Box 17: 79th Congress, General Files: Central Valley Project - Civil Service Commission (1945-1947).
F 1: Central Valley Project.
a. Correspondence: re: removal of the 160 acre limitation; Department of Interior Appropriations Bill, H. R. 3024. Correspondents include: Abe Fortas.
b. Memorandum for the Press: re: The Final location of the Delta Cross Channel.
c. Survey Map.
d. Press Release: "Curran Has No Rights To Tax Money." (May 24, 1945).
e. Article: "Valley Divided."
f. Booklet: "The Central Valley of California and the Central Valley Project."
g. Report: re: Supplemental Appropriations.
h. Draft of a reply to Mr. John A. McNaughton.
i. Clippings.
j. Various Resolutions.
F 2: Central Valley Project - Data.
a. Notebook on various projects.
b. Press Release: "Army Aids Claims Right to Build Pine Flat Dam." August 17, 1945.
c. Press Release: "Robins, Solon Rap Bureau on CV Methods." August 21, 1945.
d. Report on Central Valley.
e. Budget Data.
f. Article: "Valley Developments." (November 23, 1944).
g. Statement: Edward Hyatt: "Water Project Authority."
h. Pamphlet: California Agriculture."
i. Article: "It's Time To Embalm The MVA."
j. Flyer: Bulletin: Vol. IX, No. 12. (August 4, 1945).
k. Declaration on Hetch Hetchy Decision.
l. Letter: King's River Item - Army Civil Appropriations Bill.
m. Statement of Helen Gahagan Douglas Before the Appropriations Committee on Central Valley Project.
n. Statement: "Federal Power Program Again Hampered by Transmission Line Deletions in Senate Appropriations Committee."
o. Excerpt from radio script Bob Franklin: "Country Commentator."
p. Release: re: Ruth Finney Story San Francisco News, March 4, 1948.
q. Draft of Speech.
r. Report on estimate of appropriations.
s. Summary of Power Programs.
F 3: Central Valley Project - Data.
a. Copies of Clippings.
b. Pamphlet: Harry Holley: Vanishing Water.
c. Brochure: "State Control of the Central Valley Project.
d. Informational memo.
e. Report on Central Valley Project Conference, September 8, 1945. 65 pages.
F 4a: Child Care Program (December 1944; February and September 1945).
a. Correspondence: re: Lanham Child care Program.
b. Article: Roy Robinson: "How To Implement Community Action for the Future Day Care Program."
c. Speech: Claude Pepper: "Maternal and Child Welfare Act of 1945."
d. Remarks by Helen Gahagan Douglas (September 19, 1945).
F 4b: Child Care Program (September 1945 - June 1946).
a. Correspondence: re: Child care programs.
b. Various articles.
c. H. R. 5933: Healy: "To authorize and direct the Board of Education of the District of Columbia to establish and operate in the public schools and other suitable locations a system of nurseries and nursery schools for day care of school-age and under school-aged children, and for other purposes." 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946). Committee on the District of Columbia.
d. Article: "Child Welfare Is Begged Down in Petty Detail."
F 5: Children's Bureau.
Correspondence and press release: re: Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1946.
F 6: Chinese Merchants Club.
a. Correspondence: re: Housing problems.
b. Speech: Helen Gahagan Douglas before the Chinese Culture Society. April 17, 1944.
F 7: Civilian Production Administration: General.
a. Correspondence: re: Building materials; possible removal of export restrictions on gum rosin; Potash allocations for California; construction of a warehouse.
b. Questions and Answers on Construction.
c. Photo of a lumber machine.
F 8a: Civilian Production Administration: Storage Batteries.
Correspondence: re: Shortage of lead to be used in the manufacture of storage batteries.
F 8b: Civilian Production Administration: Iron and Steel (1946).
a. Correspondence: re: need for steel; shortages of pig iron and coke on the Pacific coast; steel needed for production of garbage containers.
b. Excerpt from Federal Register: Part 944 - Regulations Applicable to the Operations of the Priorities System.
F 8c: Civilian Production Administration: Fabrics and Textiles (1946).
a. Correspondence: re: Protest against the amount of rayon allocated; shortage of many cotton fabrics; shortage of mattress ticking; need for muslin goods.
b. Excerpt from Federal Register: re: Part 3290 - Textile, Clothing and Leather.
F 9: Civil Service Commission: Legislation and Policy.
a. Correspondence: re: Reduction in appropriations; delay in obtaining refunds of retirement deductions; reduction in classification; S. 1415; possible closing of branch office in L.A., California; H. R. 4223, to amend the Civil Service Retirement Act.
b. Bill: U.S. Civil Service Commission: "Civil Service Retirement Act of May 28, 1930."
c. Petition: re: Urging of passage of S. 595.
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