Box 6: Defense Department (1952) -- Education (1956).
F 1: Defense Department, National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Mutual Security Bill (1952).
Correspondence concerning restoration of appropriations.
F 2: Defense Department (1953-1956, 1958-1959).
Information on appointment of Charles E. Wilson as secretary of defense; copy of H.R. 8873: Making appropriations for the Department of Defense and related independent agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955; House Report on H.R. 8873; efficient mobile units; appropriations for promotion of rifle practice; appointment of Air Force chaplains; pipelines to meet defense requirements for crude oil; nuclear arms race; prevention of acts of sabotage or other subversion; missile facility at Fort Sill; Uniform Code of Military Justice; typescript concerning Dennis Chavez work on the Appropriations Committee and his efforts on defense appropriations..
F 3: Defense Department (1960-1962).
Aircraft carrier appropriations; flood damage information dissemination from the Department of the Army; draft of legislation from the secretary of defense to authorize certain construction at military installations; investigation of the use of military personnel and facilities to arouse the public to the menace of the Cold War; establishment of a Judge Advocate Corps; Disarmament Act for World Peace and Security; Reserve Officers Association; George Mahon, Congressional Record remarks..
F 4: District of Columbia (1955).
Correspondence concerning legislation outlawing vivisection in the District of Columbia.
F 5: Education (1944, 1946-1948).
Funds for Education for the years 1946 through 1948, a leaflet of the Federal Security Agency; Public Law 79-586, created from Vocational Education Act of 1946; copy of S. 1828: For expenditure of funds for cooperating with the public school board at Sisseton, South Dakota, for the extension of public school facilities to be available to all Indian children in the district; copy of S. 805: Authorizing an appropriation for the construction, extension, and improvement of a high school building near Roosevelt, Utah, for the district embracing the eastern portion of Duchesne County and the western portion of Uintah County; Public Law 80-481; information on education as an issue in the 1948 campaign.
F 6: Education (Jan. - Mar. 1949).
Correspondence concerning federal aid to education; copy of S. 834: to aid states in building schools; press release from National Education Association. Correspondents include: Puerto Rico Teachers Association; Oklahoma Education Association; National Council of Chief State School Officers; Oscar V. Rose.
F 7: Education (Apr. - July 1949).
Correspondence concerning federal aid to education; press release from Ralph W. Gwinn with attached letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower; proposed National Science Foundation Correspondents include: West Virginia Chamber of Commerce; American Library Association.
F 8: Education (Aug. - Dec. 1949).
Correspondence concerning federal aid to education; pamphlet on Fulbright program; copy of S. 2317 re: school construction. Correspondents include: American Parents Committee; Hubert H. Humphrey.
F 9: Education, Barden Bill, H.R. 4643 (1949).
Correspondence concerning federal aid to education; resolution from the Knights of Columbus.
F 10: Education, McMahon-Johnson Bill, S. 496 (1949).
Correspondence concerning federal aid to education. Correspondents include: National Catholic Welfare Conference; Catholic Schools of Oklahoma.
F 11: Education, Thomas Bill, S. 246 (1949).
Correspondence concerning federal aid to education. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Conference of Seventh Day Adventists; A. Fernos-Isern; Department of Classroom Teachers of Oklahoma Education Association.
F 12: Education (1950-1951).
Correspondence concerning federal aid to education; school lunch program; vocational education appropriations; library services bill; list of libraries and librarians; school construction; impact of federal government on school districts; typescripts analyzing Public Laws 81-815 and 81-874; Public Law 81-507, created from S. 247: National Science Foundation Act of 1950; Public Law 81-815, created from S. 2317: To provide for the construction of school facilities in areas affected by federal activities; illustration of the distribution of federal monies among the 48 states under S. 2317; copy of H.R. 7940: To provide financial assistance for local educational agencies in areas affected by federal activities; Public Law 81-874, created by H.R. 7940; analysis of H.R. 6049 and H R. 6078; analysis of the Fulbright Act; copy of S. 1452: To promote the further development of public library service in rural areas; Senate Report on S. 1452; copy of S. 1475: To amend section 1 of the act to provide aviation education in the senior high school of the District of Columbia; Senate Report on S. 1475; copy of H.R. 5411: To amend Public Laws numbered 815 to 874 of the Eighty-first Congress with respect to schools in critical defense housing areas; Senate Report on H.R. 5411. Correspondents include: School Lunch Division of Oklahoma State Board of Education; Division of Vocational Education of Oklahoma State Board of Education.
F 13: Education (1952).
Insurance for staff and faculty at institutions of higher education; assistance to schools; "oil for education"; distributive education; memo from American Council on Education regarding veterans' educational benefits; library service bill; G.I. Bill; vocational education appropriations; copy of S. 2300: To authorize the Commissioner of Education to encourage the further development and growth of the educational fine arts programs in the state and land-grant and other accredited nonprofit colleges and universities and of nonprofit organizations; Senate Report on S. 2300. Correspondents include: American Association of Professional Schools of Accountancy; American Vocational Association; National Grange; George Lynn Cross; Department of Higher Education of National Education Association.
F 14: Education (1953).
