F 1-4: Organizations, Council of State Governments, 1943 - 1946.
Topics include United States Civil Aeronautics Administration, United States Office of Price Administration Management, United States War Manpower Commission, aeronautics law and legislation in the United States, airports, airport finance, airports planning, crime prevention, employment agencies, federal aid to education, federal aid to hospitals, federal government, unemployment insurance, rationing, Reconstruction (1939-1951) in the United States, recreation in the United States, social security law and legislation, soldier suffrage in the United States, state governments, surplus American government property, tax exemption, taxation in the United States, Thanksgiving Day, World War II economic aspects in the United States, World War II manpower in the United States, World War II veterans in the United States, World War II war work in the United States, United States Armed Forces demobilization, United States economic conditions 1918-1945, United States economic policy 1933-1945, United States National Guard, United States politics and government 1933-1953, Troop Basis Plan, G. I. Bill of Rights, George Bill, Hill Burton Act, Kilgore Murray Bill, and Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1964. Correspondents include Dwight Herbert Green - Governor of Illinois, Julius Albert Krug, Herbert Romulus O'Conor - Governor of Maryland, Harry S. Truman, Council of State Governments, Governors' Conference, Oklahoma State Dept. of Health, Oklahoma State Insurance Board, Oklahoma Tax Commission, Smaller War Plants Corporation, United States Dept. of State, United States Internal Revenue Service, United States Office of Community War Services Division of Recreation, United States Office of Defense Transportation (Okla.), United States Office of Price Administration, United States Office of War Mobilization, United States Surplus War Property Administration, United States War Manpower Commission, United States War Production Board, and Frank Bane. The information in this record is also in Kerr, Gubernatorial, Box 15, Folders 29-35.
F 5: Organizations, Farm Chemurgic Council, 1944 - 1946.
Topics include agricultural chemistry and chemurgy. Correspondents include the National Farm Chemurgic Council.
F 6: Organizations, Future Farmers of America, 1943 - 1946.
Topics include 4-H Clubs in Oklahoma and young farmers' clubs. Correspondents include Future Farmers of America (Okla.) and Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service.
F 7: Organizations, General Welfare Federation of America, 1942 - 1946.
Topics include Veterans of Industry of America, old age pensions in the United States, and social security. Correspondents include Ira Monroe Finley, General Welfare Federation of America, Inc., General Welfare Federation of America, Inc. (Okla.), General Welfare Reporter, and Welfare Federation, Inc.
F 8-17: Organizations, Governor's Conference, 1943 - 1946.
This group of folders has information on the annual meetings of the Governors' Conference during Kerr's gubernatorial administration. Folder 16 has press releases of speeches delivered at the 1946 meeting held in Oklahoma City. Topics include aeronautics in the United States, airport finance, conservation of natural resources in the United States, employment agencies, federal government, interstate agreements in the United States, Reconstruction (1939-1945) in the United States, state governments, World War II economic aspects in the United States, World War II food supply in the United States, World War II feterans in the United States, United States economic conditions 1918-1945, United States National Guard, and United States politics and government 1933-1953. Correspondents include Fred G. Aandahl - Governor of North Dakota, Millard Fillmore Caldwell - Governor of Florida, Raymond Earl Baldwin - Governor of Connecticut, Omar Nelson Bradley, John William Brickler, John Joseph Dempsey - Governor of New Mexico, Walter Evans Edge - Governor of New Jersey, Dwight Palmer Griswold - Governor of Nebraska, Lewis Blaine Hershey, Lester Callaway Hunt - Governor of Wyoming, Edward Martin - Governor of Pennsylvania, Clarence Watson Meadows - Governor of West Virginia, Herbert Romulus O'Conor - Governor of Maryland, John Orlando Pastore, Robert Porter Patterson - Secretary of War, Vail M. Pittman - Governor of Nevada, Mortimer Robinson Proctor - Governor of Vermont, Clyde Martin Reed, Andrew Frank Schoeppel - Governor of Kansas, Edward John Thye - Governor of Minnesota, Harry S. Truman, William Munford Tuck, Earl Warren - Governor of California, Simeon S. Willis - Governor of Kentucky, Council of State Governments, Governors' Conference, Southern Governors' Conference, Frank Bane, R. Gregg Cherry - Governor of North Carolina, Sam C. Ford - Governor of Montana, Horace Hildreth - Governor of Maine, Harry F. Kelly - Governor of Michigan, Ben Laney - Governor of Arkansas, Herbert B. Maw - Governor of Utah, M. Q. Sharpe - Governor of South Dakota, Earl Snell - Governor of Oregon, Chauncey Sparks - Governor of Alabama, John C. Vivian - Governor of Colorado, Arnold Williams - Governor of Idaho, and Ransome J. Williams - Governor of South Carolina.
F 18-26: Organizations, Governor's Conference, Southern, 1943 - 1947.
Folder 23 contains numerous letters from governors in the Southern Governors' Conference favoring admittance of Clarence Meadows of West Virginia into conference. Folder 26 has numerous letters from governors to Kerr expressing pleasure at having worked with him in the Southern Governors Conference. For the most part, the governors' names in Folder 26 were not cataloged if they were from these "routine" letters. Topics include United States Interstate Commerce Commission, Afro-Americans and education, freight and freightage rates, interstate agreements in the United States, Reconstruction (1939-1951) in the Southern states, World War II veterans in the United States, Southern states economic conditions, Southern states politics and government, J. W. Sanford, Southern Negro Conference for Equalization of Educational Opportunities, and Bullwinkle Bill. Correspondents include Ellis Gibbs Arnall - Governor of Georgia, Joseph Melville Broughton, Millard Fillmore Caldwell - Governor of Florida, Roscoe Dunjee, Don McBride, Clarence Watson Meadows - Governor of West Virginia, John Orlando Pastore, Strom Thurmond, Simeon S. Willis - Governor of Kentucky, Herman Frederick Willkie, American Farm Bureau Federation, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, Southern Governors' Conference, Tennessee Valley Authority, Thomas L. Bailey - Governor of Mississippi, R. Gregg Cherry - Governor of North Carolina, Prentice Cooper - Governor of Tennessee, Walter R. McDonald, J. V. Norman, Chauncey Sparks - Governor of Alabama, M. S. Stuart, and Southern Governors' Conference Southwide Planning Committee.
F 27: Organizations, Governors' Conference, Western, 1945.
Topics include interstate agreement in the United States. Correspondents include Western Governors' Conference.
F 28: Organizations, Gulf Southwest Industrial and Agricultural Conference, 1943 - 1945.
Topics include Reconstruction (1939-1951) in the United States, Gulf Southwest and economic conditions, Gulf Southwest and economic development, and Gulf Southwest and industrialization. Correspondents include J. G. Puterbaugh, Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board, Homer M. Adkins, and Gulf Southwest Industrial and Agricultural Conference.
F 29-30: Organizations, Independent Petroleum Association of America, 1943 - 1946.
Topics include natural gas, petroleum industry and trade, petroleum products and prices, and World War II fuel supplies in the United States. Correspondents include Independent Petroleum Association of America, United States Congress House Committee on Small Business, United States Federal Power Commission, and United States Office of Price Administration. The information in this record continues in Kerr, Gubernatorial, Box 17, Folders 1-2.
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