Box 2: Agriculture
F 1: Rural Electrification Administration (1951).
Correspondence: re: application for Rural Electrification Administration loan in order to establish a telephone cooperative in Tipton, Oklahoma.
F 2: Rural Electrification Administration (1950-1951). Cimarron Electric Co-Operative.
a. Correspondence: re: loan application for Cimarron Electric Cooperative and wage structure and guidelines relevant to
those constructing Rural Electrification Administration facilities. Corespondents include Roy Boecher (State Senator - Oklahoma).
b. Resolution: Cimarron Electric Cooperative (December 14, 1950).
F 3: Rural Electrification Administration (1951). East Central Electric Co-Operative.
a. Correspondence.
b. Resolution: East Central Electric Cooperative: re: placing of Rural Electrification Administrations co-operatives under
jurisdiction of Oklahoma Corporation Commission (June 14, 1951).
F 4: Rural Electrification Administration (1951). Harmon Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: allocation of materials by Defense Electric Power Administration.
F 5: Rural Electrification Administration (1951). KAMC Electric Co-operative.
a. Correspondence: re: Rural Electrification Administration loan.
b. Report: KAMO Electric Co-operative: "KAMO's March of Tim, April 15, 1941, to December 31, 1949" (undated).
F 6: Rural Electrification Administration (1951). National Rural Electric Co-operative Association.
Correspondence: re: TM's support for Rural Electrification Administration.
F 7: Rural Electrification Administration (1951). Northwestern Electric Co-operative.
Resolution: Northwestern Electric Co-operative: re: Oklahoma Senate Bill 155 (September 19, 1951).
F 8: Rural Electrification Administration (1950-1951). Oklahoma Electric Co-operative.
a. Correspondence.
b. Resolution: Oklahoma Electric Co-operative: re: loan application and opposition to H. R. 6782 and S. 2882 (February 13,
1950).
c. Resolution: Oklahoma Electric Co-operative: re: Oklahoma Senate Bill 155 (August 13, 1951).
d. Booklet: Oklahoma Electric Co-operative: Fourteenth Annual Meeting... (September 20, 1951).
F 9: Rural Electrification Administration (1951). Western Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: distribution of materials to co-operatives by Defense Electric Power Administration. Correspondents include Roy Boecher (State Senator - Oklahoma).
F 10: Soil Conservation (1951).
a. Correspondence: re: wind erosion, funding for soil conservation districts, and Washita River Project. Correspondents
include Spencer Bernard.
b. Speech: Don McBride (Oklahoma Water Development Association): "Soil Conservation Is None of My Business?"
(February 22, 1951). Before the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts.
c. Press Release: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: re: wind erosion in western Texas and Oklahoma
(January 1951).
d. Summary: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: re: wind erosion in western Oklahoma (January 15, 1951).
e. Press Release: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: re: wind erosion in western Texas and Oklahoma
(December 5, 1951).
f. Reports: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: re: wind erosion in western Texas and Oklahoma
(December 5, 1951).
g. Resolution: Oklahoma Association of Soil Conservation Districts (February 22, 1951).
h. Press Release: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: re: wind erosion in western Texas and Oklahoma
(January 10, 1951).
i. Summary: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: re: wind erosion in western Oklahoma for December
16-31, 1950).
F 11: Agricultural Conservation Program (1952).
a. Correspondence: re: Agricultural Conservation Program accomplishments in 1951 by Production and Marketing
Administration County Committeemen in the Sixth Congressional District of Oklahoma.
b. Booklet: Production and Marketing Administration, Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Conservation Program,
Oklahoma: Handbook for 1951 (November 1951).
c. Report: Oklahoma State Production and Marketing Administration Committee: "1951 Agricultural Conservation
Program, Selected Practices, Preliminary Report" (April 1952).
d. Report: Custer County Production and Marketing Administration: "1951 Agricultural Conservation Program
Accomplishments, Custer County" (April 1952).
F 12: Colleagues (1952).
