C Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 2271 64 linear feet, 4 oversize volumes

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INTRODUCTION Papers of a Democratic governor of Missouri, 1957-1961.

DONOR INFORMATION The papers were donated to the University of Missouri by James T. Blair, Jr. on 25 February 1961 (Accession No. 3470).

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The papers have been arranged into the following ten series: Correspondence and Speeches; Governors’ Conference; Veterans’ Papers; Special Commissions and Studies; State Offices and Departments; Judiciary; County Problems and Requests; Applications and Appointments; Legislative Material; and Bound Volumes. For more detailed series descriptions, please see the folder list.

FOLDER LIST

Correspondence and Speeches Series

f. 1-2 U.S. Service Academy Appointments, January 1957-October 1960. Constituents' requests for the governor's support for candidates for appointment to the service academies. f. 3-4 Adoption of Children, March 1957-May 1960. Requests from constituents for the Governor's support in their efforts to adopt children. See also f. 364-372 and 484-489. f. 5-6 Agricultural Hall of Fame, September 1958-February 1960. Requests for support for establishing the Hall of Fame in the Kansas City area. Site choice progress reports. Problems of Hall of Fame organization. f. 7-20 Aircraft, February 1957-June 1958. Efforts to sell the Executive Office a plane for the Governor's use. f. 21-24 U. S. Air Force, September 1957-June 1960. Reports on the Missouri Air Force Volunteers; SAC; Invitation to attend fire power demonstration at Whiteman Air Force Base, Sedalia, Missouri; Governor's efforts to have space equipment display for the Jefferson City Science Fair, April, 1961, and a U.S.A.F. Thunderbird demonstration. f. 25-29 Aviation. Efforts to obtain air service for Rolla; Jefferson City Flying Club constitution and regulations; Missouri Pilots' Association; Federal Aviation Act of 1958. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 2 f. 30-31 Alcohol, February 1957-August 1960. Local option; complaints about littering highways with cans and bottles; national seminar on alcoholism; dope and alcohol education for public schools. f. 32-33 American Legion, December 1956-October 1960. Dedication of Legion Post buildings; national directory of the American Legion; Veteran's Day observation; invitation to attend Legion meetings; Legion statements on foreign relations, September 1958. f. 34-35 Public Health and Welfare, May-October 1958. Speech before the American Public Health Association on nursing homes, water pollution, etc.; speech to the American Public Welfare Association, St. Louis. f. 36 American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, September-October 1958. Governor's tickets to the 1958 American Royal in Kansas City. f. 37 Archaeology, November 1958-January 1959. Memorial pamphlet to Jesse B. Wrench, founder of the Missouri Archaeological Society; report on the Missouri River Basin archaeology. f. 38-40 U. S. Armed Forces, August 1957-April 1960. Conferences on military problems; Industrial College of the Armed Forces; plight of a Kansas City Army Reserve unit; comments on the Reserve Officer Association; Armed Forces Day observation. See also f. 21-24. f. 41 Audubon Society, December, 1957. Effects of insecticides on wildlife. f. 42 Autographs, December, 1956. Requests for pictures and autographs of Blair. f. 43-50 Autograph Seekers. Requests for autographs and photographs especially after election. Requests from school children for inclusion in social studies' collections. f. 51-54 Missouri Bar Association, January 1957-November 1960. Questions concerning the Bar exam; complaints about miscarriages of justice; list of Bar Presidents; list of judges; 1958 Bar Committee; Lincoln County irregularities; traffic conference; Bar Association socia1 affairs; politics of Oregon County, Missouri. f. 55 Thomas Hart Benton, January-March 1957. Benton correspondence with Blair; discusses Governor's colonels. f. 56-58 Blair Family, March 1957-October 1960. Blair family genealogy; comments on Blair family history. Blair's mother named Missouri Mother of the Year, 1958; letters of congratulation. See f. 555-557. f. 59 Blue Book, October 1957. Materials for the Blue Book; requests for copies. f. 60 Bonds, October 1957-November 1959. Expired corporations; bond taxation exemption and the problems of selling municipal bonds when dividends are taxable; pressure on Governor by the National Committee for Municipal Bonds, Inc., for tax exemption status. f. 61-64 Boy Scouts of America, February 1957-June 1960. Scout thanks to Blair for talks, 1uncheons, etc.; requests for State flag for jamborees; Blair speech on Eagle Scout Recognition Day; Blair speech to "Show Me" Service Area coordinated finance campaign. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 3 f. 65-71 Brussel's World's Fair, August 1957-April 1958. Correspondence between Blair and U. S. Department of State on work in the United States' Pavilion at Brussels; Missouri's quota for guides; inquiries about jobs; solicitation of funds to support guides at Fair; and 1ist of organizations asked to contribute. f. 72 Clarence Cannon, April 1957-July 1959. Correspondence between Cannon and Blair on federal-state sharing of welfare costs recommendations on patronage; Mississippi River Parkway; flood control; irrigation. f. 73-76 Capital Punishment, March 1957-January 1961. Letters pressuring Blair to support repeal of capital punishment; inquiries on Missouri's use of capital punishment. f. 77 Capitols, March, 1955-June 1959. Short description of Jefferson City Capitol; restoration of St. Charles Capitol building, lobbying. f. 78 Carnegie Corporation, 1958. Annual report of the Carnegie Corporation. f. 79 Catholic Central Society, August 1958. Blair speech before the Catholic Central Society and National Catholic Women's Union. f. 80 Census, March 1960. Discussion of the 1960 census, merits of more frequent census. f. 81-82 Chamber of Commerce, April 1957-March 1958. List of Junior Chamber of Commerce executives; Chemical Corn Exchange Bank Bulletin. f. 83-93 Students, January 1957-January 1961. Request for information about Missouri; statehood for Puerto Rico; Blair discusses long time desire to be governor; request for visits with Blair on school trips to the capitol; Blair comments on foreign aid; better education; mock political conventions; communism and education; and good citizenship. f. 94 Chiropractic Society, October 1957. Messages of concern over Blair's illness and joy over recovery efforts to place chiropractic doctors on State Hospital staff. f. 95-111 Civil, Human and States Rights. Missouri Human Rights Commission. Problems of discrimination in jobs, education, housing, and by police. Resolutions of legislatures in Tennessee, Florida and Texas on Supreme Court decision and use of troops in Little Rock, Arkansas. Problems of integration. Speech of Blair before Human Rights Commission. f. 112-113 Civil Service, February 1957-December 1960. Federal employees retirement; patronage; political participation by federal employees. f. 114 Civil War. Centennial material on the Civil War, January 1957-April 1960. f. 115 Coal. Information on the coal industry, February 1959. f. 116-122 Missouri Colonels, January 1957-September 1960. Selection of colonels; letters of appreciation on being appointed; state patronage; Blair's staff organization; discussion of loyalty of colonels; portrait of first lady; treasurer's report; Hawaiian statehood. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 4 f . 123-127 Communism, February 1957-October 1960. Socialistic experience in Italy; protests on Tito's visit to the United States; warning of international communist conspiracy; United Nations; NATO; protests on Khrushchev's visit to United States; Canadian trade relation with Communist China; concern over socialists and immigrants who hold jobs at expense of native Americans. f. 128-130 Legislators, January 1957-December 1960. Campaign expenditures; congressional congratulatory messages to Blair; Missouri river control; efforts by Congressmen to help state employees keep and get jobs with the state; voter participation. f. 131-146 Consuls, January 1953-October 1960. File from the Donnelly Administration on consular activity in Missouri; discussion of legislation to provide identification cards for consular personnel; diplomatic immunity and privileges; speech by Blair on Israel at testimonial dinner for Abba Eban, Ambassador to the U. S. from Israel; Blair speech at dinner honoring Israeli Ambassador Avraham Harman. f. 147-156 Corn and Cotton, December 1958-February 1959. Blair speech before the Corn Belt Live Stock Feeders Association Annual Convention in St. Louis, February 4, 1959, on the value of public relations in feed; copies of The Livestock Feeder; Corn Products Refining Company booklet on processing corn; Governor's recommendation for position with Farm Labor Advisory Committee; summary by the W. G. Buie Company of Southeast Missouri on the problem and future of the cotton industry. f. 157-165 Crackpots, February 1957-May 1960. Constituents seeking information on legal aid and justice. Such topics as Alaskan gold, cybernetics, eligible daughters, perfumes, prostitution, religion in school, tornadoes; church-state separation; crime corruption; school bombings and anti-Semitism are discussed. f. 166 Credit Cards, January 1957-June 1958. Companies issuing Blair credit cards for gasoline and lodging. f. 167 Cuba, April 1958. Discussion by exiled Cuban legislators; anti-Batista opinions. f. 168 Cumberland University, March 1957-June 1958. Blair's efforts to get students into Cumberland. Blair was alumnus of Cumberland; congratulatory letters on Blair's inaugural by former classmates; speech by Blair to college. f. 169 Cystic Fibroses Research Campaign, February 1957. Blair's cooperation in fund raising; information concerning disease. f. 170-171 Thomas J. Dailey, June 1958-August 1958. Dailey, an Iowa state senator, was a candidate for Congress, and a friend of Blair's. Blair spoke at testimonial dinner for Dailey. f. 172 Lar S. Daly, October 1957. Complaint on refusal of mass communication industry and the F.C.C. to grant equal time to Daly in politics; Daly asking Blair to have the State of Missouri become a friend of the court in his fight. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 5 f. 173 Daylight Savings Time, April 1957-November 1960. Requests for information and complaints about Daylight Savings time. f. 174 Defense, July 1958-September 1959. U. S. Corps of Engineers discussion about contracts let for the Nike Hercules missile installations around St. Louis. Blair's opposition to Eisenhower cut in manpower reserve. f. 175-206 Democratic Party, January1957-August1960. Missouri Democratic Central Committee; recommendations for Benton County Probate Judge; County Committee vacancy; Meramec State Park patronage; campaign funds solicitation; Democratic Clubs; Democratic National Committee; 1956 election critique by Paul Butler; Dollars for Democrats Drive, organization of fund raising campaign; Democratic Programs for Action; Foreign and Military policy; urban problem discussed by Democratic Advisory Council; 1960 Democratic National Convention organizational materials; state contribution to National Party; call for state convention; endorsement of Symington; Missouri delegates; Kennedy, Nixon, Stevenson; Civil rights; Truman's support of Symington; Kennedy's desire for Blair support; Kennedy organization; Missouri Democratic State Committee. (See also f. 778, 788-789.) f. 207 Disabled American Veterans April-December, 1957. Miniature automobile license sale; discussion of benefits of D.A.V., Disabled American Veterans Organization. f. 208-209 Divorce, April 1957-September 1958. Inquiries about Missouri divorce laws and legal help for indigent. f. 210 Doctors and Drugs, May 1957-December 1959. Discussion of the American Medical Association monopoly over medical practitioners; comment on Kefauver drug investigation. f. 211-218 Donations, January 1957-December 1960. Solicitation for gifts; requests for pipes, salt and pepper shakers, money, articles to auction, artificial leg. Information on the construction of the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland and on Indiana Science Fair. f. 219-221 Automobile Drivers, March 1957-December 1960. Requests for reinstatement of expired licenses. Legislation. Drunk drivers and solutions to problems. (See also f. 594-603, 726-730.) f. 222-223 Electrical Industry, 1958. Dun's Review and Modern Industry advertisement by Union Electric promoting St. Louis. Empire District Electric annual report of Joplin, Missouri. f. 224 Extra-Sensory Perception, March 1958. A discussion of extra-sensory perception power in regard to drowning school children. f. 225-230 Farming, January, 1957-October, 1960. Blair speech before the annual meeting of the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation in Jefferson City, November 19, 1957. Discusses federal aid to education and relationship of federal to state governments. Farm problems: milk prices, food surpluses, acreage allotments, soil bank and conservation plight of C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 6

small subsistence farm; Gaylord Nelson on farm problem. f. 231-234 Fires and Fireworks, June 1957-February 1960. Promotion of a state bureau of fire protection; rural fire protection difficulties; inquiries on duties of State Fire Marshall; complaints against fireworks, their dangers and annoyances. f. 235-239 Flags and Seals, January 1957-December 1960. Requests for a flag of Missouri for promotional reasons from Boy Scouts, churches, patriotic groups, and rodeos. f. 240 Florissant, Missouri, March 1957. Restoration of oldest Catholic Church in Missouri. f. 241 Fluoridation, April 1957-September 1959. Discussion of fluoridation. f. 242-247 Foreign Relations, January 1957-November 1960. Requests for aid to individual foreigners; statement on Eisenhower's Middle-East program; visitors from Australia; Hungarian immigrants; Suez; Brazilian promotion of Missouri Commerce; ethnic organizations soliciting advertisements for their bulletins; Goodwill tour to South America; disarmament; world banking; Washington Peace Pageant. f. 248-249 Forestry, May 1957-April 1959. Promotional material on Louisiana Forestry; National Forest Service report on "A Program for National Forests." f. 250-254 Gambling, February 1957-January 1960. Complaints of gambling; State Fair gambling; opposition to dog racing; requests for bookmaking; Pemiscot County gambling; Cooper County gambling; discussion of legalized gambling for revenue. f. 255 Associated General Contractors of Missouri, January 1959. Blair speech before contractors' convention at Kansas City, discussing highway construction. f. 256-273 Governor's Health, March 1957-July 1960. Get Well letters to Blair. Blair was hospitalized in Jefferson City with virus, had an auto accident, had a physical examination in Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, and was later hospitalized in Kansas City at St. Luke's Hospital. Letter from R. R. Nacy informing Blair that the executive office is being run well by Lieutenant Governor Long. Blair hospitalized in Los Angeles, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after 1960 Democratic Convention. f. 274 Governor's Car, January 1957-October 1958. Efforts by various auto dealers attempting to sell Blair a car. f. 275-282 Governor's Mansion, January 1957-October 1960. Blair criticizes conditions in the Executive Mansion. Letters of protest. Women's Clubs pressure for restoration of mansion. Tours of mansion and applications for jobs in mansion. f. 283-300 Governor's Greetings, January 1957-November1960. Congratulatory messages on election, prayers, appointments, and general complimentary notes; Birthday greetings; comments on Blair and his legislature; tourists, souvenirs, highway litterbugs, and Soviet Threat. f. 301 Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. February 1957-September 1960. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 7

Correspondence between Blair and Hennings on aid to the blind, St. Louis election commission, federal surplus food, National Recreation areas for the Current River and Eleven Point River. Hennings' refusal to be delegate to Democratic National Convention. f. 302 Luther H. Hodges, July 1958-May 1960. Letter of introduction from Hodges. Speech of Blair introducing Hodges to Missouri Bankers Association. Hodges' speech on industrial development of Missouri. f. 303-308 Holidays, February 1957-November 1960. Directives to State Departments concerning holidays; lunch hours for employees; state employees' letters to Blair about holidays; list of holidays celebrated by ethnic groups. f. 309-311 Housing, February1957-October 1960. Public housing inquiries; requirements for living in public housing; suggested use of Jefferson Barracks as public housing; St. Louis Housing Authority; rent controls; Jefferson City real estate. f. 312-313 Hubert H. Humphrey, April 1958-April 1959. Humphrey reports on food and fiber as forces for freedom; proposed Youth Conservation Corps; Food for Peace Program. f. 314 Hungarian Revolt, May 1958-October 1959. Efforts to locate employment for refugees; registration of shock at repression of revolt. See also f. 583. f. 315-331 Inauguration, November 1956-November 1960. Invitations to the gubernatorial inauguration, letters of congratulation; letters of appreciation to participants in festivities; parade list; Blair's participation in Presidential inauguration. f. 332 Independent Petroleum Association February 1957-May 1957. Discussion of crude oil pricing. Lobbying efforts at the national level over crude oil status. f. 333 Inland Waterways, February 1958. Information on competition between land and water transportation. f. 334-343 Intergovernmental Relations October-November 1957. Congressional Committee hearings in Kansas City on the relations between state and local government and the federal government. Blair's testimony before the committee. Copy of the final report. Letters commenting on the Governor's testimony, discussion of federal aid to education. f. 344 International Travel Show, July 1960. Efforts to induce Missouri to participate in a Canadian travel bureau promotion. f. 345 Interstate Oil Compact, November 1958. Kansas City convention of oil distributers; schedule and Blair's speech. Missouri oil production. f. 346-347 Inventions, April 1957-August 1959. Constituents with inventions to patent mechanical solutions to world problems; solicitations for financial support. f. 348-356 Invitations, December 1956-January 1959. Invitations to Governor to attend dinners and give speeches, etc. Comments on seeing Blair at particular functions; diversification of agriculture in southeast Missouri; Thank yous; invitations declined. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 8 f. 357 VACANT [Error in numbering] f. 358-361 Jefferson City, Missouri, January 1957-November 1959. Jefferson City Optimist Club invitation to Blair to speak. Blair dedicatory speech for new armory. High School Commencement speech. Memorial Hospital dedication speech. Speech dedicating Plaza Shopping Center. See also f. 21-24,25-29, and 749. f. 362 Lyndon B. Johnson, June 1960. Letter from Johnson discussing the upcoming Democratic National Convention. f. 363 Joplin, Missouri, October 1958-April 1960. Police, gambling, city government, and growth of industry. f. 364-372 Juveniles, March 1957-July 1960. Comments on juveniles and parental responsibility; juvenile court; adoption; truancy; and custody of children problems. (See also f. 3-4, 392, 484-489, 784-787, 790-798.) f. 373-389 Kansas City, Missouri February 1957-July 1960. Campaign speech of Blair in city; city taxation and fire protection; personal and property taxes; commerce; building codes; liquor consumption; 1959 annual report; water; machine politics; Kansas City "Athletics". Governor's speeches to Chamber of Commerce on governmental services; before the School of Osteopathy; to Women's Chamber of Commerce on crime; to Optimist Club on accomplishments of state government; opening the City Home Show; before the City Real Estate Board on the Constitution; and on Thomas Jefferson's ideas on the Constitution. (See also f. 723-725, 748.) f. 390 Keep America Beautiful, January 1958-September 1959. Campaign to keep trash off the public thoroughfares. Various county and city committee comments on the progress of educating the public. f. 391 John F. Kennedy, August 1958-June 1960. Correspondence from Kennedy disbursing campaign material for the Democratic National Committee; Kennedy explaining his position on labor and farm problems. f. 392 Kiwanis International, February 1957-March 1958. Key Club activities. f. 393 Kratter Corporation, April 1959. Efforts on the part of this company, a real estate organization, to market its securities. f. 394-404 Labor, December 1956-July 1960. Problems of industrial relations; efforts to have collective bargaining for state employees; barber unions; company unions; union organizational drives and employee obstruction; congressional reorganization; federal aid; employer rights; union hiring policy, and communism in unions. f. 405 Laundry Equipment, September 1957. Information on laundry equipment for the Executive Mansion. f. 406 Law and Order, March-July 1957. Efforts of editors of magazine to have Blair contribute an editorial. f. 407-472 Lawyers and Legal Problems, January 1957-December 1960. Springfield attorney, Perry A. Ennis, writes of political strategy and problems. Driver’s license examination, Bar Examination questionnaire C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 9

printing, advice from Governor, highway patrol, child support, divorce, liability, jail prisoners soliciting help, property protection, improper trials, industrial pollution, improved use of guardianship and power of attorney. Kansas City gangsterism, insurance beneficiaries, and missing persons. f. 473-478 Legislature, January 1957-February 1960. Speech of Blair at legislative awards dinner honoring nine General Assembly members. Legislators seeking support from Blair, asking him to speak, seeking appointments, aid, and patronage. Special Congressional election. Parking at the capitol. f. 479 Lexington, Massachusetts. Patriotic birth record sent Governor by the city, reaffirming Americanism. f. 480 Pat McNamara, May 1959-October 1959. Problems and solutions of the aged; recommendation for health insurance, federal aid to education, school construction. f. 481 Mark Twain, November 1957. Blair's speech dedicating a memorial to Twain. f. 482 Marketing, April 1957. Speech by Sam Krupnick before the Sales Executives Association in St. Louis. f. 483 Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company, May 1958. Magazine of Chicago concern showing employee's activities. f. 484-489 Marriage and Divorce, February 1957-October 1960. Women's complaints to the governor about their husbands. Annulments, child marriages, child support, alimony payments, epilepsy, child custody. (See also f. 3-4, 364-372.) f. 490-491 Masonry, January1957-October 1960. Invitations to various Masonic and Shrine gatherings. Letters of congratulations to other Masons. f. 492 Meat and Dairy Promotion, May-June 1960. Speech by Blair in Kansas discussing improving public relations for agriculture. f. 493 Memorial Airport, Neosho, Missouri December 1959-January 1960. City officials' efforts to get federal aid for airport as a World War II memorial. f. 494-508 Mentally Ill, March 1957-July 1960. Letters from people with mental illnesses. f. 509-512 Miscellaneous Correspondence, January 1957-October 1960. Complaints pertaining to state employees, advertising, foreign aid, socialism, and taxation. f. 513 Midwest Research Institute May 1959. Fourteenth annual report and list of trustees of the Kansas City research group. f. 514 Missouri Association of Social Welfare. Speech by Blair before the Association, accepting an award. f. 515 Mississippi River July 1958-February 1959. The Mississippi Parkway Planning Commission report of the 1958 meeting. Water transportation. f. 516 Missouri Baptist Hospital, November 1959. Speech of governor at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis, November 9, 1959. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 10 f. 517 Missouri Broadcasting Association, October 1959. Speech by Blair at the October 30,1959, Kansas City meeting. f. 518 Missouri Farmer's Association February-May 1957. Correspondence with Jack Hackethorn, public relations director for the M.F.A., on U. S. farm policy. f. 519 Missouri Library Association. Blair speech to the 58th annual conference of the Library Association. f. 520 Missouri Municipal League, September 1959. Talk of governor before the League, discussing Missouri government and programs. f. 521 Missouri National Forest, March 1957. Retirement of the supervisor of the national forest system in Missouri; naming of the new supervisor. f. 522 Missouri State Building Trade Council, October 1959. Speech by governor at Trade Council meeting in St. Louis. He discusses labor leaders and current legislation and industrial relations. f. 523 Missouri State Teachers Association, November 1957. Address to 95th annual meeting of MSTA in St. Louis by Blair, November 7, 1957. Talks about role of education and lowering the percentage of vote needed to approve school bonds. f. 524 Monett, Missouri February-March 1957. Annual report of Monett Chamber of Commerce. f. 525-527 Music and Arts, January 1957-October 1960. Discussion on state song; efforts to get the National Folk Festival for Missouri; public discussion by artists and others on observance of the 20th anniversary on the founding of the American Guild of Musical Artists; U.S.S.R. and art; folk festivals; St. Louis Civic Opera Association. (See also f. 780-783.) f. 528 Narcotics, November 1957-October 1959. Problems of narcotics; decrease in number of government agents in Missouri; relative merits of federal or state courts in trying narcotic suspects. f. 529-530 National Catholic Rural Life Conference National Catholic Youth Council, November 1959-October 1960. Program of conference at which Blair made some remarks. Speech by Blair before the council in Kansas City, November 12, 1959. f. 531 National Education Association April, 1959. Research report of N.E.A., 1959, ranking states. f. 532 National Merit Scholarships, January, 1960. The 4th annual report of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which describes the work of the corporation in education and ranks scholars by state, age, etc. f. 533 National Retired Teachers Association February-March, 1958. Copy of the journal of The Retired Teacher and discussion of insurance for retired teachers. f. 534 Naturopathy, December 1958-July 1959. William Scopel of Kansas City defends his practice of Naturopathy as derived from genetic medicine. f. 535-536 United States Navy, December 1956-October 1958. Efforts on part of Recruiting Office in St. Louis to have the governor appoint a naval aide; discontinuation of St. Louis Naval Air Station; USS Arizona C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 11

Memorial. f. 537-543 Newspapers, January 1957-December 1959. Letters of congratulation upon Blair's election; letters of thanks for editorial support; news clippings on politics; discussion of publicity; clandestine printing business; political attitude toward the press; editorials on Blair; comments on governor's prospects and accomplishments. (See also f. 573.) f. 544 Oil, January 1957-December 1958. Publicity on gas depletion; Blair speech before the Annual Meeting of The Interstate Oil Compact Commission in Kansas City, December 1-3, 1958. f. 545 Old Fort Scott Kansas. July, 1959 Efforts by interested group to have the fort taken over by the National Park Service. f. 546 Open Range, November 1957-May 1960 Comments on open range, expressions of concern for highway safety. f. 547-548 States, January 1957-May 1960. Comments by non-Missourian about property; Alaskan statehood; use of governor's name for fund raising proposals; prisoners and clemency. f. 549 Outstanding Young Men of 1960, August 1958-December 1960. U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce Annual Award; efforts by Jaycees to seek nominees; Blair nominates Richard C. Green, Richard H. Ichord, and George Dale Young. f. 550-553 Ozark Rivers National Monument, April-August 1960. Discussion of Current and Eleven Point Rivers; establishing a river monument; National Park Service pamphlet on the region; discussion of the work of the Interior Department and the National Park Service; Missouri Conservation Commission efforts to retain control over wild life in suggested areas; support for the monument; press stands; local opposition to monument; and support for conservation. f. 554 Panama, September 1958-December 1959. Celebration of American independence in Panama; the Canal and its defense; Canal influence in Latin America; violence in Canal Zone; pressure for retention of Canal Zone under U.S. control. f. 555-557 Personal, April 1935-March 1960. Gifts from Blair; miscellaneous news clippings; news releases on governor's health; auto insurance, life insurance; suit orders; Blair Family genealogy, news clippings on Kansas City problems. (See also f. 56-58.) f. 558-559 Philately, January 1957-July 1960. Blair promotion of a stamp honoring polio fighters, advocating of commemorative stamp. f. 560 Pierce City, Missouri, April 1958. Speech dedicating armory by Blair, April 27, 1958. f. 561-563 Pony Express Centennial, December 1957-August 1960. Commemorative stamp for centennial; information released by the Post Office on history of Pony Express; conflict over when the commemorative re-run of the Express should be. f. 564 Poplar Bluff, Missouri, September 1957-June 1959. Reports to the City Council and the Governor on corrupt condition in Poplar Bluff. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 12

