Box 46: 80th and 81st Congresses, General Files: Calender - Channel Heights (1947-1951).
F 1: Calender.
Correspondence: re: opposition to a blank day calender.
F 2: California Cannery Employees.
Press Release: "N.L.R.B. Approves $205,000 Back Pay Settlement for $1,326 California Cannery Employees Allegedly Fired Illegally." (September 2, 1949).
F 3: California Delegation.
a. Correspondence: re: Benicice arsenal; Helen Gahagan Douglas selected to serve as a delegate; Colorado River Water problem; California Centennial Celebration; cloud nucleation by seeding; appointments to positions; Calaveras Big Tree Controversy; federal highway funds. Correspondents include: Chet Holifield - CA; Harry Sheppard - CA; Clair Engle - CA.
b. Proposed Research Bureau Service to California Congressional Delegation.
F 4: California (State of) Drought.
a. Correspondence: re: drought
b. Copy of clipping.
c. Resolution No. 33: Relating to the grazing of cattle in Yosemite National Park.
F 5: California Housing Association.
Correspondence and data: general.
F 6: California Legislative.
a. Copies of various resolutions.
b. Report of Assemble Interim Committee on Soil Conservation.
F 7: California: Miscellaneous, data.
a. Economic Survey Report; Economic data.
b. Booklet: Department of Industrial Relations: "Report for Governor's Council" (May 1950).
c. News Release: "California" (June 9, 1950).
F 8: California Oil Workers (strike).
a. Correspondence: re: International Oil Workers Strike against the Shell Oil Company; unfair labor.
b. Copies of clippings.
F 9: California Politics.
Correspondence: re: support for Harry S. Truman; political situation in California.
F 10: California State Assembly.
Correspondence and copies of various resolutions.
F 11: California State Society.
General Correspondence.
F 12: California War Memorial Park Association.
a. Correspondence: re: preserving the sugar pines.
b. Copy of clippings.
c. Article: "Fate of Big Trees War Memorial."
F 13: California Water.
a. Correspondence: re: water shortage.
b. Pamphlet: "California's Water Problems."
c. Data from State Water Resources Board.
F 14: Cancer Bill Fight.
a. Correspondence: re: appropriations for research.
b. Fact Sheet: I and II re: cancer.
c. Information Sheet: "Do the People of the United States Need A National Health Insurance Program?"
d. Information Sheet: "What is the Mental Health Situation in the United States Today?"
e. Fact Sheet I and II: re: "Diseases of the Heart and Arteries."
f. Information Sheet: "What Is The Tuberculosis Situation in the United States Today?"
F 15: Census Bureau.
a. Correspondence: re: employment for enumerators.
b. Qualifications and Conditions of Employment for Enumerators for the Seventeenth Decennial Census of 1950."
c. Script for Dr. Peel's Congressional Radio Recording.
d. Various Press Releases.
e. 1950 Census of Population - Preliminary Counts.
F 16a: Central Valley: Correspondence and Data (1947-1948).
a. Correspondence: re: Pending bill pertaining to the Central Valley Project; 160 acre limit on water supply.
b. Report: "Central Valley" (March 25, 1947).
c. Copy of clippings.
d. Article: "Will We Americans Hear and Listen to the Sound of Time?"
F 16b: Central Valley: Correspondence and Data (1949-1950).
a. Correspondence: re: Appropriations; 160 acre limit; naming of the dam - "Jedediah Smith Dam".
b. Copies of clippings.
c. Memorandum: "Kings River Power Licensing."
d. Statement on 1951 Appropriation for the Bureau of Reclamation Work in California.
e. Pamphlet: "California's Water Problems."
f. Open letter: "May Cup of Water."
F 16c: Central Valley: Data.
a. Booklet: "Analysis of Proposed Contract Between United States and Orange Cove Irrigation District." 29 pages.
b. Booklet: "Water Is Wet and Everything."
c. Four Charts and a Descriptive Text: Project for the Central Valley Basin.
d. Pamphlet: "Solano Water Project."
e. Statement: Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: H. R. 163, Engle - Scudder Bill.
f. H. R. 1977: Lemke: "To amend and reenact section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Public Lands.
g. H. R. 2873: Rockwell: "To amend certain provisions of the Reclamation PRoject Act of 1939." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Public Lands.
h. H. R. 2874: Rockwell: "To amend certain provisions of the Federal reclamation laws." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Public Lands.
F 17: Channel Heights.
Correspondence: re: Possible sale of the Channel Heights Federal Housing Project.
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