Correspondence: re: acreage allotments. Correspondents include Lindley Beckworth (U.S. Representative - Texas).
F 13: Cotton (1950-1952)
a. Correspondence: re: price supports. Correspondents include Lindley Beckworth (U.S. Representative - Texas).
b. Speech: no author: re: low cotton prices (undated).
F 14: Crop Insurance Program (1952).
a. Correspondence.
b. Report: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Department of Agriculture: "Summary of Crop Insurance for Oklahoma,
Cotton Insurance Program" (February 26, 1952).
c. Booklet: Department of Agriculture: Report to Congress: Federal Crop Insurance Program, 1951.
F 15: Departmental (1952) Office Consolidation.
Correspondence: re: location of state offices of the Department of Agriculture, Oklahoma City vis-a-vis Stillwater.
F 16: Drought (1952). Oklahoma.
a. Correspondence: re: drought situation, particularly with respect to cattle raisers.
b. Report: Department of Agriculture: "The Drought Emergency Hay Program" (November 25, 1952).
F 17: Extension Service (1952).
Correspondence: re: reduction in funds for Oklahoma Extension Service. Includes carbon of letter sent to Sam Rayburn (U.S. Representative - Texas).
F 18: Farmers Home Administration (1952).
a. Correspondence: re: availability of Farmers Home Administration disaster loans as a result of drought and hail damage.
b. Form Letters: re: wind and hail damage in Blaine County.
c. Summary: Department of Agriculture: "Disaster Loans." Outline of procedures for obtaining such.
F 19: General Correspondence (1952).
Memorandum: Department of Agriculture: "Memorandum for Members of Congress:" re: revised list of Farmers Bulletins (February 26, 1952).
F 20: Peanuts (1952).
a. Correspondence: re: peanut acreage allotments. Includes note from Carl Albert (U.S. Representative - Oklahoma).
b. Form Letters: re: parity price for peanut crop. Includes enclosures from Production and Marketing Administration,
Department of Agriculture.
c. Summary: Southwestern Peanut Growers' Association: "Peanut Counties in Sixth Congressional District, Toby Morris,
Representative" (October 28, 1952).
F 21: Publications (1952).
a. Correspondence: re: availability of Department of Agriculture publications.
b. Memorandum: Department of Agriculture: "Memorandum for Members of Congress:" re: 1952 Yearbook of Agriculture
(August 6, 1952).
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "U. S. D. A. Announces Publication of 1952 Yearbook on Insects" (August 6,
1952).
F 22: Rural Electrification Administration (1951-1952). Caddo Electric Co-operative.
a. Correspondence: re: annual meeting of Caddo Electric Co-operative. TM was speaker.
b. Clipping.
c. Leaflet: Caddo Electric Co-operative: The Caddo (June 1, 1952).
F 23: Rural Electrification Administration (1952-1952). Cotton Electric Co-operative.
a. Correspondence: re: annual meeting and loan application.
b. Report: Cotton Electric Co-operative: "Excerpt from Board Minutes" (December 18, 1951).
F 24: Rural Electrification Administration (1952). National Rural Electric Co-operative Association.
a. Correspondence.
b. Resolutions: National Rural Electric Co-operative Association (March 10-13, 1952).
c. Statement: Electric Consumers Conference (National Rural Electric Co-operative Association): "Statement of Principles"
(May 26-27, 1952).
F 25: Rural Electrification Administration (1951-1952). Oklahoma.
a. Correspondence: re: obtaining easements on Indian land by Cotton Electric Co-operative and distribution of materials to
co-operatives by Defense Electric Power Administration.
b. Form Letters: re: co-operatives which operate in western Oklahoma Indian country.
c. Report: Cotton Electric Co-operative: "Excerpt from Board Minutes" (December 18, 1951).
d. Report: Rural Electrification Administration, Department of Agriculture: "The REA Rural Telephone Loan Program" (undated).
e. Report: Rural Electrification Administration, Department of Agriculture: "The REA Rural Electrification Program in
Oklahoma and the United States" (undated).
f. Public Law 423 (H. R. 2960): "To amend the Rural Electrification Act to provide for rural telephones, and for other
purposes." Eighty-first Congress; First Session (1949).
