Newsletters, 1951

Topics include: agriculture as a defense industry; the Farm-Our First Line of Defense; the housing industry; Altus Air Force Base reactivation; civil defense; mental test for draft exemption; inspection of new radar and defense installations in Alaska; Altus, Oklahoma, Municipal Airport project; Clinton contact office retained; CCC loans extended; farm storage urged; Washington visitor; Servicemen's Insurance Bill passed; Mrs. A. B. Snipes stricken; Indian claim bill introduced; congressman's daughter honored; Legion convention; architects selected for Oklahoma jobs; progress made on Washita and Cobb Creek projects; no CAA funds available for Shattuck; post office at Rhea kept; dependents travel ban lifted; rotation; firm attitude toward Russia urged by Oklahomans; loan approved; increase payments on wheat crop insurance; R.E.A. convention mobilization; poultry advisory committee; cotton and cotton seed; Navy shipbuilding program; Congress has busy week; Farmers Home Administration reports; Mrs. A. B. Snipes dies; large cotton acreage urged; oil crisis in Iran; congressmen call Communist's hand; agriculture as defense industry; price ceiling on raw cotton; overtaxing of facilities at Lackland Air Base; branch offices for the Office of Price Stabilization in Oklahoma City; Manpower Bill taking form; Gallaudet College the world's only college for the deaf; Armed Services Committee; "ground floor" in Congress; " A Friend In Need..."; "In Washington with Victor Wickersham"; reactivation of the air bases at Clinton, Altus and Frederick; concerning discussion of the revolving credit loan fund; relief and employment of Indians; Fred Harris's rare disease; Korean situation; possibilities of a flood control and reclamation project near Mangum and Mountain View, Oklahoma.