Box 9: Foreign Relations (1961) -- Highways (1955).
F 1: Foreign Relations, Aid Appropriations (Aug.-Nov. 1961).
Correspondence re: foreign aid. Correspondents include: National Lutheran Council.
F 2: Foreign Relations, Peace Corps (1961-1962).
Correspondence concerning passage of Peace Corps Bill. Correspondents include: Mrs. E. Lee Ozbirn, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
F 3: Foreign Relations (1962).
Press releases from George Smathers regarding resolution calling for the establishment of an Inter-American Military Alliance and for the recognition of the Cuban revolutionary government in exile.
F 4: General Accounting Office (1949-1953, 1956).
Description of General Accounting Office; claims. Correspondents include: Comptroller General of the United States; Robert W. Milligan.
F 5: General Services Administration (1952-1955, 1961).
Federal court facilities; Oklahoma Ordnance Works surplus property; states' rights; government surplus properties; proposed Joint Committee on the Budget; copy of H.R. 7778: To authorize emergency appropriations for the purpose of erecting certain post office and federal court buildings. Correspondents include: Joseph R. McCarthy; John L. McClellan.
F 6: Government Contracts (1952-1954).
Correspondence concerning the Federal Construction Contract Act. Copy of S. 24 and report re: permitting judicial review of decisions of government contracting officers involving questions of fact arising in cases other than those in which fraud is alleged.
F 7: Government Contracts (1955).
Oklahoma City Post Office and Court House; national defense plants; chemical toilets; Federal Construction Contract Act. Correspondents include: Associated General Contractors of America; National Electrical Contractors Association.
F 8: Government Contracts (1956-1958, 1961).
Federal Supply Service; furniture at Fort Sill chapel; U.S. Air Force Academy; Oklahoma City Post Office and Court House; Federal Construction Contract Act. Correspondents include: National Electrical Contractors Association.
F 9: Government Spending (1950, 1952-1953, 1957).
Government expenditures and budget; copy of H.R. 2 re: deficit spending; press release signed by senators on Finance Committee re: taxes; bulletin from Bureau of the Budget re: user charges for certain government services.
F 10: Government Spending (1961-1962).
Foreign aid; national debt; back-door financing; federal aid to depressed areas; correspondence concerning cuts in federal spending.
F 11: Gun Control (1958, 1961-1962).
Correspondence from Floyd L. Parks (executive director of National Rifle Association) regarding classification of guns as "firearms" for regulation and taxation purposes; correspondence concerning registration of firearms (H.R. 613).
F 12: Health and Welfare (1949-1951).
Rough draft of Senate Joint Resolution authorizing the creation of a National Poliomyelitis Study Panel to investigate poliomyelitis conditions in the United States and to make recommendations to the president for possible federal assistance; newspaper articles dealing with polio; copy of S. 614: To amend the Hospital Survey and Construction Act (Title VI of the Public Health Service Act), to extend its duration and provide greater financial assistance in the construction of hospitals; copy of Public Law 81-380; copy of H.R. 4057: To prohibit the utilization of the facilities of interstate or foreign commerce in connection with the desertion or abandonment of dependent children; copy of S. 2591: To amend the Public Health Service Act to support research and training in matters relating to arthritis and rheumatism, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, poliomyelitis, blindness, leprosy; copy of Public Law 81-692; copy of S.J. Res. 160: To name the Veterans Administration hospital under construction at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the "Will Rogers Hospital"; copy of S. 337: To amend the Public Health Service Act and the Vocational Education Act of 1946 to provide an emergency five-year program of grants and scholarships for education in the fields of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, dental hygiene, public health, and nursing professions; Senate Report on S. 337; tables and correspondence concerning Kerr's amendment to S. 337; copies of H.R. 1081 and S. 925: To establish a Federal Board of Hospitalization; copy of S. 1140: To establish and to consolidate certain hospital, medical, and public health functions of the government in a Department of Health; copy of H.R. 910: To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide a program of grants and scholarships for education in the field of nursing; copy of H.R. 3298: To amend section 503(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; Senate Report on H.R. 3298; summary of the proposals for the Child Welfare and Foster Care Bill as prepared by spokesman for Children, Inc.; appropriations for National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness; radio copy from Fulton Lewis, Jr. program discussing creation of a department of health, education, and security; press release from George Smathers re: National Mental Health Week. Correspondents include: American Legion; Veterans Department of Oklahoma; George Lynn Cross; Oklahoma Osteopathic Association; Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation; Oklahoma Department of Labor; Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers Association; Oklahoma State Department of Health.
F 13: Health and Welfare, Private Bills, Ralston Edward Harry (1951-1957, 1960).
F 14: Health and Welfare (1952).
