ROBERT S. KERR COLLECTION
DEPARTMENTAL SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory
Box 7

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Box 7: Health, Education, and Welfare: Federal Aid to School Districts (1957) -- Interior: Indian Affairs, Creek (1949).

F 1-4: Health, Education, and Welfare: Federal Aid to School Districts (1957).

Applications of various Oklahoma school districts for federal financial assistance.

F 5: Health, Education, and Welfare: General (1957).

Tulsa sewer system; Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa; sewage treatment plant at Drumright; Myasthenia Gravis research; opposition to appointment of John A. Perkins as undersecretary; pollution survey; table of estimated grants; sewage treatment plant at Lindsay; Grady County Memorial Hospital and Health Center in Chickasha; Cordell Memorial Hospital; sewage treatment plant additions in Chickasha; Grants-in-Aid programs; Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa; Radiological Service Facility at University Hospital in Oklahoma City; limit of 15% as overhead on contractual research work; Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City; St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City; Ruth Wilson Hurley Nursing Home in Coalgate; Harmon County Hospital in Hollis; water treatment costs; Murray County Health Center in Sulphur; inoculations required for overseas travel; Atoka Memorial Hospital; sewage facilities in Harrah; sewage facilities in Ardmore; sewage facilities in Cushing; sewage facilities in Dill City; sewage facilities in Mangum; Tahlequah City Hospital; hospital services for Indians; opposition to closing of Public Health Service hospitals; Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa; Claremore Health Center; sewage treatment plant in Muskogee; Choctaw Memorial Hospital in Hugo; FDA's lack of food inspection facilities; "Aid to Education" by Henry T. Heald, president of the Ford Foundation; Frontiers of Science Foundation; establishment of summer institutes by National Science Foundation to train science and mathematics teachers.

F 6-9: Health, Education, and Welfare: Federal Aid to School Districts (1958).

Applications of various Oklahoma school districts for federal financial assistance.

F 10: Health, Education, and Welfare: General (1958).

Nowata General Hospital; federal grants for science students; water pollution in Arkansas-White-Red basin; water quality data; statement by Secretary Arthur S. Fleming before Senate Committee on Finance re: social security programs; Bristow Memorial Health Center; sewage facilities in Chouteau; Fairview Hospital; sewage facilities in Locust Grove; St. Vincent's Nursing Home in Oklahoma City; college scholarship inquiry; statement by Kerr in support of increasing research funds; sewage facilities in Chelsea; City-County Health Department in Elk City; extension of period to obtain matching funds for University of Oklahoma medical school; sewage facilities in Fargo; sewage facilities in Arnett; Oklahoma General Hospital in Clinton; sewage facilities in Broken Arrow; sewage facilities in Wayne; building of houses in remote areas; school facilities survey; Latimer County Health Center in Wilburton; announcement of National Conference on Air Pollution; construction of student housing at Northeastern State College in Tahlequah; construction of apartments at Southwestern State College in Weatherford; list of hospital and medical facility projects in Oklahoma; Norman Municipal Hospital; Johnston County Health Center in Tishomingo; sewage facilities near Stringtown for use of Oklahoma City; Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City; sewage facilities in Prague; Muskogee General Hospital; alleged discrimination between public and private schools in administration of National Defense Education Act; list of grants and allocations for Oklahoma and for the U.S. for fiscal year 1959; social security benefit payments for fiscal year 1958.

F 11: Health, Education, and Welfare: Office of Education (1958).

Scholarship and loan inquiries; Information on Science Scholarships (pamphlet); comparative study of the school systems of France and the Netherlands; statement by Oscar Rose before the Senate Education Subcommittee on P.L. 815 and P.L. 874 (81st Congress).

F 12: Health, Education, and Welfare: Public Health Service (1958).

Additives and contaminants in food; multiple sclerosis; Indian health programs; alcoholism treatment; employment; cancellation of contract for Rose-Carmack Clinic in Okemah.