Discussion of business zoning. f. 565-567 Postal Service, February 1957-December 1960. Complaints of high postal costs; mechanics of postal classification; route changing; soliciting political support for postmastership; post office patronage; junk mail; pressure for retention of postal supply center at Kansas City. f. 568-572 Presidential Campaign, 1960, January 1956-November 1960. Letters in support of Blair for President; special House election; anti-Catholic attitude in presidential race; Symington for President campaign; discussion of the problems of Presidential succession. f. 573 Press, January 1957-June 1958. Arrangements for meeting with Democratic editors; membership in the Missouri Press Association; correspondence over Blair's speech before the Northwest Missouri Press Association. (See also folders 537-543.) f. 574 Proclamations, February 1957-October 1959. Letters expressing concern over various gubernatorial proclamations, for example "American Music Month in Missouri." f. 575-577 Public Expenditure Survey, November 1957-October 1959. Speech of Blair before the Missouri Survey in St. Louis, November 7, 1957, discusses budgeting in Missouri, federal aid to education; news releases on speech. Also speech before same organization, May 27, 1958; study, "Non-stop Routing of Reserves to State Treasury." f. 578 Public Lands, October 1957-February 1960. Requests from constituents for help in acquiring public land. f. 579 Rural Electrification Administration, January-April 1957. REA award to Clarence Cannon for service. Clyde T. Ellis discusses propaganda efforts of private power companies. f. 580-582 Red Cross, March 1957-November 1959. 1957 fund raising campaign; Civil Defense planning and agreement between Missouri Division of Health and the American Red Cross; blood programs. f. 583 Refugee Relief, January-February 1957. Study committee for refugees from Hungary establishes by Eisenhower; statistics on refuge organization; resettlement of refugees. (See also f. 314.) f. 584-585 Religion, March 1957-August 1960. Patriotism; National Conference of Christians and Jews, spiritual prognostication; overseas relief; requests for aid with foreign children; communism. f. 586 Republican Party, January-October 1957. Letters from Republicans commenting on the governor's attitude toward Eisenhower; support for education; appointment to Republican Committee to fill vacancy, Rails County. f. 587 Retail Grocers' Association. Speech of Governor before the 59th Annual Convention of the Association discussing application to grocers of government legislature and effect on business. f. 588-589 Rockefeller Foundation, 1957-1958. Annual reports of the Foundation. f. 590 Carlos P. Romulo, April-May 1957. Romulo, head of the Philippine Association in Washington, sponsors celebration of fall of Bataan; death of Magsaysay; trade agreements with Philippine Islands. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 13 f. 591 Theodore Roosevelt Centennial. Promotional efforts of commission and report on selection of monument. f. 592 Rotary International. Information and request to Blair to make speech. f. 593 Rural roads complaints. f. 594-603 Safety, December 1957-September 1960. Fatal accidents in Missouri in 1957; complaints of drunken driving; insurance company interest in traffic accidents; Abraham Ribicoff on traffic accidents; study of 1957 Labor Day fatalities; National Safety Council; 18-year-old drivers. (See also f. 219-221, 726-730.) f. 604 St. Elizabeth, Missouri. Speech, delivered by a Blair staff member to a Catholic audience in St. Elizabeth. f. 605-606 St. Joseph, Missouri, January 1957-August 1957. Politics and newspapers; letters of A. V. Burrowes, editor of the St. Joseph Newspress-Gazette; appointment of Police Board; violation of liquor laws; Jack Stapleton, discussion on his leaving the Blair Staff. f. 607-633 St. Louis, Missouri, June 1955-November 1960. Crime; police board appointment; housing for aged; city income tax; city-county merger; Jefferson Memorial; William J. Geekie, city prosecuting attorney; sewer problems; municipal government; Jefferson Barracks; air pollution, speech before Medical Center; 1958 Chamber of Commerce annual report; 1958 comptroller's annual report; speech to Home Builders Association; 1960 report of Metropolitan Youth Commission; delinquency; personnel reports; speech on new city stadium; 1956 St. Louis University report; speech dedicating voting machine warehouse; wages; John Dalton and reservoir water on Missouri River. f. 634-635 Scholarships, August 1957-October 1960. Efforts by students for financial aid for education; friend's efforts to establish foundation in Blair's name. f. 636 School of the Ozarks June-September 1957. Inquiries of the tax exempt status of The School of the Ozarks; brochures on school and its work. f. 637 Sedalia, Missouri, March 1957-November 1958. State Fair expenses; Sedalia editorial support for Blair, complaints about taxes and property value. f. 638 Selective Service, January 1957-October 1960. Recommendations for appointment to the Selective Service Board; induction physicals. f. 639 Senate Race, September-November 1960. f. 640-641 Service Clubs, January 1950-October 1960. Information for the governor about service awards; Easter Seal Drive; YMCA promotion; other fund raising. (See also f. 392.) f. 642-662 Service Personnel, February 1957-December 1960. Parental concern for son in trouble with military; free flights for congressional medal of honor winners to the second Eisenhower inauguration; requests for information on mailing address for service personnel; requests for transfers and other assistance; requests for state flag; Missouri World War I monument in France. (See also f. 638, 753-755.) C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 14 f. 663-666 Sigma Chi Fraternity, January 1957-April 1960. The fraternity honors Blair with its "Significant Sig" award; invitation from various chapters to be their guest; rushing policy of fraternity; speech by Blair at Grand Chapter Luncheon in Kansas City, June 20, 1959; Blair speech at Cape Girardeau Chapter, April 10, 1960. f. 667-670 Social Security, March 1957-December 1960. Requests for aid in obtaining pensions and health care; problems of making too much outside income and drawing benefits. f. 671-672 Soil Conservation, December 1956-October 1958. Critique of conservation program; concern over highway program and conservation. f. 673 Southern Pulp and Paper Manufacturers, June 1959. Publicity for the paper industry in the South; its contribution to economic growth of South: brochure on The Bowater Southern Paper Corporation. f. 674 Space. January, 1958-February, 1958 Impact of Sputnik. f. 675-676A Springfield, Missouri, January 1957-March 1959. Local legislation on rabies, foreclosure on property; speech by Blair at dedication of Royal McBee Plant, June 7, 1960; statistics on industrial expansion, 1957- 1959; Jackson Day speech by Blair soliciting support for Symington for President. f. 677 Squires, September-October 1960. Press releases on meaning of the Missouri Squires and selection of first group. f. 678-681 Statements, January 1956-September 1960. Groups and individuals soliciting statements of support from Blair; requests for state honors. f. 682 Summit Conference, September 1959-July 1960. Issues preceding the conference between Eisenhower and Khrushchev; disarmament; veteran support of Eisenhower. f. 683 Sunday Blue Laws, October 1957-January 1960. Complaints of unequal enforcement of blue laws in St. Louis. f. 684-696 Stuart Symington, January 1957-November 1958. Shortage of technicians in Missouri, drought relief, Democratic Party politics; congressional district map; grain expenditure; Symington speech to American Political Science Association in St. Louis; Blair's speech opening Symington's campaign at Moberly; Eleven Point water project; foreign service academy; government appropriations in Missouri; defense spending; rivers legislation; Ezra Taft Benson and farm problem; Blair's support of Symington and Haskell Holman for reelection; Negro vote; Symington's presidential possibilities in 1960. f. 697-698 Sympathy Letters, April 1957-December 1960. Letters from the governor to bereaved friends; also letters of congratulation to friends on new jobs, etc. f. 699 Tariff, February-September 1958. Discussion of international competition for American industry, low foreign wages. Eisenhower economic policy regarding Missouri Lead Belt; Missouri economic development. f. 700-717 Taxation and Spending, January 1957-December 1960. Pamphlets C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 15

published by real estate and insurance writers on taxation; Missouri Central Trust Company, tax loopholes; Blair and economizing; federal aid to education; employee pay increases; U.S. economic growth; inflation vs. deflation; Committee on Economic Development; inheritance and estate taxes; church property; full employment; Douglas MacArthur on excessive spending; recession and cure; property tax evaluation. f. 718 VACANT (numbering error) f. 719 Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, May 1957-April 1959. Industrial relations in the telephone industry. 1958 Annual Report of Southwestern Dell. f. 720-721 Television and Radio, January 1957-August 1960. Complaints on repair racket; information concerning new T.V. station, appearance of governor on T.V.; sales promotions of electronics; Sedalia T.V.; job seekers; public reaction to Blair's T.V. performance. f. 722 Temple of Understanding, October 1960. Educational and religious institution in Washington, D. C. seeking nationwide support. f. 723-725 Tornadoes, May 1957-September 1959. Suggestions on storm protection resulting from Kansas City tornado, expression of interest in relief work; queries about insurance claims from storm. f. 726-730 Traffic Safety, January 1957-April 1960. Parking problems around the capitol; Jefferson City's willingness to cooperate with state officials; concern for traffic accidents and death; National Safety Council and holiday accidents; programs for highway safety. (See also folders 594- 603.) f. 731-733 Harry S. Truman, January 1957-April 1959. Letter from Truman commenting on Blair's election; Blair speech about Truman at Washington, D. C.; papers on transfer of the USS Missouri's silver service to the Truman Library. f. 734-736 Turkey Contest, October 1957. Letters to governors of other states from Blair inviting them to enter their states in a Turkey Contest to be held in St. Louis, January, 1958, by the National Turkey Federation Convention. Replies to Blair's challenge that Missouri grows the best turkey possible. f. 737 Turnpike and Federal Highways, February 1957-December 1959. Constituent comment on location of highways. f. 738-747 Unemployment, January 1957-December 1960. Comments by people on their inability to get a job; requests for State Aid; protestations on U. S. unemployment agencies; Blair's comments on unemployment; recession. f. 748 Unidentified Flying Objects, April 1958. Discussion of aims and list of members of the U.F.O. Club in Kansas City. f. 749 United Community Fund, September 1957-September 1959. Requests from campaign director in Jefferson City for the governor's aid in getting money from state employees; response of department heads for funds. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 16 f. 750 United Daughters of the Confederacy, February 1957-June 1960. Issue of the U.D.C. magazine, February 1957; efforts by the U.D.C. to get Jefferson Davis into the Hall of Fame. f. 751-752 United Nations, January 1957-August 1960. Support of the U.N. as a peace keeping institution; criticism of the U.N. f. 753-755 United Service Organization, March 1957-July 1960. Efforts on the part of the supporters of USO in Columbia, Missouri, to get Blair to help them keep the national organization from cutting its subsidy to Columbia; USO and Missouri. (See also f. 642-662.) f. 756 U.S. Medical Center, Springfield, Missouri, June 1959. Comments on U.S. prison riots and care of mentally ill. f. 757 University City, Missouri, April 1959. Promotional pamphlet. f. 758-762 Veterans' Bonus, January 1957-February 1960. Requests for veterans services; pressure on the State of Missouri to grant bonuses to veterans; suggested ways to raise funds to pay requested bonuses; effect of bonuses on recession. f. 763-768 Voting, September 1956-January 1961. Franchise for 18-year olds; problems of multiple voting places, survey of public knowledge about the electoral college; second report of the Federal Voting Assistance Program by the U. S. Department of Defense; electoral reforms; national primary; ticket splitting. f. 769 Wage Legislation, May 1957-January 1960. Discussion of wage rates under federal and state jurisdiction; minimum wage for Missouri. f. 770-777 White House Conference on Youth May 1958-September 1960. Call for conference and choice of Missouri delegates; press treatment of proposed council; speech by Blair before the Missouri Council; report of subcommittee on handicapped children; additional delegate appointments; program for White House Conference; report on funds for Missouri Council; recommendation of the Conference. f. 778 Women's Democratic Club, January-May 1957. Letters to Cole County group discussing appearance of Blair and appointment of women to positions; establishing Young Democrat Club; club meetings. f. 779 Wood Pulp Industry, September 1959. Blair speech before pulp and paper meeting in St. Louis. f. 780-783 Writers, January 1957-November 1960. Receipt by governor of complimentary copies of books; poems sent to governor; advertisements on books. f. 784-787 Young American Medal, March 1957-December 1959. Congressional annual award for out-standing service and bravery; Missouri's participation in selection of candidate. (See also f. 392, 790-798.) f. 788-789 Young Democratic Clubs, March 1957-January 1960. Clubs honoring Truman; invitation to meetings; selling advertisement; general polite correspondence; June, 1957, convention bulletin. (See also f. 778.) f. 790-798 Youth, August 1957-October 1959. List of departments and personnel participation in conference on youth fitness; provision for calling conference; West Point, New York, Conference on Fitness; Missouri C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 17

Commission of Education and its efforts to promote youth fitness; reports of various organizations and commissions on youth; St. Louis and youth fitness. (See also f. 3-4, 364-372, 392, 484-489, 784-787.) f. 799-869 Federal Government Correspondence, 1957-1961. Aged and aging; Medicare. Agricultural legislation and administration; rural development; U.S. Department of Agriculture. Housing legislation and administration. Area Redevelopment Act. Atomic Energy Commission. Federal Boating Act, 1958. Federal budget. Federal Aviation Agency; Civil Aeronautics Board, Department of Commerce, airlines, airport grants. Bureau of the Census, population estimates. Federal Communications Commission; equal time on news media. Federal Power Commission. Federal highway legislation. Conservation, water desalinization, Interstate traffic safety compacts. Economic conditions; taxation; labor problems; Department of Labor; National Labor Relations Board; railroads; Small Business Administration; Missouri Division of Research and Development. Miscellaneous correspondence on federal government operations. Stuart Symington, Thomas B. Curtis, Associated Industries of Missouri. f. 870-913 Other States and Federal Government, 1957-1962. Aging problems: Medicare (Forand Bill), housing, the blind. Air pollution. Aircraft. Nuclear physics research and development, location of reactor. Civil defense. Civil Rights Act of 1957; Supreme Court segregation decision, 1954; states' rights; state fair employment practices legislation. Council of State Governments; Governors' Conference. Education, crime and delinquency, right-wing criticism. Governors George M. Leader, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mark Hatfield, LeRoy Collins, Jimmie Davis, Gaylord Nelson, Foster Furcolo. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. f. 914-950 Other States and Federal Government, 1957-1961. Missouri Department of Agriculture. Governor Orville Freeman of Minnesotan. Federal highway program; State Highway Commission; state construction; unemployment. Federal-state relations, taxation, grants- in-aid. Blair testimony, Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee, House Committee on Government. Federal aid to education. American Association of Small Business. Interstate oil compact, proposed Missouri membership. Interstate compacts on juveniles and parolees; juvenile delinquency. State Board of Training Schools. Iowa trucking industry reciprocity. Pari-mutual betting, state fair. f. 951-977 Correspondence with Other States, 1957-1961. Federal highway program; urban transportation. Council of State Governments. Interstate compact on mental health. Democratic Party Midwest Conference, Blair and Docking co-hosts. Agricultural policy: G. Mennen Williams, Orville Freeman, Raymond Gary, Herschel C. Loveless. Minnesota: reports and messages of Orville Freeman, taxes, budget, state building needs, politics. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson attacks National Guard; Southern Governors' Conference; C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 18

Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker; House Committee on Armed Services; Ernest Vandiver at 1960 Governors' Conference. Boundary controversy with Nebraska; William B. Waters. Missouri River water resources. Nebraska midstate project. f. 978-1028 Correspondence with Other States, 1957-1961. Oklahoma: semi- centennial; area re-development. Oregon: centennial; Gov. Mark Hatfield, addresses. Prisons: Missouri and other states. Puerto Rico: Independence Party; Luis Munoz Marin. Recreation: Fifth Annual Conference of State Inter-Agency Committees for Recreation; Missouri Recreation Association; Governor's Recreation Conference. Safety: highway, boating; federal highway program. Social Security: needs and legislation; Gov. James Folsom, Blair telegram to Stuart Symington. State government and administration: courts; finances; uniform state laws; state laws; education; federal-state relations. Speeches by John W. Bricker, Roscoe Drummond, John Gaus. Blair article on Missouri budgeting. Orville Freeman. Unemployment: 1958 recession; G. Mennen Williams. f. 1029-1040 Correspondence with Other States, 1957-1961. Federal-state relations; states' rights. Joint Federal-State Action Committee. Assumption of functions and tax sources by states. Federal system and the courts. Governor Harold W. Handley, Indiana, speech on Manion Forum. Civil defense. Recession, 1958. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Interstate compacts. Port of New York Authority, conflict with Congress. Governor Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. Senators Jacob Javits and Kenneth Keating. Congressman Emmanuel Celler. Editorials. f. 1041-1058 Correspondence with Other States, 1957-1961. 1959 steel strike. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Governors' Conference. J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware. Motor vehicles, state taxation and reciprocity. Financial condition of Missouri and other states; taxes, federal-state relations; state legislative resolutions; Council of State Governments. Texas governor Price Daniel; political philosophy in Texas; Alamo commemoration; watershed conference. Virginia governor J. Lindsay Almond on states' rights, integration, Supreme Court. Council of State Governments, water problems and public works. Welfare problems: residence requirements of states; reciprocal state laws; interstate compact on mental health; Blair a member of Governors' Conference committee on residence requirements; Proctor N. Carter, director, Missouri Division of Welfare. Migrant farm labor; President's Committee on Handicapped Workers. Radiation hazards. Miscellaneous, other states.

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telephone and estate taxes; urban renewal, atomic energy; economic problems, employment and migration. Uniform state laws. Council of State Governments. Midwestern Regional Conference, 1959. Council of State Governments. Missouri Commission on Interstate Cooperation, Floyd R. Gibson, Chairman. Retirement funds; state funds; mental health; highways; federal-state re-lations; water, agriculture; migrant labor; education. Robert F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, speeches. Blair, Edward V. Long, Mount E. Morris, Richard H. Ichord, John W. Schwada attend. f. 1074-1087 1959. Tax, revenue problems; motor vehicle safety: welfare, residence requirements, flair's remarks; higher education; federal-state relations; civil defense. Council of State Governments, G. Mennen Williams, Arthur S. Fleming, Luis Munoz Marin. Interstate compacts. Steel Strike. Inter-American Development Bank. Council of State Governments, Executive Committee; Blair member; proceedings of the Board of Tanagers; state taxation; urban transportation; highways safety; federal-state relations. Reciprocal visit of Soviet governors; U.S. State Department. f. 1088-1092 1960. Federal-state relations; interstate compacts; taxation; highway safety; federal highway program; aging; education; delinquency; National Guard; civil defense; state regulation of nuclear energy; automation. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Abraham A. Ribicoff, Robert B. Meyner, John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada. Southern Regional Conference, Council of State Governments: aging; economic development; water pollution; delinquency; education; fisheries; tax problems; resolutions. f. 1093-1097 Reports, 1960. Executive Committee, Blair member; Gov. Grant Sawyer of Nevada, host. Agenda, 1960 Governors' Conference; agenda proposals from governors. Education, mental health, welfare, defense, federal-state relations, urban transportation, redevelopment, National Guard aircraft. Abraham A. Ribicoff on highway financing; Robert E. Smylie, federal taxation; Nelson A. Rockefeller. Joint Federal-State Action Committee, Final Report. Assumption by states of federal government functions, taxes. f. 1098-1101 Council of State Governments, Board of Managers, Annual Meeting, 1959. Blair member. Annual Report. Governors' Conference Executive Committee, 1959. Plans and agenda, 1960 Governors' Conference. Blair member. Highway construction, safety. Civil defense. Abraham A. Ribicoff, Nelson A. Rockefeller. Midwestern Regional Conference, Council of State Governments, 1960. Federal-state relations, interstate compacts, highway taxes. Visit to Latin America, 1960 Governors' Conference.

Veterans’ Papers Series f. 1102-1326 Spanish-American War Claims Fund, Hadley-Blair administrations. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 20

Back pay, Missouri volunteer regiments. Herbert Hadley-Elliott W. Major controversy, interest on fund. Adjutant General Frank M. Rumbold. Mexican-American relations, 1917. Rolls of volunteers' regiments, individual pay claims, records. United Spanish War Veterans' letters. Four volumes cancelled claims checks. Deposit of fund in favored banks; William T. Kemper, Commerce Trust, Kansas City; Howard Cook, Central Trust, Jefferson City. f. 1319-1326 World War I veterans' bonus letters.

Special Commissions and Studies Series f. 1327-1343 Aging. Employment, medical care, mental health. Special nursing home committee; H.A. Richardson, Ralph A. Truman. Missouri Conference on Aging, 1957. Missouri Social Welfare League. Proposed state commission on aging. Blair to Clarence Cannon re federal appropriations. Health and Welfare Council, Metropolitan St. Louis, Robert E. Hilliard. University of Missouri survey on aged. White House Conference on Aging, 1961. Willis H. Reals, Mrs. J. Marcus Kirtley, C. Rouss Gallop, Emil E. Brill, Winnie Lippman, International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Blair speeches, report. Senate subcommittee on problems of the aged; Pat McNamara. f. 1344-1346 Missouri Council on Children and Youth. Blair speech. White House Conference on Children and Youth. Missouri committee, C. Rouss Gallop, chairman. National Institute on Crime and Delinquency, Kansas City, 1960; Blair speech. Blair administration correctional system, juvenile delinquency, migratory labor. Governor's Council on Higher Education; James A. Finch, Jr.; report. Coordination of the University of Missouri, other state colleges; Elmer Ellis, Earl E. Dawson, Walter H. Ryle, John W. Schwada, Mark F. Scully. Enrollments, budgets, functions, planning. f. 1347-1352 State-wide Industrial Development Conferences, 1959, 1960. Blair speeches. James Idol. Missouri Resources and Development Commission. Tourism, new plants, financing, taxation, bonds. Governor's Conferences, Public Library Trustees, 1959, 1960. Blair speeches; problems. Missouri Mental Health Conference, 1960. Mental Health Commission, Francis Smith, Chairman. State Division of Mental Diseases, Addison M. Duval, Director. Staff and other problems. Blair speech. Radio spot messages. f. 1353-1355 Governors' Recreation Conference, 1958, Blair speech. State park development, related problems. Preliminary survey of Missouri by Community Studies, Inc., 1959. Cost reduction, state services; recommended state studies. Governor's Coordinating Committee on Traffic Safety, report and recommendations, 1959.

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State Offices and Departments Series f. 1356-1392 Governor's Office. Administration, executive orders. Disaster areas; state lands; legal opinions, Committee on Legislative Research; bail bond remittances. Frank J. Iuen, Thomas F. Eagleton. Jack Staple-ton, Blair administrative assistant, letters from friends, politics. Stapleton resigns. James W. Kelly, Blair administrative assistant, correspondence with Mayor H. Roe Bartle, Kansas City, other political, business friends. Independence Democratic mayoral election, 1958; R. P. Weatherford, Jr., William Sermon, Harry S. Truman. James Pendergast. Farm, union vote. Kelly becomes manager, Associated General Con- tractors of Missouri. Michael Kinney. Missouri Good Roads Association. Missouri Farm Bureau Federation. Paul I. Byrne, James C. Kirkpatrick. Business District League of Kansas City. Sam C. Blair. f. 1393-1402 Governor's Office. Robert W. Crawford, Blair administrative assistant. Crawford attempts to obtain Democratic nomination for Congress, 4th District special election, 1959. Legislation. Political, family, business correspondence. Blair appearances at public events. Gov. Frank Clement. Gov. George Docking. Polio epidemic, Kansas City, 1959. Ford Motor Company, Office of Civic and Governmental Affairs, inquires for a regional manager. Ed Stegner, Conservation Federation of Missouri, and Blair's veto of H.B. 239, 1959. Sammy Casey, Blair's private secretary. f. 1403-1432 State Offices. Lieutenant Governor, Edward V. Long, acts as governor. Secretary of State, Walter H. Toberman, Robert W. Crawford. Routine requests for information from businessmen. Toberman's death, suggestions on replacement, James C. Kirkpatrick, William L. Zevely, Richard R. Nacy, Stuart Symington, Thomas Hennings, Jr., Crawford. Estes Kefauver and Haddad brothers. Special election returns, f. 1416- 1432. Douglas, Dent, Randolph, Ray, Rails Counties, St. Louis, 1957. Vernon, Henry, Bates, Barton, Jackson, Cape Girardeau Counties, St. Louis, 4th congressional district, 1959. f. 1433-1574 State Offices. State Auditor Haskell Holman. "Holman Resolution" on state constitutional amendment, editorials. Audits, St. Francois, Barry Counties, Berkeley. State Treasurer G.H. Bates, M.E. Morris. State Treasurer's report, 1956-1958 biennium. Funds; reports of transactions; audits. f. 1522 U.S. General Accounting Office, claims against Missouri. f. 1529-1574 Treasurer's depository contracts with deposit banks. f. 1575-1604 State Offices and Departments. State Treasurer, lists of depository banks. Requests for state deposits, R. Crosby Kemper, Jr., Richard R. Nacy. Investment of state bond proceeds, M. E. Morris, Haskell Holman, Blair. Civil War debt, Missouri rebel government. Insurance companies, financial statements. Attorney General, John M. Dalton (f. 1601-1604). Digests of official opinions. Controversy with St. Louis Country Sheriff Orion J. Litzinger. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 22 f. 1605-1618 State Offices and Departments. Attorney General, John M. Dalton. Requests from local officials in murder, vote fraud, and other trials; grand jury hearings. Jefferson County gambling. Brucellosis control. Requests for legal opinions. Dalton represents Blair in court. Alleged vote frauds, Wright County, charge against Dalton. George W. Carver National Monument; Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; federal acquisition, state lands. Missouri Real Estate Commission. Interest on state funds. Gorin Burial Association. Governor's powers. Legal interest rates, carrying charges. Gambling, vice, Kansas City, Mo. Dalton's gubernatorial candidacy, 1960, Blair support. f. 1619-1647 Department of Agriculture. John S. Williamson, commissioner. L.C. Carpenter resigns. A. Earl Straub. Personnel; appropriations requests; status of Missouri agriculture. Missouri Farm Bureau Federation; Missouri Farmers Association. University of Missouri; James W. Burch, director of Agricultural Extension Service. Department of Agriculture financial reports, audits. Correspondence on farm problems: Ezra Taft Benson, Orville L. Freeman, Ralph G. Brooks. Conference of Midwest Democratic Governors, 1960. Poague Bill. Blair speech, 1960 meat and dairy protection program. Drought problem. Missouri Drought Committee. True D. Morse, Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., Stuart Symington. Blair, Symington controversy with Benson. Drought relief audits. f. 1648-1680 Department of Agriculture. State Poultry Board. Hay program, freight rates. Farmers Home Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Missouri Rural Rehabilitation Corporation. Floods, 1957. State entomologists: crop diseases, soybeans, apples, cotton boll worm controls, Japanese beetles in St. Louis. Southeast Missouri agriculture. Missouri State Nurserymen's Association, problems, markets. Stuart Symington. Paul C. Jones. Missouri state fair. M.C. Ervin, secretary. Reports, audits, problems. Guest list, 1957 governor's dinner. Leasing of fair buildings by Sedalia industries. Hereford cattle controversy. Grand circuit racing. Sam Rayburn speech. f. 1681-1699 Department of Agriculture. Regulation of seed; weed control. Forest research, use; pulp industry. Grain Warehouse Division; reports, audits, personnel problems. Walter Sanderson. John S. Williamson. Missouri State Horticultural Society. Department of Horticulture, University of Missouri. Apple production, markets, diseases. Rural development program; Dent, Douglas, Taney Counties. Veterinary Division, L.A. Rosner, state veterinarian. Reports on control of brucellosis, Bang's disease, anthrax embargo. Emergency appropriation. Complaints. Politics. Watershed assistance; governor's advisory committee. Oscar C. Bruce, state conservationist. Weights and measures. f. 1700-2128 Department of Business and Administration f. 1700-1718 Mrs. E. E. (Sallie) Dailey, Director. Reports on state employees. Sixth Biennial Report (1958). Correspondence with management consultants. Missouri Athletic Commission, Thomas E. Walsh, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 23

