F 1: Topical, Bergen Radio Show, n.d., October - December 1945, January - May 1946.
Folder also contains packet of promotional material about Oklahoma. Topics include Candice Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (Fictitious character). Correspondents include Edgar Bergen, Edward Everett Dale, Edward King Gaylord, and Oklahoma Publishing Company.
F 2: Topical, Camp Gruber, n.d., August 1948.
Topics include military base closures in Oklahoma and Camp Gruber (Okla.). Correspondents include William Grady Stigler, Elmer Thomas, and United States Dept. of the Army.
F 3: Topical, Children's Code, Committee to Formulate, October 1944 - March 1945, April 1946.
Topics include Child welfare in Oklahoma, Children's Legal status and laws in klahoma, and Oklahoma Children's Code Commission. Correspondents include Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers and Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Okla.).
F 4: Topical, Chisholm Trail, Unveiling of Memorial, August - September 1945.
Folder also includes typescripts of historical articles on the Chisholm Trail. Topics include Jesse Chisholm and the Chisholm Trail. Correspondents include Edward Everett Dale and Jesse Chisholm Trail and Memorial Association.
F 5: Topical, Circus Day at Hugo, Oklahoma, September - November 1946.
F 6: Topical, Conservation, Mineral Resource Conference at Denver, Colorado, November 1945 - February 1946.
Topics include Mineral Resource Conference (Denver, Colo.). Correspondents include Colorado Mineral Resources Board and Oklahoma Geological Survey.
F 7: Topical, Conservation, Oil Stripper Wells, February - April 1947.
Topics include petroleum products and prices. Correspondents include Lyle Hagler Boren, A. S. Mike Monroney, Edward Hall Moore, Ross Rizley, William Grady Stigler, Elmer Thomas, Victor E. Wickersham, and Bristow Chamber of Commerce.
F 8-10: Topical, Education, Closing of Agricultural Colleges, January - March 1944.
Topics include Connors State Agricultural College (Okla.), Eastern Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College (Wilburton, Okla.), Murray State College (Tishomingo, Okla.), and agricultural colleges in Oklahoma. Correspondents include Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture.
F 11: Topical, Education, Federal Aid to Education, January - February 1945.
Topics include federal aid to education. Correspondents include Ellis Gibbs Arnall - Governor of Georgia, Thomas L. Bailey - Governor of Mississippi, Robert D. Blue - Governor of Iowa, M. Q. Sharpe - Governor of South Dakota, John C. Vivian - Governor of Colorado, and Ransome J. Williams - Governor of South Carolina.
F 12: Topical, Education, Teachers Retirement System, July - September 1943, April 1944 - December 1945.
Topics include education finance in Oklahoma and teachers' pensions in Oklahoma.
Correspondents include Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma.
F 13 - 14: Topical, Education, Teachers Salaries, February - March 1943, February - April 1944.
Topics include teachers' salaries in Oklahoma.
F 15: Topical, Employment, United States Employment Service, 1938, May 1945 - August 1946.
Topics include employment agencies, unemployment insurance, United States Employment Service Act of 1945, and Wagner-Peyser Act. Correspondents include Ellis Gibbs Arnall - Governor of Georgia, Harry S. Truman, Commerce and Industry Association of New York, Council of State Governments, Governors' Conference, Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, United States Employment Service, United States Employment Service (Okla.), and Oklahoma Nurserymen's Association.
F 16: Topical, Floods in Eastern Oklahoma, 1943.
Topics include disaster relief in Oklahoma and flood damage in Oklahoma. Correspondents include American National Red Cross, Oklahoma State Dept. of Agriculture, United States Farm Credit Administration, United States Farm Security Administration (Okla.), and United States War Production Board (Okla.).
F 17 - 22: Topical, Freight Rates, Equalization of, 1942 - 1946.
