ELMER THOMAS COLLECTION
LEGISLATIVE SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory
Box 74

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Box 74: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Farm Report from Washington, 950 May - June - Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Rural Electrification Act Amendment Regarding Rural Telephones, 1949 Mar. - Oct., 1950 Feb.

F 1: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Farm Report from Washington, 1950 May - June.

This folder contains a few issues of a weekly newsletter that Thomas sent to constituents.

Topics include agriculture and state in the United States and agricultural price supports.

F 2: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Farmers Home Administration Act Amendment, 1949 Feb. - Aug.

Topics include the United States Farmers Home Administration and mineral rights in the United States.

F 3-4: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Federal Crop Insurance Act Amendment, 1949 Jan. - Aug.

Topics include crop insurance law and legislation in the United States. Correspondents include Hubert H. Humphrey, American Farm Bureau Federation, United States Dept. of Agriculture, and Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

F 5-6: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Federal Farm Loan Act Amendment, 1949 Apr. - Aug.

Topics include agricultural credit in the United States and federal land banks.

F 7: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Federal Seed Act Amendment, 1948 - 1949.

Correspondents include Olin D. Johnston.

F 8-9: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Food Commodity Waste Prevention, 1948 Aug. - Oct.

Topics include food relief law and legislation and surplus American agricultural commodities.

F 10-13: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Forest Fire Control Operation, Forest Practices Act, Forest Programs Appropriations Increase, and Forest Service Work Facilitation, 1949 Apr. - Oct., 1950 Mar. - Nov.

Topics include Clinton P. Anderson, United States Forest Service appropriations and expenditures, forest fires law and legislation, forest landowners, forest policy, forests and forestry government ownership, and forestry law and legislation. Correspondents include Tom B. Fugate, Carl T. Hayden, Mike Mansfield, John L. McClellan, Thomas B. Stanley, American Farm Bureau Federation, Forest Farmers Association Cooperative, Izaak Walton League of America, and the United States Forest Service.

F 14: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Fort Reno Agricultural Remount Station, 1949 Feb. - June.

Topics include the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station. Correspondents include Charles F. Brannan and United States Dept. of Agriculture.

F 15: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Fort Sill Indian School Transfer, 1946 July, 1949 Apr. - 1950 Feb.

Topics include Fort Sill Indian School, Apache Indians education, Apache Indians government relations, Apache Indians land tenure, Comanche Indians education, Comanche Indians government relations, Comanche Indians land tenure, Kiowa Indians education, Kiowa Indians government relations, Kiowa Indians land tenure, and Lawton Dry Farming Station. Correspondents include the United States Dept. of the Interior, Albert Attocknie, Robert Goombi, and Jasper Saunkeah.

F 16: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Redwood Forest, 1949 May.

Topics include Helen Gahagan Douglas and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

F 17: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Future Farmers of America Name and Insignia, 1949 May.

F 18: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Harney National Forest Renaming as Norbeck Wildlife Preserve, 1949 July - Aug.

Topics include Peter Norbeck. Correspondents include Chan Gurney.

F 19: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Health, Efficiency and Morale Safeguard, 1949 Feb.

Topics include the Aiken Bill.

F 20: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Homestead Entrymen Association, 1949 July - Aug.

Topics include the United States homestead law. Correspondents include the National Reclamation Association.

F 21-22: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, International Wheat Amendment of 1949 and Amendment, 1949 Feb. - 1950 Feb.

Topics include the Marshall Plan and wheat trade law and legislation in the United States. Correspondents include the American Farm Bureau Federation.

F 23: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Interstate and Foreign Commerce in Agricultural Products, Regulation of, 1949 Mar.

Correspondents include William Lemke.

F 24: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Interstate Movements of Diseased Animals, 1949 July - Nov., 1950 Mar.

Topics include brucellosis and paratuberculosis. Correspondents include Milton R. Young.

F 25-29: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Legislative Suggestions, 1948 - 1950.

Topics include Samuel Slater, agriculture and state in the United States, agricultural price supports, agricultural prices, animal industry, citrus fruit industry, cotton, and fruit-flies. Correspondents include Guy Cordon, American Farm Bureau Association, American National Live Stock Association, Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, National Grange, National Live Stock Exchange, Oklahoma State Soil Conservation Board, Ingram M. Stainback (governor of Territory of Hawaii), National Farm Labor Union, National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, Oklahoma Agricultural Cooperative Council, Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Staple Cotton Cooperative Association, and United Farmers of America.

F 30: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Livestock Shipping Regulations, 1949 May - July, 1950 Mar.

Topics include animal welfare law and legislation.

F 31-32: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Long Range Farm Plan, 1948 Oct. - 1949 Oct.

Topics include agriculture and state in the United States and Aiken Bill. Correspondents include the American Farm Bureau Federation, and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association.

F 33: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Marketing Facilities Improvement Act, 1950 May - Dec.

Topics include farm produce marketing and perishable goods.

F 34: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Mineral Interest Conveyance, 1949 June - Oct., 1950 Jan. - Sept.

Topics include the United States Farm Security Administration, United States Farmers Home Administration, United States Resettlement Administration, and mineral rights in the United States. Correspondents include Homer E. Capehart, William E. Jenner, George Howard Wilson, Independent Petroleum Association of America, and the United States Dept. of Agriculture.

F 35: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Missouri River Basin Agricultural Program, 1949.

F 36-38: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, National Forest Grazing Receipts, National Forest Money Disposition and National Forest Reservation Commission, 1949 Jan. - Sep.

Topics include the American Camping Association, forest policy in the United States, recreational use of United States forest reserves, and United States range policy. Correspondents include Pat McCarran and Camp Fire Girls (Oklahoma City, Okla.).

F 39: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Oleo Tax Repeal, 1950 Apr.

Topics include margarine law and legislation in the United States. Correspondents include Hubert H. Humphrey.

F 40-41: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Organic Act of 1944 Amendment, 1949 May.

Topics include insect pests and poultry.

F 42: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Parity Price for Fats and Oils, 1949 May.

Topics include agricultural price supports and oil industries.

F 43: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Parity Price and Price Supports, Brannan Letter, 1949 July - Oct.

Topics include agricultural price supports and agriculture and state in the United States. Correspondents include Charles F. Brannan and United States Dept. of Agriculture.

F 44: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Parity Price and Price Supports, Clippings, 1949.

Topics include agricultural price supports.

F 45: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Parity Price and Price Supports, Correspondence from Colleagues, 1949 Feb. - July.

Topics include agricultural price supports. Correspondents include Hubert H. Humphrey.

F 46-49: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Parity Price and Price Supports, Correspondence from Constituents and Out of State, 1948 - 1950.

Topics include agricultural price supports. Correspondents include the Consumers' Cooperative Association (U.S. - report), Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Farmers Union, Union Equity Cooperative Exchange, and Tuskegee Institute Farmers Conference.

F 50: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Parity Price and Price Supports, Elmer Thomas Explanations, 1948 Dec. - 1949 Feb.

Topics include agricultural price supports. Correspondents include Kenneth D. McKellar.

F 51: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Peanuts, Data, 1941 - 1950.

F 52-53: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Perishable Commodities Marketing Facilities, 1949 Aug., 1950 Aug. - Nov.

Topics include marketing farm produce and perishable goods. Correspondents include Henry Cabot Lodge.

F 54: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Pomona, California, Agriculture Remount Station Transfer, 1949 Feb. - Mar.

Topics include the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

F 55: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Potato Surplus, 1949 Sep. - 1950 Apr.

Topics include agricultural price supports, potato prices, and surplus American agricultural commodities. Correspondents include Victor E. Wickersham and National Potato Council (U.S.).

F 56: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Potatoes and Eggs Price Support Repeal, 1949 Aug. - Nov.

Topics include agricultural price supports, egg prices, and potato prices.

Correspondents include the National Potato Council (U.S.).

F 57-58: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Price Support Undermining by Government Agency, 1949 Feb.

Topics include agricultural price supports.

F 59: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Price Supports for Cotton and Cottonseed Oil, 1949 Jan. - Dec., 1950 Jan. - Mar.

Topics include agricultural price supports, cotton prices, and cottonseed oil prices. Correspondents include the Oklahoma Cotton Ginners' Association, United States Production and Marketing Administration, National Cotton Ginners' Association (bulletin), and the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association.

F 60: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Price Supports for Eggs and Poultry, 1949 Mar. - Dec., 1950 May.

Topics include agricultural price supports, dried eggs, egg prices, and poultry prices. Correspondents include Ralph E. Church, United States Dept. of Agriculture (press release), United States Production and Marketing Administration (press release), and the International Baby Chick Association.

F 61: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Price Supports for Miscellaneous Commodities, 1949 Mar. - Sep.

Topics include agricultural price supports. Correspondents include Tom Connally and the Commodity Credit Corporation.

F 62: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Price Supports for Potatoes, 1949 July - Oct., 1950 Feb. - Mar.

Topics include agricultural price supports and potato prices. Correspondents include the National Potato Council (U.S.).

F 63: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Price Supports for Tung Oil and Honey, 1947 Feb. - Sep., 1948 Nov. - 1949 Oct., 1950 Feb. - Mar.

Topics include agricultural price supports, honey prices, tariff on tung oil, tung nut prices, tung oil prices, and United States commerce with China. Correspondents include the United States Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations (report), United States Production and Marketing Administration, and the American Beekeeping Federation.

F 64: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Price Supports for Wheat, 1949 Feb. - June.

Topics include agricultural price supports and wheat prices.

F 65: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Rural Electrification Act Amendment, 1949 Nov. - 1950 Aug.

Topics include the United States Rural Electrification Administration, rural electrification law and legislation, and Rural Electrification Act of 1936.

F 66-67: Agriculture and Forestry, Committee on, Rural Electrification Act Amendment Regarding Rural Telephones, 1949 Mar. - Oct., 1950 Feb.

Topics include the rural telephone law and legislation and the Poage Bill. Correspondents include Tom Connally, Chan Gurney, American Farm Bureau Federation, General Telephone Corporation, National Farmers' Union (U.S.), National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Oklahoma Farmers Union, and the United States Rural Electrification Administration. Topics in these folders are also found in box 75, folders 1-2.

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Elmer Thomas Collection Box List
Elmer Thomas Collection Description


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