F 26: Rural Electrification Administration (1952). Western Electric Co-operative
a. Correspondence: re: loans and delivery of equipment to co-operative. Correspondents include Roy Boecher (State Senator
- Oklahoma).
b. Newspaper clippings.
c. Personal notes.
d. Press Release: TM (undated).
e. Press Release: Robert S. Kerr (U.S. Senator - Oklahoma).
f. List: Managers of Rural Electrification Administration co-operatives in Oklahoma (undated).
g. Report: "Western Electric Co-operative Reply to Proposal Memorandum for Study of Co-ordination and Integration
Between Western Electric Co-operative and the Public Service Company of Oklahoma" (August 15, 1951).
h. Report: "Memorandum for Study of Coordination and Integration Between Western Electric Co-operative and Public
Service Company of Oklahoma" (July 6, 1951).
F 27: Seed (1952).
Correspondence: re: distribution of Commodity Credit Corporation seed stocks at below regular trade channel prices.
F 28: Soil Conservation (1952).
a. Correspondence. Includes carbon of letter to A. S. Mike Monroney (U.S. Senator - Oklahoma).
b. Report: Kansas-Oklahoma Caney Watershed Council of Soil Conservation District: "Minutes of Meeting" (April 17, 1952).
c. Report: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: "Outlines with Wind Erosion Map" (February 15, 1952).
d. Report: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: "Outlines with Map of Moisture Conditions" (February
15, 1952).
e. Press Release: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: re: wind damage in Texas and Oklahoma (March
24, 1952).
F 29: Agricultural Conservation Program (1956).
Booklet: Production and Marketing Administration, Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Conservation Program, Oklahoma: Handbook for 1953 (August 1952).
F 30: Rural Electrification Administration (1956).
Correspondence: re: annual meeting of Cotton Electric Co-operative and maintenance of the Rural Electrification Administration organization.
F 31: Rural Electrification Administration (1956). National Rural Electric Co-operative Association.
Correspondence: re: advertisement in Look magazine of November 13, 1956, adverse to Rural Electrification Administration co-operatives and reprints of articles from The Federal Employee.
F 32: Soil Bank (1956).
Booklet: Department of Agriculture: The Soil Bank Program: How It Operates, How It Will Help Farmers (November 1956).
F 33: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committees (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: constituent complaint.
b. Personal note.
c. List: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: re: County and Community ASC
committeemen for 1958 (November 1957).
F 34: Alfalfa (1957).
Correspondence: re: insecticides used in controlling alfalfa aphids which killed the bees of one constituent.
F 35: Allotments (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: cotton and wheat allotments and transfer of allotments from one farm to another.
b. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: re: farm combinations and allotment transfers (October 18, 1955).
F 36: Cattle (1957).
Correspondence: re: deferred grazing program (Public Law 85-25).
F 37: Commodity Credit Corporation (1957).
Correspondence: re: wheat storage situation, primarily losses incurred by Burrus Mills of Kingfisher.
F 38: Commodity Distribution (1956-1957).
Correspondence: re: surplus commodities which could be distributed to the "needy" throughout the world.
F 39: Corn (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: readjustment in corn acreage allotment and price subsidies. Correspondents include Merwin Coad
(U.S. Representative - Iowa).
b. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Hearing on Proposed Witchweed Quarantine to Resume March 5" (February
13, 1957).
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Price Support Made Available for all 1957 Crop Corn in Commercial
Counties" (September 20, 1957).
d. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "1957 Corn Price Requirements Relaxed to Cover Grades 4 and 5" (December
16, 1957).
F 40: Cotton (1956-1957).
a. Correspondence: re: loan programs and subsidies to cotton producers, and cotton acreage allotments. Correspondents
include Carl Albert (U.S. Representative - Oklahoma).
b. Personal notes.
