Box 18: Military (1952) -- Military (1958).
F 1: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence Against, In-State [1952].
F 2: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence Against, In-State (Jan. 1-15, 1952).
Correspondents include: Oklahoma Christian Missionary Society.
F 3: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence Against, In-State (Jan. 16-31, 1952).
Correspondents include: Mothers of the World, Inc.
F 4: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence Against, In-State (Feb. 1-10, 1952).
Correspondents include: Francis W. Thompson (president of Bacone College); Dale Boren; Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
F 5: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence Against, In-State (Feb. 11-20, 1952).
Correspondents include: Paul Taylor (superintendent of El Reno City Schools); Eugene S. Briggs (president of Phillips University).
F 6: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence Against, In-State (Feb. 21-29, 1952).
Correspondents include: Oklahoma City Council of Churches.
F 7: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence Against, In-State (Mar. - Dec. 1952).
F 8: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence Against, Out-of-State (1952).
Resolution from faculty of Western Illinois State College; resolution from the Association of American Colleges; resolution from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons; copy of sermon by Reverend Gene Bartlett on universal military training; statement of Donald W. Shriver, national chairman of United Christian Youth Movement, before House Armed Services Committee; statement of George Harper of the National Conference of Methodist Youth before House Armed Services Committee. Correspondents include: Indiana Council of Churches Commission on National Legislation; Daniel L. Marsh (chancellor of Boston University); United Mothers of America; Commission on World Peace of the Methodist Church; Catholic War Veterans of the United States of America; National Council for Prevention of War; Women's Guild of the Evangelical and Reformed Church; American Lutheran Church Board for Christian Social Action; American Baptist Convention Council on Christian Social Progress; National Blue Star Mothers of America; Council for Social Action of the Congregational Christian Churches; Luther League of America.
F 9: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence For, In-State (Jan. - Feb. 19, 1952).
Correspondents include: Department of Oklahoma of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States; American Legion Department of Oklahoma; American Legion Auxiliary Department of Oklahoma; Charles B. Duffy; various local posts and chapters of the American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans.
F 10: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence For, In-State (Feb. 20 - Dec. 1952).
Resolution of the 45th Infantry Division Association Oklahoma Chapter. Correspondents include: Department of Oklahoma of Veterans of Foreign Wars; various local posts and chapters of the American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans.
F 11: Military, Universal Military Training, Correspondence For, Out-of-State (1952).
Correspondents include: national commander of American Legion; commander-in-chief of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
F 12: Military, Universal Military Training, Religious Material (1952).
Article from The Christian Century: "U.M.T.--The Showdown"; special section of The Christian Century devoted to universal military training, including article by Pearl S. Buck and interview with Albert Einstein; tract; church program.
F 13: Military (1953-1954).
Copy of H.R. 1224: To provide for a Reserve Officers Training Corps; copy of H.R. 5314: To extend the coverage of the Servicemen's Indemnity Act to members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps when ordered to active training duty for periods in excess of fourteen days; House Report on H.R. 5314; copy of S. 3556: To amend the Career Compensation Act of 1949 to provide advanced retired grade and increased severance pay, retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay for certain members of the uniformed services who, while performing satisfactorily in time of war the duties of offices for which grades higher than those held by them were authorized, were recommended for promotion to such higher grades but were not so promoted; Senate and House Reports on H.R. 9242: To authorize certain construction at military and naval installations and for the Alaska Communications System; military construction program; pay increase for Armed Forces, G.I. loans; ammunition shortages; air pilot training; reserve duty extensions; draft; National Guard in Oklahoma; Fort Gibson National Cemetery and Museum; doctor draft law. Correspondents include: Russell B. Long; John Stennis.
F 14: Military, Air Force (1953).
Correspondence from Department of the Air Force regarding Air Force activities in Oklahoma.
F 15: Military, Fort Sill Expansion (1953).
Correspondence concerning expansion of Fort Sill into Wichita Mountains wildlife refuge. Correspondents include: Post Oak Indian Mission; Wichita Land Owners Association.
F 16: Military, Air Force (1954).
Various correspondence concerning Air Force activities.
F 17: Military, Air Force, Academy Location (1954).
Correspondents include: W. P. "Bill" Atkinson.
F 18: Military (1955).
Copy of S. 1345: To readjust equitably the retirement benefits of certain individuals on the Emergency Officers Retired List; copy of S. 1381: To incorporate the Society of the 28th Division; copy of S. 1501: To amend the National Housing Act by adding a new title thereto providing additional authority for insurance of loans made for the construction of urgently needed housing for military personnel of the Armed Services; copy of S. 2134: To equalize certain retirement benefits for members of the uniformed services; copy of S. Res. 71: Favoring a reduction of armaments with a view to improving world living standards; copy of H.R. 5700: To authorize certain construction at military, naval, and air force installations; draft; tax relief for members of the Armed Forces; scientific manpower; Douglas MacArthur; pay for service at military academies; Status of Forces treaty; retirement; compensation for members of local Selective Service System boards. Correspondents include: Stuart Symington.