F 13-14: Health, Education, and Welfare: General (1959).

School appropriations; construction of Indian health facilities; sewage facilities in Hennessey; National Defense Student Loan Program; pollution in Arkansas-Red-White Drainage Basin; Valley View Hospital in Ada; federal loans for education; sewage facilities in Del City, Oklahoma; National Defense Student Loan Fund; Hodgkin's Disease research; sewage facilities in Checotah; unspecified project for the Village, Oklahoma; sewage facilities in South Coffeyville; request by University of Oklahoma for Foreign Language Institute; allocation of funds under National Defense Education Act; opposition to federal aid for public schools; Jackson County Memorial Hospital in Altus; sewage facilities for Oklahoma County Utility Services Authority; sewage facilities in Walters; sewage facilties in Tulsa; sewage facilities in Seminole; sewage facilities in Beaver; sewage facilities in Clinton; sewage facilities in Woodward; sewage facilities in East Duke; Tillman County Memorial Hospital in Frederick; list of water pollution control projects approved during April 1959; submission of survey on teaching requirements in the United States to Department; Cushing Municipal Hospital; sewage facilities in Fort Supply; sewage facilities in Tyrone; sewage facilities in Wilburton; Stephens County Health Department in Duncan; Pushmataha County Hospital in Antlers; sewage facilities in Tonkawa; sewage facilities in Carmen; sewage facilities in Copan; sewage facilities for Oklahoma City Development Trust; Municipal Hospital in Guymon; Office of Education educational conferences; sewage facilities in Lawton; invitation to Kerr to address American Society of Civil Engineers; removal of pine trees from Talihina Indian Medical Center grounds; sewage facilities in Blair; sewage facilities in Weatherford; sewage facilities in Broken Bow; Sayre Municipal Hospital and Public Health Center; Wetumka General Hospital; hospital facilities in Ponca City; University of Oklahoma Medical Center; sewage facilities in Hollis; Grand Valley Hospital in Pryor; sewage facilities in Allen; pollution of Arkansas-White-Red basin; list of grants from Department to Nevada for fiscal year 1960; Haskell County Health Center in Stigler; sewage facilities in Shawnee; sewage facilities in Kingfisher; LeFlore County Memorial Hospital in Poteau; sewage facilities in Tecumseh; sewage facilities in Bartlesville; graduate fellowships for training leaders in the education of mentally retarded children; raising of fish in effluent ponds of sewage disposal facilities; sewage facilities in Taloga.

F 15: Health, Education, and Welfare: Public Health Service (1959).

Spinal cord injury treatment and research; housing units at Pawnee Indian Hospital; possible closure of Shawnee Indian Sanatorium; improvements and repairs for Lawton Indian Hospital; rent increase for quarters at Talihina Indian Hospital; 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth; complaint about treatment received at Talihina Indian Hospital; PHS grants for health research facilities.

F 16: Health, Education, and Welfare: General (1960).

Woodward Memorial Hospital; sewage facilities in Elmore City; sewage treatment plant in Medford; Thomas Memorial Hospital in Thomas; Hill-Burton program information; Pottawatomie County Hospital in Shawnee; Midwest City General Hospital; Hillcrest Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center in Tulsa; desire for hospital at Waurika; sewage facilities in Lawton; sewage facilities in Forgan; sewage facilities in Claremore; application by University of Oklahoma to acquire old U. S. Naval Air Technical Training Center; nursing home affiliated with Jane G. Phillips Memorial Hospital in Bartlesville; sewage facilities in Grandfield; Marshall County public health center in Madill; sewage facilities in Drummond; sewage facilities in Jet; sewage facilities in Wellston; sewage facilities in Union City; sewage facilities in Goltry; sewage treatment plant in Mannford; sewage facilities in Eufaula; sewage facilities in Calumet; sewage facilities in Indiahoma; Cleveland County public health center in Norman; application for National Defense Counseling and Guidance Institute at East Central State College in Ada; sewage facilities in Okarche; Bryan Memorial Hospital in Durant; sewage facilities in Sperry; sewage facilities in Shattuck; Seminole Hospital and Nursing Home in Seminole; Harmon Memorial Hospital in Hollis; oxidation pond for Fort Cobb; sewage facilities in Chattanooga; sewage facilities for Eastern Oklahoma A&M College in Wilburton; sewage facilities in Manitou; conveyance of property in Okmulgee to Oklahoma State University for use by technical school; federal assistance to the Brushy Dependent School as well as schools in Briggs and Keyes.

