Box 19: Military (1958) -- Natural Resources (1949).
F 1: Military, Pay (1958).
Correspondence especially concerning the Cordiner Pay Plan. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Bar Association; Reserve Officers Association of the United States.
F 2: Military, Reorganization (1958).
Reorganization Act of 1958 (concerning the Department of Defense); copy of letter signed by Mike Mansfield and Paul H. Douglas. Correspondents include: Naval Reserve Association; Stuart Symington.
F 3: Military (1959).
Promotions of POWs from the Philippines in World War II; Pay Readjustment Act; limits on use of Armed Forces to enforce federal laws; Selective Service Act; transportation cost of mobile dwellings; veterans; extension of draft laws; reserves; doctor draft law; National Guard; missile systems; dental care; protection of battlefields and cemeteries; Reserve Incentive Bill; exemplary rehabilitation certificates (H.R. 88); copy of H.R. 2972: To provide alert pay for members of Strategic Air Command. Correspondents include: Toby Morris; Richard B. Russell.
F 4: Military, Military Construction (1959).
Correspondence from abstract and title companies concerning title insurance on government property.
F 5: Military, Retirement (1959).
Correspondence concerning various legislation regarding retirement benefits for members of uniformed services. Correspondents include: Barry Goldwater; Stanley Draper; F. Edward Hebert.
F 6: Military (1960).
Defense department contracts; ability of Navy to buy margarine; severance pay; provide resale of certain minerals to the United States; establishment of air rescue service; extension of the G.I. Bill; War Reparations Bill; appropriations to complete memorial shrine over the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
F 7: Military, Fort Reno Military Cemetery (1960-1961).
Correspondents include: Stanley Draper; Department of the Interior; Clinton P. Anderson.
F 8: Military, Pay (1960).
Military Equalize Pay Bill; Military Pay Act for Retired Personnel. Correspondents include: Barry Goldwater; Retired Reserve Association of Oklahoma.
F 9: Military, Reserve Officers Personnel Act (1960).
Correspondents include: Oklahoma Military Department.
F 10: Military (1961).
Copy of public law created from S.J. Res. 120: To authorize the president to order units and members in the Ready Reserve to active duty for not more than twelve months; copy of S. Res. 82: To investigate the concentration of defense activities on the west coast; statement by John Marshall Butler; promotion opportunities for Air Force personnel; Trailer Allowance Bill; exemplary rehabilitation certificates; lump sum readjustment payments; allowance for quarters; defense contracts; Nike Zeus anti-ACBM system; Officer Grade Limitation Act; Tinker Air Force Base runways and aprons; Judge Advocate General's Corps; Philippines Scouts; voluntary enlistment; movement of the Quartermaster's Food and Container Institute. Correspondents include: Strom Thurmond; John Marshall Butler; Oklahoma Bar Association; Victor Wickersham; Chet Holifield; Oklahoma National Stock Yards Company; Carl Vinson..
F 11: Military (1962).
Training of military personnel of other countries; involvement of Armed Forces in law enforcement.
F 12: Narcotics (1947, 1951-1953, 1955, 1961-1962).
Rough draft, statement, and memos pertaining to a bill to provide an increased penalty for the sale of narcotic drugs to persons under the age of twenty-one; copy of H.R. 3490: To amend the penalty provisions applicable to persons convicted of violating certain narcotic laws (1951); copy of H.R. 2449: To establish a Bureau of Clinics for the treatment of chronic alcoholics and narcotics addicts (1953); copy of S.J. Res. 19: To provide for a more effective control of narcotic drugs (1955); copies of letters to Prisoners Relief Society regarding proposed alcohol treatment center; copy of H.R. 7619: to organize a Bureau of Clinics to treat chronic alcoholics and narcotics addicts; drug control in Oklahoma. Copies of letters from: Tom Connally; Milton R. Young; Thomas J. Herbert (governor of Ohio); Arthur Copper; Millard F. Caldwell (governor of Florida); Horace Hildreth (governor of Maine); Robert F. Bradford (governor of Massachusetts); Matthew M. Neely; George Mahon. Correspondents include: Elliott E. Dudding; National Association of Retail Druggists.
F 13: National Parks and Lands (1949).
Copy of S. 285: To authorize the acquisition of lands for the Everglades National Park, Florida; copy of H.R. 4029: procurement of land in Everglades National Park; House Report on H.R. 4029; copy of S. 1716: To amend the Alaska game law; copy of H.R. 55: To include certain lands in the Carson National Forest, New Mexico; copy of H.R. 2369: To authorize an appropriation to complete the International Peace Garden, North Dakota; copy of H.R. 2373: To redefine the authority of the United States Commissioners to consider violations of law and regulations relating to Hot Springs National Park; copy of H.R. 2877: To authorize the addition of certain lands to the Big Bend National Park, in the state of Texas; copy of H.R. 3259: To add to the Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park, Kentucky, certain land acquired by the United States for that purpose; copy of H.R. 3274: To provide for the conveyance of certain historic properties to the state of Georgia; copy of H.R. 3297: To authorize the addition of certain lands to Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia; copy of H.R. 4026: Relating to the exchange of certain private and federal properties within the authorized boundaries of Acadia National Park, in the state of Maine; preliminary studies done on many of these bills.
F 14: National Parks and Lands (1950-1955).
Rental fees for federal park land; lease-purchase agreements by federal government; fees to be charged for Oral Roberts to use Anacosta Park; restoration of U.S.S. Hartford as a historic relic; Niagara Falls and River; collection and display of historical data; Dinosaur National Monument; public use of the national forests; mineral rights in Everglades National Park; establishment of the Booker T. Washington Monument; Devil's Tower National Monument; construction of Echo Park Dam; swimming pools in Platt National Park; Joshua Tree National Monument; disposal of wildlife refuge. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Outdoor Council; Frank A. Barrett.