F 19: Military, Air Force (1955).
Air Force bases, especially in Oklahoma; location of Air Force Academy; testing of material by the Air Force; Air Force contracts. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Testing Laboratories.
F 20: Military, Commissary (1955).
Copy of a report by Roy E. Adair, made to the quartermaster general several years earlier, which includes prices of items over several years as well as historical developments of the commissary.
F 21: Military, Doctors (1955).
Doctor draft laws. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association.
F 22: Military, Fort Sill Expansion (1955-1956).
F 23: Military, National Security Training Corps (Feb. - Mar. 10, 1955).
Correspondence concerning S. 2, a bill requested by the American Legion regarding the draft and military training.
F 24: Military, National Security Training Corps (Mar. 11 - May 1955).
Correspondence concerning S. 2, a bill requested by the American Legion regarding the draft and military training.
F 25: Military, Navy (1955).
Correspondence mainly concerning naval base in Norman.
F 26: Military, Pay (1955).
F 27: Military, Training (Jan. - Feb. 1955).
Drafting of those under the age of 21; selective service; reserve forces; article from This Week magazine: "The Kids Want UMT" by Myrick Land; universal military training; ROTC programs in high schools; deferments for fathers. Correspondents include: Marsden Bellatti of Stillwater Daily News-Press.
F 28: Military, Training (Mar. 1955).
Selective service; universal military training; reserve forces; exemption of veterans from draft. Correspondents include: United Church Women of Oklahoma.
F 29: Military Training (Apr. - May 1955).
Universal military training; reserve forces; statement of John Wesley Raley (president of Oklahoma Baptist University) in support of universal military training; selective service; drafting of those under the age of 21. Correspondents include: Mothers of the World, Inc.
F 30: Military, Training (June - Dec. 1955).
Universal military training; reserve forces; selective service; National Guard; discharge of married men and/or men over the age of 26; deferments for fathers. Correspondents include: Major General Roy W. Kenny (adjutant general of Oklahoma).
F 31: Military (1956-1957).
Copy of S. 3829: To authorize the establishment, maintenance, and operation of auxiliary communication networks composed of licensed amateur radio operators for military radio communications; copy of H.R. 8904: To amend certain laws relating to the grade of certain personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps upon retirement; Public Law 84-547; copy of H.R. 603: To amend the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended, to allow credit for certain service for purpose of pay; copy of S. 1732: To readjust equitably the retirement benefits of certain individuals on the Emergency Officers Retired List; Senate and House Reports on S. 1732; appointment of doctors of osteopathy in Medical Corps of Army and Navy; housing construction in Ardmore; Curtiss-Wright Corporation; procurement of machine tools; Naval Ammunition Depot in McAlester; Congressional Charter for Society of the 28th Division; Tinker Air Force Base; Okinawa; instrument flight training school at Fort Sill; off-base housing near Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base; military pay; military chaplains; commissioning of chiropractors in the Armed Forces; design for Air Force Academy chapel; budget cuts; uniform (clothing) allowances. Correspondents include: Edward Martin; McAlester Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture; Warren G. Magnuson; Home Mission Board of Southern Baptist Convention; Ralph E. Flanders; Department of the Air Force; Oklahoma State Hospital Association..
F 32: Military, Legal Personnel (1957-1958).
Statement of Charles S. Rhyne (president of American Bar Association) before subcommittee of Senate Armed Services Committee to study revised pay scales; pay for judge advocates and law specialist officers; military legal system.
F 33: Military, Pay (1957).
Correspondence especially concerns S. 2014, the Symington-Goldwater Bill, which incorporated much of the recommendations of the Cordiner Committee.
F 34: Military (1958).
Copy of S. Con. Res. 69 re: military construction; Senate Report on S. Con. Res. 69; House Report on H. Con. Res. 286 re: military construction; House Report on H.R. 13226 re: appointments to service academies; material related to service academy appointments from Congressional Record; possibility of one commander for entire military; military aircraft maintenance; deferments for teachers; military pay; family separation allowances.
F 35: Military, Medical Care (1958).
Correspondence concerned with Defense Department appropriations for the military's MEDICARE program. Correspondents include: George S. Long; Oklahoma State Medical Association.
F 36: Military, National Guard (1958).
Proposed reduction and reorganization of National Guard; possible elimination of 45th Infantry Division; possible elimination of 84th Infantry Division; resolutions of subcommittee of House Armed Services Committee; resolution of Adjutants General Association of the United States; fact sheet on the 45th Infantry Division. Correspondents include: Glen C. Collins; Department of the Army; Jess I. Miracle; Zeno Smith (mayor of Atoka); Barbour Cox; city of Kingfisher; city of Pawhuska; 45th Infantry Division Association; Military Department of state of Oklahoma; Fairfax Chamber of Commerce; Harmon County Chamber of Commerce; Altus Chamber of Commerce; Edmond Chamber of Commerce; Hobart Chamber of Commerce; Lawton Chamber of Commerce; Wagoner Chamber of Commerce; Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce; Pawhuska Chamber of Commerce; Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce; Bartlesville Chamber of Commerce.
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