Secretary. Report. Appointments. Complaints. Charles W. Pian; Sam Muchnick. Bi-State Development Agency. Leif J. Sverdrup resigns. Audit. Finance, other problems. Missouri Senate Bill 25, 1959. St. Louis County Chamber of Commerce. Geological Survey and Water Resources. T. R. Beveridge, State Geologist. Water Resources Council, Inc. Pollution. f. 1719-1739 Division of Insurance, C. Lawrence Leggett, superintendent. Reports, Audits. Slapping incident at Division of Insurance. Regulation of insurance companies. Requests, complaints from citizens. Failure of insurance companies. Investigation of mutual companies. Legislation. Unfair, illegal trade practices. Rates, Blair complaint on. Missouri Association of Life Underwriters, Robert E. Davis; Insurance Board of St. Louis; Kansas City Real Estate Board; Missouri Savings and Loan League, lobbying activities. Division of Workmen's Compensation. Opinions on employer liability. Claims settlements. f. 1740-1767 Division of Personnel. Norris F. Steenberger, Director. Annual reports, 1955-1959; personnel classification and salaries. Merit system. Proposed salary changes. Personnel Advisory Board, O.N. Bell, J.W. Price, P.G. Steinbicker, G.F. Stark, N.F. Steenberger, E.A. Godar, members. Minutes of meetings. Personnel problems; low pay scale; state taxes, financial condition. Paul Canaday, Missouri House Appropriations Committee. Editorial, General Assembly retirement system. Division of Mental Diseases, Addison M. Duval. Mental Health Commission, Francis Smith. B.E. Ragland, James D. Carter, Proctor N. Carter. Health Division, Department of Corrections. Unions. Negro personnel, Urban League. Southeast Missouri poverty. f. 1768-1798 Public Service Commission. Tyre W. Burton, Chairman. Annual reports, 1959, 1960; correspondence. Personnel; bus and truck fees; railroads; telephone service: complaints and requests from cities and private persons. St. Louis Public Service Co.; Kansas City Public Service Co. King-Thompson Act. Interstate Commerce Commission, hearings on railroad and truck line services and rates. Missouri-Kentucky reciprocity agreement. Pipelines and natural gas allocation. Re-quests by Chillicothe, Trenton, Glasgow, Brookfield, other Missouri cities. Federal Barge Lines. f. 1799-1823 Division of Resources and Development. James D. Idol, Director. Financial reports 1953-1960. Reports on new industry, 1957-1959. Industrial survey of northwest Missouri 1950; Grand River Basin dams. Publicity on industrial growth; Blair speech and news conference; division newsletters. Industrial development corporations; Springfield, Monett, Kansas City, Ft. Leonard Wood. Water problems Eleven Point River, mining C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 24

pollution, Waco Reservoir. Paper pulp industry. Statewide Industrial Development Conference, 1960. f. 1824-1840 Division of Resources and Development. Industrial development. Letters to manufacturers. Correspondence with Missouri Valley Development Association; National Resources Development Association; Kansas City, Chamber of Commerce; Mid-Missouri Development Council. Small Business Administration grant, congresswoman Leonor K. Sullivan. Statewide Industrial Development Conference, 1959. Blair speech on constitutional amendment permitting city industrial development bonds. River and water use problems, floods. Missouri River. Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee. Current-Eleven Point River Association, objection to national park. Missouri River States Committee. f. 1841-1913 Division of Resources and Development, Water Resources Section. J.C. Alexander. Rivers, reservoirs, flood control. Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee, meetings and reports, 1945-1960. Missouri River States Committee. Missouri Basin Development Plan (Pick-Sloan Plan), politics, allocation of water among states. Harry S. Truman, Clarence Cannon, Stuart Symington, Joe Foss, Milward L. Simpson, John E. Davis, J. Hugo Aronson, George Docking, Fred A. Seaton, James E. Murray. Joint statement to Congress by Missouri, Kansas governors. Garrison Dam. Mississippi Valley Association; Missouri Valley Association; Missouri Basin Research and Development Council. Missouri congressional delegation on water needs. U.S. Senate Select Committee on national water resources, Robert S. Kerr. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. f. 1914-1969 Division of Resources and Development, Water Resources Section. River and water shed projects, reservoirs. Arkansas- White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee, minutes, reports. Table Rock Dam construction. Current-Eleven Point River Basin. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Forrest Smith; Stuart Symington; Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.; A.S.J. Carnahan. Grand River Basin. Flood, 1958. Flood Control plans. James P. Kelly. Little Missouri River Compact. Water use. Public hearings. Garrison Dam. Missouri-Kansas governors' statement to Congress, 1957, flood control. 102 river watershed project, review by state agencies. Big Creek watershed, Harrison County. Platte River tributaries, Worth County. Nodaway County. Letters from citizens. f. 1970-1995 Division of Resources and Development, Water Resources Section. River and flood control correspondence: reservoirs. Meramec River. Meramec Basin Development Committee. Luman F. Matthews, Meramec River Flood Control Committee. Monsignor George J. Hildner. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 25

Blair meeting on Meramec project. Meramec Basin Corporation, Leo A. Politte. Henry E. Bent, Huber O. Croft, J. H. Longwell, University of Missouri. f. 1996-2006 Division of Resources and Development, Water Resources Section. River and flood control correspondence; reservoirs. Current-Eleven Point River Basin. Water Valley project, Arkansas. Eleven Point Protective Association. Corps of Engineers. Stuart Symington, Wilbur D. Mills, Clarence Cannon, Richard H. Ichord, William E. Towel', Leo A. Drey, list of leading residents. Establishment of National Recreation Area, dams. Petitions, Ozark Protective Association, other groups. Financial problems of local government; economic opportunity; Missouri Forest Industries Committee. Leonard Hall. National Forest Service. National Park Service. Missouri Division of Resources and Development, Plan for Preservation and Development of Recreation Resources, Current and Eleven Point River Country, 1956 (f. 2005). f. 2007-2032 Division of Resources and Development, Water Resources Section. Rivers and flood control. Cannon (Joanna) Dam, Salt River. Views of Monroe and Ralls Countians; Clarence Cannon. Forrest Smith. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, plans. List of Missouri flood control projects. Kaysinger Bluff Reservoir, politics. Blair-Docking joint statement to Congress on flood control. Clarence Cannon on Corps of Engineers; Robert S. Kerr, Dewey Short, Fred A. Seaton, Stuart Symington, Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. Osage Valley Flood Control and Water Conservation Association. 102 River watershed. Pomme de Terre Reservoir. Excelsior Springs, floods. Mississippi Valley Association. Missouri-Arkansas Basin Flood Control and Conservation Association. f. 2033-2089 Division of Resources and Development, Water Resources Section. Rivers and flood control. Watershed plans: Platte River tributaries, East Fork Big Creek, other. Governor's Advisory Committee on Watershed Approval. Kaysinger Bluff Reservoir 102 River. Harry S. Truman, Clarence Cannon, Herschel C. Loveless. U.S. Senate Committee on Water Resources, Topeka, Kansas, meeting, 1959. Robert S. Kerr. Current River, national recreation area. Corps of Engineers. 1960 floods, Missouri prison inmates. Osage Valley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, notices, con-tracts, permits (f. 2047-2061). U. S. Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources, Hearings and Reports, (f. 2062-2089). f. 2090-2120 Division of Resources and Development, Water Resources Section. Missouri Disaster Committee, Haskell Holman State Disaster Coordinator. Federal assistance, floods, tornadoes, droughts. Missouri Drought Committee, recommendations, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 26

1956-1957. Phil M. Donnelly, L. C. Carpenter. Correspondence with federal government on Missouri drought. Ezra T. Benson, Stuart Symington, True D. Morse, J. H. Longwell. Wichita, Kansas, drought conference, 1957. Politics. Governor's Advisory Committee on Soil Conservation Districts. Watershed protection. f. 2121-2128 Division of Savings and Loan Supervision, Financial reports, audits, 1953-1957. State chartered savings and loan associations, financial reports, 1956-1960. Correspondence on loans. f. 2129-2161 Department of Conservation, Missouri Conservation Commission. William E. Towell, Chairman. Financial reports, 1949-50, 1955-1959. Correspondence on problems and legislation. Missouri forests, state parks, strip mining, lakes. Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Current- Eleven Point Rivers. Land-buying, impact on local government and economy. National Park Service. Federal fisheries and wildlife program, comment. Financing dams and lakes. Blair on 1960 senatorial campaign. f. 2162-2199 Department of Conservation, Missouri State Park Board. Joseph Jaeger, Jr., R. I. Colborn. Reports, 1946-1959. Legislation, appropriations, acquisition of new state parks. Governor's Recreation Conferences. Blair endorses constitutional amendment creating state park fund, 1960. Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Current-Eleven Point Rivers. National Park Service. Blair speech, dedication of Mark Twain Shrine. Pershing Home Memorial Shrine; Pershing family. Blair dedication speech. List of Missouri's Civil War battles. f. 2200-2312 Department of Corrections. James D. Carter, Director. Reports, 1948- 1959. Penitentiary industries. Comments on penal system. Legislative hearings. Dispute over prison guards and unions, Carter, John I. Rollings. Opinion by Attorney General Dalton. State Board of Training Schools, reports. Juvenile delinquency, training at the state training schools. Correspondence on inmates at schools and Algoa Intermediate Reformatory. Missouri State Penitentiary, L. V. Nash, Warden. Reports. Prison industries. Re-habilitation, Father C. Dismas Clark. Moberly Medium Security Prison (f. 2307-2311). Women's Prison, Tipton, MO, Blair dedication speech. f. 2313-2501 Department of Corrections, State Board of Probation and Parole. Executive clemency, commutation of sentences, Donnelly and Blair administrations. Restoration of citizenship. Prison riot, 1954 (f. 2384- 2385). Probation and parole reports (f. 2386-2391). Missouri extradition law. Parole policy (f. 2392). Correspondence with inmates. Prison administration. State Board of Training Schools reports, 1946- 1959 (f. 2492-2501). f. 2502-2731 Department of Education f. 2502-2522 Hubert Wheeler, Commissioner. State Board of Education. Annual reports, Public Schools of the State of Missouri. Blair correspondence with Wheeler. Letters from school boards, private citizens on state support of public schools, School C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 27

Foundation Program, finances, private schools, bus transportation, legal problems. Special session of General Assembly, 1960. Employment and education of handicapped, Governor's committee Illiteracy in St. Louis, Mo., 1960. Vocational education, state and federal programs. Senators Stuart Symington and Thomas C. Kennings, Jr. St. Louis Board of Education correspondence, Attorney General opinion. f. 2523-2547 Studies of high school instruction in science, mathematics, graduation requirements. Conflict with Veterans Administration over finances, f. 2525. St. Louis-St. Louis County White House Conference on Education. Blair speech, 1958. Blair stand on education spending. Desegregation. Roman Catholics and schools. Protestants and other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. State support of junior colleges (f. 2540). Elmer Ellis. Missouri schools for the blind, deaf reports (f. 2541- 2547). f. 2548-2575 Division of Registration. State Board of Accountancy Reports, 1954-1957. State Board of Registration of Architects and Professional Engineers Reports, 1955-1959. Correspondence. Supreme Court of Missouri. Bar Fund Reports (f. 2553). State Board of Barber Examiners Reports, 1953 1957. Correspondence. Controversy between Blair and board of inspection policy; barber protests; Negro barbers. State Board of Chiropody Reports, 1953-1959. State Board of Cosmetology Reports, 1949-1950 1952-1958. f. 2576-2593 Division of Registration. Missouri Dental Board Reports, 1953- 1957. State Board of Embalming Reports, 1953-1959. State Board of Medical Examiners Reports, 1953-1957. State Board of Nursing Reports, 1953-1960. State Board of Optometry Reports, 1949-1950, 1953-1956. State Board of Pharmacy Reports, 1953- 1957, 1959. f. 2594-2623 Missouri Real Estate Commission, complaints, correspondence. State Board of Embalming; State Board of Chiropractic Examiners; State Board of Cosmetology; State Board of Medical Examiners; Missouri Board of Pharmacy; correspondence. University of Missouri reports, 1947-1960. Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Rolla, report, 1949-1951. University of Missouri, Board of Curators, legal powers. Board of Visitors, 1957 recommendations. School of Agriculture, Agricultural Extension Service, J. W. Burch, Director. Agricultural Conservation Program. Correspondence. f. 2624-2642 University of Missouri. Blair speech, dedication of new Business and Public Administration Building. School of Journalism Directory, 1958. Erwin D. Canham speech on freedom of the press. School of Medicine. Blair speech, expansion of higher education (f. 2628). Miscellaneous correspondence. Elmer Ellis, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 28

President. Blair appearances on television program, "Missouri Forum." Faculty salaries. Mental health facilities. Finances. Fraternities. Athletics. Missouri Archaeological Society. School of Mines and Metallurgy, Rolla. Blair speech. Lincoln University, Earl E. Dawson, President. Reports, correspondence. f. 2643-2679 State Colleges. Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg. Reports, correspondence; Blair speech. Northeast Missouri State College, Kirksville. Walter H. Ryle, President. Reports, correspondence. Northwest Missouri State College, Maryville. J. W. Jones, President. Reports, correspondence. Southeast Missouri State College, Cape Girardeau. Mark Scully, President. Reports, correspondence. Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield. Roy Ellis; President. Reports, correspondence. Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station, Mountain Grove; Reports, 1951-1959. f. 2680-2700 Missouri State Library, Paxton P. Price, Secretary. Reports, correspondence. State Historical Society of Missouri, Floyd C. Shoemaker, Secretary. Reports, press releases correspondence. Blair asks Shoemaker for historical information for speeches. Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station, Reports, 1951-1959 correspondence. Noel M. Hall appointed Director to succeed Lester Maddox. Richard R. Nacy. Public School Retirement System Reports, 1949-1960. Correspondence from retired teachers. f. 2701-2731 Higher education problems. Federal aid to education: finances, other problems. Scrivner plan; Givin, Kelley bills. Blair remarks, letters. U. S. Congress, House Committee on Education and Labor. Governor's Committee on Education Beyond The High School, 1958; minutes of meetings. St. Louis area sub- committee. Senate Dill No. 10, 69th General Assembly, creates State Commission on Higher Education, 1958. Coordination of Missouri colleges, junior colleges, University of Missouri. Finances; anticipated enrollments; reports. Blair views. Stuart Symington, Ethan Shepley, Thomas Spragens, Paul C. Reinert, Elmer Ellis. Editorials. f. 2732-2755 Missouri State Highway Patrol. Col. Hugh H. Waggoner, superintendent. Citizen complaints of patrol. Traffic safety. Patrol search and seizure powers. State reciprocity on truck licenses. Bonding patrol officers. Negro patrolmen. Black Muslims. Jefferson County, gambling, 1959; other counties. Blair orders investigation of organized crime, Kansas City, 1957. Patrol report. Fred Mancuso, James Balestrere, Alex Presta, Senator Jasper Brancato, Mafia (f. 2736). f. 2756-2775 State Highway Commission. Federal-aid Highway Acts, 1950, 1956, legal briefs. Highway Employees and Highway Patrol Retirement System. Reports, 1955-1957. f. 2776-2789 Department of Liquor Control. Reports, 1953-1956, 1958, 1959. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 29

Governor's Conference on liquor law enforcement, Kansas City, 1959. Blair, Sheriff Arvid Owsley, State Highway Patrol, Kansas City Police Com¬missioners Lyman Field, and Dwight Brantley. Minutes of conference. Kansas City hoodlums, homosexuals; sale of liquor to minors (f. 2777). Correspondence on liquor law enforcement. Complaints. Missouri Supreme Court decision. Hoodlum activities, St. Louis Mo. Theodore Link, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sidney Salomon, Kenneth Berresheem, Senators John. Joynt, Kinney. Tapped telephone conversations (f. 2781). f. 2790-2818 Military Department, Adjutant General. A. D. Sheppard, Adjutant General. Reports, 1953-1957. Correspondence on National Guard, civil defense. Proposed State Reserve Military Force to supplement National Guard. Blair opposes Eisenhower administration effort to reduce and reorganize Guard; speeches, testimony before Congressional committee, 1958. Stuart Symington, Carl Vinson, Richard B. Russell, Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker, Montana Governor Aronson, others. Council of State Governments and National Guard Association of the U. S. both oppose cut-back. Routine correspondence on Missouri National Guard. State Service Officer Roy L. Carver. Correspondence, reports on veterans benefits (f. 2815-2818). f. 2819-2871 Missouri Civil Defense Agency. Marvin W. Smith, F. Dean Lupkey, Directors. Reports, 1953-1959. Problems of civil defense. Missouri Civil Defense Act, 1957. Blair remarks on civil defense, 1957 Governors' Conference. Missouri State Survival Plan, 1957; Blair press release. Fallout shelter program. Nuclear attack on St. Louis analyzed. Plan Bulldozer. Correspondence with U. S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. National defense plan. Federal civil defense publications. Congressman Chet Holifield. Federal-state disaster funds. Haskell Holman, State Disaster Coordinator. Abandoned mines as fallout shelters. Kansas City civil defense activity; other Missouri towns. Tornado, St. Louis, 1959. Nelson A. Rockefeller urges fallout shelter program. Letters from citizens and organizations. American Legion. f. 2872--2874 Boards of Election Commissioners. St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph. 1957 St. Louis metropolitan district petition. Correspondence on election board procedures. Appointments. Voting, registration. Hampton S. Chambers, Chairman, Kansas City board. Michael L. Galli, Chairman, St. Louis board. f. 2875-2898 Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners. Annual Police Department Report, 1958. Jackson County Grand Jury Report, 1957, 1958. Blair speeches, remarks on law enforcement. Board members Lyman Field, Dowdal Davis, Samuel Mayerberg, Dutton Brookfield, Dwight Brantley, H. Roe Bartle. Police Chief Bernard Brannon. Problems of Kansas City law enforcement. Board dispute with City Council, Chamber of Commerce on financing police. Mayor's Municipal Services Commission, Report of the Sub Committee on Police, 1955; other studies. Narcotics, Negro crime, obscene books. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 30

Follow-up of 1959 Governors' Conference on liquor control (f. 2896). Report of Blair inaugural dinner swindle. Complaints from citizens, police brutality. f. 2899-2900 St. Joseph Board of Police Commissioner. Problems of law enforcement. Letters from citizens, organizations. Stanley I. Dale, Mayor. Missouri Commission on Human Rights. f. 2901-2910 St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners. H. Sam Priest, Board President. Jeremiah O'Connell, Chief of Police. R. R. Tucker, Mayor. Blair remarks on police, Board's duties. Problems of law enforcement. Board, City Council dispute on Police Department finance, 1958. Editorials, press release. Complaints from citizens, organizations. Police brutality. N.A.A.C.P. Blair recommendations, police promotions. f. 2911-2917 St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners. Annual Report, 1957-58. Harold J. Gibbons protests to Board over Police Department charges against Teamster's Union. James Hoffa New St. Louis police chief. Blair recommends James Chapman. Letter lists police officers taking pay-offs from criminals: J. O'Connell, C. Brostron, B.L. Dowd. Teamster's Union. Complaints on City Workhouse. Strip-tease acts. St. Louis Crime Commission. Robert F. Kennedy lauds St. Louis Police. F. 2911 - letter from Blair's aunt. Novelist John L. Faris mentions book Harrison High (f. 2914). f. 2918-3127 Department of Public Health and Welfare f. 2918-2949 Division of Health. James R. Amos, H. M. Hardwicke, directors. Reorganization of Division of Health; Elton Osborne, consultant. Audits, annual reports. Hill-Burton federal hospital grants. Epidemics: influenza, polio. Problems of aged. Dental care; fluoridation. Public health nurses. Correspondence with Leonor K. Sullivan, Clarence Cannon, professional associations. Blair remarks to Advisory Council to Division of Health, 1958. Mental health problems. Vital statistics. C. Rouss Gallop, Director, Department of Public Health and Welfare. f. 2950-2989 Division of Health. State Water Pollution Board. Federal-state cooperation. Controversy of Board with Dr. H. M. Hardwicke. Kansas City legislators protest water pollution ruling. E. J. Keating, J. Brancato. Hill-Burton hospital grants. Missouri Hospital Advisory Council. Hospital licensing, standards, fire safety. Nursing homes for aged, licensing. Fires at Warrenton Mo., Nursing home, 1957; at Puxico, Mo., 1956. Dr. J. R. Amos dismissed as director. Legislation to raise nursing home standards. Correspondence from citizens. Reports of inspection of nursing homes. Ralph Truman, Lister Hill, Stuart Symington, C. Rouss Gallop. f. 2990-3015 Division of Health. Pay recommendations. Federal-state matching funds. Care of indigent. National Health Education Committee. Water pollution. Frank M. Karsten. Dismissal of C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 31

Director J. R. Amos. Missouri School for Deaf. 2993 - Blair explains to Personnel Board his primary concern with Division of Health. Correspondence and reports on Missouri State hospitals, schools: Vernon,; Ellis Fischel Cancer Hospital, Columbia; Fulton; St. Joseph; Nevada; Farmington Marshall; St. Louis. C. Rouss Gallop. f. 3016-3075 Division of Mental Diseases. B. E. Ragland, Addison M. Duval, directors. Conditions at State Hospital No. 1 Fulton, described by Superintendent Alfred Bauer. Need for licensing foreign doctors. Press release. Patients' letters. Correspondence and reports on state hospitals at St. Joseph, Nevada, Farmington, St. Louis. Reports on other St. Louis hospitals: St. Louis Chronic, Homer Phillips, Malcolm Bliss hospitals. State Mental Health Commission; Powell McHaney, Francis Smith. Greater Kansas City Mental Health Foundation; transfer of facilities to state. Annual reports. First Missouri Mental Health Conference, 1960. Ten year mental health program outlined. Addison M. Duval testimony. Blair remarks. f. 3076-3082 Division of Mental Diseases. Pamphlets relating to mental health in New York, Louisiana, and West Virginia; mental health bulletins from the Council on State Governments on the national condition of mental health; copies of speeches by Mike Gorman, Executive Director of National Mental Health Committee on Mental Health. Correspondence from Blair thanking friends for sending him material on mental health. f. 3083-3091 Division of Welfare. Letters to Blair from constituents and referred to Proctor N. Carter, director, for answering, concerning increases in old age assistance payments and in reducing the residence requirements in order to receive old age benefits. f. 3092-3096 Division of Welfare. Replies of Proctor N. Carter, Director of Division of Welfare, to inquiries about Aid to Dependent Children. Press releases on appropriation for A.D.C.: public reaction to A.D.C., application for enrollment in A.D.C. program. f. 3097-3110 Division of Welfare. Miscellaneous correspondence concerning Old Age Assistance, aid to the disabled, aid and services to the blind; publicity for White House Conference on Children and Youth; patronage within the Welfare Division; Blair speech at a training school for welfare agents. f. 3111-3117 Division of Welfare. Correspondence concerning Bair's requests for expanded Social Security benefits, and coverage as a relief to the overburdened welfare program of Missouri. Replies from Missouri Congressional Delegation and various state governors. Bulletins on Social Security and Public Welfare. Monthly administrative analysis of the Division of Welfare. Correspondence between the governor and the Secretary of C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 32

Health, Education and Welfare, Arthur Flemming, on expanded Social Security coverage. f. 3118-3119 Division of Welfare. Report of the Governor's committee on the Employment of the Physically Handicapped by John J. Griffin; appointment of committee chairman; cooperative efforts with national committee. f. 3120-3127 Division of Welfare. Audits and administrative breakdown of the Federal Soldier's Home, St. James, Missouri. Requests for employment at the Soldier's Home; Minutes of the Board of the Home, and American Legion investigation of administration of the Home. f. 3128-3180 Highway Commission. Annual audits of the State Highway Department; monthly and annual reports of the Highway Commission; status report of the state highway system by routes; Driver's guide. Missouri State Highway Employees and Highway Patrol Retirement System Report. f. 3181-3183 Highway Commission. Dedicatory speech by Blair for opening of the I-70 highway and bridge at Rocheport, Missouri: Blair speeches on good roads and gasoline tax. f. 3184-3212 Highway Commission. Promotion of good roads; organizing high-way employees' union; disposition of the Clark Bridge (St. Charles County); payscale for highway employees; job seekers; constituent complaint on road. conditions and location of highways; complaints of property condemnation; St. Louis traffic control problems; support for Tennessee-Missouri Bridge for S.E. Missouri; gasoline tax increase; contract for highway materials; Blair pressure on the federal government for federal matching funds and aid for highways; appointment of legislative committee on roads, streets, and highways; list of Citizens Advisory Committee on roads; answers to inquiries about highways by Rex M. Whitton, Chief Engineer, Highway Department. f. 3213-3222 Highway Commission. Correspondence and agreements between various states and Missouri Highway Officials on the regulation of vehicles and interstate reciprocity. Efforts to include Missouri within some interstate compacts. Conference of Motor Vehicle Administration and Reciprocity Officials in Kansas City, September 2-3, 1959; correspondence from various transit companies on reciprocity. f. 3223-3233 Highway Commission. Study on future highway needs of Missouri; press releases of the Highway Department on road conditions; address by Abraham Ribicoff on highway safety; letter to Eisenhower from Blair on federal road aid; contract between Central Missouri Trust and Employees Retirement System; Clark Bridge suit; Rex Whitton on highway needs; motor fuel consumption and taxation reports; brochure on the Mississippi River Scenic Highway System; brochure on dedication ceremony of Rocheport Bridge; protest of Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis over planned expansion of the Daniel Boone C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 33

Expressway. f. 3234-3375 Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. f. 3234-3239 Miscellaneous documents relating to the Department. Reports to the 69th and 70th General Assembly, labor laws of the state, pamphlets on future manpower needs and radiation from atomic energy. Constituent discussion of union rower and right-to-work laws. f. 3240-3254 Industrial Commission. Discussion of the prevailing wage law as administered by the Industrial Commission; the effects of establishing wage rates for public construction projects, organized labor's support, opposition to established rate in Joplin, Missouri, sewer construction project. Appointment of special Farm Labor Board in cooperation with U. S. Department of agriculture. Withholding union dues from state payroll. Letters of recommendation for appointment as mine inspector. f. 3255-3279 Employment Security Division. Blair speech dedicating Employment Security building in St. Louis; problems of acquiring site. Division reports; Division's workload; Joplin, Kansas City, Springfield, St. Joseph, and St. Louis labor market studies; constituent requests for extended coverage; businessmen requests for revision in Division regulation; Farm Labor appointments and manpower needs in Southeastern Missouri. f. 3280-3333 Physically Handicapped Committee. Employment of physically handicapped; correspondence of the chairman of the Governors committee on the Employment of the Handicapped, John J. Griffin. Awards of Merit to supporters of hiring the handicapped. f. 3334-3342 Employment Security Division. Certification for benefits from the Division; acquisition of St. Louis property for new Division building; Attorney General opinion on state's participation in extended benefits; requests for farm laborers of Mexican nationality for Southeastern Missouri; pressure by businessmen in Trenton, Missouri, to retain a branch office of the Division there; application for position with the Employment Security Division. f. 3343-3347 Mine Inspection Division. Annual Reports of The Division of Mine Inspection and State Auditor's audits of the Division. f. 3348-3355 Workmen's Compensation Division. Report on Missouri Workmen's Compensation Law; new advisory committee on Workmen's Compensation legislation; cases before the Division, personnel of the Division; applications; complaints on the way individual cases are handled by the Division. f. 3356-3375 Mediation Board, July 1955-September 1960. Audits; Gubernatorial, Board, and public reaction to disruptions in industrial relations in Missouri; St. Louis newspaper strike, Kansas City power and transportation strike, and southern Missouri Bus Strike, implementation of the King-Thompson Act C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 34

in Kansas City Power and Lights Strike. Presentation of both labor and management's side in disputes. f. 3376-3563 Department of Revenue f. 3376-3401 Personnel. Department salary scale; personnel problems of various agencies; local Democratic Party concern over Departmental job holders Milton Carpenter-James Kelly memos about patronage, gubernatorial reaction to candidates for State Treasurer: sales tax collection analysis of projected state revenue for 1959-61; personnel reports of Department listing employee's name, home address, salary and position: listing of new employees, resignations, and salary changes. f. 3402-3406 Safety Responsibility Unit. Licensing of automobiles and liability responsibility of owner involved in accidents. Reports of the unit. Application and letters of recommendation for the position of Supervisor of Safety Responsibility Unit. f. 3407-3415 Revenue and Tax Collection. Banking of state funds; communications with M. E. Morris on depositing state monies; interest on state bends; monthly collection reports for the Department: sales tax collection for 1957-60: New York State taxation,, attorney general ruling on township collectors taxation in St. Louis County; and use tax. f. 3416-3424 Income Tax. Complaint about lack of uniformity in tax paying, discussion of tax favoritism, tax evasion, justification of income tax. Responses to complaints, cooperative efforts of the State Income Tax Unit and the Internal Revenue Service on taxable income; discussion of withholding tax system, Alabama withholding tax. f. 3425 Intangible Tax. Estate and inheritance taxes; tax evasion; federal cooperation. f. 3426-3464 Vehicle Licensing. Motor Vehicle Division's Reports to State Auditor, auto safety; discussion of the mechanics of issuing driver's license: requests for low number license plates; requests for restoration of suspended auto license; driver's liability requirements; minimum and, maximum ages for driver's license; N.A.T.O. reciprocity on drivers' licenses; point system for drivers, Motor fuel transportation regulations; audits of motor vehicle registration from July, 1948- December 31, 1951. f. 3465 Liquor Stamp Audits. Audits of the Liquor Stamp Division for August 17, 1954 to June 144, 1957. f. 3466-3471 Sales Tax. Correspondence to and from the Sales Tax Division about sales tax collection and assessment; bootleg cigarettes, use tax; token system versus bracket collections; patronage within the Division for leading Democrats. f. 3472-3495 Purchasing. Purchasing regulations for various state departments; discussion of bidding system of state; complaints by union members of the state's purchasing non-union coal; C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 35

analysis of coal needs of state agencies; controversy begun by the Post-Dispatch on corruption within the Purchasing Department, ending with the resignation of Elwood Loud as Purchasing Agent; specifications on various products purchased by the state, light bulbs, tires, etc. f. 3496 Public Buildings. Miscellaneous correspondence on capitol tours, state employee working conditions, office and storage space for state agencies; discussion of relative merits of leasing office space as opposed to building state buildings. f. 3497 Hospitals. Requests from various cities throughout the state for state financial aid in building hospitals under a state statute providing for Memorial Hospitals. f. 3498-3501 Executive Budget. Budgets for 1958-1959 and for 1959- 1961. Appropriations, payments and lapsed balances. f. 3502-3554 Budget and Fiscal Policy. Blair's fiscal policy; appropriation for the 70th General Assembly; 1945-1954 revenue statistics; revenue fund receipts; program and expenditures reports; property tax levy for 1946-1955; university special appropriations; capital improvement project; quarterly reports of the second state building bond program; monthly treasury balances; recruiting of budget staff by Blair; governor's speech on budgeting; speech materials; suggestions for budgeting policy; legislative and public responses to Blair's fiscal policy; Welfare Department budget; Budget Department analysis of funds requests; appointment of John W. Schwada as budget director; Budget Director's comment on state's revenue needs; Governmental reorganization; comptroller's salary. f. 3555-3560 Employee's Retirement. Audit of the State Employees' Retirement System, public reaction to the retirement system, minutes of the Board, rules of retirement and accompanying exceptions, establishments of maximum working age. Complaints about retirement at 65. f. 3561 Grand Jury. St. Louis Merchants and Manufacturers License Tax Grand Jury Report. f. 3562-3563 Tax Commission. Evaluation of state owned Property by the Missouri State Tax Commission; appointment of members of the Commission; complaints about tax assessment and property evaluation, Missouri delegates to the National Tax Association Convention; proceedings of the Missouri State Tax Commission.

