Box DP 4

Cotton textile imports from Japan; Inter-American Highway; reduction in Public Lands Highways appropriations; establishment of Trade Policy Committee; correspondents include Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks.

Patent applications; requests for information; General Information Concerning Patents, February 1957, a booklet.

Precipitation maps of Oklahoma; list of rainfall at various locations in Oklahoma in May 1957.

Census searches; opening of census search office in Pittsburg, Kansas; blank application for search of census records; inclusion of radio and television questions in 1960 census.

Reactivation of medical research laboratory at Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City; inclusion of Tulakes Airport in Oklahoma City in Federal-aid Airport Program; installation of Very High Frequency Omni-directional Radio Range, VOR, near Kingfisher; employment; postponement of installation of VOR near Hugo.

Press release regarding functions of Trade Policy Committee; imports of stainless steel table flatware; bipartisan commission on world trade; relationship of domestic crude oil production to oil imports; shipping charges for package sent from France; analysis of bills about international trade; request for weather station at Coweta.

Patent and copyright inquiries.

Idea for national system of turnpikes; road construction; interstate highways; regulation of outdoor advertising; construction of interstate highway though Tinker Air Force Base; requirement that 90 percent of construction project employees be Oklahoma residents; Bureau of Public Roads analysis of Reader's Digest article on interstate highway program.

Complaints about Census of Business; census search.

Regulations governing cosmetology in foreign countries; commercial information on Kyoko Trading Company of Osaka, Japan; confirmation vote on Lewis Strauss as secretary of commerce; correspondents include Lewis Strauss.