Folder 21 contains a telegram from Chauncey Sparks, who was chair of the Freight Rate Committee of the Southern Governors' Conference, to the presidents of southern railroads and copies of their replies. Topics include Thomas Edmund Dewey, Edward Hall Moore, Freight and freightage Rates, and Railroad Freight Rates. Correspondents include Charles O. Andrews, Lyle Hagler Boren, James Oliver Eastland, Joseph Bartlett Eastman, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Sam Houston Jones -Governor of Louisiana, John Little McClellan, James E. Murray, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Andrew Frank Schoeppel - Governor of Kansas, Tom Stewart, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Southern Governors' Conference, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States Interstate Commerce Commission, United States Office of Defense Transportation, Homer M. Adkins - Governor of Arkansas, Thomas L. Bailey - Governor of Mississippi, Prentice Cooper - Governor of Tennessee, Chauncey Sparks - Governor of Alabama, West Texas Chamber of Commerce, and Western-Southern Freight Rate Association.
F 23: Topical, Gasoline Shortage and Rationing, August - November 1943.
Topics include gasoline supply, petroleum product prices, World War II economic aspects, Harold LeClair Ickes, Clyde Martin Reed, Edward Herbert Rees, Elmer Thomas, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Kansas State Corporation Commission, Petroleum Industry War Council (U.S.), United States Congress and Senate Special Committee to Investigate Production, Transportation, and Use of Fuels in Areas West of the Mississippi River, United States Office of Economic Stabilization, United States Office of Price Administration (Okla.), and United States Office of War Information.
F 24: Topical, Glennan Army Hospital Transfer to Oklahoma A. and M. College, May - June 1946.
Topics include Oklahoma A & M College, Oklahoma State University Technical Branch (Okmulgee), Veterans Education in Okmulgee (Okla.), and Glennan General Hospital in Okmulgee (Okla.). Correspondents include Elmer Thomas and United States Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.
F 25: Topical, Global Alphabet, n.d., May 1943 - June 1945.
Topics include Universal Language. Correspondents include Lyle Hagler Boren, Jed J. Johnson, A. S. Mike Monroney, Edward Hall Moore, Robert Latham Owen, Ross Rizley, George Blaine Schwabe, Paul Stewart, William Grady Stigler, Elmer Thomas, Victor E. Wickersham, and World Language Foundation.
F 26: Topical, Highway Convention, December 1945 - March 1946.
Folder includes numerous letters from state governors who accepted or regretted invitation to the convention. Often if the letter was a regret, the governor indicated who had been designated to attend. Topics include highway planning congresses in the United States. Correspondents include American Association of State Highway Officials and Oklahoma State Highway Commission.
F 27: Topical, Insurance Rates, Research and Statements, 1943.
Topics include fire insurance and workers' compensation.
F 28-32: Topical, Jobs, Appointments and Resignations, 1943 - 1946.
Topics include United Nations General Assembly and Jack Craig. Correspondents include James Francis Byrnes, E. T. Dunlap, Dixie (William Franklin)Gilmore, Don McBride, A. S. Mike Monroney, Toby Morris, Ruth Bryan Owen, Elmer Thomas, Bess Truitt - Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, United States Dept. of State, United States General Accounting Office, Phillip W. Booker, Maude R. Calvert, John T. Harley, Krit L. Logsdon, and Florence Petty.
F 33: Topical, Labor, Strike Negotiations, 1945 - 1946.
Topics include bus driver strikes and lockouts in Tulsa (Okla.). Correspondents include Tulsa City Lines.
F 34: Topical, Labor, Postwar Planning Commission, September - November 1945.
Topics include Reconstruction (1939-1951) in Oklahoma and Oklahoma Postwar Planning Commission. Correspondents include Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, Roy Joseph Turner, and United States Dept. of Labor.
F 35: Topical, La Guardia, Fiorello, May - June 1946.
Topics include United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and American food relief in Europe. Correspondents include Fiorello Henry La Guardia and American National Red Cross (Oklahoma County, Okla.).
F 36: Topical, Merchant Marine Legislation, February 1945 Feb., March - April 1946.
Topics include merchant marine in the United States, G. I. Bill of Rights, and Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. Correspondents include A. S. Mike Monroney.
F 37: Topical, Mitscher, Admiral Marc A. and Visit to Oklahoma City, October - November 1945.
Topics include Marc Andrew Mitscher. Correspondents include United States Navy Dept.
F 38: Topical, National Defense, Citizens Defense Council, n.d., January - July 1947.
Topics include United States Air Force and United States Dept. of Defense. Correspondents include Citizens Defense Council.
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