F 17: Health, Education, and Welfare: General (1961).

Sewage facilities in Lexington; Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City; sewage facilities in Purcell; sewage facilities in Boswell; sewage facilities in Caddo; sewage facilities in Hugo; sewage facilities in Poteau; sewage facilities in Bethany; Memorial Hospital in Hugo; sewage facilities in Turley; Dunaway Nursing Home in Guymon; relation of gross production tax on Indian lands to reductions in entitlements; use of food additives; water supply and pollution problems in southeastern Oklahoma; water pollution research facilities; Statewide Community Development Clinic in Oklahoma City; Lawton public health center; St. John's Hospital diagnostic and treatment center in Tulsa; sewage facilities in Del City; sewage facilities in Helena; National Defense Student Loan Fund; Sanitary Science and Public Health Research Laboratory at University of Oklahoma; copy of agenda of Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control Regional Program Directors Meeting; proposed Southwest Center for Civil Defense Health Studies at University of Oklahoma; aid for chronic respiratory polio.

F 18: Health, Education, and Welfare: Office of Education (1961).

Application of Midwest City school district for federal aid; allotments to states under National Defense Education Act; relation of gross production tax on Indian lands in Osage County to reductions in education entitlements; federal aid to education; increase in school enrollment.

F 19: Health, Education, and Welfare: General (1962).

Opposition to federal aid for parochial schools; cancellation of speech appointment before Ada Training Institute; college enrollment statistics; "Focus for Clean Water" by Gordon McCallum; criticism of National Institutes of Health research programs; surplus materials for new hospital.

F 20: Interior: Southwestern Power Administration (n.d.).

Map and statistics on pumped storage sites at Tenkiller Ferry Reservoir; subcommittee of senatorial assistants from Southwestern Group on Public Power; dispute between SPA and private utilities; SPA appropriations; proposed rate increase for SPA; continuing fund of SPA; petition of Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest re: rate increase.

F 21: Interior: General (1945-1946).

Information on Flood Control Act of 1944; data used by Secretary J. A. Krug for article in January 1946 issue of American Magazine.

F 22: Interior: Bureau of Reclamation (1947-1948).

Copy of May 1948 issue of Reclamation Era magazine, which includes Kerr's article, "Plow, Plant, and Pray."

F 23: Interior: General (1947-1948).

Personal notes to Kerr from Secretary J. A. Krug.

F 24: Interior: Southwestern Power Administration (1947-1948).

Scrutiny of proposed contract between SPA and Texas Power and Light Company by Southwestern Gas and Electric Company in Shreveport; copy of agreement between SPA and Texas Power and Light; correspondence with President Harry Truman re: budget for SPA.

F 25: Interior: Indian Affairs, Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1948-1949).

Appointment of new Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

F 26-30: Interior: Indian Affairs, General (1948-1949).