Judiciary Series f. 3564-3571 Audits. State audits of various judicial agencies: State Bar Fund, Supreme Court, Kansas City Court of Appeals, St. Louis Court of Appeals, and Springfield Court of Appeals. f. 3572-3576 Court Reports. Reports for the Circuit Court for Criminal Cases for St. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 36

Louis City. f. 3577-3596 Judicial Retirement. Appointment of Elmo Hunter to the Kansas City Court of Appeals; applications and letters of recommendation to St. Louis and Kansas City Circuit Court of Appeals; application for certification for judicial retirement listed alphabetically.

County Problems and Requests Series f. 3597-3703 Filed alphabetically by counties. Letters to the Governor concerning local jail condition, law enforcement, investigation of county officers, protection of property, tax assessments, and legal advice. Some correspondence on county patronage and local Democratic Party machinery. Requests by county prosecutors for Attorney General's aid in trying cases; rural cemetery protection.

Applications and Appointments Series f. 3704-3888 General Job Applications and Endorsements. Filed alphabetically by name of applicant. Applications for jobs under the governor's control. Include endorsements by county Democratic Committees, senators and representatives. Many applications from Cole, Moniteau, Boone, and Calloway Counties. Endorsers frequently appearing are Omer H. Avery, R.R. Nacy, W.F. Daniels, J.R. Proctor, W.L. Zevely, W.D. Welliver, G.A. Spencer, A.B. Vanlandingham, Montie L. Christian and Richard M. Dunn. f. 3704-3708 A f. 3709-3724 B f. 3725-3733 C f. 3734-3744 D f. 3745-3748 E f. 3749-3754 F f. 3755-3763 G f. 3763-3780 H f. 3781-3784 I, J f. 3785-3791 K f. 3792-3800 L f. 3801-3814 M f. 3815-3817 N f. 3818-3820 O f. 3821-3829 P, Q f. 3830-3841 R f. 3842-3864 S f. 3865-3872 T f. 3873-3875 U, V f. 3876-3888 W, X, Y, Z C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 37 f. 3889-3963 Department of Agriculture Applications. Applications for various positions. Letters of endorsement from county Democratic Committees and legislators. Blair's reasons for requiring local endorsement on reappointments. Letters of congratulation and comment I on Blair's administration in general. Discussion on the need for, the state sharing costs of inspectors with the processors. Directive from the executive office to J. S. Williamson, Commissioner of Agriculture, on hiring and release of employees. Maps delineating areas of inspection throughout Missouri for eggs, dairy, weights, entomology, and feed and grain. f. 3964-3989 Business and Administration Applications. Applications and letters of recommendation for positions within the Department of Business and Administration under control of the Governor: bank examiner; insurance counsel clerk of insurance department; Public Service Commission inspector; county examiner with the State Auditor's office; insurance superintendent, Credit Union examiner. G. H. Dates. f. 3990-3993 Department of. Conservation Applications. Applications and endorsements for positions with the Conservation Department, especially student summer jobs in state parks and park superintendents; game warden; stenographer. f. 3994 Department of Correction Applications. Letters of recommendation and application for positions within the Department of Correction, e.g. prison guard, Superintendent of Algoa Farm, probationary officer, and prison chaplain. These jobs come under State Merit System and the Governor's office referred applicants. f. 3995-3998 Liquor Control Applications. Applications, alphabetically arranged, for positions with the Department of Liquor Control, such as inspection agents, clerks and stenographers. F. M. Ketchum, Department Supervisor. f. 3999-4001 Miscellaneous Departments Directly Under the Governor’s Control. Applications and endorsements for positions with Office of the Adjutant General, State Service Officers, and Civil Defense Agency, under Forrest Smith. f. 4002-4004 Public Health and Welfare Department. Applications and recommendations for position in the Department of Public Health and Welfare under C.R. Gallop. Efforts on part of various doctors to have J. R. Amos reappointed as director of the Department. Most of the jobs applied for are under the Merit system and beyond the Governor's control. f. 4005-4012 Labor Department Applications. Applications and endorsements for positions with the Department of Labor, such as mine inspector, attorney, summer work, and stenographers. Correspondence between Blair's office and S. J. Millett and, later, S. H. Givens, Director of the Workmen's Compensation Division, and G. P. Weir, director of Employment Security Division on hiring employees. f. 4013-4168 Applications for Revenue Department Jobs. Applications and letters of endorsement for positions with the Department of Revenue, e.g.: clerk, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 38

key punch operator, sales tax auditor, oil inspector, license registration, and part-time summer jobs. Many applications from Cole and surrounding counties. Endorsements signed by such men as M. L. Christian, R. R. Nacy, O. H. Avery, J. R. Proctor, W. L. Zevely. Folder 4066 contains discussion of rent stabilization during Korean War in Southwest Missouri. Folders 4167-4168 contain discussion of Kansas City patronage and competing political factions, lists of state employees in Revenue Department with positions and salaries, also vacancies within the Department. f. 4169-4170 Miscellaneous Applications and Appointment. List of state employees not under Merit System with date of application, position, age, and county of applicant. Lists of people hired, discussion of political background of some applicants from Kansas City, Oregon County politics; replies from various state agencies on openings for summer student employees. f. 4171-4176 Accountancy Board Appointments. Letters of endorsement for positions on the State Board of Accountancy. Appointment of F. M. Linck, J. T. Patmor, V. R. Sheffield, R. Taylor, and D. P. Williams. f. 4177 Appointment with Adjutant General Office. Applications for appointment to the position of State Adjutant General. Appointment of A. D. Sheppard. f. 4178 Gubernatorial Advisory Board. Suggestions from the drug and chemical lobby for appointment to a special advisory board on regulating plant manufacturing. f. 4179-4183 Agriculture Commissioner Appointment. Applications and letters of recommendation for position of Commissioner of Agriculture. Appointment of Earl Staub as acting commissioner and later John Sam Williamson as Commissioner. f. 4184 Air National Guard. Recommendations by the Adjutant General for promotion of various Air National Guard officers. Their recommendation by the Governor. f. 4185 Architects and Engineers Board Appointments. Notification of appointment to the Registration Board of Architects and Professional Engineers by the Governor. f. 4186-4191 Athletic Commission Appointments. Letters of recommendation and application to fill vacancies on the Athletic Commission. Need for Republican as well as Democratic members. Appointment of F. W. Jones, W. F. Phares, and C. Pian. f. 4192-4193 Commission on Atomic Energy Appointments. List of Blair appointees to the Commission. Applications and endorsements for Commission. Appointment of F. L. Kenney, Jr., W. R. Konneker, F. McRoberts, G. Scott, D. S. Eppelsheimer, W. E. Bixby, and A. A. Hunn. Tracts on atomic energy. f. 4194 Greene County Auditor Appointment. Notification of Governor of the death of the elected Auditor and request for filling the vacancy. Requests from flair to the local Democratic Committee for information C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 39

on suggested people. Appointment of W. M. Stone. f. 4195 Banking Board Appointments. Appointments of P. Compton, S. N. Crowe, L. C. Lozier, and J. T. Riley to the Board. f. 4196-4205 Barber Examiners Appointment. Applications and endorsements for membership on the State Board of Barber Examiners. Suggestions for barber inspector. Appointment of J. C. Green, A. L. Huskey, and F. T. Larkin as Board members. Gubernatorial request for a deficiency appropriation to run the Board. Discussion of Negro barbers. f. 4206 Bipartisan Commission. Various letters making suggestions for governmental agencies, etc. A.A.U.W. recommendation for service in addition to other volunteers for state commission work. f. 4207-4208 Bi-State Development Agency Appointments. Appointments to the agency: H. Harrington, C. F. Johnston, E. E. Pershall, D. R. Adams, M. R. Bearman, P. Estep. Resignation of C. F. Ford from agency. Discussion by St. Louis Chamber of Commerce on merits of development; Missouri and Kansas, and Missouri and Illinois. f. 4209 School for Blind. Applications and appointments to the Board of Advisors for the Missouri School for the Blind: M.J. Glaser, Mrs. F. S. Burkhardt, and O. W. Chilton. f. 4210 Business and Administration Appointment. Applications and appointment to office of Director of the Department of Business and Administration: Mrs. F. E. Bailey. f. 4211-4212 Cancer Commission and Hospital Appointments. Cancer Commission appointments: John Modlin, J. W. Probstein, A. Spellman, W. C. Whitlow. Resignation of W. C. Hewitt. Application for post of Administrator of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Hospital, Columbia, MO. f. 4213 Census Supervisor Appointments. Request from city councils for special censuses in their communities and recommendations from local Democratic organization for people to fill posts of supervisor. Appointment of Lula Mitchell, Rock Hill, H. E. Ridgway, Huntleigh, and Francis Stone, Union, Missouri, as supervisors. f. 4214 Chiropody Board Appointments. Letters of recommendation from various chiropody organizations on appointments to the State Chiropody Board. Appoints F. Fulkerson, L. A. Hansen, J. M. Fern, R. C. Pearce, F. A. Pelletier. f. 4215-4226 Chiropractic Examiners' Appointment. Applications and endorsements for position on the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Appointments of A. G. Campbell, S. J. Durham, J. C. Rehm, D. G. Roupp, L. J. Shay, and E. Silver. f. 4227-4230 Civil Defense Agency Appointment. Applications and endorsements for various jobs with the State Civil Defense Agency. Proposed Planning Board on Survival. Director of Agency, Marvin Smith, replaced by Dean Lupkey. f. 4231-4237 Civil War Commission Appointments. Correspondence between Blair and Floyd Shoemaker and Dr. Bert E. Maybee on establishing Missouri Civil War Centennial Commission. Appointment of members. Minutes C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 40

of the March 7, 1959, meeting in Jefferson City. Monthly bulletins from the National Commission. Indexes of Missouri battles both alphabetically and chronologically. f. 4238-4246 State Colleges Board of Regents Appointments. Appointments of: F.L. Carswell, D. R. Garrison, R. Nattinger, L. Simpson to Board of Regents at Central Missouri State College; H. N. Boucher, Gieselman, H. F. Swain, N. Waples, A. Zenger, Jr., to, and release of W. A. Cable from Board of Regents at Northeast Missouri State College; Dawson, H. Hull, H. N. Stevenson, G. Williams to Board of Regents at Northwest Missouri State College; K. Hess, C. Harrison, J. F. Lottes, L. Summons and B. H. Striegel to Board of Regents at Southeast Missouri State College, C. H. Duvall, J. Hawkins, C. H. Martin, K. E. Postlewaite and C. K. White to Doan., of Regents at Southwest Missouri State College. f. 4247 Comptroller Appointments. Discussion of possibilities for position of Comptroller and Budget Director. Appointment of N. Atterbury, F. J. Iuen, and John Schwada. f. 4248-4265 Conservation Commission Appointment. Letters of recommendation and application for position on the Conservation Commission. Appointment of Frank Briggs, F. H. Burch, and L. Butler. f. 4266 Correction Department Appointments. Appointment of J. D. Carter as Director of the Department of. Correction. Application for positions in Correction Department under the Merit System. f. 4267-4278 Cosmetology Board Appointments. Applications and letters of endorsement for persons to serve as members of the State Board of Cosmetology and as inspectors for that board. Appointment of H. Gruendl, B. J. Duncan, II. Tempelman, and K. Yound to Board. Discussion of political interference by legislators with the business of the Cosmetology Board. f. 4279-4337 County Officials Appointments. Notification of death or resignation of elected county officials. Governor's inquiry of the local Democratic Committee as to who should fill the vacancy. Applications and letters of recommendation for appointment. Discussion of politics on the county level. Appointments for tax assessor (f. 4279), circuit clerk (f. 4280-4282), county clerk (f. 4283-4284), county collector (f. 4285¬4287), coroner (f. 4288-4290), Recorder of Deeds (f. 4291), county judges, probate and magistrate judges (f. 4292-4315), prosecuting attorney (f. 4316-4318), public administrator (f. 4319- 4321), sheriff (special election f. 4322) , school superintendent (f. 4323-4330), surveyor (f. 4331¬4333), and treasurer (f. 4334-4337). f. 4338 Commissioner of Deeds, 1960. Applications for and appointments to Commissioner of Deeds of the State of Missouri in Ohio, New York, and Finland. f. 4339 Deaf School Board of Advisors Appointments. Letters of recommendation for and appointments to the Board of Advisors of the State School for the Deaf. Appointment of J. Barton, J. A. Coder, B. Fishback, V. A. Johnston, M. White. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 41 f. 4340-4341 Dental Examiners Board Appointments. Applications for and appointments to the Dental Board: J. A. Brunner, V. P. Grisham, R. R. Rhoades, C. R. Shale, F. C. Shelden, and P. G. Vierheller, Jr. f. 4342-4343 Board of Education Appointments. Applications for and letters of recommendation to the State Board of Education. Appointment of R. H. Abeken, C. F. Lamkin, Jr., E. J. Melton, J. Webster, and F. H. Williams. Discussion of Negro appointment to the Board. f. 4344-4370 Board of Election Commissioners Appointments. Applications and letters of recommendation for membership on the Clay County Board of Education Commissioners (f. 4344-4347); the Jackson County Board (f. 4348-4355); the St. Louis City Board (f. 4356-4362); and the St. Louis County Board (f. 4363-4370). Discussion of qualifications of candidates; background on party activity; businessmen, labor leaders, and lawyers pushing their choices; appointment of various members, specifying either Republican or Democrat. f. 4371-4377 Embalming Board Appointments. Applications for and letters of endorsement and recommendation for appointment to the Missouri State Board of Embalming: A. C. Baul, Mrs. C. L. Beall, J. P. Shiel, C. Thompson, and C. Zaring. f. 4378-4379 Employment Security Director Appointment. Applications and recommendations for post of Director of the Employment Security Division. J. E. Taylor appointed. Appointment of Governor's Advisory Council. f. 4380-4383 Finance Commissioner Appointment. Applications for and letters of recommendation for appointment of Commissioner of Finance. Appointment of G. H. Bates. f. 4384 Metropolitan Freeholders Board Appointment. Lists of members of the Metropolitan Board of Freeholders of St. Louis City and St. Louis County from both city and county. Appointment by the Governor of V. L. Riddle as outstate member of Board. Proposed plan of Greater St. Louis City-Council Districts (Borough Plan), as submitted to vote in November, 1959. f. 4385 Fruit Experiment Station Board Appointments. Appointment of E. J. Stark, J. E. May, Jr., and H. Kenyon as members of the Board of Trustees of the State Fruit Experiment Station. f. 4386 Geologist Appointment. Appointment of T. R. Beveridge as State Geologist and Director of the Division of Geological Survey and water Resources. Reappointment. Letters of application. f. 4387-4393 Special Committee on Handicapped Appointments. Creation of the Governor's Committee on the Employment of the Physically Handicapped. "Hire the Handicapped" Program. St. Louis banker John J. Griffin named chairman. Appointment of F. Ackerman, Andrae, J. L. Atkinson, C. Bell. W. Canote, J. Carney, Mrs. W. Chick, C. Goellner, B. G. Gregory, G. I. Coel, S. R. Doolin, J. F. Duggan, D. Dunkin, C. C. Earp, V. Esser, R. J. Fuller, J. A. Hatch, M. W. Hogan, C. Jean, J. L. Jolly, R. E. Knapp, B. Koester, T. A. Krauss, W. F. Lubbock, F. R. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 42

Mabery, M. Morris, G. Morton, L. R. Price, N. A. Randol, N. Richardson, S. Rissler, A. Saccaro, J. Scyoe, N. Shainberg, P. Shelton, L. J. Skaggs, C. A. Speer, T. E. Stallings, R. Vossbrink, J. S. Wallace, and C. O. West. f. 4394-4396 Healing Arts Board Appointments. Vita on members of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts: R. A. Michael, R. W. Matheny, W. Sewell, R. Perry, H. O. Loyd, D. E. O'Reilly, and W. F. Francka. Applications and recommendations for member--ship on the Board. Discussion of problems of having D.O.'s and M.D.'s serve together. Appointing a Jew to the Board. f. 4397-4398 Health and Welfare Appointments. Applications and recommendations for various appointive positions with the Department of Health and Welfare. Appointment of D. N. Carter as Director of Welfare; C. R. Gallop, Director of Department of Health and Welfare; and H. M. Hardwicke as Acting Director of Health after J. R. Amos. f. 4399-4405 Highway Commission Appointments. Letters of endorsement and recommendation for positions on the State Highway Commission, on both geographic and political basis. Appointment of H. Bradley and L. A. Fisher to Commission. Appointment of H. H. Waggoner as Superintendent of the Missouri State highway Patrol. f. 4406-4408 Hospital Council Appointments. List and vita of the 1957 Hospital Advisory Council; reminder from the Director of Health that the terms for the 1957 Council were about expired and requests for new appointments; Governor appointed J. D. Hicks, S. S. Jenkins, A. D. Markel, K. Nixon, A. J. Signorelli, A. Spellman, A. Vetter, R. D. Foster, and R. B. Bassett. f. 4409-4412 Human Rights Commission Appointments. Introductory remarks by Blair at the first meeting of the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, April 14, 1958. Preliminary report of the Commission. List of Commission members. Various appointments to Commission. Rules of procedure for the Commission. f. 4413-4429 Industrial Commission Appointments. Letters of endorsement for membership on the Industrial Commission of Missouri. Pressure from both labor and management to have one of their members appointed to the Commission. Appointment of R. W. Atkerson, C. E. Cates, J. R. Rose, and G. W. Wise. Concern of business leaders of St. Louis over attracting industry to the state. Proposed Missouri Industrial Development Authority and industrial development of the Missouri- Kansas and Missouri-Illinois urban areas. Applications and recommendations for position of Director of Industrial Inspection. Appointment of Frank Hume. f. 4430-4461 Judicial Appointments. Appointments of appellate and circuit judges. Letters of recommendation for candidates. Comments on the non- partisan court plan. Factional politics in Kansas City. Increase in number of circuits in 1958. Appointment of G. Cross, J. J. Wolfe, E. B. Hunter, P. C. Carver, R. K. Elliott, W. L. Ragland, A. J. Higgins, R. G. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 43

J. Hoester, J. J. Kelly, Jr., J. M. Kurtley, R. W. McGhee, T. J. Stubbs, W. E. Stewart, P. S. Terry. Appointment to Judicial Commissions: M. J. Bueltermann, J. C. Combs, C. A. Mogab, S. Salomon, Jr., F. C. Sheluen. f. 4462 Library Commission Appointments. Letters of recommendation and appointments to the Missouri State Library Board. Mrs. J. Duggan, Mrs. F. Steury, Mrs. P. Strop, and Mrs. R. Young. f. 4463-4467 Liquor Control Appointments. Applications and letters of recommendation for positions within the Department for Liquor Control. Appointment of H. M. Ketchum as Supervisor of Liquor Control. f. 4468-4469 Mediation Board Appointments. Letters of recommendation for and appointments to the State Board of Mediation for industrial disputes. Appointment of C. R. Bibbs, A. Fults, T. Henry, D. C. Rogers, and C. R. Stockhus. f. 4470-4471 Medical Examiners Board Appointments. Applications and endorsements for doctors' appointments to the State Board of Medical Examiners. Appointment of W. O. Finney, H. A. Klein, W. S. Sewell, E. P. Vitt, G. R. Wempe, and J. W. Willoughby. f. 4472-4476 Mental Health Commission Appointments. Efforts of the Missouri Association for Mental Health for bringing together various interested groups for a unified effort against mental sickness. Reorganization of the Mental Health Division, resignation of B. F. Ragland as Director of the Division of Mental Diseases application for position as Director; appointment of Mental Health Commission, L. Dills, U. C. Chiasson, P. B. McHaney, G. J. Nooney, A. Preston, Jr., F. F. Sassin, and Francis Smith. f. 4477 Mine Inspection Appointments. Appointment of F. E. Henson as Director of The Division of Mine Inspection. Applications and endorsements for positions as inspectors. f. 4478-4481 Motor Vehicle License Commissioner, December 1956-April 1959. Applications and letters of recommendation for positions of Deputy Motor Vehicle License Commissioners. Extensive controversy between The Sedalia Chamber of Commerce and various automobile dealers over who should get the Sedalia license office. f. 4482-4568 Notary Public Commissions. Lists filed chronologically of the daily income of fees from applicants for commissions of Notary Public issued by the Commission Clerk of the Secretary of State's Office. Correspondence between the Governor's Office and various applicants on use of commission, replacement of commission, and other related subjects. f. 4569-4573 Nursing Board Appointments and Nursing Home Inspectors. Recommendation for membership on The State Board of Nursing by various nursing organizations. Appointments and resignations of members of Board: G. Combs, A. Henderson, N. F. Hutti, E. C. McIntosh, E. L. Peterson, M. Riley, A. F. Van Matre. Application for C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 44

state jobs as fire inspector for registered nursing homes. This surge of interest followed a tragic fire in a nursing home in Kansas City in February, 1957. f. 4574-4577 Optometry Board Appointments. Letters of recommendation for membership on the State Optometry Board. Appointment of A. George and R. Sturges. f. 4578 Osteopathic Board Appointments. Applications and letters of recommendation for membership on the State Osteopathic Examining Board. Appointment of C. F. Gregory. f. 4579-4588 Park Board Appointments. Letters of application and recommendation for positions on the Missouri State Park Board. Appointments of R. Allaman, C. W. Boatin, R. I. Colburn, B. F. Hinkle, J. B. Searcy, L. Stokes, and R. Wolpers. f. 4589 Personnel Advisory Board Appointment. Letters of recommendation for appointment to the Personnel Advisory Board. Appointment of D. Houtchen and P. G. Steinbicker to the Board. f. 4590-4596 Pharmacy Board Appointments. Applications and recommendations for positions on the Missouri State Board of Pharmacy. Appointment of L. D. DeClerck, B. E. Goldwasser, W. D. Hunt, C. W. Riley, L. W. Tracy, and T. Wooten. Comments on county politics, pressure from St. Louis pharmacists to get one of their members on the board. f. 4597-4606 Police Commission Appointments. Applications and letters of recommendation for appointment to Police Boards of Kansas City, St. Joseph and St. Louis. Biographical data on leading citizens for consideration. Comments on St. Joseph politics, discrimination against Masons in St. Louis, appointment of a Negro to the Kansas City Board. f. 4607-4608 Poultry Board Appointments, March 1957-April 1959. Applications and letters of recommendation for appointment to the Board of the State Poultry Experimentation Station, Mountain Grove, Missouri. Appointment of R.J. Chaffin, P.A. Johnson, K. Marti, R.D. Miller, C.J. Tindel, and E. Follicker. f. 4609 Prison Farms Director. Recommendations for filling a vacancy caused by the death of the Director of the State Prison Farms. The position comes under the Merit System and not the Governor. f. 4610-4611 Probation and Parole Board Appointments. Legislative reorganization of the Parole Board, the Attorney General's opinion on the status of the old Board members within the new legislation; applications to be appointed to the Board. Appointment of Robinson, Stewart. Gubernatorial sanction to photograph Board. f. 4612-4619 Public Service Commission Appointments. Letters of applications and recommendation for positions on the State Public Service Commission. Appointment of W.T. Barton, T.W. Burton, C.L. Henson, and F.J. Iuen. Comments on the state Democratic Party activity and Democratic politics in Pemiscot County. f. 4620-4629 Purchasing Agent Appointment. Application and recommendation for appointment as procurement inspector. Application and C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 45

recommendation for State Purchasing Agent. Appointment of R. Ferguson, B. P. Hallam, and E. Long. Resignation of Long oyer dispute with Post-Dispatch. Legislative enactment of new duties for agent. f. 4630 Real Estate Commission Appointment. Appointment of J.. I. Chaplin, a. J. Noonan, R. E. L. Stephens, and F. L. Woodward to the Missouri Real Estate Commission. f. 4631-4634 Resources and Development Commission Appointments. Applications and letters of recommendation for appointment to the State Resources and Development Commission. Appointment of M. A. Black, G. D. Clayton, Jr., E. L. Dale, J. F. Enright, W. W. Fuqua, H. M. Gambrel, A. P. Kaufmann, and D. W. Snyder, Jr. f. 4635-4636 Retirement Board Appointment. Appointment of M. Carpenter, P. N. Carter, and J. S. Williamson to the Board of Trustees of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System. Notification of election by members of the Missouri Public School Retirement System to their Board of Trustees by the Commission of Education to the Governor of W. E. Barnes, E. E. Gann, C. Huston, and S. C. Reynolds, and requests for their commissioning. f. 4637 Revenue Director Appointment. Appointment and confirmation of Milton Carpenter as Director of Revenue. f. 4638-4639 Safety Responsibility Unit. Letters of application and recommendation for appointment as supervisor of the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Unit. f. 4640-4642 Savings and Loan Appointments. Appointment of H. F. Bennett, W. L. Bradshaw, C. W. Dulle, C. H. Howard, and S. H. Stock to the State Savings and Loan Commission. Applications and letters of endorsement for position as Supervisor of Savings and Loans. Appointment of O. Bassman, G. E. Church, J. E. Mitchell, and P. R. Sims. f. 4643 School Foundation Committee. Blair appointed a group of educators to an advisory committee. The list of appointments. f. 4644 Senate Appointment. List of the Democratic State Committee who convened to select a replacement for Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., who died. Suggestions of both Blair and Harry S. Truman to be successor. Appointment of Edward V. Long. f. 4645-4665 State Service Officer Appointment. Letters of recommendation for the reappointment of R. L. Carver as State Service Officer. Interest on the part of Republican politicians and veterans' organizations. Applications and endorsements for jobs as Assistant State Service officers. Governor's office informing local Democratic leaders of vacancies and soliciting recommendations. Problems of hiring a woman as an Assistant State Service Officer. f. 4666 Soil Districts Commission. Appointment of J. A. Schooling, Howard Shirkey, H. Taylor, and P. V. Walker as members of the Commission. Discussion of the problem of arriving at a geographical and crop balanced representation on the Soil Commission. C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 46 f. 4667 Soldiers Home Directors Appointment. Applications to serve on the Board of Directors of the Federal Soldiers Home at St. James. Appointment of J. E. Bartruff, J. Coffman, F. B. McHenry, D. D. Salveter, and J. Underwood. f. 4668 Secretary of State Appointment. Correspondence suggesting that Blair appoint James Kirkpatrick as Secretary of State should Walter H. Toberman vacate that office. Toberman died February 13, 1960, and Blair appointed his former administrative assistant, Robert W. Crawford, Secretary of State. f. 4669-4670 Tax Commission Appointments. Application and letters of recommendation for membership on the State Tax Commission. Appointment of J. R. Hutchison and J. A. Williams. f. 4671 Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission. Discussion of the founding of the Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission for bridge at Caruthersville, Missouri. Appointment of T. F. Hunter, S. P. Reynolds, M. R. Rowland, E. L. Spence, J. R. Tipton, and G. S. Wright to be members of the Commission. f. 4672 Training Schools Trustee Appointments. Letters of recommendation for persons to serve as Trustees of the State Board of Training Schools. Appointment of A. Bond, R. T. Hensley, O. J. Lamb, and E. Rucker. f. 4673-4674 Lincoln University Board Appointments. Applications and letters of recommendation for positions on the Lincoln University Board of Curators. Appointment of J.O. Bond, O. J. Decatur, H. Harrington, C. Johnson, H. B. Masterson, L. Mosee, C. M. Peterson, G. E. Roberts, G. A. Rozier, C. G. Stifel, and W. H. Young to the Board. f. 4675-4678 University Board of Curator Appointments. Alumni, Farm Bureau, and other recommendations for people to serve on the University of Missouri Board of Curators. Appointment of Henry Andrae, L. E. Cox, J. A. Dagge, B. Ewing, J. A. Finch, Jr., D. C. John, R. J. Neill, Jr., Doyle Patterson, and Paul Van Osdol, Jr. Explanation by President Elmer Ellis of the Board of Visitors. Appointment of W. F. Daniels, P. Estep, M. Harris, H. E. Slusher, and W. R. Toler as members of the Board of Visitors. f. 4679 Veterinary Board. Appointment of R. D. Campbell, A. D. Glover, W. R. Sheets, and A. B. Shopmaker to the Missouri Veterinary Board. f. 4680-4691 Vital Statistics Appointments. Appointments and letters of recommendation for position of Local Registrar of Vital Statistics. Discussion of the duties of the local registrar by the Director of Division of Health. Comments on local politics. f. 4692-4702 Water Pollution Control Board Appointments. Applications and letters of recommendation for appointment to the newly created Water Pollution Control Board. Appointment of F. M. Eviston, H. H. Hilliker, F. Johnson, H. A. Jones, R. Krebs, P. Phillips, and J. M. Thompson. Mining industry's interest in water pollution; discussion of water resources in Missouri; Blair's views on pollution control; conflict between the Division of Health and the new Water Pollution Control C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 47

