Box PJ 5
Container
Contains 85 Collections and/or Records:
Fort Supply Reservoir, 1935
File — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 71
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_71_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: proposed construction of the needed Fort Supply Reservoir. Correspondents include Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Fort Supply Reservoir, 1937
File — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 72
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_72_0000
Scope and Contents
Most of the material in the Thomas Collection was created during his senatorial years. Because Thomas served over half of his years in the Senate during the Great Depression and World War II, the collection is an excellent source on the history of the nation and Oklahoma during the 1930s and 1940s. The files reflect the national debate over these two major crises and include opinions of colleagues, figures in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, and other prominent personalities. Because...
Fort Supply Reservoir, 1946-1947
File — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 73
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_73_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: problems with the accumulation of silt; the use of the Fort Supply Reservoir as a state recreational facility.
Correspondence, undated
Item — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_10_1
Scope and Contents
Canton Reservoir; Fort Gibson Reservoir; Jenks levee; Wister Reservoir; Braden bottom levee; Oklahoma City flood control; Eufaula Reservoir; Hulah Reservoir; Tenkiller Ferry Reservoir; Polecat Creek; Coralville Dam, Iowa; South Canadian River and tributaries; Seneca, Lost Creek, Missouri; Pierce City, Missouri; Hickory Creek, Missouri.
House Document 758, 1946
Item — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_10_2
Scope and Contents
Arkansas River and tributaries Arkansas and Oklahoma-Letter from the Secretary of War; Committee on Rivers and Harbors; Seventy-Ninth Congress, Second Session
Correspondence, undated
Item — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 37
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_37_1
Scope and Contents
Construction of Fort Gibson Dam.
HR 4183, 1944
Item — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 37
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_37_2
Scope and Contents
Elmer Thomas Amendment. "Intended to be proposed by Mr. Thomas of Oklahoma to the bill (H. R. 4183) making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30,1945, for civil functions administered by the War Dept. And for other purposes." Means to incorporate the food shortage into a need for flood control projects; Seventy-Eighth Congress, Second Session
Correspondence, undated
Item — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 53
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_53_1
Scope and Contents
Prospect of Fort Reno being made into a veterans' hospital and making the surplus land available to veterans.
S. 766, 1945
Item — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 53
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_53_2
Scope and Contents
Elmer Thomas Bill. "To provide for disposition of the lands compromising the Fort Reno Military Reservation, in Canadian County, Oklahoma." Committee of Military Affairs; Seventy-Ninth Congress, First Session
Correspondence, undated
Item — Box: PJ 5, Folder: 60
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_5_60_1
Scope and Contents
Construction of buildings at Fort Sill.