F 1: Topical, Norman Naval Base, April 1943, January - May 1946.
Topics include military base closures in Norman (Okla.) and Norman Naval Base (Norman, Okla.). Correspondents include George Lynn Cross, Oklahoma Board of Public Affairs, Oklahoma Farmers Union, University of Oklahoma, Associated Grocers of Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma Retail Grocers Association.
F 2-3: Topical, Oklahoma!, Production in Oklahoma City, May - December 1946.
For the most part, the folders contain letters from VIPs who were responding to Kerr's invitation to see a production of the musical Oklahoma! in Oklahoma City. Topics include Edward King Gaylord. Correspondents include Toby Morris, Ross Rizley, Andrew Frank Schoeppel - Governor of Kansas, Coke Robert Stevenson - Governor of Texas, Jed J. Johnson, Raymond Gary, Phil M. Donnelly - Governor of Missouri, William J. Holloway, Victor E. Wickersham, A. S. Mike Monroney, Roy Joseph Turner, Robert Alexander Hefner, Carl Bert Albert, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers, Oklahoma Publishing Company, Theatre Guild, Beauford H. Jester - Governor of Texas, Ben Laney - Governor of Arkansas, and John C. Vivian - Governor of Colorado.
F 4: Topical, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, June 1944 - October 1945.
Topics include electric utilities rates in Oklahoma and rural electrification. Correspondents include Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company and George A. Davis.
F 5: Topical, Patriotism, Arbor Day, January - March 1945.
Correspondents include American Association of Nurserymen and National Shade Tree Conference.
F 6: Topical, Patriotism and Religion, Loyalty Days and the American Mothers Committee, July 1943, August - October 1944, March 1945, May 1946.
Correspondents include Franklin Delano Roosevelt and American Mothers Committee.
F 7: Topical, Penal System, Cliff Thomas Norman, Commuting of Death Sentence, 1944 - 1945.
Topics include Afro-American criminals in Oklahoma and Clifford Thomas Norman. Correspondents include Roscoe Dunjee, Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals, Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, Oklahoma State Penitentiary( McAlester), and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Okla.).
F 8: Topical, Penal System, Stays of Execution, 1943 - 1946.
Topics include capital punishment in Oklahoma. Correspondents include Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board and Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester.
F 9: Topical, Penal System, Tecumseh School for White Girls, Investigations, December 1943 - January 1944.
Topics include Oklahoma State Industrial School for White Girls (Tecumseh), juvenile corrections in Oklahoma, reformatories for women in Oklahoma, and Mabel Bassett. Correspondents include Creighton Brown Burnham.
F 10-11: Topical, S. C. Percefull, Removal and Reinstatement as President of Northwestern State College, June - December 1945.
Topics include A. L. Crable and Northwestern State College (Okla.) Administration. Correspondents include American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Legion (Alva, Okla.), Oklahoma State Board of Education, Sabin C. Percefull, Alva Chamber of Commerce (Alva, Okla.), and Alva City Council (Alva, Okla.).
F 12: Topical, Philippines, Bataan Magazine and Its Editor Diosdado M. Yap, October 1945- February 1946.
Topics include Diosdado Maurillo Yap
F 13: Topical, Pipeline Construction, To Export Oil from Oklahoma and Texas, February - March 1943.
Topics include petroleum pipelines and World War II fuel supplies. Correspondents include Charles Edison - Governor of New Jersey, Dwight Herbert Green - Governor of Illinois, Matthew Mansfield Neely - Governor of West Virginia, Sam Rayburn, Andrew Frank Schoeppel - Governor of Kansas, Homer M. Adkins - Governor of Arkansas, Sam C. Ford - Governor of Montana, Lester Calloway Hunt - Governor of Wyoming, Harry F. Kelly - Governor of Michigan, Sumner Sewall - Governor of Maine, and M. Q. Sharpe - Governor of South Dakota.
F 14: Topical, Price Control, Increasing Price of Haircuts, March - October 1944.
Topics include haircutting. Correspondents include Oklahoma State Board of Barber Examiners.
F 15: Topical, Presidential Electors, November - December 1944.
Topics include 1944 United States Presidential Election. Correspondents include Edward Reilly Stettinius, Oklahoma State Election Board, and United States Dept. of State.
F 16: Topical, Public Health, Venereal Disease Control Conferences in Oklahoma City, 1945 - 1946.
Topics include sexually transmitted diseases, Oklahoma Social Health Council, and Pine Mountain Medical Center, Atoka (Okla.). Correspondents include Congress of Industrial Organizations (Okla.). League of Women Voters of Oklahoma, Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers, Oklahoma State Dept. of Health, Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs, Oklahoma State Medical Association, United States Federal Security Agency, United States Office of Defense Transportation, and Oklahoma Hotel Association.