Board. f. 4703-4712 Workmen's Compensation Appointment. Applications and letters of recommendation for position of Referee in the Division of Workmen's Compensation. Appointment of S. H. Givens as Director of the Division of Workmen's Compensation. f. 4713-4720 Invitations and Publicity. Lists of Blair appointees; 69th and 70th General Assembly's legislation concerning administration organization; appointments to the Interim Committee on Central Processing Data, Committee on Interstate Cooperation, County Aid Road Committee, Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws, State Merit Board; organization outline of the various state departments and commissioners; comments on Texas County, Boone County, St. Louis County and St. Charles County Democratic politics; Teamster Union politics; requests for pictures of the governor; Thomas F. Eagleton publicity. Invitations to various state, civic, and political functions.

Legislative Material Series f. 4721-4743 Senate Bills, 69th General Assembly December 1956-September 1957. Public mail on various proposals in the Senate. State employee salaries and pensions; legalized gambling and race tracks; judiciary retirement; pollution control; sewers and sanitation; teacher retirement; fire marshal legislation; welfare and old age assistance; trucking line regulation; deposit of state funds; county road assistance; rain making license; taxation; compulsory school attendance; St. Louis workhouse; liquor sales in airports; administrative reorganization; workmen's compensation; school aid; state park bonds; county zoning laws; and legal disposition. f. 4744-4775 Senate Bills, 70th General Assembly October 1958-September 1959. Chronologically arranged correspondence concerning proposed legislation originating in the Senate: gasoline tax, fire safety, withholding income tax system, livestock slaughter regulation, Sunday blue laws, veterans bonuses, unemployment compensation, outdoor advertisement, Board of Healing Arts, city earnings tax, pari-mutuel betting, school aid, Office of State Architect, motor boat regulation, corporation medical practice, installment purchasing regulation, court docket, independent trucking regulation, advertising regulation, insurance policy priority, state employment retirement, property closing costs, water safety legislation, highway speed limits, taxing exempt income property. f. 4776-4818 House Bills, 69th General Assembly January-August 1957. Correspondence on following proposals in the House: county road aid, veterans' bonuses, highway speed limit, legalizing charitable and pari- mutuel gambling, open range livestock, old age assistance, car licenses, teacher retirement, daylight savings time, school aid, voting for 18-year olds, highway patrol, state appropriations, pay increase for legislators, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 48

reclamation of Big Lake, Human Rights Commission, cosmetology regulation, Kansas City Police Board, anti-fireworks regulation, Nebraska-Missouri boundary line, election day closing of taverns, life insurance company regulation, fair trade law for milk, St. Louis circuit judiciary, State Electronic Commission, consumer debt adjustment, Aid to Dependent Children, state employee retirement, prevailing wage for public works, agricultural research center for southwest Missouri, and Spanish-American War memorial. f. 4819-4847 House Bills, 70th General Assembly September 1958-September 1959. Correspondence on following proposed legislation in the House: highway litter, auto insurance rates, highway safety, fair trade laws, school safety, business school regulation, reorganization of Health Department, gubernatorial legislative recommendation, gasoline tax, state aviation commission, industrial relations regulation, State Barber Board, trucking regulations, Sunday blue laws, use tax, blind pension, St. Louis Police Board, outdoor advertising, Human Rights Commission, nudism, minors and alcohol, grain storage regulation, embalmers licenses, railroad regulation, county assessor salaries, public accommodation laws, state public office building for Kansas City, Missouri, and appropriation for mental health institution. f. 4848-4861 Special Sessions, May-December 1957. Suggested topics for a special session for February 1958: fire safety, exceptional children, blind pensions, civil defense, state board appropriations, Aid to Dependent Children, levee district consolidation, appropriations for mental institutions, Park Board appropriations, insurance regulations, judicial salaries, public utilities advertising, state employee retirement, trucking regulation, motor fuel tax, percentage required to pass school bond, fair employment practices, juvenile court jurisdiction, legislators' salaries, gubernatorial succession, auto license fees, narcotics regulation, St. Louis earnings tax, state use of St. Louis facilities, non-resident tuition for state colleges, county road aid, election poll hours, school district boundaries, minimum age for driving, Kansas City police financial aid, county employee pension, sales tax, child support, teachers' education, agricultural petroleum distribution. f. 4862-4868 Special Sessions, January-April 1958. Suggested topics for consideration prior to and during a special session of the State Legislature in February 1958: State College Coordination Board, fire safety, prevailing wage regulation, required majority to pass school bonds, St. Louis earnings tax, collegiate teaching salaries, real estate commission appropriation, petroleum products regulation, death of a candidate prior to his being sworn in, county revenue, state employee retirement, school aid, legalizing racing, state legislators salaries, auto safety, extension education and service, community bonding, uniform traffic regulation, banking in the state, St. Joseph Mayor's salary, juvenile delinquency and daylight savings time. f. 4869-4888 Special Session, July 1959-March 1960. Constituents and legislators C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 49

suggested topics for consideration for a proposed special session that was never called: appropriations for the education funding program for public school financing and teachers' salaries; immunity for witnesses to criminal acts; highway and traffic safety; state motto; trucking regulations; juvenile delinquency; fees for drivers' licenses; old age assistance; barber shop inspection; mini-mum driving age; sales tax; Park Board bond sale; municipal problems; St. Louis County police; public accommodations; Cosmetology Board appropriations; tax collections; First World War monument; practical nursing training; alcoholic driver's test; 18-year-old suffrage; Mississippi River Parkway Commission; gasoline tax; Pollution Board appropriations; standardization of weights and measurements; state sewer districts; and fireworks prohibition. f. 4889-4895 Special Sessions, March-December 1960. Constituents and legislators suggested topics for consideration for a proposed special session that was never called: concern that appropriations were insufficient to support the public schools of the state through the education funding program; increased appropriations for schools to pay teachers' salaries; veterans' bonus; state care for rural cemeteries; fraud; tax collection; letters on need for a special session to increase legislators' pay; judicial salaries; and school consolidation. f. 4896-4964 Legislative Correspondence, January 1957-May 1959. Correspondence from constituents and legislators discussing the need for legislation in various fields. The correspondence is arranged by topic and then chronologically: Old Age Assistance and pensions; aid to the blind; state budget; emergency appropriation; school aid; justification of budget, and requests for practical nursing program; county road fund aid; automobile license and examination; highway safety; drinking drivers, and maximum and minimum age limits; Highway Patrol search and seizure authority; uniform traffic codes; need for liability insurance. f. 4992-5051 Legislative Correspondence, January 1956-March 1959. Legislative and constituent correspondence on legislation for Interstate Commerce reciprocity for motor vehicles; teacher retirement system, increase and expansion of coverage; taxation; unemployment insurance and social security, in relation to the 1958 recession, efforts to extend coverage of compensation for unemployment, business and labor's reaction. f. 5052--5060 Legislative Correspondence, July-December 1958. Chronological arrangement of miscellaneous correspondence from constituents, lobbyists, and legislators about legislation on uniform judicial code; armed forces voting; local government administration; juvenile code; private investigators regulation; municipal corporations; International Labor Organization, insurance regulation; federal aid to airports; unemployment insurance; minimum driving age; State Children's Hospital and Crippled Children's Service; geological survey; Medicare; property tax and assessment; Highway Patrol search and seizure C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 50

authority; civil defense; State Park Board bonds; Health Department appropriations; withholding tax; highway beautification; traffic safety; Civil War Centennial Commission; kindergartens; and oil and gas regulation. f.5061-5077 Legislative Correspondence, December 1958-November 1960. Chronologically arranged miscellaneous correspondence from constituents and lobbyists on subjects for legislation; Atomic Energy Commission; kindergartens; boating regulation; insurance regulation; county road aid; dog racing; drunken driver tests; judicial code; primary elections; concealed weapons; taxes; driver's test; minimum driving age; gasoline, cigarette, and liquor taxes; fire safety; insurance rates; traffic safety; private pilot regulation; judicial compensation; mental health; State Park Board financing; sales tax; fireworks regulation; Sunday blue laws; church taxation; state cultural activities; Governor's request of departmental heads for suggested legislative change; departmental suggestions for legislation; 1961 Council of State Government program for legislative action. f. 5078-5079 Legislative Research, May 1957-October 1959. Correspondence from the Missouri Committee on Legislative Research answering questions on Missouri laws, e.g. marriage regulation, business regulation, powers of the Lt. Governor and Attorney General, and Missouri mining laws. f. 5080-5092 Legislative Correspondence, December 1956-June 1958. Miscellaneous correspondence and pamphlets on suggested legislation: establishment of annual session for legislature; juvenile code; Little Hoover Reorganization Commission; legislators' pay; uniform commercial code; state taxes; Soviet exchange families; Atomic Energy Commission; evolution; St. Louis city treasurer report; civil employee incentives; automobile driver point system; civil defense; labor regulation; house appropriation bills; election laws; uniform boating law; legalized gambling; workmen's compensation; public school buses for parochial schools; lottery; highway speed limit; welfare payments; pest control regulations; highway safety; budget for the Department of Correction; proposed health and welfare legislation. f. 5093-5100 Legislative Correspondence, January-April 1957. Chronological arrangement of miscellaneous correspondence and pamphlets suggesting legislation: mental health, veterans' bonus; public school buses for parochial children; Crippled Children's Service; state judiciary; auto licenses; fiscal reorganization of state; local option for alcohol; Old Age Assistance, county road aid; crime; legalized gambling; right to work protection; mining working conditions; per diem for jurors; highway safety; taxes; driver's education; Highway Patrol enlargement; fire safety; property tax; small loans business regulation; state highway construction; franchise for 18 year olds, insurance regulation; automobile insurance; driver's test; trucking regulation; preservation of the governor's mansion; pay raise or legislature; state industrial development; horse racing; qualifications for C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 51

probate judge; medical practitioners' exam, banking of state funds. f. 5101-5108 Legislative Correspondence, April 1957-February 1958. Miscellaneous correspondence chronologically arranged suggesting legislation; welfare services; venue and process statutes; auto titles; free enterprise; judicial pay raise; school district reorganization; legislators pay raise; old age assistance; aid to education; narcotics regulation; child labor; probate law; juror-per diem; state fire marshal; Townsend Plan; expansion of the St. Louis Circuit Bench; Kansas City Police Board; highway litter; local option for alcoholic beverages; public officials' travel pay; School for the Deaf dairy; highway patrol search and seizure authority; old age assistance; criminology; 1957 Saline County sheriff's report; milk fair trade law; flood control; county office building for St. Louis County. f. 5109-5113 Legislative Correspondence, February 1958. Chronologically arranged miscellaneous correspondence and pamphlets suggesting legislation: juvenile code; Bi-State Development Agency; St. Louis earnings tax; county office building for St. Louis County; milk fair trade law; school board elections; prevailing wage law; local government administration; nuclear installation at the Rolla campus; taxes; state aid for St. Louis public services; minimum driving age: business fraud; State Committee on Aging; insurance regulation; tax study commission; public housing; Little Hoover Commission; State Savings and Loan supervisor; transportation reciprocity commission; St. Louis election laws; narcotic regulation; educational accreditation; payroll deductions; workmen's compensation referee. f. 5114-5119 Legislative Correspondence, February-April 1958. Chronologically arranged miscellaneous correspondence suggesting legislation on: Kansas City Police Board; St. Joseph City Administration; milk fair trade laws; traffic safety; Highway Patrol search and seizure authority; University of Missouri Board of Curators; open range; retarded and handicapped children's program; driver's license age limits; food surpluses; succession of public officials; federal aid to state; mental health appropriation; taxes; swimming pool and dairy barn for the University of Missouri, Columbia; State Fire Marshall; state parks; juvenile codes; Revenue Department budget requests; dog guides for the blind; civil defense; Lincoln University; trucking reciprocity; agriculture research center; employer bookkeeping. f. 5120-5127 Legislative Correspondence, August 1958-January 1959. Chronologically arranged correspondence for legislation on: trucking reciprocity; employer bookkeeping problems; State Children's Services appropriation; minimum driving age; public school group insurance; merchandising gimmicks regulation; medical research reward; civil defense; open stock range; branch banking Health Department income; Revenue Department income; revenue for the state; horse racing; majorities for school bonding election; 1959 budget outlook; state use tax; humane slaughter law; prevailing wage and hour law; Agriculture C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 52

Department and diseases; grain storage regulation; weights and measures; taxation; use code for Confederate flag; alcohol taxation; nursing home regulations; local government. f. 5128-5131 Legislative Correspondence, January-March 1959. Chronologically arranged correspondence suggesting need for legislation: mental health program; expansion of workmen's compensation; rent controls, teaching evolution, liquor fair trade laws; St. Louis taxation; use of native coal by state; Deaf School dairy; public libraries; hospital services and pricing; property entail, juvenile code; fraudulent check law; Kansas City Police Board; property tax assessment; Highway Patrol search and seizure authority; aged fishing licenses; state school aid; open stock range; balanced budget; right to work laws; poultry industry inspection; juvenile code; Sunday blue laws; insurance regulation; Aid to Dependent Children; legislators' pay raise; loan company fraud; alcohol beverage license; labor union power. f. 5132-5137 Legislative Correspondence, March 1959-December 1960. Chronologically arranged correspondence suggesting need for legislation: school aid, highway safety; veterans' bonus; milk fair trade laws; censorship of press; gasoline and cigarette tax; health service of the St. Louis hospitals; air pollution; county consolidation; criminals' pardons; coroner qualifications; peace officer training program; nudism; capital punishment; dairy regulations; savings and loan business codes; state funds; narcotics; extradition; state legal aid; highway safety; crime; judicial reform; leash law; utility lines on state property; patronage; county road aid; unicameral legislature; open stock range laws. f. 5138-5152 Legislative Messages, January 1957-January, 1961. Press releases on gubernatorial messages to the legislature; legislative resolutions on the deposition of the USS Missouri silver service; speeches by the governor to joint sessions of the 69th and 70th General Assembly- inauguration, budget, Department of Correction, capital improvements, urban problem, civil defense, and appropriations.

Bound Volumes Series v. 1-2 Central Missouri State College, 1955-1959. Biennial Report of the Board of Regents of the Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg, 1955-1959, to the governor and the state legislature. v. 3-20 Press Clippings, 1947-1960. Scrapbooks filled with news service clippings covering Blair's public life from 1947. [MICROFILM] v. 21-24 Spanish American War Claim Fund, 1910-1913. Cancelled checks of the Spanish American War Veteran Funds for interim pay to Missouri veterans during the Hadley Administration.

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INDEX TERMS

Subject Folders Volumes Image Abandoned children 661 Abbott, Noble G. (1907- ) 4295 Adams, George Pindall (1909- ) 4628 Adams, Ray 3889 Adams, Sherman (1899- ) 2091 Agricultural Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs, 5,6 Kansas Agriculture--Law and legislation 800-803,1072,1073,1394,1619,1620, 1637-1656,1681-1699 Agriculture--Missouri, Southeast 348,1656 Air--Pollution 872 Alamo 1045 Alexander, J. C. 1830-1832,1836,1837,1903,1904,1907, 1941,1954,1984,2004,2008,2023,2027- 2029 Allen, Clayton W. (1896- ) 474,974,4612 Allison, Emery W. (1894- ) 4159,4202,4620,4624 Almond, J. Lindsay, Jr. 1046 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher 4020 Workmen of North America Amberg, Richard Hiller (1912-1967) 2521,4867,5064,5109 American Farm Bureau Federation 518,574,4180 American Institute of Architects 2551 American Latvian Association 999 American Legion National Convention, 1960 1839 American Medical Association 1327 American Mercury 891,893 American Nationalist Confederation 893 American Planning and Civic Association 922 American Therapy University, Inc., Arcadia, 134 Missouri Americans for Democratic Action 189 Amick, Paul 474 Amos, James Roy (1903- ) 2972,2973,2977,2979,2991,3002 Anderson, Victor Emanuel (1902-1962) 735,974,2706,4818 Anderson, William Robert 535 Anti-Semitism 165,1076,2635,2673 Ants 1654 Arbor Day, 1957 2151 Architecture--Missouri, St. Louis 2552 y Area Redevelopment Act 817-822,978 Argenbright, James P. (1903- ) 3890 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 54

Subject Folders Volumes Image Arizona (Battleship) 535 Arkansas. White and Red River Basins Inter- 1914,1938 Agency Committee Aronson, J. Hugo 734,735,1904,2807,3114 Arterburn, Glenn 1620 Aschemeyer, F. Neil (1929- ) 4665,4710 Associated General Contractors of Missouri 1385-1388,1390,1391,1395 Associated Industries of Missouri 869 Atwill, Spurgeon (1905- ) 3979,4891,4904 Automation 1090 Avery, Omer H. (1900- ) 2563,3705,3708,3710,3712,3713,3715, 3718-3720,3724,3725,3727,3729,3730, 3734,3737,3743,3748,3751,3753,3755, 3756,3758,3762,3764,3767,3769,3770, 3773,3777,3778,3780,3781,3783,3789, 3791,3794,3795,3798,3800,3802,3806, 3807,3813-3816,3820-3822,3826,3828, 3835,3837,3838,3840-3842,3845-3847, 3851,3862,3863,3865,3869,3871,3873- 3875,3894,3914,3928,3932,3837,3945, 3955,3957,3965,3973,3975,3980,3985, 3989,3999,4010,4015,4020,4032,4034, 4038,4040,4043,4058,4060,4061,4063, 4064,4070,4076,4082,4084,4091,4093- 4095,4102,4103,4108,4112,4116,4124- 4126,4128,4135,4136,4139,4140,4144, 4153,4156,4161,4164,4200,4240,4253, 4268,4426,4585,4609,4613,4614,4623, 4628,4639,4673,4686,4966 Aylward, George V. 3734,4092,4153,4459 Aylward, James P., Jr. 3859,4353,4459 Ayres, Ralph J. 3705,3706,3725,3746,3809,3818,3827, 3831,3910,3914,3964,3991,4025,4040, 4081,4084,4089,4119,4134,4143,4381, 4641 Baber, John F. 3921,4144 Bachler, Lee Aaron (1925- ) 3896,3943,4165,4267,4655 Bacon, Charles L. (1909- ) 1839 Baer, Arthur B. (1894- ) 2905 Bagby, Ernest 1605 Bailey, Cleveland M. (1886-1965) 2705 Bailey, Walter Elijah (1885- ) 3578 Baker, Sam Aaron (1874-1933) 320 Baker, Thomas Frazier, III (1918- ) 300,691,3337,4250,4632,5121 Baker, Vincent Edward (1921- ) 4006,4348,4601,4703,4857,4860 Banta, Parke M. (1891-1970) 4252 Barker, Allen L. (1924- ) 4220,4648 Baron, Max G. (1889- ) 3579 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 55

Subject Folders Volumes Image Bartle, H. Roe (1896-1974) 143,379,696,753,2894,2895,2980, 2987,3036,4845 Bass, Dorsey M. (1915-2002) 340 Bates, Hubert 1713 Batista y Zaldivar, Fulgencio (1901-1973) 167 Bauer, M. E. "Charlie" (1913- ) 4006,4216,4375,4892 Baumann, John C. 3905 Baur, Alfred K. 3016 Beals, Dwight (1889- ) 4006,4276,4349,4446,4856,4891 Beckerle, Joseph W. 4199 Beeny, Bill 2254 Beetles 1653 Benn, Lloyd G. 1610 Benson, Ezra Taft (1899-1994) 800,804,1637,1639,1641- 1644,2091,2092 Bent, Henry E. (1900-1986) 1979,1982,1984 Benton, Thomas Hart (1889-1975) 55,677 Berresheim, Kenneth 2781 Beveridge, Thomas R. (1918- ) 1829,1911,1978,1980,1982,1984,2039 Biehle, Martha H. (1906-1977) 753 Big Creek Watershed Project, Missouri 1968,2033,2034 Big Lake State Park, Holt County, Missouri 2150,2153,2177 Billings, James V. (1888- ) 3580 Binaggio, Charles 2781 Binns, Walter Pope (1895-1966) 2718,2721 Bittle, Lloyd J. 279 Black barbers 2558,2568 Black Muslims, California 2731,2751 Blacks, Wisconsin 888 Blacks--Employment, Missouri Government 1757,2747 Blacks--Suffrage 692 Blackwell, Earl R. (1923-2009) 3516,3910,3919,4396,4698 Blair, James T., Jr. (1902-1962) 1-5152 v. 1-24 Blair, Sam C. (1904-1985) 303,1383,1791,2463,3043,3741,3751, 3752,3767,3794,3796,3846,3862,3995, 4008,4029,4052,4112,4172,4428,4429, 4579,4609,4761,4839 Blair, William C. 3801,4294,4617 Blanton, Charles L., Jr. (1899-1978) 1374 Blind--Government policy--Missouri 878 Boggs, J. Caleb 734 Boley, George (1881- ) 4138 Bolling, Richard (1916-1991) 128,129,1340,1908,2804,2806,2995, 3111,3202,3754,4187 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 56

Subject Folders Volumes Image Bollinger, Earl A. (1925- ) 4252 Bollinger, W. T., Jr. (1915- ) 3379,3821,4285,4652 Bonds, Municipal 1347,1348 Boone, Daniel (1734-1820) 2168 Bouchard, W. L. (1892- ) 540 Bowles, Chester (1901- ) 188,195 Brackman, Amandus (1884- ) 3581 Bradley, Bert (1890- ) 698 Bradley, John H. (1875-1963) 3582 Bradshaw, Jean Paul (1906-1970) 1607 Brancato, Jasper M. (1907-1976) 2786,2956,3793,3997,4021,4022,4032, 4068,4163,4170,4216,4269,4271,4276, 4451,4969 Braniff International Airways 828,829 Brantley, Dwight 2777,2875,2898 Brasher, Charles A. 2999 Brewer, Arthur 1606 Bricker, John William (1893- ) 1008 Briggs, Frank P. (1894-1992) 1641,3942,4249 Brill, Emil E. 1332-1334,1338,1340-1342 Bromwich, Elroy William (1899- ) 4405 Brookfield, Dutton (1917-1979) 2888,2894,2895 Brooks, Ralph G. 1637,3201 Brostron, Curtis (1905- ) 2915 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 396 Brown, Charles H. (1920- ) 129,1642,1644,1908,1998,2263,2518, 2805,3202,3900,3904,3978,4017,4244, 4277,4608 Brown, Edmund G. "Pat" (1905-1996) 193,196,4775 Brown, Ora Oden (1879- ) 3583 Brownell, Herbert (1904- ) 784 Bruce, Frank 2960 Bruce, Oscar C. 1966 Brucellosis 1610 Brucker, Wilber M. (1894- ) 2798,2799,2811-2813 Bruffett, Ealum E. (1915- ) 4741,5032 Bryan, Monk 1375 Bucher, Vincent W. 553 Budget--Missouri 4913-4915,4990,4991 Budget--U.S. 827,835 Buford, Anthony A. (1901-1990) 4584,4796 Burch, J. W. (1893-1962) 1620,2623 Burke, William 1762 Burns, Charles J. (1891-1957) 3711,3903,3923,3927,3946,3955,4050, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 57