F 15: National Parks and Lands (1956, 1958, 1960-1962).
Copy of S. 3586: To provide for the conveyance of certain real property of the United States under the jurisdiction of the secretary of the army to the state of Oklahoma (concerning Camp Gruber and Greenleaf State Park); statement by Kerr on S. 3586; reports from the Bureau of the Budget and the General Services Administration on S. 3586; copy of public law created from H.R. 12281: To authorize the secretary of the interior to provide an administrative site for Yosemite National Park, California, on lands adjacent to the park; copy of H.R. 4702: To amend the act creating the federal aid to wildlife restoration fund; acquisition of additional lands for the Ouachita National Forest; copy of H.R. 9961: additional property acquired from United States Army for Greenleaf State Park; management of national forest lands; Wilderness Bill; Sleeping Bear National Park; U.S.S. Arizona Memorial; proposed increase in appropriations for National Park Service; resort properties outside Superior National Forest; modification of certain leases for the provision of recreation facilities in reservoir areas; Fort Scott, Kansas, as a historic site; construction and maintenance of a National Fisheries Center; encouragement and assistance to forestry research programs; encouragement and assistance to forestry research at state colleges; tax on boats for purpose of purchasing recreational areas; acquisition of forest land for recreational purposes; Padre Island National Seashore. Correspondents include: Ed Edmondson; Wallace F. Bennett; Ralph Yarborough; Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association.
F 16: Natural Resources, Natural Gas (n.d., 1936, 1939, 1946-1947).
Copy of Regulations Concerning Oil and Gas Permits and Leases and Rights of Way for Oil and Gas Pipe Lines (1936); copy of Federal Power Commission booklet on Natural Gas Act (1939); copy of preprint from Bureau of Mines Minerals Yearbook on Natural Gas (1946); miscellaneous legislation and notes on natural gas.
F 17: Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources (1941, 1946-1948).
Miscellaneous public laws; preprint from Bureau of Mines Minerals Yearbook on employment and injuries in mineral industries (1946); Economic Mobilization Course on world coal resources (1947); Mineral Industry Surveys on coal mining industry employment, injuries, and fatalities.
F 18: Natural Resources, Petroleum (1947-1949).
Mineral Industry Survey on crude petroleum and petroleum products; national stripper well survey; copy of hearings on problems of American small business regarding oil supply and distribution; memo on domestic oil industry and national defense; data on petroleum production; copies of H.R. 566 and S. 6 which called for production of synthetic fuels to prevent shortages of petroleum and petroleum products; copy of final report on oil supply and distribution problems by Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business; correspondence from Department of the Interior on royalties; excerpts from Independent Petroleum Association publication on petroleum import problems; Bureau of Mines report on injection rates and pressures for water flooding mid-continent oil sands.
F 19: Natural Resources, Natural Gas (1948).
Report and individual views on H.R. 4051 re: amending Natural Gas Act of 1938; copy of State Commission Jurisdiction and Regulation of Electric and Gas Utilities by Federal Power Commission; data and graphs on natural gas; statements by Francis Myers.
F 20: Natural Resources, Tideland Oil (1948-1951).
"National Sovereignty and Dominion over Lands Underlying the Ocean," a report by Tom C. Clark, attorney general of the U.S.; copies of various legislation which called for development of submerged coastal land; statements by Walter S. Hallanan; speeches by Lister Hill re: tidelands oil royalties for education; speech by Tom Connally on whether submerged land belongs to states or to the federal government; "Every State Has Submerged Land," a report by National Association of Attorneys General. Correspondents include: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.
F 21: Natural Resources (1949).
Miscellaneous charts and graphs; "Residential Heating Fuels Retail Prices, 1941-1948," a report from Department of Labor; speech by Leland Olds to United Nations Economic and Social Council on water power; circular from Bureau of Land Management on leasing.
F 22: Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources (1949).
Mineral Industry Surveys; coal; mining assessment work.
F 23: Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Murray-Engle Bill (1949).
Copy of H.R. 976: to stimulate exploration for ores, metals, and minerals; report on H.R. 976; telegrams and letters from residents of tri-state mining district of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas calling for support of Murray-Engle Bill. Correspondents include: Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Producers Association.
F 24: Natural Resources, Natural Gas (1949).
Copies of H.R. 79 and H.R. 5306, both of which were to amend the Natural Gas Act; Mineral Industry Surveys; published material on natural gas industry; "Federal Regulation of the Natural Gas Industry," a paper developed by the Library of Congress for presentation to the American Economic Association; charts and graphs.
F 25: Natural Resources, Natural Gas, Kerr Gas Bill (1949).
Miscellaneous materials related to H.R. 1758 and S. 1498: to amend the Natural Gas Act of 1938, including copies of legislation, remarks by Kerr, and various memoranda.
F 26: Natural Resources, Natural Gas, Kerr Gas Bill, Correspondence (1949).
Correspondence concerning S. 1498; brief from Kerr to President Harry S. Truman. Correspondents include: Lyndon B. Johnson; Edwin C. Johnson; Independent Petroleum Association of America; Roy J. Turner; James W. Wadsworth; and John J. Williams.
F 27: Natural Resources, Natural Gas, Kerr Gas Bill, Federal Power Commission (1949).
Report from Federal Power Commission on S. 1498.
F 28: Natural Resources, Natural Gas, Kerr Gas Bill, History (1949).
Typescripts on Natural Gas Bill; role of Federal Power Commission.
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