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Catalog of 1955-Crop CCC Cotton Stocks to Be Issued in March" (January 8,
1957).
d. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Final Loan Rates for 1957-Crop Cotton Announced" (August 8, 1957).
e. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Sec. Benson Issues Statement on Farm Combinations and Allotment
Transfers" (October 18, 1955).
f. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Statement on Establishing 1957 Upland Cotton Acreage Allotments"
(December 1956).
g. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "State Acreage Allotments Announced for 1958 Upland Cotton Crop"
(October 18, 1955).
h. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Letter from Sec. Benson to Rep. Cooley" (May 28, 1957).
i. Opinion: Department of Agriculture: To Harold D. Cooley (U.S. Representative - North Carolina): re: "... H. R. 954, a bill
'To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949...'" (March 12, 1957).
F 41: Dairying (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: 90 score butter qualifications.
b. Delegation Letter: Oklahoma Congressional Delegation to Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson: re: butter (June 21, 1952).
c. Senate Concurrent Memorial No. 1: Oklahoma State Senate: re: butter (May 27-28, 1957).
F 42: Disaster Relief (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: disaster relief and various proposed legislation.
b. Resolutions: Claremore Chamber of Commerce: re: disaster relief (July 9, 1957).
F 43: Drought Relief (1956-1957).
a. Correspondence: re: drought relief. Correspondents include Raymond Gary (Governor - Oklahoma) and James G. Patton
(President - National Farmers Union).
b. Leaflet: Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture: Emergency Loans Available in Designated Areas
(October 1956).
c. Report: Department of Agriculture: "Drought and Other National Disasters" (February 1957).
F 44: Experiment Stations (1957).
Correspondence: re: establishment of research station on the Washita River.
F 45: Extension Service (1957).
Correspondence: re: 4-H delegate group picture taken at the Capitol.
F 46: Flood Damages (1957).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Clarence Cannon (U.S. Representative - Missouri).
b. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "U.S.D.A. Announces Additional Emergency Cost-Share Funds to Oklahoma"
(September 27, 1957).
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: re: emergency loans to Oklahoma farmers (June 7).
d. Press Release: Department of Defense: "Army Engineers Plan to Release Southwestern Flood Water Catch" (June 21, 1957).
e. Report: Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army: "Preliminary Report on Floods in the Southwestern States" (June
14, 1957).
f. Press Release: TM: re: two bills introduced by Oklahoma Congressional delegation for flood relief (June 10, 1957).
g. Press Release: TM: re: two bills introduced by Oklahoma Congressional delegation for flood relief (June 26, 1957).
h. Press Release: re: flood damages (May 27, 1957).
i. Draft Legislation: "To authorize Federal assistance to the States and local communities in financing a program of atomic
and disaster shelters in the Nation's schools." Eighty-fifth Congress; First Session.
F 47: General Correspondence (1957).
a. Correspondence: constituents, et al., re: parity, subsidies, weevil infestations, etc.
b. Resolutions: Gold Spot Dairy, Inc. (January 23, 1957).
F 48: Honey (1957).
Resolution: American Beekeeping Federation: re: research (February 1, 1957).
F 49: Humane Slaughter (1957).
Correspondence: re: topic heading and H.R. 8308.
F 50: National Grange (1957).
Report: "Report to the House Committee on Agriculture by Hon. John L. McMillan on Behalf of the Special Subcommittee on Grange Building Condemnation Proceedings" (undated).
F 51: Oats (1957).
Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "New Crown Busts Threaten U.S. Oat Crop in 1958" (December 16, 1957).
F 52: Peanuts (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: peanut price support program.
b. Newspaper clippings.
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Final Support Price for 1957-Crop Peanuts Announced" (August 13, 1957).
F 53: Publications (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: transfer of allotments of publications to TM's account and constituent requests.
b. List: Department of Agriculture: "List of Publications Available for Distribution by Members of Congress" (January
1957).
F 54: Rice (1957).
Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Final Rice Marketing Quota Referendum Results Reported" (January 8, 1957).
F 55: Rural Electrification Administration (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: limitation of Rural Electrification Administration administrative power, loans, interest rates, and
"slander" of electric co-operatives by independent utilities.
b. Resolution: National Telephone Co-Operative Association.
c. Newspaper and magazine article.
F 56: Rural Electrification Administration (1957). Hinton Telephone Company.
Correspondence: re: approval of loan application.
F 57: Rural Electrification Administration (1957). National Rural Electric Co-operative Association.
a. Correspondence: re: "slander" of rural electric co-operatives by public utilities and high interest rate policies (H. Res. 85).
b. Article: Look magazine: re: taxes and rural electric co-operatives.
c. Article: re: taxes and rural electric co-operatives.
d. Article: re: taxes and rural electric co-operatives.
F 58: Rural Electrification Administration (1957). North Fork Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: loan application approval.
F 59: Rural Electrification Administration (1957). Southwest Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: loan application approval.
F 60: Rural Electrification Administration (1957). Southwest Rural Electric Co-Operative.
Correspondence: re: conclusion of negotiations between Southwest Electric Co-operative and General Services Administration for purchase of electric line.
F 61: School Lunch Program (1957).
Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "National School Lunch Funds Apportioned to States, Territories, and Possessions" (September 16, 1957).
F 62: Soil Bank (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: Acreage Reserve Soil Bank Program.
b. Resolution: Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association. (February 8, 1952).
c. Report: Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association: "Report of Study Committee on Putting Grazing Land into Soil Bank"
(February 13, 1957).
F 63: Soil Bank (1957). Publications and Releases.
a. Pamphlet: Department of Agriculture: The Soil Bank's Conservation Reserve ... A Profitable (January 1952).
b. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Soil Bank Acreage Reserve Regulations Modified" (August 15, 1957).
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Drought Emergency Grazing of Soil Bank Acreage Reserve Extended"
(February 27, 1957).
d. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Over Sixteen Million Acres Signed under 1957 Soil Bank Acreage Reserve
as of February 22, 1957" (February 28, 1957).
F 64: Soil Conservation (1957). Correspondence and Data.
a. Correspondence: re: watershed programs, appropriations for Soil Conservation Districts, flood control, and soil and water
conservation.
b. Statement: "Statement by Robert M. Koch, President and General Manager, National Agricultural Limestone Institutes,
Inc., Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture" (April 8, 1957).
c. Report: National Limestone Institute, Inc.: "Report on Conservation Reserve Program of the Soil Bank" (April 8, 1957.
d. Leaflet: Jackson County Soil Conservation District 1956 Annual Report.
e. Report: Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture: "Conservation for Dry Years and Wet" (January 14,
1957).
f. Report: "Soil Conservation District Board of Supervisors of Oklahoma" (May 1, 1957).
g. Newsletter: National Association of Soil Conservation Districts (July 16, 1952; August 6, 1952).
h. Report: "Biennial Report, State Conservation Board, Years 1957-1958."
F 65: Soil Conservation (1957). Cimarron River.
a. Leaflet: Kingfisher Free Press: Why Dam It: The Cimarron (July 1956).
b. Leaflet: Tom G. McGee (Superintendent of Schools, Kingfisher County): Cimarron Still Untamed (June 1, 1957).
c. Leaflet: Tom G. McGee (Superintendent of Schools, Kingfisher County): Our Oklahoma (June 22, ?).
F 66: Soybeans (1957).
a. Pamphlet: Plant Pest Control Division, Department of Agriculture: Domestic Quarantine Notices, Subpart: Soybean
Cryst Nematode-Administrative Instructions Exempting Certain Articles from Specific Requirements (July 26, 1957).
b. Pamphlet: Plant Pest Control Division, Department of Agriculture: Domestic Quarantine Notices, Subpart: Soybean
Cryst Nematode-Administrative Instructions Designating Regulated Area (July 26, 1957).
c. Pamphlet: Plant Pest Control Division, Department of Agriculture: Domestic Quarantine Notices, Subpart: Soybean
Cryst Nematode-Quarantine and Regulations (July 26, 1957).
F 67: Watermelons (1957).
a. Correspondence: re: watermelon marketing problems.
b. Press Release/Report: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture: "Food in the News: For Food Editors
and Broadcasters" (September 11, 1957).
F 68: Wheat (1957).
Correspondence: re: wheat allotment problem in Cimarron County and payment of wheat acreage reserve agreements.
F 69: Agricultural Conservation Program (1957-1958).
a. Correspondence.
b. Outline: Custer County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Committee: re: accomplishments made in
Custer County under the 1957 Agricultural Conservation Program (March 17, 1958).
c. Report: Jefferson County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Committee: "Summary of 1957
Agricultural Conservation Program Participation-Jefferson County, Oklahoma" (April 9, 1958).
F 70: Agricultural Stabilization Service (1958).
a. Correspondence: re: status of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Committees throughout Oklahoma in 1958.
b. Senate Report 2350 (H. R. 13450): "The Supplemental Appropriations Bill, 1959." Eighty-fifth Congress: Second
Session (1958).
F 71: Castor Beans (1958).
Correspondence: re: price support for castor beans.
F 72: Commodity Credit Corporation (1958).
Correspondence: re: storage space of Commodity Credit Corporation owned grain and willingness of banks to handle CCC loans.
F 73: Cotton (1958).
a. Correspondence: re: discrepancies in the 1958 acreage reserve program agreements for cotton.
b. Report: "Minutes of Meeting of Cotton Subcommittee": re: 1958 cotton acreage reserve contracts (January 24, 1958).
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "ASC Committees Will Determine Method for Allocating Acreage Reserve
Funds to Farmers" (January 29, 1958).
d. Report: E. C. "Took" Gathings (U.S. Representative - Arkansas): "News and Views: Soil Bank Muddle" (February 7, 1958).
e. Leaflet: Department of Agriculture: The 1958 Acreage Reserve Program for Cotton, Upland Cotton, Rice, Tobacco,
Spring Wheat (December 1957).
f. Report: Soil Bank Division, Department of Agriculture: "Statement of Present Situation Concerning the Signup by
Farmers Under the 1958 Cotton, Corn, and Spring Wheat Acreage Reserve Program of the Soil Bank" (February 1958).
g. Report: Cotton Division, Department of Agriculture: "Statement on Establishing 1958 Upland Cotton Acreage
Allotments" (November 1957).
F 74: Crop Insurance (1957-1958).
Correspondence: re: crop insurance on wheat and sorghum for the 1959 crop year.
F 75: Dairy (1958).
a. Correspondence: re: dairy price support levels and establishment of a Milk Marketing Administrator's office in Lawton.
b. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Dairy Price Supports to be at 75 Percent of Parity for 1958-1959 Marketing
Year" (December 18, 1957).
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "USDA to Donate Surplus Butter for Distribution to Needy" (March 19, 1958).
d. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Red River Valley (Oklahoma-Texas) Milk Order Referendum Announced"
(September 15, 1958).
F 76: Departmental (1957-1958).
Correspondence: re: appointment of the supervisor of the Bee Laboratory, Super Service Award Decorations, and an organizational chart of the Department of Agriculture.
F 77: Disaster Loans (1958).
a. Correspondence: re: Oklahoma counties eligible for emergency loans due to adverse weather conditions in 1957.
b. Leaflet: Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture: Emergency Loans Available in Designated Areas
(December 1957).
F 78: Forests (1957-1958).
a. Correspondence: re: Oklahoma and nation's forest industry.
b. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Expanding Population Will Require Nearly Doubled Wood Production"
(March 28, 1958).
F 79: General Correspondence (1958).
Correspondence: re: farm subsidies (pro and con), acreage and allotment problems, support for forthcoming congressional race, and delivery of Farmers' Bulletins.
F 80: Legislation (1958).
a. Report: Department of Agriculture: "Summary of Principal Provisions of Agricultural Act of 1958" (undated).
b. Public Law 85-835 (S. 4071): "To provide more effective price, production adjustment, and marketing programs for
various agricultural commodities." Eighty-fifth Congress (August 28, 1958). Original bill by Allen J. Ellender - Louisiana.
F 81: Oklahoma Rural Development Program (1957-1958).
a. Correspondence.
b. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Rural Development Program Results Are Better Farm Conditions and More
Jobs" (February 1958). Reprinted from article in "Oklahoma Extension News" (January 1958).
c. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Statements on the Rural Development Program by National Organizations,
State and Area Leaders, the Press" (February 1958).
d. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Rural Development Program, State Summary: Oklahoma" (February 1958).
e. Leaflet: Committee for Rural Development Program: Rural Development Program (May 1957).
f. Leaflet: Committee for Rural Development Program: Forests in Rural Development (October 1957).
F 82: Peanuts (1958).
a. Correspondence: re: peanut acreage allotments.
b. Press Release: Department of Agriculture: "Interim Support Prices for 1958-Crop Peanuts by Types and Areas
Announced" (July 24, 1958).
F 83: Rural Electrification Administration (1958).
Correspondence: re: TM's support for H. R. 7362 and his opposition to (H. R. 5781 and H. R. 7795, which deal with raising Rural Electrification Administration electricity costs; merchandising practices of rural electric co-operatives, and acreage allotment program.
F 84: Rural Electrification Administration (1958). Membership Lists.
Correspondence: re: availability of rural electric co-operatives' membership lists. Contains Sixth Congressional District constituent lists supplied by Roy Boecher (State Senator - Oklahoma).
F 85: Rural Electrification Administration (1958). Comptroller-General Ruling.
a. Correspondence: re: Comptroller-General's opinion on a loan made by the Rural Electrification Administration to Central
Iowa Power Cooperative. Includes protest by National Rural Electric Co-operative Association.
b. Report: "Short Analysis of the Comptroller-General's Letter and Ruling of October 15, 1958, to the Secretary of
Agriculture": re: Rural Electrification Administration loans to provide central station service to unserved persons in rural
areas (October 17, 1958).
c. Legal Brief: Wise and Potamkin (Attorneys for National Rural Electric Co-operative Association): "Brief for National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association; re: letter of Comptroller General to Secretary of Agriculture, Dated July 21, 1958"
(undated).
F 86: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). Cotton Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: Rural Electrification Administration loan approval.
F 87: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). Harmon Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: Rural Electrification Administration loan approval.
F 88: Rural Electrification Administration (1958). National Rural Electric Co-operative Association.
a. Correspondence.
b. Booklet: National Rural Electric Co-operative Association: Voting Records on Rural Electrification and Related Federal
Wholesale Power and Rural Telephone Issues, of Members Serving in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, from
1943 through April 15, 1958, of the Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session (April 1958).
c. Advertisement: Saturday Review: re: "slurring" of rural electric co-operatives by public utilities (undated).
d. Resolutions: National Rural Electric Co-operative Association (September 19-20, 1957).
e. Report: Clyde T. Ellis (General Manager, National Rural Electric Co-operative Association): "... Stand Your Ground ..."
(February 3, 1958).
f. Resolutions: National Rural Electric Co-operative Association (October 30-31, 1958).
F 89: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). New State Telephone Company.
Correspondence: re: loan approval to New State Telephone Company at Roosevelt.
F 90: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). Panhandle Telephone Co-operative.
a. Correspondence: re: loan application and approval.
b. Newspaper clippings.
F 91: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). Pioneer Telephone Company.
Correspondence: re: loan approval for expansion.
F 92: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). Red River Valley Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: Rural Electrification Administration loan approval.
F 93: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). Santa Rosa Telephone Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: Rural Electrification Administration loan approval.
F 94: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). Tri-County Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: approval of Rural Electrification Administration loan application.
F 95: Rural Electrification Administration (1957-1958). Western Farmers Electric Co-operative.
Correspondence: re: Trimble Bill and approval of loan application.
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