Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, 1957

Accomplishments of civil works projects in Oklahoma through June 1957; acquisition of mission property for Fort Sill expansion; civil works budget sought for fiscal year 1958; remarks by Chief of Engineers E. C. Itschner before Mississippi Valley Association, entitled "One Big Basin"; release of water from reservoirs in southwestern states; funding for McGee Bend Dam; cottage site development in reservoir areas; relocation of reservoir area roads; change in reservoir homesite purchase procedure; interest in performing survey work for Keystone Dam and Reservoir project; request for information on Department of Defense activities that influence location of industry; policies pertaining to monthly payments to contractors for government work; request for Eufaula Lake legal work; disapproval of hot water generator for Altus Air Force Base swimming pool; promotion of Assistant Chief of Engineers John L. Person; employee discharge; construction of nitroguanadine plant at Pryor and projects at Muskogee and Altus; acquisition of land around Eufaula Reservoir; Hickory Creek investigation; dispute over contract with Concho Construction Company; relocation of town of Mannford; condition of roads around Heyburn Reservoir; guided missile program at Fort Sill; preliminary examination for Oklahoma City area project; flooding of land below Pensacola Dam.