Subject Folders Volumes Image 4059,4145,4151,4277,4463,4466,4620 Burns, Reba, Mrs. 3729,4477,4904 Burrell, Don E. (1928- ) 4215,4899 Burrowes, Arthur Victor (1893-1968) 2704 Burton, Tyre W. (1892- ) 2758-2762 Busch, Anna M. 1360 Busch, August A., Jr. (1899- ) 320,692 Business District League, Kansas City, Missouri 1381,1382 Butler, Luna E. (1904- ) 3857,3907,3937,3949,3952,3958,3968 Butler, Paul M. (1905-1961) 179,197,317,803 Buzard, Paul A. (1889- ) 4352 Byrne, Paul I. 1391 Campaign for the Forty Eight States 867 Campbell, Frank Gardner (1910- ) 3432 Campbell, J. T. "Teeter" (1903- ) 3952,4028,4030,4088,4161,4183,4201, 4273,4429,4651,4708 Canaday, Paul D. (1920- ) 1761,3544,3745,3759,3987,4100,4108, 4417,4429 Canham, Erwin Dain (1904- ) 2626 Caniff, Milton Arthur (1907- ) 697 Cannon Dam and Reservoir, Missouri 2007-2009,2161,2994 Cannon, Clarence (1879-1964) 72,342,579,677,835,1329,1889,1908- 1910,1979,1983,1985,1996,1997,2007- 2009,2021,2036,2630,2805,2806,2949, 2952,2995,3111,3202,3209,3796,3883, 3942,3955,4004,4041,4065,4181,4202, 4254,4274,4592,4611,4623,4628,4670 Cannon, Edward M. (1907- ) 3753 Cantrell, E. J. (1928- ) 3833 Capital Punishment 73,76 Carnahan, A. S. J. (1897-1968) 128,1908,1941,1999,2805,2806,3111- 3113,3202,3911,4624 Carpenter, L. C. 1619,1648,1651,2091,2094 Carpenter, Milton (1905- ) 2758-2762 Carroll, John A. 195 Carroll, Michael J. 4707,5118 Carter, Frank R. (1914- ) 4813 Carter, James D. 1757,2241-2243,2291 Carver, Paul Edwin (1907- ) 4435 Cassidy, Edward R 4892 Cassidy, J. Emmet 2538 Caulfield, Henry Stewart (1873-1966) 326 Cave, Nick Thurmond (1885-1961) 3584,4430 Caves--Missouri 1815 Celler, Emanuel (1888-1981) 1036-1040,3700 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 58

Subject Folders Volumes Image Central Air Lines 828,829,830 Central Missouri Public Employees Union 23-33 Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg 4913 v. 1,2 Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg, 4407-4409 Board of Regents Central Missouri Trust Company, Jefferson City, 700,1529,3226 Missouri Cervantes, Alfonso J.(1920-1983) 610 Chamber of Commerce, Kansas City, Missouri 1829,2893,2995 Chamber of Commerce, St. Louis County, 1710 Missouri Chambers, Hampton S. 2872,2873,2874 Chance, F. Gano (1985-1981) 339,2635,4586,5090 Chandler, Albert Benjamin (1898-1991) 734 Chapman, Daniel Ahlming (1910- ) 137 Chapman, James 2915 Chavez, Dennis (1888-1962) 2813 Chinn, Jennie (1912- ) 3958,4066,442,4891,4904 Chiropractic Society of Missouri, Incorporated 94 Christian Civic Foundation of Missouri 1409,1410 Christian, Montie L. 3704,4124,4334,4609 Christopher, George H. (1888-1959) 128,836,2804,2806,3111,3890,3915, 3941,4056,4149,4182,4913 Christy, John G. (1897-1978) 4033,4357,4634 Church and education 2537,2540,2546 Church of the True Faith, Incorporated 893 Cities Service Gas Company 939 Civil defense 581,882-884,1064,1075,1081,1088, 1096 Civil defense--Missouri 4001, 4227-4230 Civil defense--Missouri, St. Louis 2178 Civil rights 95-106,107-111,191,885,886,887,888, 889 Civil Rights Act of 1957 885 Civil rights, North Carolina 885 Civil War--Missouri 2168,4231-4237 Clark National Forest, Missouri 521 Clark, Dismas 2291 Clark, Edwin M. 4428 Clark, Glynn E. (1912- ) 2719, 2721 Clayton, George D., Jr. (1897- ) 293,295,3814,3931,4202,4240,4631, 4894,4930,5110 Clemens, James D. (1909- ) 61,4268,5109 Clement, Frank Goad (1920-1969) 734,1397,2772,3113 Clements, Earle C. (1896- ) 835 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 59

Subject Folders Volumes Image Close, Upton 893 Cloud, Neal 1605 Cloud, Tilghman R. (1902-1970) 677 Cockrell, Ewing (1874-1962) 682 Colborn, Robert Irvin (1899- ) 2007,2008,2162-2170,2189,2259,2994 Cole, Chris C. (1904- ) 3725,3901,3925,3935,4057,4083,4086, 4337 Cole, Robert Ray 3970 Coleman, James P. 941 Colleges and universities--Missouri 1346,4238-4246 Collins, E. Earle 2719,2722 Collins, LeRoy (1909- ) 97,736,876,891,917,918,920,1067, 1075,1087,1088,2159 Communism 33,402,890 Competition, Unfair 852 Conant, James B. 891 Conception Abbey, Conception, Missouri 1375 Conflict of interests 966 Connett, Frank D., Jr. (1921- ) 4709 Connor, William Sylvester (1881- ) 3585 Conservation 277,848 Conservation Federation of Missouri 1399,2952 Consumer protection 852 Cook, Earl S. 3544 Cook, Howard (1889-1977) 1120 Cooper, Royal O. 1398 Corn, Russell (1903- ) 2464,4850,4891,4903,5133 Cornbelt Livestock Feeders Association 147,152 Corradi, Alfred 1609 Costello, Cornelius (1905- ) 3433,4031 Couch, William M. (1890-1961) 3544,4027,4429,4609,4629,4736,4775, 4795 Council of State Governments 871,873,875,876,879,880,891-894,897, 898,900,916,921-923,925,931,941, 943,944-948,951-957,960,971,972, 973,993,999,1001-1020,1021,1023- 1038,1041-1043,1047-1051,1053, 1056,1058,1059-1066,1079-1082, 1084,1085-1087,1088-1096,1099, 1100,1101 Council of State Governments, Midwestern 1072,1073 Regional Conference, 1957 Courts 894,1001 Courts--Missouri 4430-4461,4721,4764,4802,4810,4850, 4855,4892,5052,5064,5066,5093,5095, 5100-5102,5106,5109,5135 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 60

Subject Folders Volumes Image Cox, Neal (1915- ) 3954,4246,4262,4997 Crain, Hartwell G. (1900- ) 2722,4462 Crawford, Robert W. (1926- ) 1393-1401,3832,4204 Crime--Missouri, Kansas City 1617,2736,2748,2777,2877,2884,2888, 2889,2892,2895-2898 Crime--Missouri, St. Louis 2781,2902-2917 Croft, Huber O. (1896-1976) 1979,1984 Cross, Gerald (1898- ) 4241,4430,4435 Crouse, Emmett J. (1888- ) 3947,4045,4201,4681,4708,4709 Cubbin, J. Alex 3544 Curran, Daniel 3907 Current River 301,550,1812,1837,1941,1951,1982, 1996-2006,2034,2158,2160,2172,2173, 2179 Current-Eleven Point River Association 1837 Curtis, Claude E. 4433 Curtis, Jack S. (1912-2002) 4215,4246,4315,4413 Curtis, Thomas Bradford (1911-1993) 60,129,866,1828,1908,1909,1910, 2172,2791,2804,2805,3110,3111,3201, 3202,3204,4614 Dailey, Thomas J. 170 Dale, Stanley I. 784 Dalton, John Montgomery (1900-1972) 33,42,70,206,252,285,477,571,632, 633,845,940,1374,1601-1618,1674, 1675,2247,2253,2603,2674,2722,2758- 2762,2909,2953,2954,3030,3036,3037, 3053,3095,3184,3226,3335,3556,3642, 3684,3744,3796,3937,3945,3966,3971, 4155,4181,4190,4212,4300,4479,4609, 4610,4638,5063 Dalton, Sam P. 3581,3586,3594 Daniel, Price 98,101,735,1044,3201,3205,3209,4761 Daniels, Wilbur F. (1913- ) 3407,3515,3734,3740,3754,3768,3778, 3842,3890,3898,3899,3904,3906,3911, 3919,3926,3927,3933,3941,3948,3967, 3975,3982,4014,4020,4053,4109,4157, 4170,4197,4223,4263,4372,4395,4587, 4617,4620,4624,4651,4678,4967 Daughters of the American Colonists, Missouri 2538 State Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Missouri 2538 State Society Davidson, Curt V. (1912- ) 3709,3749,3860,3895,3901,3966,4058, 4132,4480,4645,4904 Davis, Dowdal H. (1913-1957) 2888,2890,2891 Davis, Jimmie H. (1900- ) 889 Davis, John E. 977,1904,1907,1909-1911,1941 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 61

Subject Folders Volumes Image Davis, Robert E. 1750 Dawson, Earl E. 1346,2720,2724,2729,3545,4674 Dearmont, Russell L. (1891-1967) 2902-2917,4265,4407,4605,4673,4743 Deatherage, George 893 Deatherage, William Howard (1924- ) 3738,3928,4652 DeCoster, Richard J. (1921-2007) 3922 Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual 2536,2538 Liberties Degenhardt, Martin P. (1918- ) 4891 Democratic National Committee, Advisory Council 803 Democratic National Convention, 1960 183-206,362 Democratic Party 175-206 Democratic Party, Missouri 178,686,691-696,778,1398 Democratic Party, Missouri, Atchison County 4286 Democratic Party, Missouri, Audrain County 4282,4307 Democratic Party, Missouri, Barry County 4279,4285 Democratic Party, Missouri, Barton County 4308,4337 Democratic Party, Missouri, Bates County 4281 Democratic Party, Missouri, Benton County 175,4279,4311 Democratic Party, Missouri, Bollinger County 4303,4317 Democratic Party, Missouri, Boone County 4280,4289,4313,4719 Democratic Party, Missouri, Buchanan County 4308 Democratic Party, Missouri, Caldwell County 4282,4304 Democratic Party, Missouri, Callaway County 4282,4288 Democratic Party, Missouri, Cape Girardeau 4288 County Democratic Party, Missouri, Carroll County 4289 Democratic Party, Missouri, Carter County 4285 Democratic Party, Missouri, Cass County 3890,4289,4290 Democratic Party, Missouri, Cedar County 4306 Convention, 1956 Democratic Party, Missouri, Clark County 4288,4305 Democratic Party, Missouri, Clay County 4291,4296,4314,4334,4344-4347 Democratic Party, Missouri, Clinton County 4290 Democratic Party, Missouri, Cole County 4279,4297,4334 Democratic Party, Missouri, Cooper County 4284,4285 Democratic Party, Missouri, County Committees 175-177 Democratic Party, Missouri, Dallas County 4318 Democratic Party, Missouri, Dallas County 4318 Democratic Party, Missouri, Daviess County 4295 Democratic Party, Missouri, DeKalb County 4305 Democratic Party, Missouri, Dent County 4285 Democratic Party, Missouri, Dunklin County 4287,4294,4315,4316,4319 Democratic Party, Missouri, Gasconade County 4281,4306,4307 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 62

Subject Folders Volumes Image Democratic Party, Missouri, Gentry County 4300 Democratic Party, Missouri, Greene County 4194,4315 Democratic Party, Missouri, Harrison County 4306 Democratic Party, Missouri, Henry County 3376,3377,4299 Democratic Party, Missouri, Holt County 4295,4310,4335 Democratic Party, Missouri, Howard County 4297 Democratic Party, Missouri, Iron County 4299,4304,4306 Democratic Party, Missouri, Jackson County 4281,4283,4309,4337,4354 Democratic Party, Missouri, Jefferson County 4281 Democratic Party, Missouri, Knox County 4336 Democratic Party, Missouri, Linn County 4290 Democratic Party, Missouri, Livingston County 4311 Democratic Party, Missouri, Macon County 4296 Democratic Party, Missouri, Madison County 4279,4283,4315,4316,4335 Democratic Party, Missouri, Maries County 4311 Democratic Party, Missouri, Marion County 4279 Democratic Party, Missouri, McDonald County 4279,4287 Democratic Party, Missouri, Mercer County 4308 Democratic Party, Missouri, Miller County 4309 Democratic Party, Missouri, Mississippi County 4313,4316 Democratic Party, Missouri, New Madrid County 4312 Democratic Party, Missouri, Newton County 4297 Democratic Party, Missouri, Oregon County 4295,4299,4316 Democratic Party, Missouri, Ozark County 4322 Democratic Party, Missouri, Pemiscot County 251,4308,4615 Democratic Party, Missouri, Pettis County 4291,4297,4299 Democratic Party, Missouri, Phelps County 4284 Democratic Party, Missouri, Platte County 4318 Democratic Party, Missouri, Pulaski County 4337 Democratic Party, Missouri, Putnam County 4317,4319 Democratic Party, Missouri, Ralls County 4317 Democratic Party, Missouri, Randolph County 4310 Democratic Party, Missouri, Ray County 4309 Democratic Party, Missouri, Reynolds County 3889,4289,4290,4301 Democratic Party, Missouri, Ripley County 4307,4316 Democratic Party, Missouri, Saline County 3515 Democratic Party, Missouri, Schuyler County 4292,4298,4313 Democratic Party, Missouri, Shannon County 4279,4289,4337 Democratic Party, Missouri, St. Charles County 4319,4719 Democratic Party, Missouri, St. Clair County 4301 Democratic Party, Missouri, St. Francois County 4307 Democratic Party, Missouri, St. Louis 4315 Democratic Party, Missouri, St. Louis County 4314,4719 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 63

Subject Folders Volumes Image Democratic Party, Missouri, Ste. Genevieve 4304 County Democratic Party, Missouri, Stoddard County 4296 Democratic Party, Missouri, Sullivan County 4280,4317 Democratic Party, Missouri, Texas County 4280,4288,4719 Democratic Party, Missouri, Vernon County 3698,4319 Democratic Party, Missouri, Washington County 4334 Democratic Party, Missouri, Wayne County 4301,4308,4316 Democratic Party, Missouri, Worth County 4279,4316,4318 Democratic Party, Missouri, Wright County 4334 Dempsey, Thomas W. 4693 Depressions, Economic, 1950s 1032,4754 Devine, Dan (1924-2002) 2635 Devoy, Robert (1926- ) 70,3821,3894,3971,4121,4137,4148, 4276,4583,4652 Dew, Samuel A. (1882- ) 3586,4436 Dewey, John 2536 Dickey, Charles W. (1886- ) 3969,4397 Dickmann, Bernard F. (1888-1971) 4623 Dickmann, John T. (1918- ) 4364 Dickmann, Otto J. 4368 Dillingham Farms, Grain Valley, Missouri 1394 Dinwiddie, Walter M. (1884- ) 4042 Dirksen, Everett McKinley (1896-1969) 3599 Disabled American Veterans 207 Disarmament 682 Discrimination in employment 885,887 Doane, D. Howard (1883-1984) 2719,2721 Docking, George (1904-1964) 5,828,942,959,1345,1401,1904,2706 Donalson, J. Morgan (1921- ) 4650 Donnell, Forrest C. (1884-1980) 318, 4242 Donnelly, Phil M. (1891-1961) 131-134, 632, 633, 3226, 4274, 4779 Dorris, Gordon (1898-1982) 121, 4433, 4443, 4584, 4656 Douglas, James M. (1896-1974) 2719, 2721, 4364, 4434, 4468, 4741 Dow, Blanche Hinman (1893-1973) 2720 Dowd, Edward L. (1918- ) 2915 Dowdy, Willis Donald (1923- ) 4440 Downs, John E. (1917-2003) 3607, 4023, 4024, 4028, 4030, 4090, 4107, 4201, 4609, 4743 Drake, Richard M. 2718, 2719, 2722 Drey, Leo A. 1999, 2004, 2005 Driscoll, Alfred E. (1902-1975) 1036 Droughts 1641-1647, 1651 Droughts--Missouri, 1950s 804, 2090-2095 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 64

Subject Folders Volumes Image Drummond, Roscoe 1008 Dubinsky, David 401 Dugan, Ney 3559, 3900, 4052, 4205, 4272, 4397, 5110 Duncan, Richard M. (1889- ) 4266, 4429 Dunklin, Daniel (1790-1844), Grave 2173 Duval, Addison M. 1351, 1757, 1759, 1760, 2729, 2995, 3017, 3023, 3024, 3028, 3030, 3033, 3034, 3043, 3045, 3047-3054, 3067 Duvall, Frances G. (Mrs. Milton F.) 2720 Dwinell, Lane 734 Dwyer, John J. 1362, 1370 Dyer, Leonidas C. (1871-1957) 2905 Eagleton, Thomas Francis (1929-2007) 408, 528, 1370, 1687, 2430, 4396, 4444, 4720, 4805, 4857, 5135 Earp, Claude Callahan (1886-1967) 691, 4389 Eaton, Cyrus S. (1883-1979) 126 Eaton, James G. 2417-2424, 2425 Eberle, Alphonse G. 2902-2917 Eddy, Roy D. (1911- ) 4057 Education 1072-1075, 1088, 1092, 1095, 1096, 1099 Education--Georgia 899 Edwards, Waldo 4463 Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969) 98, 320, 583, 682, 823, 836, 854, 869, 871, 892, 893, 999, 1041, 1063, 2090, 2092, 2097, 2867, 3224, 5130 Elderly 799, 870, 1327-1342 Elderly--Employment 1342 Elderly--Housing 1342 Election, 1958--Missouri, Independence 1383 Election, 1960--Missouri senatorial 2161, 2173, 2874 Elections--Corrupt practices--Missouri 1605, 1606, 1611 Elections--Corrupt practices--Missouri, Pemiscot 3666, 3667 County Eleven Point River 301, 440, 687, 1812, 1822, 2031 Eleven Point River--Pollution 1822 Ellington, Buford (1907-1972) 319, 1044 Elliott, R. Kenneth (1921- ) 4044, 4435 Ellis, Arthur W. 726 Ellis, Elmer (1901-1989) 65, 70, 579, 1346, 2179, 2540, 2629, 2630, 2632, 2634, 2637, 2707, 2718, 2720, 2721, 2722, 2724, 2728, 2729, 2730, 3510, 4192, 4850, 5114, 5117, 5119 Ellis, Roy (1888- ) 2705, 2723, 2724, 2727, 2729, 3545, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 65

Subject Folders Volumes Image 4244, 4246, 4997 Ellsworth, Harris 113 English, Earl Franklin (1905- ) 2635 Ennis, Perry A. 407 Entsminger, Harold 1398, 1399 Ervin, Colie 1662-1680 Etowah Mounds, Georgia 920 Eversole, Edward Thompson (1902-1980) 3516, 3919, 3956, 4020, 4084, 4131, 4221, 4256, 4402, 4693, 4695, 4698, 4700 Extradition, Missouri 2349 Fajen, C. "Keeney" 4892 Fannin, Paul 874 Faris, John L. 2914 Faris, John L., Harrison High 2914 Farley, James A. (1888-1976) 942 Farmer, Edward G., Jr. (1921- ) 4131 Farmer, John William (1892- ) 3904 Faubus, Orval Eugene (1910-1994) 98, 279, 735, 762, 874 Federal aid to education 225, 336-343, 384, 480, 575, 703, 931, 2703, 2704 Federal Barge Lines, Incorporated 1789 Federal-state relations 922, 923, 925, 926, 931, 948, 949, 955, 956, 1008, 1017, 1029, 1030, 1031- 1040, 1043, 1055, 1060, 1062, 1063, 1065, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1075, 1087, 1088, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1100, 2536, 2538 Ferguson, Charles Louis (1887- ) 3587 Ferguson, Russell (1910- ) 4622 Field, Lyman (1914- ) 2777, 2887-2898 Fike, Stanley R. (1913-1989) 184 Finch, James Austin, Jr. (1907-1988) 1346, 2719, 2722, 2724, 2727, 2729- Fire prevention 4723, 4726, 4744, 4848, 4851, 4857, 4862, 5064, 5096, 5097, 5102, 5117 Fires--Missouri, Festus, 1958 1356 Fires--Missouri, Warrenton, 1957 2967-2976 Fischer, Lee 1080, 1082 Fish, Melvin E. 4922, 4923 Flakne, Grant I. (1893- ) 4001, 4089, 4269 Flat River Junior College, Flat River, Missouri 2707 Flemming, Arthur Sherwood (1905- ) 1077, 1331, 3114 Fletcher, Thomas Clement (1827-1899), 1815 Inaugural Ball Flood Control, Fishing River 2028, 2029 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 66

Subject Folders Volumes Image Flood Control, Little Black River 1827 Flood Control--Missouri, Cape Girardeau 2010, 2011 Flood Control--Missouri, Excelsior Springs 2028, 2029 Flood Control--Missouri, Festus 1826 Floods 916 Floods, 1958 2030, 2031 Floods, Missouri 1956, 2034 Floods, Missouri, Dunklin County, 1957 1356 Floods, Missouri, Newton County, 1959 1356 Floods--Disaster relief--Missouri 1826 Foley, Charles W. (1894- ) 3250, 4075, 4649 Folsom, James E. (1908- ) 736, 997, 3114 Folsom, Marion B. (1893- ) 5021 Food for Peace 313 Forand Bill 799, 871 Ford Motor Company, Civic and Governmental 1398, 1399 Affairs Office Ford, Edward Frederick (1900-1958) 5080 Forest reserves 249, 521, 804 Forests and forestry, Missouri 2153 Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri 1816, 3674 Foss, Joe 734, 998, 1904 Frankenhoff, Ferd J. (1895- ) 4708, 4709 Freeland, W. E. 538, 4416 Freeman, Andrew 2047 Freeman, Kenneth 2718, 2723 Freeman, Orville Lethrop (1918- ) 914, 959, 962, 965-968, 972, 1027, 1637, 3207, 4978, 4982 Frieze, Arkley W. (1914- ) 3337, 3794, 4131, 4187, 4191, 4244, 4264, 4342, 4404, 4426, 4427, 4578, 4582, 4646, 4711, 5119 Frost, Robert H. (1899- ) 475, 3788, 3951, 4080, 4290, 4649, 4705 Fuller, Elgin T. (1907- ) 694, 4436, 4592 Fuqua, Warren W. 2093 Furculo, Foster 900, 971, 1043, 2540, 3113, 4754 Galli, Michael L. 2873 Gallop, C. Rouss (1897-1964) 1330, 1331, 1344, 1372, 2918-3082 Gamble, James F. 1982-85 Gambling, Missouri, Cooper County 254 Gambling, Missouri, Jefferson County 1609, 1618, 2731, 2750, 2751 Gambling, Missouri, Kansas City 1617 Gambling, Missouri, St. Joseph 2741 Garagnani, Julius 2558, 2917 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 67

Subject Folders Volumes Image Gardner, Frederick Dozier (1869-1933) 4434 Garner, Harl A. (1895- ) 4892 Garner, John Nance (1868-1967) 1045 Garrett, J. Ben (1886- ) 3647, 3910, 3919, 4003, 4086, 4221, 4465, 4618, 4651, 4904 Gary, Raymond 734, 959, 2811 Gates, Thomas Sovereign, Jr. (1906- ) 536, 2160, 2803 Gaus, John 1008 Geary, William A., Jr. (1927- ) 4891 George Washington Carver National Monument 1612 Foundation, Diamond, Missouri Georgia. General Assembly, States' Rights 885 Resolution Gibbons, Harold J. 2913 Gibson, Floyd R. (1910-2001) 65, 205, 1072, 1073, 3062, 3503, 3810, 3962, 3994, 4150, 4173, 4230, 4593, 4640, 4696, 4969 Gideon, Robert Lee (1894- ) 3588 Gifford, Robert M. (1913- ) 4904 Gordon, Morris G. 2125 Gore, Albert Arnold (1907-1998) 128, 923 Gorin Burial Association, Gorin, Missouri 1614 Governors' Conference, 1956, Proceedings 1059 Governors' Conference, 1957 921, 933, 973, 1027, 1029, 1030, 1031, 1059-1062 Governors' Conference, 1958 1059-1070 Governors' Conference, 1959 923, 925, 949, 999, 1017, 1041, 1074- 1085 Governors' Conference, 1960 871, 877, 881-884, 901, 941, 972, 992, 1034, 1035, 1037, 1043, 1056, 1076, 1088-1091, 1093-1096, 1099, 1101 Governors' Conference, Executive Committee 1094, 1095, 1096, 1099 Governors' Conference, Special Committee on 1054, 1055 Residence Requirements for Public Assistance Governors' Conference, State Financing 1002-1007, 1010, 1014, 1029-1033, 1043, 1072-1076, 1078, 1081, 1088, 1092, 1095, 1096 Graham, Thomas D. (1922-2000) 2561, 3975, 4200, 4609 Grand River 1799, 1823, 1941-1966, 2031, 2035, 2036, 2153 Grant, Ulysses Simpson, III 922 Green, G. Derk (1904- ) 70, 4276, 4583, 4662, 5118 Green, Jabe C. 4197 Green, William Henry Dixon (1884- ) 3589 Griffin, John J. (1890- ) 118-121, 325, 693, 1374-1376, 2204, 2514, 3109, 3119, 3281, 3283-3302, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 68

Subject Folders Volumes Image 3308-3333, 3337, 3341, 3342, 3762, 3877, 4202, 4358, 4387-4393, 4589 Griffin, John T. (1905- ) 4273 Griffin, Marvin 734, 3113 Groves, Leslie R. (1910- ) 3981, 4920 Gunn, Donald 2719, 2721 Gurman, Isaac 1762 Haake, Larry 1398 Hadassah, Missouri Valley Region 1072 Haddad, Frederick 1408 Haddad, Sidney 1408 Haddad, William 1408 Hadley, Herbert Spencer (1872-1927) 575, 4397 Hahn, John R. 2976, 2977 Hailey, Sallie (Mrs. E. E.) 1700, 1705 Hall, Durward G. "Doc" (1910-2001) 3052 Hall, Harry A. (1900-1978) 3642 Hallett, John F. 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1992 Hamilton, Alexander (1757-1804) 303 Hamilton, C. D. 477 Hamlin, Roy (1890-1960) 3559, 3731, 3755, 3765, 3931, 3967, 3985, 4159, 4181, 4202, 4249, 4335, 4674, 5080 Hancock, C. Tuggle (1880- ) 4809, 4894 Handicapped--Employment 4387-4394 Handley, Harold W. 218, 735, 1029, 2704, 3203, 4992 Hankins, Dewey L. (1898- ) 4646, 4658 Hardwicke, Henry M. 2918, 2953, 3015, 3048 Hardy, Helen C. 4624, 4642 Harkness, Douglas S. 137 Harlan, John Marshall (1899-1971) 893 Harlow, W. W. "Monty" (1934- ) 4890, 4892 Harriman, W. Averell (1891-1986) 734, 3113 Harrington, Harry F. (1900- ) 2719 Harris, Oren (1903- ) 852 Hatcher, Harry E. (1905- ) 4658 Hatfield, Mark O. (1922- ) 871, 979, 4879 Hatridge, Otis M. (1909- ) 5030 Hawkins, C. R. "Ted" (1900-1959) 267, 3751, 3787, 4270, 4387 Hawkins, James Proctor (1910- ) 4246 Hayes, Arthur H. (1903- ) 4812 Hearnes, Warren Eastman (1923-2009) 20, 476, 3445, 3757, 3893, 4174, 4396, 4867 Hedger, Georgeanne (Mrs. Horace) 4352 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 69