Infantile paralysis; handicapped persons; recognition of osteopathic medicine; health bill; socialized medical care; unemployment insurance tax with Moody-Dingell Bill; Hospital Board Bill; Department of Health Act; regulation of the practice of optometry in the District of Columbia; industrial safety and health conditions; Defense Unemployment Compensation Act; copy of S. 3314: To establish Federal Board of Hospitalization. Correspondents include: Johnston Murray; Oklahoma Optometric Association; American Legion.
F 15: Health and Welfare (1953).
Old age assistance payments; national pension law; Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Act; copy of S. Res. 38, which established the Committee on Consumer Interests; copy of S. Res. 93, which established National Mental Health Week; child abandonment; Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act; Directory of Registered Dentists, Specialists, and Hygienists. Correspondents include: George Smathers; Oklahoma Association for Mental Health; Guy M. Gillette; Oklahoma State Hospital Association; Oklahoma Tuberculosis Association; Oklahoma State Federation of Labor.
F 16: Health and Welfare (1954).
Public Health Service Act; disability compensation; health service prepayment plans; tuberculosis control; water fluoridation; Hill-Burton hospital construction program; extension and improvement of public health service; Johnson-O'Malley Act; 1954 Directory of Oklahoma Chiropractors; Membership Directory of the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association; copy of H.R. 7341: To amend the hospital survey and construction provisions of the Public Health Service Act to provide assistance to the states for surveying the need for diagnostic or treatment centers, for hospitals for the chronically ill and impaired, for rehabilitation facilities, and for nursing homes, and to provide assistance in the construction of such facilities through grants to public and nonprofit agencies; copy of H.R. 7839: To aid in the provision and improvement of housing, the elimination and prevention of slums, and the conservation and development of urban communities; House Report on H.R. 7839; copy of H.R. 8149: To amend the hospital survey and construction provisions of the Public Health Service Act to provide assistance to the states for surveying the need for diagnostic or treatment centers, for hospitals for the chronically ill and impaired, for rehabilitation facilities, and for nursing homes and to provide assistance in the construction of such facilities through grants to public and nonprofit agencies; Public Law number 83-482. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Nursing Home Association; Charles A. Wolverton; American Medical Association; Oklahoma State Hospital Association; Carl Albert.
F 17: Health and Welfare (1955).
Tuberculosis control; training of practical nurses; right to select one's doctor; old age assistance; polio shots; water fluoridation; water resources development; Hill-Burton hospital construction program; Health Improvement Act; proposed National Youth Rehabilitation Corps; copy of S. 929: To provide for aid to the states in the fields of practical nursing and auxiliary hospital personnel services; copy of S. 1459: To provide assistance to the states in the construction, modernization, additions, and/or improvement of domiciliary or hospital buildings of state or territorial operated soldiers' homes by a grant to subsidize in part the capital outlay cost; press release from Margaret Chase Smith. Correspondents include: W. P. Atkinson; Oklahoma Commission for Crippled Children; Oklahoma State Hospital Association; Oklahoma Tuberculosis Association.
F 18: Health and Welfare (1956).
Legislative Accomplishments of Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare; copy of S. 2925 re: authorization of a five-year program for expansion of medical education and research; statement by Margaret Chase Smith on S. 2925; increased appropriations for Public Health Service with special emphasis on dental research; appropriations for tuberculosis; Hill-Burton hospital construction program; Commissioned Corps of Public Health Service; religious groups wanting to obtain Hill-Burton funds; Alaska Mental Health bills. Correspondents include: James E. Murray; Margaret Chase Smith; Oklahoma State Dental Association; Oklahoma Tuberculosis Association; Oklahoma Osteopathic Association; Herbert H. Lehman; Leonard A. Scheele (surgeon general); Lister Hill; N. R. Graham; Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.
F 19: Health and Welfare (1957-1958).
Hill-Burton hospital construction program; old age and survivors hospitalization (H.R.9467); aid to the blind; federal aid to state welfare programs; government loans to religious groups to build hospitals; copy of S. 1681: To authorize loans for the construction of hospitals and other facilities under Title VI of the Public Health Service Act; copy of H.R. 12694: To authorize loans for the construction of hospitals and other facilities under Title VI of the Public Health Service Act; Senate and House Reports on H.R. 12694; Public Law 85-589. Correspondents include: Lister Hill; Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma; American Public Welfare Association; Russell B. Long.
F 20: Health and Welfare (1959-1960).
Taxation of life insurance companies (H.R. 4245); national health insurance program; health training programs; Forand Bill. Correspondents include: Lister Hill; Oklahoma State Medical Association; Vocational Rehabilitation Division of the Oklahoma State Board of Vocational Education.
F 21: Health and Welfare (1961).
Medical aid bill; National Milk Sanitation Act; welfare program; Social Security coverage; Food Additives Amendment; dental disease control; construction of nursing homes; facilities for mentally retarded children; health research facilities; use of animals in medical experiments; Institute of Child Health and Human Development; old age assistance; Legislative Objectives of the American Public Welfare Association; American Academy of Pediatrics. Correspondents include: Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture; Governor's Committee on Children and Youth.