Assistance to constituents; Indian Claims Commission dockets; possible transfer of Superintendent W. O. Roberts; Aqua Caliente Reservation at Palm Springs, California; use of peyote and alcohol among Indians; possibility of state control of Talihina and Pawnee Indian hospitals; Anadarko Fairgrounds; effect of Garrison Reservoir on Fort Berthold Indians; oil and gas leasing; Andreas Canyon Club; Indians in New York; filming of motion picture The Indian in Fort Sill and Wichita Mountains; weaving training for Indians; resolution of Oklahoma legislature advocating that movie makers no longer show American Indians as villains in movies; possible transfer of medical officer from Oklahoma to Montana; request for return of accounts department to Shawnee from Anadarko; request for microfilm equipment for Indian Agency at Anadarko; native land rights in Alaska; resolution of Ponca tribe on various issues; employment; fee patents; opinions of Indian Claims Commission on several cases; government bonds held in estate of deceased Indian; removal of restrictions for sale of land; Fort Reno lands; Wyandotte cemetery bill; declined invitation to Institute on American Indian Self-Government; Navajo rugs; Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes; reservation land in Alaska; proposed confiscation of tribal lands in Nevada; Indian legal work; "Draft of Overall Statement of Indian Policy"; California Indian affairs; Indian budget system; information about Centre College.

F 31: Interior: Indian Affairs, Sioux (1948-1949).

Indian relationships with the U.S. government; storm damage in Sioux area.

F 32: Interior: Bureau of Land Management (1949).

Oil and gas leases; mineral rights on farms purchased from the government; grazing leases; fee patents; proposed changes in oil and gas leasing regulations and procedures. Correspondents include: George Howard Wilson.

F 33: Interior: Bureau of Reclamation (1949).

Current reclamation projects; gross crop value on reclamation project land.

F 34: Interior: Fish and Wildlife Service (1949).

Stocking ponds; commercial bait business.

F 35-36: Interior: General (1949).

Mineral resource reports; ownership of land in Colorado; grazing lease application; "A National Oil Policy for the United States" (report); Brown's Gap road in Virginia; funds for archaeological investigations; request for bid invitations on shallow drilling equipment; "Description of Activities and Contemplated Future Programs of the Department of the Interior in the State of Oklahoma" (report); occupancy permit for Eastern Oklahoma A&M College to occupy unalloted Indian land; consolidation of New Mexico land offices; letter from President Truman declaring approval of legislation to transfer administration of Guam and American Samoa to the Department of the Interior; coal mining in Oklahoma; leasing of offshore three-mile sea belt; nationalization of private forest land; conditions among inhabitants of Pribilof Islands and other native communities of Alaska; oil and gas leasing in the Marginal Sea.

F 37: Interior: Geological Survey (1949).

Federal oil and gas leases; research grants.

F 38: Interior: Indian Affairs, ARROW (American Restitution and Righting of Old Wrongs Committee) (1949).

Establishment, organization, and bylaws of ARROW (American Restitution and Righting of Old Wrongs committee); "America's First Problem and ARROW's Answer." Correspondents include: Will Rogers, Jr.

F 39: Interior: Indian Affairs, Cherokee (1949).

Seven Clans Society; Indian Claims Commission case; request for information on distressed economic conditions of full-blood Cherokees; assistance to constituents.

F 40: Interior: Indian Affairs: Cherokee, Principal Chief (1949).

Recommendations for Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

F 41: Interior: Indian Affairs, Chickasaw (1949).

Assistance to constituents; Red River survey; requisition for money from government; contribution made by Five Tribes to National Congress of American Indians.

F 42: Interior: Indian Affairs, Chippewa (1949).

Rehabilitation of the Chippewa-Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Reservation; proposed authorization of payments to Red Lake Band of Chippewa from proceeds of sale of timber on reservation. Correspondents include: Joseph C. O'Mahoney.

F 43: Interior: Indian Affairs, Choctaw (1949).

Assistance to constituents; proposed usage of certain Indian lands by Eastern Oklahoma A&M College; appointment of tribal attorney; request for payment of heirship money.

F 44-45: Interior: Indian Affairs, Choctaw and Chickasaw (1949).

Sale of coal and asphalt properties; proofs of heirship. Correspondents include: William G. Stigler.

F 46: Interior: Indian Affairs, Creek (1949).

Resolution of Junior Creek Indian Council re: retention or transfer of W. O. Roberts, Superintendent of Five Civilized Tribes; resolution of Junior Creek Indian Council against construction of high school at Tuskahoma for use of Creeks.

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