Subject Folders Volumes Image Heinkel, Fred V. (1897- ) 2093 Hendren, John H. (1907- ) 939 Henley, Fred L. (1911- ) 4174, 4436 Hennings, Thomas C., Jr. (1903-1960) 24, 301, 395, 566, 639, 1407, 1642, 1671, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1941, 1999, 2023, 2097, 2100, 2102, 2173, 2179, 2194, 2522, 2630, 2804, 3102, 3110, 3113, 3202, 3731, 3736, 3755, 3762, 3786, 3897, 3921, 3971, 4039, 4106, 4202, 4272, 4274, 4348, 4357, 4364, 4366, 4378, 4595, 4628, 4642, 4720, 4846, 5133 Henson, I. W. (1910- ) 3380, 3956, 4086, 4653 Herring, Thomas A. 1398 Herseth, Ralph 998 Hibler, W. D., Jr. (1905- ) 475, 476, 3719, 3906, 3929, 3956, 3961, 4271, 4276, 4659, 4662-4664, 4891, 4920 Hichman, Braymer L. (1918- ) 4165 Hickey, Patrick J. (1928- ) 3685, 3994 Higgins, Andrew J. (1921- ) 4436 Highway Safety 992, 995, 1081, 1084 Hildner, George St. Johns 1970, 1971, 1974, 1986, 2025 Hill, J. Morris (1903- ) 3970, 3977, 3984, 4607, 4608 Hill, Lister (1894- ) 2986, 3112 Hilliard, Robert E. 1330 Hilliker, Harry H. 2950-2961 Hilsman, William E. (1900-1964) 4010, 4108, 4114, 4196, 4225, 4360, 4362 Hindman, Jo 891, 893 Hochwalt, Carroll A. 2719 Hocker, Lon O. (1873-1948) 2785 Hodge, Orville 929 Hodges, Luther H. (1898-1974) 302, 734, 1061, 2524, 3114 Hoester, Robert G. J. (1924-2006) 322, 4437 Hoffman, Dimmitt (1884-1965) 3590 Holland, H. F. (1898- ) 3937, 4263, 4318 Hollings, Ernest F. (1922- ) 800 Hollingsworth, Frank (1892-1964) 3578, 3583, 3585, 5066 Holloran, Mark R. (1905- ) 4628, 4716 Holman, Haskell (1908-1974) 336, 455, 691-696, 1372, 1433, 2104- 2119, 2864, 3346, 3347, 3356, 3555, 3556, 3564, 3568, 3569, 3601, 3699, 3710, 4344 Holman, Lawrence (1906- ) 4463 Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. 1034 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 70

Subject Folders Volumes Image Holmes, Robert D. 735, 3113 Holmes, W. H. 3426, 3447 Homeopathy 2599 Homosexuality 2777 Hopfinger, Raymond B. (1906- ) 4665 Horse racing 920 Horton, Ray B. 1373 Housing 613, 803 Hughes, Noel G. (1906- ) 4654, 4905 Hull, William R., Jr. (1906-1977) 1908, 2034, 2805, 3192, 3209, 3814, 3902, 4027, 4052, 4106, 4473 Humphrey, Hubert H. (1911-1978) 312, 313, 2945 Hundred and Two River 1966, 1969, 2037-2039 Hunsucker, James R. 3889, 4216, 4418, 4892 Hunter, Elmo B. (1915- ) 3577, 4430, 4599 Hurricanes 927 Hurt, Ewing (1896- ) 4981, 4903 Huskey, Al L. 4199 Hyde, Laurance Mastick (1892-1978) 3580, 3587, 3588 Ichord, Richard Howard (1926-1992) 1072, 1422, 1671, 1833, 1999, 3380, 3623, 3947, 4074, 4086, 4385, 4466, 4477, 4719, 4890, 4894 Idol, James D. 1347, 1682, 1799-1823, 1978, 2034, 2552 Iman, John Nicholas 3515 Income Tax--Missouri 710 Indiana 930 Industrial development 1347, 1348 Industrial development--Missouri, Kansas City 5150 Industrial development--Missouri, St. Louis 222, 5150 Industrial Relations 394-404 Industrial Survey, Northwest, Missouri 1799 Ingersoll, Robert G. 3835 Inglish, John William (1921- ) 1398 Insurance Companies, Financial Statements 1579-1600 Insurance, Flood 843 Inter-American Development Bank 1081 Interest (Economics) 1062, 1615 Intergovernmental tax relations 922 International Brotherhood of Firemen, Oilers and 1757, 1759, 1761 Maintenance Men International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 2913, 2915 Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, St. Louis, Missouri International Labor Organization 5053 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 71

Subject Folders Volumes Image International Union of Operating Engineers 395 Interstate compacts 852, 873, 932-939, 1034-1040, 1054, 1072, 1100 Interstate Cooperation 1072-1075 Israel 140, 144 Jackson, Henry 203 Jackson, Owen R. (1894- ) 4160, 4629, 4891 Jaeger, Joseph, Jr. (1919- ) 1978-1984, 2162-2199 James, Charles B. (1890-1965) 3241, 3771, 3934, 3975, 4077, 4111, 4155, 4401, 4649, 4892 James, Vernon M. (1889- ) 4891 Jasper, Norbert J. (1913- ) 3811, 3847, 3892, 3984, 4015, 4150, 4618 Javits, Jacob K. (1904-1986) 1038 Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, 1612, 2551, 2552 Missouri Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) 389 Johnson Shut-Ins State Park, Reynolds County, 2030 Missouri Johnson, Freeman R. 2950-2961 Johnson, James Lee 4414 Johnson, John A. (1911- ) 3713, 3889, 3917, 3928, 3996, 4017, 4067, 4108, 4137, 4159, 4450, 4586 Johnson, Joseph B. 734, 3113 Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973) 191, 194, 199, 362, 3202 Johnston, Virgil Ray (1901- ) 4403 Joint Federal-State Action Committee 1029-1033, 1055, 1063, 1075 Jones, A. Clifford (1921- ) 3556, 4359, 5109 Jones, Basil V. (1892- ) 3890, 3955, 4182, 4224, 4852, 4872 Jones, Douglas L. C. (1914- ) 4706 Jones, Floyd W. (1891-1969) 3954 Jones, Frank Ivy (1889- ) 3918 Jones, Gene L. 1396 Jones, Harvey A. 1978, 2950-2961 Jones, J. W. 2674, 2675, 2706, 2719, 2721, 2723, 2724, 2728, 4862, 4996 Jones, Jack C. (1918- ) 130, 478, 1978, 1980, 2963, 3380, 3933, 3965, 4012, 4036, 4069, 4089, 4144, 4179, 4200, 4269, 4288, 4631, 4634, 4666, 4694, 4795, 4996 Jones, James Bryan (1897- ) 3919 Jones, Paul C. (1901-1981) 432, 802, 1656, 1908, 1985, 2805, 3202, 4197, 4250, 4286, 4632, 4865 Joslin, DeVere (1889- ) 4041, 4781 Journey, William Kelso (1915- ) 3085, 3099, 3432, 3709, 3749, 3758, 3774, 3860, 3876, 3889, 3890, 3901, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 72

Subject Folders Volumes Image 3905, 3915, 3966, 4008, 4018, 4058, 4077, 4122, 4132, 4182, 4238, 4239, 4281, 4311, 4373, 4464, 4480, 4587, 4592, 4607, 4615, 4616, 4694, 4702, 4741, 4742, 4767, 4802, 4902 Joynt, John W. (1899- ) 475, 2781, 4172, 4199, 4374, 4393, 4396, 4695, 4769 Juvenile Delinquency 364-372, 941, 1088, 1092, 1344, 1345, 2911 Kansas City Athletics (Baseball team) 383 Kansas City Power and Light Company 837 Karst, Raymond W. (1902- ) 2872 Karsten, Frank Melvin (1913-1992) 1, 234, 528, 1908, 2804, 2806, 2990, 3110, 3203, 3209, 3753, 4366, 4464, 4595, 5033 Kasein, George A. 193 Kaufmann, Aloys P. 1972 Kaysinger Bluff Dam and Reservoir, Missouri 1902, 2021, 2023, 2036, 2043, 2045, 2046 Keating, Edgar J. (1889- ) 2325, 2956, 3946, 3959, 4031, 4187, 4216, 4278, 4351, 4454, 4593, 4609, 4694, 4856 Keating, Kenneth Barnard (1900-1975) 1038 Keel, Howd H. (1895- ) 3921 Kefauver, Estes (1903-1963) 195, 318, 1408 Keilholz, Joseph (1895- ) 3724, 3776, 3807, 3846, 3860, 4013, 4136, 4137, 4141, 4812, 4903 Keith, Everett (1906-2001) 2507, 2530 Keller, Harry (1883- ) 4892 Kelly, James P. (1911- ) 1956, 2722, 3630, 3968, 4191 Kelly, James W. 1066, 1377-1392, 1395, 1398, 2030, 2031 Kelly, John Joseph, Jr. (1918- ) 4437 Kem, James Preston (1890-1965) 3055 Kemp, William E. 3039 Kemper, Rufus Crosby, Jr. (1927- ) 1578, 4175, 4249 Kemper, William Thornton (1866-1938) 1105, 1106 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) 185, 188, 190, 193, 194, 198, 199, 203, 300, 568, 660, 693 Kennedy, Robert F. (1925-1968) 1072, 1073, 2916, 4714 Kerr, Robert Samuel (1896-1963) 1911, 2040 Kestnbaum Commission 931 Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (1894-1971) 126, 682, 999 Kidd, Herman G. (1900- ) 4891 Kimberlin, William H. (1912- ) 71, 4681, 4708, 4709 Kimberlin, William M. 3788, 3890 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 73

Subject Folders Volumes Image Kinney, Michael (1875-1971) 269, 395, 478, 677, 1386, 2548, 2781, 2914, 3206, 3207, 3211, 3357, 3884, 4008, 4009, 4015, 4114, 4117, 4119, 4165, 4176, 4200, 4202, 4275, 4359, 4363, 4406, 4408, 4589, 4591, 4671, 4679, 4695, 4848, 4921, 5135 Kirchner, Roger E. (1890- ) 4891 Kirkpatrick, James C. (1905-1997) 1388, 1406, 1407, 4668 Kirtley, J. Marcus (1910- ) 4437 Kirtley, J. Marcus, Mrs. 1339 Kitchen, William H. (1894- ) 4600 Knese, Luke Ambrose (1911- ) 4895 Knight, Goodwin (Jess) (1896-1970) 735, 3113, 5035 Knights of the White Camelia 893 Kostron, Frank E. (1916- ) 3894 Krast, Raymond W. 4437 Krause, J. Marvin 4360 Krauss, Theodore J. 869 Krebs, Raymond 2950-2961 Ku Klux Klan 762 Labor and laboring classes--Missouri 3268, 3269, 3270, 3274 Labor unions 395, 396, 522, 1757, 1759, 1761, 2900, 2913, 2915, 3780, 3782, 4020 Labor unions--Political activity 4418, 4425 LaDriere, Raymond E. (1891- ) 3591 Lake Taneycomo, Missouri 2023 Land, Frank Sherman (1890-1959) 351 Landis, James P. 493 Larkin, Lewis S. (1907-1983) 1375 Laster, Rollie 2386 Lavin, John M. (1918- ) 4143 Law enforcement, Missouri 2747, 2748 Leader, George M. 735, 871, 922, 3114 Legan, Adolphus, J. (1919- ) 5080 Leggett, C. Lawrence 1722-1739 Legislative bodies 5136 Lesinski, John (1885-1950) 80 Letton, Forrest M. (1887- ) 3947, 4648, 4903, 4997 Lichtenberger, Arthur Carl (1900-1968) 4734 Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri 5119 Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri, Board 4673, 4674 of Curators Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri, 3545 Budget Lincoln, James Stephen (1886- ) 476, 3543, 4191, 4652, 4812, 4895, C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 74

Subject Folders Volumes Image 4903 Ling, Theodore C. 1610 Linneman, Robert H. 3849, 3984, 4274, 4345, 4363, 4614, 4616, 4652, 4670 Lippman, Winnie 1338 Litzinger, Orion J. 1604, 2982 Local transit 951-953, 1087, 1995 Long, Breckinridge (1881-1958) 4397 Long, Earl K. (1895-1960) 735 Long, Edward V. (1908-1972) 267, 1072, 2674, 3544, 3930, 4139, 4182, 4284, 4285 Longwell, John H. (1895-1982) 5, 671, 1656, 1978, 1980, 1982, 2002, 2092, 2093, 2120, 3515 Louisiana Sovereignty Commission 889 Loveless, Herschel C. (1911- ) 170, 736, 802, 803, 940, 959, 1906, 2037, 2308, 2347, 2706, 3113 Lovinger, Warren C. (1915- ) 537, 2723, 2724, 2729, 4913, 4998 Lozier, Lue C. (1893- ) 1839, 5135 Lupkey, F. Dean 2819-2871 Mabee, Ray (1901-1964) 3800 Mabreg, Thomas 4443 Mackie, W. O. (1898- ) 3939, 3967, 3995, 4075, 4085, 4137, 4138, 4145, 4154, 4212, 4240, 4480, 4588, 4629, 4653, 4666, 4996 Mafia, Kansas City, Missouri, 1957 2736 Mag, Arthur 3036, 3038 Magill, A. C. (1881-1970) 4252 Major, Elliott Woolfolk (1864-1949) 1104-1106 Maness, Macye Jones 4443 Maps--Missouri River 1846, 1847 Marin, Luis Munoz 986, 1075 Mark Twain Memorial Shrine, Florida, Missouri 2181-2192 Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri 521 Martin, Elmo C. 3929 Martin, William McChesney (1874-1955) 854 Masters, Howard 3908, 3912, 3937, 3945, 4098, 4609, 4629, 4997 Materials handling 940 Matthes, M. C. (1906- ) 4256, 4430 Mattingly, Barak T. (1901-1957) 25, 4256, 4258, 4613 Maughmer, Fred H. (1899- ) 4437 Mauldin, Bill (1921-2003) 1397 Mayerberg, Samuel S. 263, 264, 269, 585, 2888, 2892-2896, 4597, 4831 Mayes, Jewell (1873-1944) 537 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 75

Subject Folders Volumes Image Mazzuca, Frank C. (1905-1969) 3793, 4271, 4609, 4846 McAfee, James Wesley (1902- ) 2719 McClellan, John L. (1896-1977) 128, 845, 1060 McCluer, Franc L. (1896-1979) 2717, 2719, 2720, 2722 McCone, John A. (1902- ) 823 McCormick, Raleigh (1889- ) 3683 McDaniel, Lawrence (1884-1948) 395 McGee, Louis B. (1902-1964) 828, 2719, 2721 McGehee, Roy Wells (1906- ) 3380, 4437 McHaney, Powell B. (1905-1957) 3032, 3043 McKay, Douglas (1893-1959) 2037 McKeldin, Theodore R. (1900-1974) 237, 734 McLaughlin, James E. 4189 McMahon, Fred R. (1899- ) 4648 McMullan, David A. (1904- ) 4842 McMurry, Wesley (1908- ) 4121, 4916 McNamara, Pat (1894-1966) 799 McNamara, Robert Strange (1916-2009) 2524 McNicholas, Steve 735, 925, 2706, 3114 McReynolds, Allen (1877-1960) 4342, 4381 Means, Lewis M. (1890-1971) 2392, 2429 Meany, George (1894-1980) 158 Medicare 799, 871, 1327, 1328, 1340, 1342 Melton, Marjorie 1338, 1339 Menninger, William C. (1899-1966) 3067 Mental health 857, 955-957, 1072, 1073, 1095, 1327, 1340, 1342, 2632, 3035-3041, 3062, 3068, 3070, 4721, 4800, 4820, 4989, 5057, 5066, 5068, 5092, 5093, 5099, 5116, 5128 Meramec Basin 1951, 1953, 1970-1995 Meredith, Willis H. (1876-1957) 4440 Meriwether, Roy B. (1884- ) 35592, 4446 Metropolitan Youth Commission of St. Louis and 941 St. Louis County, Missouri Mexicans--United States--Agricultural laborers 856, 1344 Meyner, Robert B. (1908- ) 193, 735, 975, 1036-1040, 3114, 3205 Mid-Missouri Development Council 1830 Midwest Electric Consumers Association 1830 Midwestern Regional Conference, Council of 1100 State Governments Migrant labor 856, 1055, 1072, 1073, 1344 Milfelt, William B. 1609, 1618 Miller, John P. 2622, 2630 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 76

Subject Folders Volumes Image Milloy, James S. 1260, 1261 Mills, John E. 4158, 4212 Mills, Wilbur D. (1909- ) 869, 1998 Mingo, Swamp 2150 Minorities--Political activity 1045 Misbauer, Benedict (1913- ) 4891 Mississippi River Parkway Planning Commission 515, 1399 Mississippi Valley Association 1907, 1910, 1955, 1985, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2035, 2039 Missouri (Battleship) 733, 5142 Missouri Anti-Saloon League 1409, 1410 Missouri Archaeological Society 2630 Missouri Association for Social Welfare, Council 1344 on Children and Youth Missouri Association of Life Underwriters 1730 Missouri Bankers Association 302 Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee 1832, 1842, 1861, 1871-1893, 2037 Missouri Basin Research and Development 1907 Council Missouri Congress of Parents and Teachers 2507, 2532 Missouri Council of Churches 2972, 2993 Missouri Farm Bureau Federation 1386, 1619, 1620, 1639, 1640, 2623 Missouri Farmers Association 518, 1620 Missouri Forest Industries Committee 2004 Missouri Good Roads Association 1387 Missouri Limestone Producers Association 502-506, 518 Missouri Public Expenditure Survey 2704 Missouri Recreation Association 989, 2175 Missouri River Basin 974, 1830-1832, 1841, 1843-1845, 1848-1853, 1860, 1862-1865, 1867- 1870 Missouri River Navigation 1830, 1836, 1912 Missouri River States Committee 1837, 1889, 1895, 1898, 1903, 1907, 1910, 2037 Missouri Rural Rehabilitation Corporation 1651, 1652 Missouri Sheriffs' Association 2747 Missouri Social Welfare League 1328 Missouri State Building Trades Council 522 Missouri State Dental Association 2947 Missouri State Drought Committee, 1956 2090, 2091, 2093 Missouri State Horticultural Society 1689 Missouri State Nurserymen's Association 1653 Missouri State Nurses Association 2970 Missouri State Nursing and Allied Homes 2981 Association C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 77

Subject Folders Volumes Image Missouri State Teachers Association 523, 2507, 2530 Missouri Valley Association 1824, 1907 Missouri Valley Development Association 1824 Missouri Vocational Association 2522 Missouri, Adjutant General 4177 Missouri, Bonds 1578 Missouri, Charlestown 2687 Missouri, Festus 1356, 1826 Missouri, Greer Spring 1999, 2000 Missouri, Jackson County. Grand Jury, Report, 2884 1957 Missouri, Jefferson Barracks 309, 310 Missouri, Jefferson City 358-361, 726, 3184 Missouri, Joplin 363, 2960 Missouri, Kansas City 373-389, 557, 4983-4998 Missouri, Kansas City Board of Police 260, 4597-4601, 4791, 4793, 4860, Commissioners 5103, 5106, 5107, 5114, 5115 Missouri, Kansas City. Police Department 2736, 2748, 2777, 2876-2898 Missouri, Kansas City. Police Department, 95 Brutality Missouri, Library 4462 Missouri, Marble Hill-Lutesville Consolidation 1611 Missouri, Miller County--Names, Geographical 3659 Missouri, Monett 1815 Missouri, Mountain View 1822 Missouri, Nevada 3698 Missouri, Pacific, Floods, 1957 2105 Missouri, Penitentiary, Jefferson City 983, 1611 Missouri, Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Riots, 1957 2384, 2385 Missouri, Pomme de Terre 2027, 2028 Missouri, Poplar Bluff 564, 1834 Missouri, Potosi. Board of Education 1613 Missouri, Pulaski County--Population 1816 Missouri, Rhineland, Wurst Jaeger Fest 527 Missouri, Rolla 828 Missouri, Savings and Loan Commission 2121-2128, 4640-4642 Missouri, School and Hospital, Marshall, 3069 Higginsville Unit Missouri, School for the Blind, St. Louis 694, 4209 Missouri, School for the Deaf, Fulton 2993 Missouri, Secretary of State 4668 Missouri, Sedalia, Industries 637, 1674, 1675 Missouri, Service Officer 4645-4665 Missouri, Social policy 1009, 1010, 1029-1033, 1053, 1053 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 78

Subject Folders Volumes Image Missouri, Springfield 675 Missouri, Springfield, Industries 1813, 1840 Missouri, St. Elizabeth 604, 2687 Missouri, St. Joseph 3272, 3273 Missouri, St. Joseph Board of Police 606, 2899-2901, 4602-4604 Commissioners Missouri, St. Louis Board of Election 301, 4356-4362 Commissioners Missouri, St. Louis County Board of Election 4363-4370 Commissioners Missouri, St. Louis, Health and Welfare Council 1330-1332, 1342 Missouri, St. Louis, Housing Authority 309 Missouri, St. Louis. Board of Freeholders 4384 Missouri, St. Louis. Board of Police 2902-2917, 4605, 4606, 4827, 4874 Commissioners Missouri, St. Louis. Crime Commission 2918 Missouri, Tax Commission 4669, 4670 Missouri, Tennessee-Missouri Bridge 3193, 4671 Commission Missouri, Tipton, Centennial 304 Missouri, Training Center for Men, Moberly 2307-2311 Missouri, Treasurer 1434-1578, 1614 Missouri, University City 757 Missouri, Warrenton 2967-2976 Missouri, Water Pollution Board 4692-4702, 4721, 4880 Missouri. Academy of Squires 677 Missouri. Athletic Commission 4186, 4187-4191 Missouri. Atomic Energy Commission 823, 4192, 4193 Missouri. Attorney General 1601-1603, 5078, 5079 Missouri. Banking Board 4195 Missouri. Bi-State Development Agency 1710, 1711, 4207, 4208 Missouri. Board of Accountancy 4171-4176 Missouri. Board of Barber Examiners 4196-4205 Missouri. Board of Chiropractic Examiners 4214-4226 Missouri. Board of Cosmetology 4267-4278 Missouri. Board of Mediation 4468, 4469 Missouri. Board of Medical Examiners 4470, 4471 Missouri. Board of Optometry 4574-4577 Missouri. Board of Osteopathic Registration and 4578 Examination Missouri. Board of Pharmacy 4590-4596 Missouri. Board of Registration for Architects and 4185 Professional Engineers Missouri. Board of Registration for the Healing 4394-4396 Arts C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 79

Subject Folders Volumes Image Missouri. Board of Training Schools 4672 Missouri. Board of Veterinary Examiners 4679 Missouri. Cancer Commission 4211, 4212 Missouri. Civil War Centennial Commission 4231-4237 Missouri. Commission on Human Rights 96, 98, 102, 103, 105, 106, 111, 2900, 4409-4412, 4789, 4830, 4839, 4876, 4965-4982 Missouri. Commission on Interstate Cooperation 1072, 1073 Missouri. Conservation Commission 1641, 2129-2161, 4248-4265 Missouri. Department of Agriculture 914, 1621-1636, 1645-1647, 1651, 1652, 3889-3963, 4179-4183 Missouri. Department of Business and 3964-3990, 4210 Administration Missouri. Department of Conservation 3990-3993, 4248, 4265 Missouri. Department of Corrections 2200, 3994, 4266, 4609-4611 Missouri. Department of Labor and Industrial 4005-4012 Relations Missouri. Department of Liquor Control 3995-3998, 4463-4467 Missouri. Department of Public Health and 1055, 4002-4004, 4397, 4398 Welfare Missouri. Department of Revenue 4013-4168, 4637 Missouri. Division of Budget and Comptroller 4247 Missouri. Division of Employment Security 4378, 4379 Missouri. Division of Entomology 1653-1656 Missouri. Division of Finance 4380-4383 Missouri. Division of Geological Survey and Water 4386 Resources Missouri. Division of Mine Inspection 4477 Missouri. Division of Resources and Development 866, 1347, 1348, 4631-4634 Missouri. Division of Training Schools 941 Missouri. Division of Workmen's Compensation 522, 4703-4712 Missouri. Employees' Retirement System 1761, 3555 Missouri. Fair 251, 253, 920, 1657-1680 Missouri. Fair Employment Practices Commission 2747 Missouri. Federal Soldiers' Home, St. James 4667 Missouri. Fruit Experiment Station, Mountain 4385 Grove Missouri. General Assembly, 70th, Special 2264 Session Missouri. General Assembly, Committee on 1357 Legislative Research Missouri. General Assembly, Retirement System 1762 Missouri. Governor's Conference for Public 1349, 1350 Library Trustees, 1959-1960 Missouri. Governor's Conferences for Public 1349, 1350 Library Trustees, 1959-1960 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 80

Subject Folders Volumes Image Missouri. Governor's Council on Higher Education 1346 Missouri. Governor's Mansion 275-282, 4722, 5098 Missouri. Highway Commission 255, 836, 922, 4399-4405 Missouri. Hospital Advisory Council 2962 Missouri. Industrial Development Commission 302, 1904, 1805, 1810, 1835, 4413- 4429 Missouri. Industrial Development Conference 1347, 1817, 1959 Missouri. Intermediate Reformatory for Young 3994 Men, Algoa Missouri. Jackson County Board of Election 4348-4355 Commissioners Missouri. Kansas City Board of Police 260, 4597-4601, 4791, 4793, 4860, Commissioners 5103, 5106, 5107, 5114, 5115 Missouri. Lieutenant Governor 5078, 5079 Missouri. Mental Health Commission 1557, 4472-4476 Missouri. National Guard 358 Missouri. National Guard, Armory, Lexington 2803 Missouri. Park Board 2162-2199, 4579-4588, 4739, 4850, 4854, 4858, 4863, 4873, 4875, 4878, 5056, 5067, 5117 Missouri. Poultry Board 1648-1650 Missouri. Public Service Commission 4612-4619 Missouri. Public Service Company 1792 Missouri. Real Estate Commission 1613 Missouri. Soil Districts Commission 4666 Missouri--Arkansas Basins Flood Control and 2031, 2032 Conservation Association Missouri--Nebraska Boundary 974 Mitchell, Frank W. 2370 Mitchell, James Paul (1900-1964) 855, 856, 3238, 3251, 3335, 5053, 5054 Mittendorf, Forrest 59 Moore, Agnes 474, 4086, 4891 Moore, Herman C. 1358, 1359 Moore, J. B. (1892- ) 4650, 4858 Morris, Mount Etna (1900- ) 1072, 3741, 4078, 4099, 4581 Morse, True D. (1896- ) 800, 804, 1641-1644, 1690, 2091, 2092, 2094 Morton, Thruston B. (1907-1982) 803 Moulder, Morgan M. (1904-1976) 2, 128, 129, 853, 868, 1339, 1908, 2805, 2812, 2904, 3202, 3717, 3723, 3736, 3819, 3865, 3875, 3907, 3922, 3971, 3993, 4031, 3046, 4055, 409, 4130, 4031, 4046, 4055, 4059, 4130, 4229, 4289, 4373, 4379, 4383, 4620, 4627, 4642, 4673 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 81