"Oil for education" bill; distribution of vocational education funds; appropriations for Future Farmers of America and Future Homemakers of America; school facilities construction amendment to Public Law 81-815; copy of S. 1596: To amend Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress, and act to provide a temporary program of assistance in the construction of minimum school facilities in areas affected by federal activities; copy of S. 1597: To amend Public Law 874 of the Eighty-first Congress so as to make improvements in its provisions and extend its duration for a two-year period; copy of H.R. 6049: To amend Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress, to provide a temporary program of assistance in the construction of minimum school facilities in areas affected by federal activities; Report on H.R. 6049; Public Law 83-246, created from H.R. 6049; copy of H.R. 6078: To amend Public Law 874 of the Eighty-first Congress so as to make improvements in its provisions and extend its duration for a two-year period; House and Senate Reports on H.R. 6078; Public Law number 83-248, created from H.R. 6078. Correspondents include: Office of Education of the Federal Security Agency.
F 15: Education, Vocational Education (1953).
Vocational education program appropriations; statements by Kerr on vocational rehabilitation; data on vocational education in Oklahoma; report of Oklahoma State Program Trade and Industrial Education.
F 16: Education (1954).
Redefinition of "ministers of religion"; school lunch program.
F 17: Education, Construction (1954).
Construction of school buildings; statements by Kerr and John McClellan; copy of S. 2779: To provide for financial assistance to the states in the construction of public elementary and secondary school facilities; confidential committee print of S. 2779. Correspondents include: National Council of Chief State School Officers; Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers.
F 18: Education, Construction, Public Law 815 and Public Law 874 (Jan. - May 1954).
Data on Oklahoma's participation in this legislation; statement by Oscar V. Rose; correspondence concerning Oklahoma school districts making application for funds. Correspondents include: Oscar V. Rose; Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
F 19: Education, Construction, Public Law 815 and Public Law 874 (June - Dec. 1954).
Correspondence concerning Oklahoma school districts making application for funds; testimony by Oscar V. Rose. Correspondence includes: Oscar V. Rose; Thomas A. Burke; Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
F 20: Education, Vocational Education (Jan. - Apr. 1954).
Correspondence concerning appropriations for vocational education re: George-Barden Bill. Correspondents include: Trade and Industrial Education Division of State Board of Vocational Education; Vocational Rehabilitation Division of State Board of Vocational Education.
F 21: Education, Vocational Education (May - Aug. 1954).
Correspondence concerning appropriations for vocational education re: George-Barden Bill; statement by Oklahoma congressional delegation; statement by Kerr. Correspondents include: Division of Vocational Education; Oklahoma Cotton Ginners Association; Vocational Distribution Education Division of State Board of Vocational Education; Oklahoma Chapter of National Rehabilitation Association; Oklahoma Goodwill Industries.
F 22: Education (Jan. - Mar. 1955).
Indian education program; school construction bill; government assistance for students studying science and engineering; copy of S. 5: To provide for emergency federal financial assistance to the states and territories in the construction of urgently needed public elementary and secondary school facilities; copy of S. 631: To amend certain provisions of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, as amended, relating to educational exchange and other cultural programs under such Act; copy of S. 686: To provide for federal financial assistance to the states in the construction of public elementary and secondary school facilities; copy of S. 968: To authorize federal assistance to the states and communities to enable them to increase public elementary and secondary school construction; message from the president on a plan of federal cooperation with the states in regard to building additional classrooms for school children; Kerr's response to the president's message. Correspondents include: National Education Association; National Council of Catholic Women; Oklahoma State Department of Education.
F 23: Education (Apr. - Dec. 1955).
Student aid bill; school construction; Public Law 874. Correspondents include: Oklahoma State Department of Education.
F 24: Education, Library Services Bill (1955).
Copy of S. 205: federal Library Services Bill; correspondence concerning extension of library service to rural areas; Multi-County Library Act (S. 283). Correspondents include: Oklahoma Library Association.
F 25: Education, Surplus Property (1955).
Correspondence regarding S.1004/H.R.3322 which provided that no surplus property should be sold if it could be used for educational or public health purposes. Much of the correspondence was from Oklahoma school superintendents and college presidents. Correspondents include: Oklahoma State Agency for Surplus Property; George Lynn Cross.
F 26: Education, Vocational Education (1955).
Appropriations for vocational education. Correspondents include: Vocational Rehabilitation Division of State Board of Vocational Education; Mrs. P. L. Gassaway.
F 27: Education (1956).
School lunch program; education of the deaf; tax-exempt land program; Library Services Bill; educational television; federal aid to education; copy of S. 3558 re: captioned films for the deaf; copy of H.J. Res. 654 re: establishment of Joint Committee on Expanded College Educational Facilities and Programs in the U.S. Correspondents include: William A. Purtell; Oklahoma Education Association.
F 28: Education, Construction (1956).
Federal aid for construction of school buildings; correspondence concerning H.R. 7535: Kelley School Bill.
F 29: Education, Construction, Public Law 815 and Public Law 874 (1956).
Applications for aid under Public Laws 815 and 874; data provided by Library of Congress on federal expenditures under these bills in Oklahoma. Correspondents include: J. W. Fulbright; Oscar V. Rose.
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