Box LG 2

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Information on cotton, peanuts, rice, and wheat, copies of numerous bills, correspondents include Commodity Credit Corporation, Oklahoma Cotton Ginners Association, Department of Agriculture, Carl Albert, Allen J. Ellender.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Kerr Collection mainly consists of materials generated during the Senate years. However, there are several cubic feet of documents that relate to his years as Oklahoma's governor. Because of Kerr's devotion to conservation work, there is a significant amount of documentation on both Oklahoma and non-Oklahoma projects. As with so many of Oklahoma's lawmakers, there is a large amount of material regarding agriculture and Native Americans. Finally one of the most valuable parts of the...

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Copy of S. 2702, to encourage sale of cotton for export, correspondents include Victor Wickersham, National Cotton Ginners Association.

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Copy of S. 629, to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out drought management, S. 1852, to amend Federal Crop Insurance Act, correspondents include, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, Department of Agriculture, Oklahoma Cotton Ginners Association.

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Copy of S. 1286, Farm Credit Act of 1955, correspondence concerning production credit corporations and production credit associations.

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January - June, typescript, "The Ills of Agriculture," National Farmers Union Washington Newsletter, "Benson vs. the Farmer," statement of National Farmers Union at hearings on appropriations for Department of Agriculture, Public Affairs Institute Column, "The Farmers' Plight Worsens," copy of S.J. Res. 20, to state explicitly the long-standing national policy to preserve and strengthen the family farm, references to Ezra Taft Benson, correspondents include John H. Mayhew.

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July - December, references to Ezra Taft Benson, copies of National Farmers Union Washington Newsletter, speech materials on farm program issued by Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, statement of James G. Patton, president of National Farmers Union, regarding needed improvements in federal farm price and income policies, there is a letter from a group of senators to Ezra Taft Benson.

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S. 2106, to amend Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act; correspondence concerning trying to obtain loans, correspondents include L. E. Rader of Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare, Gordon Allott, Oklahoma Farmers Union, national and state offices of FHA.

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Information on a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing held in Stillwater, Oklahoma, senators who accepted the invitation to appear included Andrew F. Schoeppel and Milton R. Young, correspondents include Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Cotton Ginners Association.

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Correspondents include Walter Rogers.