transportation costs; authorization of comprehensive Arkansas River project; congratulations to new appointees in Corps; flood control for Okmulgee Creek; minutes of meeting on survey report studies; visit of Chickasha journalist to Oahe Reservoir Project in South Dakota. Correspondents include: Arkansas Basin Development Association and Elmer Thomas.
F 3: Defense: General (1948-1949).
Conditions at Air Force installation on Guam; government employee who was declared a security risk; inspection and certification of motor vessel by Coast Guard; request for Marine Corps Band to play at Cherokee Strip celebration in Ponca City.
F 4: Defense: Air Force (1949).
Government contracts for Plexiglass and lucite manufacture; Air Force reserve training program; surplus materials from Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area at Tinker Air Force Base.
F 5: Defense: Army (1949).
Tulsa clean-up drive; teaching position in Germany; Army procurement policies.
F 6: Defense: Air Force (1950).
Relationship of Air National Guard to Air Force; request for air units for Brainerd, Minnesota airport dedication.
F 7: Defense: Army (1950).
Sale of surplus saddles; contracts for Army lockers.
F 8: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1950).
Work of the Corps of Engineers in Oklahoma (publication); selection of name for Hulah Dam lake; agricultural leasing at Lake Texoma.
F 9: Defense: General (1950).
Electrical work contract for Rocket Research and Development Center at Redstone Arsenal site in Huntsville, Alabama; military aircraft for Shawnee Air Fair; military housing at Fort Sill; Wherry bill military housing projects; judicial appointments at HICOG (Allied High Commission for Germany); leasing of hangar at government aircraft plant in Tulsa; Armed Forces meat-buying policy; electronics warfare companies; training of National Guard units; telegram from George Lynn Cross about flight school proposal.
F 10: Defense: Navy (1950-1951).
Surplus equipment; food contract; eyeglasses contract; wage increase for hourly employees in McAlester area; bids for propellant grain containers.
F 11: Defense: Army (1951).
Horse and mule buying program; wage rates for army laundry employees; cafeteria concessions for Oklahoma Ordnance Works in Pryor; protest of purchase of imported beef; reactivation of Camp Gruber.
F 12: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1951).
Sewage problem at Grove; barber shop concessions at Altus and Ardmore air bases; equipment loan approval; levee repairs for Cache and Beaver Creeks; Tulsa District concerns about the Oklahoma City floodway, releases from Canton Dam, and the flood situation at Waurika; bank caving along the Cimarron River.
F 13: Defense: General (1951).
Recommendation for appointment to Renegotiation Board; compensation for improvements at Sanford Air Force Base; Fort Sill housing shortage; possibility of declaring Tulsa a critical defense area; supplies of black pepper; controversy over an appointment to a mission to Japan to teach about democratic education; reactivation of Altus airfield; establishment of Air Force ROTC at certain colleges and universities; opposition to construction of jet bomber base in New Hampshire; military testing of medical ointment; accelerated amortization in the construction of plant facilities for defense program; construction of sulfur plants in western Texas; purchase of farm buildings by Meadowbrook School in Marietta; construction at military installations.
F 14: Defense: Air Force (1952-1953).
Employment; leave pay for employee; cancellation of vending contract at Tinker Field; request for Air Force demonstration at Muskogee civil defense celebration; list of Air Force Reserve Training Centers to be discontinued.
F 15: Defense: Army (1952).
Fort Sill garbage removal contract; loss of military sales by Oklahoma fruit jobbers; surplus helmets for Scouts; ROTC program statistics; requests for ROTC programs at several Oklahoma colleges.
F 16: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1952).
Okmulgee Creek flood control; "The Dam Controversy" (paper); determination of net tangible flood control benefits by Corps; data on flood control and navigation projects; remarks of Chief of Engineers Lewis Pick re: watershed development; Civil Functions Appropriations Act funds; hydroelectric power projects in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri; report of Tulsa District projects.
F 17: Defense: General (1952).
Employment; appropriation for a bid schedule from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point, North Carolina; history of 45th Infantry Division of the National Guard.
F 18: Defense: Navy (1952).
Status of ammunition inspectors as affected by the Whitten Rider; request for Navy freight traffic at McAlester to be given to Yellow Transit Freight Lines; request for Blue Angels to appear at air show in Oklahoma City.
F 19: Defense: Army (1953).