Subject Folders Volumes Image Murder, Missouri 1605-1610, 1612 Murphy, John Philip 3931 Murray, James E. (1876-1961) 1906 Musial, Stanley Frank (1920- ) 677 Muskie, Edmund Sixtus (1914-1996) 735, 3113 Muslims, California 2731, 2751 Nacy, Richard R. (1895-1961) 189, 267, 269, 510, 1578, 2193, 2195, 2691, 3226, 3516, 3704, 3705, 3707- 3709, 3713, 3720, 3722, 3724-3727, 3747, 3748, 3749, 3750-3752, 3756, 3758-3760, 3762-3770, 3772, 3773- 3776, 3778, 3780-3793, 3795, 3796, 3797-3802, 3804, 3805, 3806, 3810, 3813-3816, 3818, 3820-3824, 3826, 3827, 3829, 3834, 3837, 3841, 3844- 3847, 3849, 3850, 3851, 3853, 3858, 3860-3868, 3871, 3874-3878, 3882, 3884, 3886-3888, 3897, 3914, 3915, 3920, 3922, 3930, 3933, 3939, 3915, 3959, 3968, 3971, 3973, 3975, 3976, 3981, 3983, 3985, 3993, 3995, 3996, 4001, 4007, 4010, 4012, 4013, 4019, 4021, 4022, 4027, 4029, 4032, 4037- 4040, 4042, 4042, 4043, 4048, 4051, 4053, 4054-4061, 4064, 4066, 4070- 4072, 4074, 4076-4080, 4082-4085, 4088, 4090-4094, 4096, 4098, 4099, 4103, 4104, 4106, 4108, 4110, 4112, 4114, 4116-4119, 4121, 4123, 4125- 4129, 4131, 4134, 4135, 4136, 4139, 4143-4147, 4149, 4157, 4158, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4166, 4167, 4241, 4451, 4451, 4623, 4673, 4799, 4800, 4803 Nangle, James Francis (1904- ) 4362 Nangle, Vincent P. 1360 Nash, E. V. 281, 2284-2286, 2294, 2320, 2341, 2342, 2382, 2385, 2392, 2396, 2405, 2410, 2429, 2434, 2436, 2461, 2480 National Agricultural Limestone Institute, 2623 Incorporated National Association for the Advancement of 95, 2747, 2901, 2907 Colored People National Association of Municipalities 1077 National Catholic Rural Life Conference 529 National Farmers Union 802, 2753, 2768, 4402 National Federation of Independent Business 866 National Flower 970 National Institute on Crime and Delinquency 891, 1345 National Probation and Parole Association 1345 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 82

Subject Folders Volumes Image National Resources Development Association 1824, 2031 National Safety Council 727 Natural Resources 973 Naturopathy 2994 Nautilus 535 Neal, James McKinley (1899- ) 4032, 4204, 4598, 4967, 4970 Necktie Workers Organization 1405 Negbaur, Walter H. 2889 Neill, Robert (1908- ) 2707, 2729, 2730 Nelson, Gaylord Anton (1916- ) 228, 801, 889 Nelson, L. B. (1892-1957) 645, 4586 Neuberger, Richard L. (1912-1960) 4748 New York, Port Authority 1035-1040 Newhouse, Billie Glen 1608 Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994) 2, 179, 185, 193, 660, 4844 Noble, John W. (1904- ) 931, 1042, 2722, 2972, 3061, 3826, 3934, 3975, 3996, 4077, 4111, 4117, 4201, 4243 Noland, James A., Jr. (1927- ) 3984, 4859, 4907 Nolen, Oliver W. 2007, 2009 Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, 4240 Kirksville, Board of Regents Northwest Missouri State College, Maryville, 4241, 4242 Board of Regents Notary publics 4482-4568 Nuclear physics, Research 876, 877 Nuclear power 876, 877, 1063 Nursing 4569-4573 Nursing Homes 1327, 1328, 1330, 1334, 1335, 1340, 1342, 2920, 2931-2936, 2962, 2964- 2979 O'Brien, Francis M. 4358, 4360, 4362, 4808 O'Connell, Jeremiah 2903, 2904, 2096, 2907, 2908, 2909, 2915 Oetting, Alfred H. (1893- ) 4648 Oklahoma, Semi-Centennial 978 Old age pensions 480, 4896-4912 Oldham, Woodson 4711 Oliver, John W. 2719 O'Neill, C. William (1916- ) 736, 3113 Orchard, Charles P. 4606 Oregon Centennial 979 O'Reilly, John P. (1892- ) 4892 Orphans 852 Orr, Edwin C. 3421, 3842 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 83

Subject Folders Volumes Image Osage River 1902 Osage Valley Flood Control and Water 2027, 2043 Conservastion Association Overstreet, David Milton (1899- ) 175, 390, 3766, 3797, 3852, 3909, 3932, 4078, 4132, 4689, 4904 Owen, G. Stafford (1899- ) 189, 3926, 4163, 4660, 4919 Owsley, Arvid 2777 Oxenhandler, Joe 3682, 4314, 4364, 4368, 4436, 4437, 4622, 4677, 4703, 4844, 4965, 4970, 4971 Ozark Airlines 828, 829 Ozark National Scenic Riverways 1873, 1941, 1951, 1982, 1996-2006, 2031, 2034, 2158, 2160, 2172, 2173, 2179 Ozark Protective Association 2026 Panama Canal Zone 1380 Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company 837-840, 842, 1792 Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company 837-840, 842, 1792 Paramore, Lew M. 1955, 2030, 2039 Park, Guy Brasfield (1872-1946) 606 Parks, Missouri 922 Patterson, J. F. (1907- ) 3193, 3379, 3880, 4655, 4688 Patton, James G. 2753, 2768 Pearson, Drew (1897-1969) 104 Peckenpaugh, Adah 677 Pendergast, James M. 379, 1384, 1385, 1388, 3798, 3894, 4056, 4103, 4107, 4113, 4132, 4139, 4167, 4170, 4429, 4451 Penman, T. A. (1884-1959) 476, 3245, 3943, 3962, 4083, 4174, 4410, 4740, 4765, 5064, 5082 Penny, Harley E. 1605 Pentland, Robert (1908- ) 3907, 3986, 4219, 4369, 4669, 4712 Pershing Home Memorial Shrine 2193, 2198 Pew, John B. (1877-1960) 2706 Phelps, Richard K. (1890- ) 1359 Philips, A. Perry 2950-2961 Pian, Charles W. 4189 Pick-Sloan Plan 1903 Pike, Charles Edward (1894- ) 3937 Platte River Tributaries Watershed Project 2033, 2034 Poage, W. R. 801-803, 1637 Poe, Eugene (1903- ) 3803, 4037, 4161, 4298, 4894 Poelker, John Henry (1913- ) 2910A Poliomyelitis, Missouri, Kansas City, 1950s 1397 Politics, Missouri, Douglas County, 1950s 1415 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 84

Subject Folders Volumes Image Politics, Missouri, Monroe County 571 Politics, Missouri, Sedalia 4478, 4479 Politte, Leo A. (1904- ) 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985 Polyanski, Dimitri 999 Pond, Gene 2736 Pony Express 561 Pope, Icie Mae 4224 Population 1065, 1342 Porter, Paul Leslie (1909- ) 3938 Presidents, U.S., Election 763 Price, Paxton P. (1918- ) 2811 Priest, H. Sam (1906- ) 2902-2917 Prisons 983, 984 Pritchard, Jack P. 3739 Proctor, J. R. 3661, 3828, 3831, 3834, 3841, 3844, 3848, 3849, 3860, 3865, 4056, 4084, 4090, 4112, 4119, 4143, 4179, 4381, 4641 Protestants and Other Americans United for 2537 Separation of Church and State Public Health 34 Public Schools, Missouri 4733, 4751, 4778, 4779, 4802, 4820, 4852, 4859, 4861, 4863-4865, 4867- 4869, 4872, 4874-4878, 4880-4889, 4895, 4994, 4995, 4996, 4998, 4999, 5060, 5061, 5063, 5091, 5093, 5102, 5110, 5129, 5132 Public welfare 1051-1056, 1074, 1075, 1077, 1078, 1081, 1088, 1095, 1096, 4725, 4730, 4777, 4826, 4860, 4870, 4876, 4878, 4883, 4886, 4896-4912, 5059, 5060, 5091, 5093, 5096, 5097, 5099, 5101, 5102, 5106, 5112, 5117 Puckett, Kenneth 753 Puerto Rico, Independence Party 986 Pulis, Charles H. (1889- ) 4183, 4920 Purdy, Allan (1914-2010) 3515 Quinn, John B. 1824 Quinn, William F. 920 Quinn, William M. (1866- ) 3417, 3724, 3755, 3803, 3922, 3927, 3931, 3942, 3958, 3959, 3981, 3985, 4037, 4065, 4066, 4075, 4137, 4138, 4142, 4182, 4200, 4202, 4040, 4336, 4403 Raiffie, Harry C. (1908- ) 4010, 4114 Railroad Retirement Fund 861 Railroads, Missouri, Crawford County 1828 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 85

Subject Folders Volumes Image Randall, William Joseph (1909- ) 2, 656, 1394, 1396, 1688, 1908, 2196, 3202, 3698 Ray, Means 4585 Ray, Phillip H. 1607 Rayburn, Sam (1882-1962) 803, 1666 Reals, Willis H. (1892-1967) 1331 Rechner, Carl B. 1829 Recreation 988-990 Reed, James A. (1861-1944) 4397 Reeves, Albert L. 4349 Refugees, Hungarian 583 Rehm, James C. 4221 Reinert, Paul C. (1910- ) 1331, 2718, 2721, 2722 Reller, Frank X. (1917- ) 189, 4117 Rent Control 4086 Reserve Officers Association of the United States 39 Reuther, Walter Philip (1907-1970) 158 Revercomb, Harry J. 3479 Rhode Island, Commission Against Discrimination 885, 887 Ribicoff, Abraham A. 922, 923, 995, 1095, 3209, 3225 Richardson, Hayes A. 1327 Ridder, Ben C. 3849, 4282, 4892 Riederer, Henry A. (1910- ) 365, 4842, 5052 Ritter, Joseph Cardinal ( -1967) 1331 Roads 836, 921-923, 925-927, 1062, 1081, 1087, 1088, 1095, 1096, 1099, 1100 Roberts, Dennis J. 735, 3113 Roberts, Roy A. (1887-1967) 677 Roberts, Willa Mae (1887-1961) 3942, 4073, 4197, 4202, 4268, 4379, 4381, 4587, 4624 Robinett, William H. (1898-1971) 3923, 4253 Robinson, F. E. 3, 475, 1433, 3724, 3959, 4336 Rockefeller, Laurence S. 860 Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979) 126, 871, 881-883, 1036, 1040, 1075, 1095, 1096, 2870, 3562 Roderique, Donald R. 4890 Roebuck, Stanley Francis 3942 Rogers, Arthur W. 3921, 4106 Rogers, William Pierce 784 Rollings, John I. (1905-1970) 2047 Romjue, Lawson 4895 Rooney, James S. 4346, 4399, 4582, 4612 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) 4228 Roosevelt, James 2945 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 86

Subject Folders Volumes Image Roosevelt, James (1907- ) 2945 Rosellini, Albert D. 735, 3114 Rozier, Elizabeth McReynolds (Mrs. George A.) 2720-2722 Rozier, Leo J. (1914-2008) 699, 4363, 4656, 4698, 5049 Rubey, Thomas Lewis (1862-1928) 4897 Rumbold, Frank Meeker (1862-1934) 1102-1103 Rural area development 800, 1690 Russell, Charles H. 734 Russell, Harry F. 3594 Russell, Richard Brevard (1897-1971) 2806 Russey, John W. 1356 Ryle, Walter H. 1346, 2722-2724, 2728, 4240, 4915 Sally, Gene 477, 877, 3443, 4284, 4844, 4892 Salomon, Sidney, Jr. 2781, 3048 Sample, John S. 4650 Sanford Brown Business College, Inc., St. Louis 866 Sapp, Carl F. 3843, 4135 Savings and loan associations 2124-2128 Sawyer, Grant 1094 Sawyers, William Orr 3994, 4023, 4024, 4027, 4030, 4045, 4060, 4088, 4089, 4090, 4101, 4105, 4107, 4118, 4142, 4146, 4161, 4201, 4265, 4273, 4308, 4397, 4465, 4574, 4604, 4609, 4647, 4703, 4708, 4771, 4839, 4876 Schappler, Stephen 1375 Schellhorn, Jerome E. 3952, 4028, 4030, 4101, 4118, 4201, 4212, 4465, 4861, 4649, 4708, 4709 Schermann, John M. 4309 School buildings 895-911 School integration, Arkansas, Integration 98, 100, 101, 4861 School integration, Virginia 1046 School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri 636 School superintendants and principals 2520, 2539 Schwada, John W. (1919-1990) 46, 493, 691, 922, 1072, 1080, 1346, 2161, 2730, 3480, 3558, 3753, 4013, 4126, 4148, 4162, 4164, 4167, 4247, 4762, 4775, 5124 Schwartz, Eugene P. 941 Scrivner, Errett P. 2703 Scully, Mark F. 1346, 2676, 2718, 2719, 2721, 2723, 2724, 2727, 2728, 4570, 4914 Sea water conversion 849, 850 Sears, Wendell E. 941, 2250-2255, 2259-2267, 2460 Seaton, Fred A. (1909-1974) 794, 1905, 1941, 2632, 2633 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 87

Subject Folders Volumes Image Seckman, Laurence 2720 Segregation in education--Missouri 2535, 2536 Semple, Samuel E. 4463 Sermon, William 1382 Sevier, Nike G. 3869 Shackelford, Earl H. 319, 510, 3975 Shaw, Roger D. 2004 Shepley, Ethan A. H. (1896-1975) 677, 1327, 1331, 2717, 2720, 2721, 2991 Shivers, Allan 698 Shockley, Tom A. 3935 Short, Dewey (1898-1979) 1611, 2021, 4659 Siefert, William 4356, 4358 Silvey, J. M. 2720, 2721 Simcoe, Reuben Bernard (1919-2002) 3892, 3965, 4623, 4639, 5135 Simmons, G. H. 4907 Simon, Paul 4903 Simpson, Lewis A. W. 3544, 3717, 4108, 4829, 4858, 4899 Simpson, Milward L. 735, 939, 971, 1904, 2811, 2812, 2813, 2814, 3114 Sims, Paul R. 2125 Singleton, Rollo E. 4182 Skaggs, James C. 3713 Sloan, Charles H. 3921, 4106, 4275, 4309 Slusher, Harold E. 2036, 2623, 2719, 2721, 2722 Smedberg, William R., III 215 Smith, Arthur D. 4387, 4578, 4650, 4997, 5119 Smith, DuVal 3595, 4028, 4681, 4708 Smith, Edwin A. 296 Smith, Forrest (1886-1962) 317, 1941, 2009, 2781, 3930, 3967, 4001 Smith, Francis (1905- ) 677, 1351, 1757, 2032, 3036, 3037, 3039, 3044, 3046-3050, 3054, 3062, 3067, 3068, 4003, 4475 Smith, Gerald L.K. (1898-1976) 893 Smith, Harry W. 3933 Smith, Marvin W. 4227-4230 Smith, R. Jasper (1908-1962) 4246 Smith, Taylor 3596 Smith, Tom K. 4265, 4359 Smylie, Robert E. 735, 1095, 3425 Snyder, Floyd, Mrs. 2720, 2722 Social Security 30, 72, 667, 997 Souers, Sidney W. (1892-1973) 27119, 2721 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 88

Subject Folders Volumes Image Southeast Missouri State College, Cape 4243 Girardeau, Missouri, Board of Regents Southern Governors Conference, 1958 876, 971 Southern States, Economic conditions 1092 Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield 3545 Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield, 4244-4246 Board of Regents Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, St. Louis 719 Soviet-American Relations, 1960 999, 1087 Spanish American War, Missouri Volunteers, 1102, 1123-1318 Rolls Spanish American War, Veterans' Fund 1102-1326 v. 21-24 Speer, Clara Aiken 4348 Spencer, George A. (1906-1997) 1978, 1984, 2308, 3713, 3721, 3727, 3729, 3734-3736, 3750, 3754, 3772, 3779, 3789, 3811, 3816, 3822, 3833, 3866, 3870, 3892, 3899, 3903, 3923, 3926, 3927, 3940, 3946, 3955, 3970, 3976, 3983, 3984, 4011, 4012, 4017, 4026, 4040, 4048, 4050, 4053, 4059, 4062, 4069, 4071, 4081, 4123, 4135, 4141, 4142, 4145, 4151, 4161, 4165, 4182, 4203, 4212, 4223, 4265, 4339, 4372, 4388, 4462, 4463, 4466, 4582, 4616, 4620, 4623, 4629, 4645, 4770 Spradling, Albert M., Jr. (1920-2004) 823, 2722, 2972, 3379, 3797, 3858, 3893, 3896, 3912, 3918, 3925, 3929, 3930, 3949, 3967, 3980, 4005, 4011, 4023, 4038, 4070, 4122, 4137, 4154, 4243, 4275, 4580, 4591, 4618, 4632, 4698, 5062 Spragens, Thomas A. 2717, 2720 St. Francis Academy, Nevada, Missouri 2509 St. Francis County Railroad Company, St. Francis 1782 County, Missouri St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 1822, 4625 St. Louis Civic Opera Association 527 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1822, 4625 St. Louis University, St. Louis 2712 Staley, Walter G. (1905-1994) 4414 Stanley, Thomas B. 574, 734 Stark, Lloyd Crow (1886-1972) 317, 606 State rights 193, 867, 885, 886, 889, 911, 1046, 1063, 2703, 2704, 2807-2811, 4775 Steelman, Dorman L. (1926-2007) 46, 476, 3480, 3623, 4431 Stegner, Ed 1399 Steinbicker, Paul G. 1766 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 89

Subject Folders Volumes Image Stennis, John C. 836 Stevenson, Adlai Ewing (1900-1965) 187-190, 193-196, 199 Stewart, Shandy A. 4905 Stewart, William E. 3922, 4460 Stone, B. H. 4648 Stone, Evelyn G. (Mrs. William J.) 4076, 4467, 4857 Stratton, William G. 632, 736, 891, 929, 3114 Straub, A. Earl 1619 Strikes and lockouts, Steelworkers, 1959 1041, 1081 Stubbe, Thomas J. 4451-4459 Stutler, Fred 3833 Sullivan, James L., Jr. 3863 Sullivan, Leonor Kretzer (1902-1988) 128-130, 191, 194, 203, 1380, 1831, 1832, 1908, 2623, 2804, 2806, 2945, 3111, 3112, 4959 Summers, Gordon S. 3948 Sutherland, Elbert L. 4380 Sutton, Lee C. 3406, 3735, 3776, 3899, 4040, 4141, 4142, 4161, 4649 Sverdup, Leif J. (1898-1976) 3043 Symes, James M. 862 Symington, Stuart (1901-1988) 1, 50, 108, 121, 183-206, 227, 231, 357, 569, 570, 684, 686, 696, 802, 858, 866, 997, 1333, 1407, 1642-1644, 1656, 1831, 1904, 1908-1911, 1941, 1954, 1960, 1997-1999, 2023, 2027, 2092-2094, 2096, 2097, 2100, 2173, 2179, 2194, 2195, 2522, 2630, 2632, 2716, 2785, 2804-2807, 2986, 2995, 3092, 3102, 3110, 3190, 3202, 3786, 3838, 3886, 3921, 3966, 4031, 4085, 4106, 4113, 4149, 4195, 4215, 4265, 4269, 4272, 4286, 4366, 4595, 4624, 4966, 5111 Table Rock Dam and Reservoir 1939, 1949, 1977 Tabo Creek, Watershed, Missouri 2029 Tanner, Joseph M. 4165, 4216, 4969 Tate, Joseph Temple 4448 Taxation 60, 867, 869, 1029-1033, 1042, 1043, 1063, 1074-1076, 1078, 1081, 1087, 1088, 1092, 1095, 1096, 1347, 1348 Taylor, Cecil T. 3417 Taylor, Joe 4376, 4652 Teamsters, Missouri, St. Louis 2913, 2915 Teasdale, Kenneth (1895-1970) 2902-2917 Temperance League of Missouri 1409, 1410 Terry, Phillip Sampson, Jr. 4460 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 90

Subject Folders Volumes Image Texas, Politics and government, 1959 1045 Thompson, James 2915 Thompson, John Marshall 2950-2961 Thompson, Morris 1831, 2718, 3054 Thompson, Samuel W. 4229 Thrower, Whitney Conrad 3870 Timmerman, George Bell, Jr. 734, 3113 Tito, Marshal (1892-1980) 123, 124 Toberman, Walter H. (1879-1960) 1407, 4357, 4668 Tornadoes, Missouri, 1957 1356, 2096, 2102, 2103, 2118 Tornadoes, Missouri, St. Louis, 1959 1356, 2867 Towell, William E. 1978, 1980, 1984, 1999, 2004, 2151, 2152, 2153, 2154, 2156-2161 Transportation Act of 1958 861, 862 Trimble, James G. (1929- ) 3853, 3902, 3966, 4044, 4139, 4267, 4334, 4347, 4625, 4702, 4860 Truman, Harry S (1884-1972) 157, 193, 194, 196, 198, 199, 677, 682, 695, 731-733, 788, 893, 1072, 1073, 1382, 1904, 2024, 2036, 2814, 3602, 4188, 4644 Truman, J. Vivian 2872, 4353, 4355 Truman, Ralph E. (1880-1962) 1327, 2984 Tucker, Raymond Roche (1896-1970) 784, 2178, 2910A, 3051, 4589, 4595, 4851, 4858 Turkeys 734-736 Turner's Mill, Alton, Missouri 2001 y Twomey, Samuel E. 4086, 4891, 4904 Tyson, Leroy 4805 U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental 931 Relations U.S. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation 3607 Service U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2024 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 823, 824, 876, 877, 2960, 3239 U.S. Bureau of the Census 831 U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board 26, 828-830 U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board 26, 828-830 U.S. Congress, House, Government Operations 931 Committee, Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee U.S. Constitution, Amendments Proposed 930 U.S. Department of Health, Education and 872 Welfare U.S. Federal Aviation Agency, Airport Grants 832, 836 U.S. Federal Communications Commission 833, 3195 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 91

Subject Folders Volumes Image U.S. Federal Home Loan Bank, Des Moines, Iowa 996 U.S. Forest Service 249 U.S. Harry S. Truman Library 117, 733 U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission 853 U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, 756 Springfield, Missouri U.S. National Guard 971, 972, 1062, 1081, 1088, 1095, 1096 U.S. National Labor Relations Board 859 U.S. National Park Service 550, 551 U.S. National Recovery Administration 4228 U.S. Naval Air Station, Lambert Field, St. Louis 535 U.S. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review 860 Commission U.S. Patent Office 347 U.S. President's Committee on Education Beyond 897, 900 High School U.S. Rural Electrification Administration 579, 2179, 4850 U.S. Science and Technology Department, 864 Proposed U.S. Strategic Air Command 22 U.S. Supreme Court 1046, 2538 Ulett, George A. 3031, 3051, 3052 Ullman, Al 128 Underwood, Cecil H. 735, 3113 Underwood, Orlie F. 4370 Unemployment 854, 855m 862, 868, 869, 922, 1000, 1032, 1041, 1056, 1065, 1095, 1096, 5019, 5020-5051, 5054, 5063, 5091, 5128 Union Electric Company, St. Louis 222, 838, 840 United Auto Workers 3780 United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of 3782 America United Daughters of the Confederacy 750, 2172 United Nations 751-752 United Packinghouse Workers of America, Local 2900 No. 58, St. Joseph, Missouri United Service Organization 773-755 United Service Organization Club, Columbia, 753-755 Missouri United Spanish War Veterans 1114, 1122, 1170, 1178, 1187, 1188, 1193, 1194, 1196, 1199, 1204 University of Missouri, Appropriations 3510 University of Missouri, Board of Curators 2616, 4675-4678, 5114 University of Missouri, Nuclear Reactor 877 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 92

Subject Folders Volumes Image University of Missouri, School of Mines and 823 Metallurgy, Rolla, Nuclear Reactor University of Missouri, Tucker Prairie 3192 Urban League, St. Louis 1757 Urban Renewal 858, 1063, 1095 Van Osdol, Paul (1892- ) 3593 Vandiver, S. Ernest 972 Vanlandingham, A. Basey (1920-1990) 72, 475, 3713, 3732, 3779, 3811, 3816, 3822, 3892, 3928, 3970, 3976, 3984, 4011, 1018, 4026, 4048, 4062, 4084, 4123, 4135, 4203, 4265, 4462, 4616, 4645 Varner, Victor I. 1606 Varnum, Girard C. 1710 Vetter, Alex 304 Vinson, Carl (1993-1981) 971, 2806 Waco Reservoir, Jasper County, Missouri 11821 Wadsworth, Homer C. 2721, 2723, 3037, 3041, 3047, 3062, 3068, 3070 Waggoner, Hugh H. 4077, 4135, 4581, 4777, 4809, 5057, 5074 Wagner, Robert Ferdinand 194 Walker, Obbie W. 3748, 3895, 3904, 3930, 3955, 3957, 3958, 4025, 4274 Wallace, Henry A. 534 Wallace, J. S. 3739, 3912, 3917, 3918, 3980, 4122, 4174, 1497, 4250, 4396, 4401, 4632, 4805 Walsh, Jennie Spindler 3873 Walsh, Thomas A. 189, 522, 3862, 4007, 4395, 4455, 4579 Wann, Joe Ben 784 Water Pollution, Missouri 1092, 2030 Water resources development 1047-1050, 1072, 1073, 1855, 2062- 2089 Water Valley Dam and Reservoir 2031 Waters, William Baxter 974, 3788, 3853, 3857, 3867, 3902, 3908, 3910, 3912, 3926, 3944, 3951, 3966, 3998, 4021, 4027, 4044, 4052, 4080, 4098, 4129, 4139, 4163, 4216, 4241, 4244, 4249, 4253, 4334, 4374, 4375, 4378, 4571, 4581, 4609, 4625, 4629, 4631, 4702, 4705, 4796, 4797, 4807, 4808, 4839, 4860 Watersheds 1045 Wear, Sam M. 3430, 3733, 3904, 4097, 4179, 4397 Weatherford, Robert P., Jr. 1382, 1383 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 93

Subject Folders Volumes Image Webbe, James M. 4596, 4768 Welch, Phil J. 128 Welliver, Warren D. (1920-2007) 3610, 3722, 3727, 3779, 3811, 3816, 3822, 3836, 3887, 3892, 3909, 3928, 3970, 3973, 3983, 3984, 4011, 4018, 4025, 4026, 4048, 4062, 4067, 4084, 4123, 4135, 4145, 4182, 42503, 4265, 4283, 4582, 4616, 4645, 4711, 4719, 1893 Western Union Telegraph Company, St. Louis 833 Whaley, Clyde W. 3915, 4654, 4891 Wheeler, Hubert 138, 636, 792, 793, 2505, 2506, 2507- 2512, 2516-2526, 2535, 2536-2546, 2699, 2702, 2704, 2708, 2718, 2758, 2759-2762, 4323, 4325, 4326, 4636, 4860, 5072 White House Conference on Aging, 1961, 1339-1342 Missouri Committee White House Conference on Children and Youth 770-777, 3107 White, Charles H. 4246 White, George O. 1978 White, Hugh J. 4892 White, Robert 2721, 2722 Whitton, Rex M. 836, 922, 1978, 1984, 2758-2762, 3128-3233 Wiley, Alexander 130 Williams, Frances Harriett 4343 Williams, G. Mennen 158, 331, 736, 959, 1000, 1051, 1078, 1327, 3114, 4975 Williams, James W. 5082 Williams, Roy D. (1881-1972) 693, 3855, 4383, 4587, 4654 Williamson, John Sam 914, 1619, 1637, 1638, 1649, 1651, 1652, 1674, 1675, 1681, 1687, 1692, 1695, 1696, 1978, 1984, 2043, 2094, 2120 Wilson, Charles E. 971, 2796-2799 Wilson, G. Bennett 4893, 4908 Winchester, John F. 4401 Wiretapping, Missouri 2781 Wisdom, W. W., Jr. (1893-1977) 3910, 4090, 4641 Witte, Charles A. 4224 Wolfe, John J. 4430 Wolff, Joseph Scott (1878-1958) 4611 Woolridge, Harry 4588 World War, 1914-1918, Veterans' Bonus 1319-1326 Wrench, