Box 83: 81st Congress, Legislative Files: Actions - Colorado River Controversy (1949-1951).
F 1: Actions - major.
Voting Record of the Senate, 1st Session, 81st Congress (March 1950).
F 2: Alaska, Statehood for.
a. Correspondence: re: statehood.
b. House Report No. 255 (H. R. 331): Redden: "Providing for the Admission of Alaska into the Union 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.
c. H. R. 331: Bartlett: "To provide for the Admission of Alaska into the Union." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.
d. Fact Sheet on statehood for Alaska.
F 3: Anti-Lynch Bill.
Correspondence: re: anti-lynch legislation.
F 4: Anti-Trust.
Correspondence: re: H. R. 7905.
F 5: Appropriations.
a. Correspondence: re: automatic typing machines for members of Congress; H. R. 7786; Subsidy Limitation in Omnibus Appropriation Bill; appropriations for heart research; funds for insect quarantine; H. R. 7941, Whittington Bill; Forestry Budget.
b. P. L. 81-146 (H. R. 3997): "Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other purposes."
F 6: Armed Forces Pay Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: military pay bill.
b. Public law 81-351 (H. R. 5007): "To provide pay, allowances, and physical disability retirement for members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Guard, and the Air National Guard, and for other purposes.
F 7: Armed Services.
a. Correspondence: re: disability retirement pay benefits; correction of military record; reduction in size; reenlistment.
b. Memorandum: J. W. Roper: "Plan to Reduce Number of appointments to the U. S. Naval Academy in Fiscal Year 1952." (May 26, 1950).
F 8: Atlantic Pact.
a. Correspondence: re: military aid bill; Mundt-Ferguson Bill; Atlantic Pact.
b. Copy of article: Harold L. Ickes: "Man To Man."
F 9: Bankruptcy - Uniform System of. (H. R. 3388).
Correspondence: re: H. R. 3388; H. R. 3112; S. 938; H. R. 1194, Lemke Bill.
F 10: Barden Bill.
Correspondence: re: Federal aid to education.
F 11: Basin Point Bill (S. 1008).
a. Correspondence: re: opposition to S. 1008.
b. Speech: Dr. Vernon A. Mundt: "The Injurious Effects of S. 1008 on the West, The South, and the Entire Nation."
F 12: Belasco Theater.
a. S. 2167: Mr. Paul Douglas - Illinois: "To provide for the lease of the Belasco Theater to the American National Theater and Academy for the presentation of theatrical and musical productions, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Public Works.
b. Article: Eleanor Roosevelt: "Washington Should Have One Theater Open To All." (January 13, 1949).
c. Statement: Paul H. Douglas: re: Bill to restore the Belasco Theatre to be Introduced June 29, 1949.
d. Articles: "Theater For Washington" and "Belasco Theater." (June 19, 1948).
F 13: Brannon Farms Program.
a. Correspondence: re: Brannon plan.
b. Quarterly Report (May 22, 1949).
c. Pamphlet: "A Resume of Agricultural Policy and Program Recommendations." (November 1949).
d. Periodical: Government Affairs: Vol. 6, No. 202 (December 19490.
e. Copy of clipping.
F 14: Cancer Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: cancer research.
b. Booklet: "Cancer of the Breast."
c. Booklet: "Cancer of the Digestive Tract."
d. Booklet: "Cancer of the Mouth and Respiratory Tract."
e. Booklet: "Cancer of the Female Reproductive Organs."
f. Pamphlet: "Cancer - What to Know, What To Do About It."
g. Pamphlet: Gustave C. Hoenes: "The Curse and Possible Cure of Cancer."
h. Copy of clipping.
i. Article: S. M. Seidlin, M. D." "Spontaneous and Experimentally Induced Uptake of Radioactive Iodine in Metastasis From Thyroid Carcinoma: A Preliminary Report."
j. Release: re: publications on cancer (December 12, 1949).
F 15: Central Valley.
a. Correspondence: re: Central Valley project; water supply; funding.
b. Copies of clippings.
c. Report: Central Valley I.
d. Report: Central Valley II.
e. Statements by Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: Central Valley.
f. Statement and release: Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: H. R. 163, Engle - Scudder Bill.
g. House Report: No. 765 (H. R. 163): Engle - CA: "Authorizing Sacramento Valley Irrigation Canals, Central Valley Project, California." 81st Congress, 1st (1949). Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.
h. H. R. 163: "To authorize Sacramento Valley Irrigation Canals, Central Valley Project, California." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
F 16: Children.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 6000, social insurance system.
b. Testimony of Helen Gahagan Douglas on H. J. Res. 425, "To establish a National Children's Day."
F 17: Civil Rights.
Correspondence: re: civil rights.
F 18: Colorado River Controversy: Correspondence and Data. (February - May 1949).
a. Correspondence: re: Colorado River Rights; Arizona Water Project.
b. Copies of clippings.
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