F 17: Topical, Public Relations, Andirons, Gift to U. S. Governors from Kerr and Wait Manufacturing Company, 1945 - 1946.
Folder contains numerous letters from governors to Kerr thanking him for the gift of andirons. Correspondents include Wait Manufacturing Company.
F 18: Topical, Public Relations, Letters of Appreciation from Kerr to Oklahoma Sheriffs, 1943.
F 19-20: Topical, Public Relations, Sooner Sorghum, 1943 - 1946.
Topics include Sorghum syrup.
F 21: Topical, Public Works, Federal Funds for State and Local Public Works, n.d., 1945.
Topics include Public Works Finance in the United States, Reconstruction (1939-1951) in the United States, and War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944. Correspondents include Elmer Thomas, United States Bureau of Community Facilities, and United States Federal Works Agency.
F 22: Topical, Racism, Ada Lois Sipuel, January - February 1946.
Topics include Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Afro-American higher education in Oklahoma, Afro-American segregation in Oklahoma, Afro-American law students in Oklahoma, and segregation in higher education in Oklahoma.
F 23: Topical, Registration Papers for Kerr Dogs, 1937.
Correspondents include American Kennel Club.
F 24: Topical, School Lunch Program, 1946.
Topics include National School Lunch Program, and National School Lunch Act. Correspondents include Clinton Presba Anderson, Victor E. Wickersham, Oklahoma Attorney General, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States Production and Marketing Administration, United States Production and Marketing Administration (Okla.), and Oklahoma State Board of Public Welfare.
F 25: Topical, State Laws, National Conference on Uniform State Laws, 1945 - 1946.
Topics include National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and uniform state laws. Correspondents include Oklahoma Bar Association.
F 26: Topical, Sugar Bowl Trip, 1946.
Correspondents include Kansas City Southern Railway Company.
F 27: Topical, Tax, Community Property Tax Laws, 1945 - 1946.
Topics include community property taxation in Oklahoma and husband and wife taxation in Oklahoma. Correspondents include Lyle Hagler Boren, Jed J. Johnson, A. S. Mike Monroney, Edward Hall Moore, Ross Rizley, Victor E. Wickersham, Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma Tax Commission, United States Dept. of the Treasury, and Ben Laney - Governor of Arkansas.
F 28: Topical, Tax, State Tax Reform, 1945 - 1947.
Topics include taxation in Oklahoma and state taxation in the United States. Correspondents include Edward King Gaylord, L. D. Melton, Don McBride, Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, and Oklahoma Joint Legislative Taxation Committee.
F 29: Topical, Three Hundred Thirty-Fifth Field Artillery, Second Annual Reunion, 1946.
Topics include United States Army Field Artillery, 335th. Correspondents include M. J. Harrison.
F 30: Topical, Tornado Damage, Estimates of, in Antlers, April 1945.
Topics include natural disasters in Antlers (Okla.). Correspondents include Oklahoma State Board of Public Welfare.
F 31: Topical, Tuskahoma, Proposed Allied World Capital, 1945.
Topics include Choctaw Indians. Correspondents include Don McBride, Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, and Ben P. Choate.
F 32: Topical, Unemployment Compensation, 1945.
Topics include unemployment insurance and War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944. Correspondents include Walter Franklin George, Harry S. Truman, Governors' Conference, and International Association of Machinists.
F 33: Topical, V Day, January - May 1945.
Topics include V-E Day, 1945, and Oklahoma.
F 34-38: Topical, Veterans Benefits and Programs, 1944 - 1946.
Topics include United States Veterans Administration (Muskogee, Okla.), United States Veterans Administration in Oklahoma City (Okla.), Reconstruction (1939-1951) in Oklahoma, veterans education in Oklahoma, veterans employment in Oklahoma, veterans training in Oklahoma, veterans' hospitals in Oklahoma, Glennan General Hospital in Okmulgee (Okla.), veterans housing, G.I. Bill of Rights, and Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. Correspondents include Joseph Hurst Ball, Omar Nelson Bradley, Walter Franklin George, Ernest Gruening, Robert Alexander Hefner, Don McBride, Elbert Duncan Thomas, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administration, American Legion Dept. of Oklahoma, Council of State Governments, Oklahoma Attorney General, Oklahoma Dept. of Veterans Affairs Soldiers Relief Commission, Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, Oklahoma State Accrediting Agency, United States National Housing Agency (Dallas, Tex.), United States Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, United States Retraining and Re-employment Administration, United States Selective Service System, United States Selective Service System (Okla.), United States Veterans Administration, United States Veterans Employment Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept. of Oklahoma, Milt Phillips, Allied Veterans of America, Oklahoma Veterans Assistance Program, and United States Soldiers Relief Commission. The information in this record continues in Kerr, Gubernatorial, Box 15, Folders 1-2.
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