Employment; reduction in force at Red River Arsenal in Texas; new ROTC policies; reduction of support for ROTC at junior colleges and effect on Oklahoma Military Academy in Claremore.
F 20: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1953).
Projects on Arkansas River near Cherokee Chute; list of active and authorized river and harbor and flood control projects in Oklahoma; water releases from Wister Dam on Poteau River; Red River bank stabilization; information on amount of water leaving Oklahoma each year; proposed construction of dam on Illinois River near Siloam Springs, Arkansas; Arkansas River navigation to Catoosa; construction of recreational facilities at Sequoyah and Texoma State Parks; groundbreaking for Oklahoma City floodway project; dedication of Tenkiller and Fort Gibson Dams; leasing of land by Oklahoma Aviation Commission for an airport near Tishomingo; leasing of land for boat rental operation near Lake Texoma; building of summer homes at Tenkiller Lake; operation of health station at Tenkiller; request for cottage sites at Tenkiller; attempt to repurchase government land near Tenkiller; access roads around Tenkiller Lake; leasing of noncommercial recreational sites at Tenkiller and Fort Gibson reservoirs; request for release of water from Canton Dam for Oklahoma City because of drought; Corps projects in Oklahoma; bridge for State Highway 51 across Verdigris River; leasing of agricultural land around Fort Gibson Reservoir; land acquisition problems at Lake Pend D'Oreille in Idaho; extension of grazing land within Fort Sill; appointment of new Tulsa District Engineer; construction of dam on Gates Creek in Choctaw County; appropriations for fiscal year 1953.
F 21: Defense: General (1953).
Accusation of cowardice against 45th Infantry Division in Korea; appraisal of land in Washington state; grazing lease at Camp Gruber; controversy over Catholic Church air time on Armed Services radio networks; mention of Okmulgee in article about industry dispersion plans of the Office of Defense Mobilization; controversial comments made by Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson; consideration for Congressional Medal of Honor; ideas for ending the Korean War. Correspondents include: Oklahoma congressional delegation; Ernest Shamblin.
F 22: Defense: Navy (1953).
Reduction in civilian personnel; Naval ROTC candidates from Oklahoma; employment; powder hauling contract; economic mobilization course; controversy over bidding for contract for work at Naval Marine Barracks in McAlester; construction work at Naval Ammunition Depot in McAlester; fatal airplane crash involving Naval ROTC students from the University of Oklahoma.
F 23: Defense: Surplus Property (1953).
Request for Camp Gruber building by Northeastern State College in Tahlequah; disposition of Fort Sill surplus property; sale of obsolete forms as waste paper by Tinker Air Force Base.
F 24: Defense: Army (1954).
Contract adjustment; government contractors working in Spain; request for vacation back to U.S. of teacher at Tokyo American Schools; maintenance of Oklahoma Ordnance Works at Pryor; removal of American Legion post from building at Fort Sill; wind chill scale developed by Army researcher; consideration of Frederick air base for Army Aviation School.
F 25: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1954).
Canton Reservoir storage allocations; opening of public hunting grounds at Great Salt Plains reservoir; water shortage in Muldrow; Tulsa District report; easements for steam lines at Fort Gibson Reservoir; new Southwestern Division Engineer; Denison dam site concession lease; sale of lands around Lake Texoma; Markham Ferry project; Lake Texoma lease for boat company; soil and gravel removal from Tenkiller Ferry Reservoir area; establishment of commercial fishing dock on Fort Gibson Reservoir; growth of water-borne commerce on American inland waterways; navigation projects on Trinity, Red, and Arkansas Rivers; request for improvements on Squaw Creek and East Cache Creek near Lawton; information on mechanical lift navigation locks; flood problems on Okmulgee Creek and Deep Fork River; "The Demonstrated Value of Flood Control by Major Impoundments" (presentation at conference); statistics on Corps projects; Enid floodway project; Pauls Valley levee; Brown Creek project; Little River projects; extension of construction contract at Abilene Air Force Base; transfer of employee; bidding on contract for construction of ordnance facilities at Corozal, Canal Zone; elimination of Tupelo Reservoir project on Clear Boggy Creek; water line from Fort Gibson Reservoir to Muskogee; report of Department of the Army on S. 2590, a bill to amend the Federal Power Act concerning water-power resources.
F 26: Defense: General (1954).
Location of Claybanks Antiaircraft Artillery Firing Range, Michigan; reprint of the article "On Guard" from Reader's Digest; B-N-G solution for medical treatment; introduction to The Navy Conservationist; wage scale disagreement for runway and taxiway builders at Tinker Air Force Base.
F 27: Defense: Navy (1954).
Moving company's share of business with Naval Air Technical Training Center in Norman; contractors for military bases in Spain; purchase of fluorescent lighting fixtures.
F 28: Defense: Surplus Property (1954).
Beds for use by an orphanage; office machines purchased by an army and navy surplus store in Tulsa; C-82 aircraft for establishment of a cargo airline; Camp Gruber building for use of Braggs schools; other surplus buildings at Camp Gruber.
F 29: Defense: Air Force (1955).
Family housing design contracts for Oklahoma bases; career conditional appointment system; possible reduction of number of civilian employees; construction at Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base; list of Air Force installations in continental United States.
F 30: Defense: Army (1955).
Procurement Information Center; employment; retirement laws for reserve officers; Reserve Forces Act; United States Army Installations and Major Activities in the Continental United States (pamphlet).
F 31: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1955).
Awarding of construction contracts for work in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas; Markham Ferry project; bid to supply electrical equipment for Buford Dam in Georgia; flooding of recreational areas around Canton Reservoir; extension of agricultural leases around Fort Gibson Reservoir; request to raise the water level of Heyburn Reservoir; attempt to lease land at Fort Gibson Reservoir; proposed North Boggy Creek dam; meeting with Carl Albert and Tulsa District officials on Eufaula Dam, Little River Basin Project and Kiamichi Dam; sale of leased land around reservoirs to the lessees; McCurtain County Land Utilization Project; data on total authorized civil works program of the Corps in certain river basins throughout the U. S.; Water Resources Associated meeting; authorization of Canton Project; water navigation in central Oklahoma; Arkansas River navigation project; cafeteria concessions at Oklahoma Ordnance Works project; Emergency Flood Repair program; report on economics of navigation improvements; moving costs for landowners from whom land has been acquired by the government; cost of mechanical lift locks; invitation to Chief of Engineers Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr. to speak at Arkansas Basin Development Association meeting; possibility of building two dams instead of one at Keystone; conservation storage in federal reservoirs. Correspondents include: Carl Albert.
F 32: Defense: General (1955).
Airplane component manufacturing bid; discontinuance of 381st Replacement Battalion at Sallisaw; new air base at Davis Field in Muskogee; protest of Department of Defense fees; visit of Baptist leaders to Great Lakes Naval Training Center; desire of airplane designer to develop his idea for the supersonic/ultrasonic Hellbat. Correspondents include: Ed Edmondson.
F 33: Defense: Navy (1955).
Architectural-engineering contracts in 8th Naval District; employment; reduction in force at Naval Ammunition Depot in McAlester; personnel reduction at Naval Air Technical Training Center in Norman; holiday pay for workers at Naval Ammunition Depot in McAlester.
F 34: Defense: Air Force (1956).
Evaluation of work by Sorting Contractors at Tinker Air Force Base; blind concessionaires; classification of quality control inspector positions; celebration in honor of Major General William E. Hall in Muskogee; address of Nathan Twining, chief of staff of the Air Force, before Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce; construction at Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base.
F 35: Defense: Army (1956).
USAREUR dependent teachers fund shortage; civil service employees and soldiers at Fort Sill contracting for after-hours work; eligibility to receive retroactive pay; involvement of the National Guard in Military Reserve Week; implementation of Reserve Forces Act of 1955. Correspondents include: Raymond Gary.
F 36: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1956).
Testimony of Francis J. Wilson of the Arkansas Basin Development Association before the Public Works Subcommittees of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees; employment; appointment of Major General Emerson C. Itschner as Chief of Engineers; promotion of Tulsa District Engineer; lists of civil works projects and descriptions of their benefits; retirement of Major General Claude H. Chorpening; policies and procedures for small flood control projects; appointment of Colonel Roswell P. Rosengren as Chief of the Technical Liaison Division; remarks of E. C. Itschner before Arkansas Basin Development Association; need for socioeconomic survey of Eufaula Dam area; announcements of promotions and appointments; survey of Eufaula Reservoir for flood control; storage allocation for Berlin Reservoir in Ohio; reassignment of responsibilities of the Assistant Chiefs of Civil Works; possibility of furnishing water from Ardmore Air Force Base to town of Gene Autry; statistics on money expended on river basin projects; bank stabilization near Kaw City; relocation of city of Keystone; land acquisition in Oologah Reservoir area; purchase of oil properties in Oologah Reservoir area; land purchases around Tenkiller Lake; completion of report of Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee; effect of machine specifications on ability of company to do business with Corps.
F 37: Defense: General (1956).
Visit of Air Force Band to Lawton; elimination of rabbit meat from armed forces menus; request of Oklahoma Baptist University Glee Club to perform for armed forces; purchase of fluoride compounds by Department of Defense; information on bidding for government contracts; invention that will salvage skeet shot; distinction between noncommissioned officers and specialists; request for information on number of B-47 aircraft accidents; selection of name Weatherford for experimental craft.
F 38: Defense: Navy (1956).
Mechanical construction contract for Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama; engineering contract for Jet Fuel Project near Muskogee; bid invitation for primary runway at Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base; selection of contractors for work in Spain.
F 39: Defense: Surplus Property (1956).
C2 and C3 explosives; trailer houses.
F 40: Defense: Air Force (1957).
Certain Widely Utilized Personnel Procedures (booklet); accusation of inefficiency against Altus Air Force Base employee; reduction in force affecting civilian employees at Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma and Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas.
F 41: Defense: Army (1957).
Construction of Army Reserve Center at McAlester; grazing leases around Camp Gruber; civilian force reduction at Fort Crowder in Missouri; release of funds for construction of Army Reserve Training Centers.
F 42: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1957).
Accomplishments of civil works projects in Oklahoma through June 1957; acquisition of mission property for Fort Sill expansion; civil works budget sought for fiscal year 1958; remarks by Chief of Engineers E. C. Itschner before Mississippi Valley Association, entitled "One Big Basin"; release of water from reservoirs in southwestern states; funding for McGee Bend Dam; cottage site development in reservoir areas; relocation of reservoir area roads; change in reservoir homesite purchase procedure; interest in performing survey work for Keystone Dam and Reservoir project; request for information on Department of Defense activities that influence location of industry; policies pertaining to monthly payments to contractors for government work; request for Eufaula Lake legal work; disapproval of hot water generator for Altus Air Force Base swimming pool; promotion of Assistant Chief of Engineers John L. Person; employee discharge; construction of nitroguanadine plant at Pryor and projects at Muskogee and Altus; acquisition of land around Eufaula Reservoir; Hickory Creek investigation; dispute over contract with Concho Construction Company; relocation of town of Mannford; condition of roads around Heyburn Reservoir; guided missile program at Fort Sill; preliminary examination for Oklahoma City area project; flooding of land below Pensacola Dam.
F 43: Defense: General (1957).
Displacement of maintenance and service employees at Fort Sill; procedure for procurement of military contracts; aircraft noise at Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base; interest of Ada company in missile program; suggestion regarding job cutbacks in federal government and husbands and wives who both work for the government; leasing or renting of contour milling machines and other equipment; Industrial College of the Armed Forces lectures; relocation of graves; dispute over unpaid bill between a supplier and a contractor; proposed closing of defense plants in depressed areas; number of personnel serving overseas and at sea; problem regarding date of discharge after being passed over for a promotion. Correspondents include: Senator William Langer; Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton.
F 44-45: Defense: National Guard (1957-1958).
Proposed changes in the length of the active duty training period for members of the National Guard; proposed warehouse in Norman.
F 46: Defense: Navy (1957-1958).
Reduction in civilian force at McAlester Naval Ammunition Depot; reduction in number of civilian employees throughout Navy; reduction in civilian force at Naval Air Technical Training Center in Norman; new liaison officer assigned to Kerr.
F 47: Defense: Surplus Property (1957).
Request for Camp Gruber building for use as a gymnasium; retirement of steamboat named General John Newton; donation of boats to charitable groups; availability of surplus jeeps for public sale.
F 48: Defense: Air Force (1958).
Travel of civilian employee's family to the Azores; maintenance contract for housing project at Altus Air Force Base; reserve officers training program; dispute over bidding process in government auction; problems of a company wanting to bid to supply products to the government; transfer of liaison officer to Strategic Air Command in Spain.
F 49: Defense: Army (1958).
Reserve training; transfer of liaison officer to Naval War College; awarding of contract to a company in Frederick, Oklahoma; request for headquarters of XIX (19th) Corps of the Army Reserve to be located in Oklahoma; construction of Army Reserve Centers in Norman, Ada, Chickasha, and Clinton; selection of paper over glass for milk containers.
F 50: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1958).
Employment; contract for relocation of St. Louis-San Francisco railroad around Keystone Reservoir; address by General E. C. Itschner on water resources programs; claim against Corps by paving company for runway and taxiway construction at Tinker Air Force Base; contracts for railroad embankments and bridges for Keystone Reservoir project; appointment of Brigadier General William Whipple as Southwestern Division Engineer; remarks of General Whipple before Red River Valley Association; loss of land due to Keystone Reservoir; construction of Army Reserve Training Center in Chickasha; leasing of land for grazing at Camp Crowder in Missouri; completion of Oologah Dam; dead timber on Tenkiller Lake shoreline; increase of Markham Ferry installation to 100,000 kilowatts; recreational facilities at Corps projects.
F 51: Defense: General (1958).
Visit of Army Chorus Oklahoma City; deactivation of Ground Observer Corps; public liability insurance for military personnel; recruitment of teachers for overseas employment with the Air Force; discontinuance of commercial insurance for military activities; applicability of State Plumbers License Law to housing projects at military bases; military construction appropriations; proposed Army Reserve Center in Okmulgee; desire for reactivation of Oklahoma Ordnance Works at Pryor; list of U.S. Navy facilities in the continental United States; reclassification of rabbit meat by Department of the Navy; claim for damages to home caused by aircraft crash.
F 52: Defense: Surplus Property (1958).
Warehouse space at St. Louis Ordnance Plant; retail surplus store at Tinker Air Force Base; request for plane for Civil Air Patrol unit.
F 53: Defense: Air Force (1959).
List of personnel in Office of Legislative Liaison; problems of a company with the bidding process; request for information on bidding for contracts.
F 54: Defense: Army (1959).
Opening of liaison office in the Senate; dispute about Kitchen Police Services bid; M-48 Mobile Assault Bridge Launcher; application of electronics technology to ground warfare; construction of Army Reserve Centers in Durant, Muskogee, and Okmulgee.
F 55: Defense: Army Corps of Engineers (1959).
Involvement of local interests in water resources projects; relocation of St. Louis-San Francisco railroad around Keystone Reservoir; construction of concrete spillway for Keystone Reservoir; turbines for Eufaula powerhouse; appointment of Brigadier General William F. Cassidy as Assistant Chief of Engineers for Civil Works; construction of Army Reserve Center in Clinton; proposed Fort Sill projects; use of glass milk bottles at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri; claim of paving company for work done at Tinker Air Force Base; resolutions from cities and towns re: Optima (Hardesty) Reservoir as a water supply; cost estimates for Arkansas River and Red River projects; riprapping on U. S. 70 across Lake Texoma; Poteau River navigation; remarks of General William Whipple before Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Rotary Club; report of October 1959 flooding in Oklahoma; assignment of Colonel Howard Penney as Tulsa District Engineer; time limit for reimbursement of moving expenses related to land acquired by the government; request of town of Stringtown for surplus pipe; flooding on North Canadian River between Oklahoma City and Canton Dam; funding for Council Grove Reservoir project; claim for inundation damage to property on Tenkiller Lake; appraisal of land in Eufaula Reservoir area; meetings with Corps officials; request for information on Little River reservoirs.
F 56: Defense: General (1959).
Possible Navy Band visit to Oklahoma; overnight lodgings for students at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana; request for Air Force Band to appear at a professional football game in Norman; selection of Altus Air Force Base for construction relating to Hound Dog air-to-surface and Quail decoy missiles; construction of Nike-Hercules facilities; withdrawal of 120th Engineers from Stillwater to Oklahoma City; location and status of Capehart (Title VIII) housing program projects; maintenance of Alberty Cemetery on grounds of Oklahoma Ordnance Works in Pryor; possible change in policy re: transportation of household goods of servicemen.
F 57: Defense: Navy (1959).
Demilitarization of ammunition at Naval Ammunition Depot in McAlester; problem of testing laboratory with bidding process.
F 58: Defense: Surplus Property (1959).
Desire of town of Broken Bow to purchase surplus water pipe; surplus magnesium scrap at Pine Bluff Arsenal; disposal of naval base in Norman; purchase or lease of naval housing in Hastings, Nebraska; request for airplane for Eastern Oklahoma A&M College ROTC program.
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