Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, 1955

Awarding of construction contracts for work in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas; Markham Ferry project; bid to supply electrical equipment for Buford Dam in Georgia; flooding of recreational areas around Canton Reservoir; extension of agricultural leases around Fort Gibson Reservoir; request to raise the water level of Heyburn Reservoir; attempt to lease land at Fort Gibson Reservoir; proposed North Boggy Creek dam; meeting with Carl Albert and Tulsa District officials on Eufaula Dam, Little River Basin Project and Kiamichi Dam; sale of leased land around reservoirs to the lessees; McCurtain County Land Utilization Project; data on total authorized civil works program of the Corps in certain river basins throughout the U. S.; Water Resources Associated meeting; authorization of Canton Project; water navigation in central Oklahoma; Arkansas River navigation project; cafeteria concessions at Oklahoma Ordnance Works project; Emergency Flood Repair program; report on economics of navigation improvements; moving costs for landowners from whom land has been acquired by the government; cost of mechanical lift locks; invitation to Chief of Engineers Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr. to speak at Arkansas Basin Development Association meeting; possibility of building two dams instead of one at Keystone; conservation storage in federal reservoirs; correspondents include Carl Albert.