F 22: Health and Welfare (1962).
Research in fields of maternal and child health (including crippled children); use of animals in medical experiments; correspondence concerning H.R. 10032, which seemed to duplicate vocational rehabilitation services; Public Welfare Amendment. Correspondents include: Oklahoma State Board of Education; Oklahoma State Department of Health; Ralph M. Paiewonsky (governor of Virgin Islands); Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
F 23: Highways (1949).
Copy of S. 1471: To supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize regular appropriations for the construction of rural local roads; statement of Kerr before the Public Works Committee; copy of S. 1520: Relating to the development of tourist and other public facilities in conjunction with the Alaska Highway. Correspondents include: H. E. Bailey of Oklahoma Department of Highways; Edward J. Thye; Ernest W. Gibson (governor of Vermont); Texas Rural Roads Association; Beauford Jester (governor of Texas); National Grange; Oscar L. Chapman (secretary of the interior); American Association of State Highway Officials; George T. Mickelson (governor of South Dakota); Earl Warren (governor of California); Oklahoma Farm Bureau; H. Alexander Smith; A. Willis Robertson.
F 24: Highways (1950).
Toll roads; tables indicating state highway financing and mileage; transcontinental superhighway; copy of S. 3424: To supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act; copy of S. 2914: To authorize the transfer of funds allocated for expenditure in cooperation with the New Jersey State Highway Department on State Highway Route Numbered 100 to State Parkway Route Numbered 4; copy of public law created from H.R. 7941: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways.
F 25: Highways (1951-1953).
Federal-Aid Highway bills; highway construction in Oklahoma; highway safety; utilities along highways; highway users tax; Copper River Highway development project; tables with mileage of all roads and streets; copy of S. 1956: To amend section 12 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1950 and sections 6 and 14 of the Defense Highway Act of 1941; copy of S. 2200: For the relief of the State of Oklahoma; copy of S. 2437: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; Senate Report on S. 2437; copy of H.R. 6094: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; copy of public law created from H.R. 7340: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; copy of S. 848: To prescribe policy and procedure in connection with construction contracts made by executive agencies, and for other purposes; Senate Report on S. 848; copy of S. 796: To permit the charging of tolls on certain highways constructed with federal aid; Senate Report on S. 796; Resolution 506 from the Oklahoma State Legislature memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact legislation necessary to retire the federal government from the field of taxation on gasoline and to discontinue the diversion of other highway user taxes to any purpose other than road and highway construction. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Outdoor Council.
F 26: Highways (1954).
Routing of U.S. Highway 66 in Oklahoma; completion of three state highways in Oklahoma; construction of highway through Ouachita National Forest; military and post roads in the United States; Federal-Aid Highway Acts of 1954; table of federal-aid highway funds; relocation of utilities along highways; statement by Elmer Staats; reports prepared by L. D. Melton on state and federal highway construction programs; copy of S. 3184: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; Senate Report on S. 3184; copy of H.R. 8127: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; Conference Report on H.R. 8127; Public Law 83-350; "A review of reports on Denison Reservoir, Red River, Texas and Oklahoma, with a view to determining whether any modification of the recommendations is advisable at this time, particularly with reference to a crossing over Lake Texoma at the Willis site" (House Document). Correspondents include: Oklahoma Telephone Association; State Legislative Council; Francis Case; Arthur V. Watkins; Wallace F. Bennett; Oklahoma Department of Highways; Dennis Chavez; American Farm Bureau Federation; American Automobile Association.
F 27: Highways (Jan. - Mar. 1955).
Routing of U.S. Highway 1; proposed national expressway; copy of S. 966: For the relief of the State of Oklahoma; federal aid to highways; copy of S. 628: To authorize construction of a highway crossing over Lake Texoma, Red River, Texas and Oklahoma; copy of S. 1318: To authorize construction of a highway crossing over Lake Texoma, Red River, Texas and Oklahoma; Senate Report on S. 1318; Public Law 84-164; copy of H.R. 4260: To create a federal highway corporation for financing the construction of the national system of interstate highways, and to amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented.
F 28: Highways (Apr. - June 1955).
Federal licenses; interstate highway system; references to S. 628 and S. 1318 re: highway over Lake Texoma; copy of S. 1048: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways (Gore Bill); Senate Report on S. 1048; copy of H.R. 7072: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways. Correspondents include: American Association of State Highway Officials; Reuel Little; Associated Motor Carriers of Oklahoma; Lyndon B. Johnson; Victor E. Anderson (governor of Nebraska); Oklahoma Highway Users Conference.
F 29: Highways (July - Dec. 1955).
Federal aid to highways; correspondence concerning Highway Construction Bill which would increase taxes on truck tires and gasoline (S. 7072). Correspondents include: Associated Motor Carriers of Oklahoma.
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