Box DP 6
Container
Contains 168 Collections and/or Records:
Press Release, 1959
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 38
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_38_2
Scope and Contents
Department of Defense: $864,848,000 Sought for Civil Works Program of Army Engineers in Fiscal Year 1960" (January 19, 1959). Civil Works Budget Schedule and Project Outline attached.
Press Release, 1959
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 38
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_38_3
Scope and Contents
Department of Defense: "Brigadier General William F. Cassidy Named Assistant Chief of Army Engineers for Civil Works" (July 22, 1959).
Correspondence
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 39
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_39_1
Scope and Contents
Re: proposed 300,000 acre acquisition to enlarge Ft. Sill's missile capability and the adverse effect this enlargement would have on local economy.
Leaflet, undated
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 39
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_39_2
Scope and Contents
SOS from the Shortgrass Calling All America (undated).
Booklet, 1958
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 39
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_39_3
Scope and Contents
Reader's Digest excerpt reprint: "Do the Armed Forces Need a 35-Million-Acre Empire" by Charles Stevenson (July 1958).
Newspaper clippings.
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 39
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_39_4
Scope and Contents
The Morris Collection is quite complete, encompassing materials from all five of his terms in office. Morris gave this collection to the University of Oklahoma over a period of years beginning in 1952. Consisting of 53 cubic feet of material, the collection covers the period 1946-1960. It is strongest on subjects of a local concern to western Oklahoma. Among the items found in the collection are correspondence, bills, publications, clippings, and photographs. An additional donation was made to...
Correspondence
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 40
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_40_1
Scope and Contents
Re: low altitude flight of jet planes in Ft. Sill area; effect of closing of Camp Chaffee on Ft. Sill; dental care for military dependents; liquor sales on base; Medical Care Program for military personnel and their dependents; expenditures for Ft. Sill in fiscal year 1959; Military Construction Authorization Bill for Ft. Sill; pay drill status for Reserve units; TM membership in Military Order of Saint Barbara; speeches and dialogues in House of Representatives.
Conference Report 1146 (H. R. 8575), 1959
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 40
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_40_2
Scope and Contents
"Military Construction Appropriation Bill, 1960." Eighty-sixth Congress; First Session (September 3, 1959).
Correspondence
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 42
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_42_1
Scope and Contents
Re: expansion of base and roll of Fort Sill as conventional artillery and surface-to-surface missile training center.
Press Release, undated
Item — Box: DP 6, Folder: 42
Identifier: CAC_CC_040_2_6_42_2
Scope and Contents
Department of Defense: "First Two Lacrosse Missile Units to Be Activated at Ft. Sill" (undated).