Box LG 2
Container
Contains 31 Collections and/or Records:
Agriculture, Acreage Allotments, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 21
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_21_0000
Scope and Contents
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.
Agriculture, Castor Bean, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 22
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_22_0000
Scope and Contents
The Kerr Collection consists of over 368 linear feet of materials, the majority of which includes materials generated during his years in the Senate, though the Gubernatorial series does relate to his years as Oklahoma’s governor. As a Senator, Kerr was involved in a variety of issues and reforms of national and state prominence including conservation projects, the development of the space program, Native Americans issues and concerns, healthcare insurance reform, and agriculture....
Agriculture, Cotton, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 23
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_23_0000
Scope and Contents
Copy of S. 2702, to encourage sale of cotton for export, correspondents include Victor Wickersham, National Cotton Ginners Association.
Agriculture, Drought, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_24_0000
Scope and Contents
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.
Agriculture, Farm Credit Administration, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 25
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_25_0000
Scope and Contents
Copy of S. 1286, Farm Credit Act of 1955, correspondence concerning production credit corporations and production credit associations.
Agriculture, Farm Program, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 26
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_26_0000
Scope and Contents
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.
Agriculture, Farm Program, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 27
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_27_0000
Scope and Contents
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.
Agriculture, Farmers Home Administration, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_28_0000
Scope and Contents
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.
Agriculture, Field Hearing, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 29
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_29_0000
Scope and Contents
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.
Agriculture, Grain Sorghum, 1955
File — Box: LG 2, Folder: 30
Identifier: CAC_CC_31_3_2_30_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Walter Rogers.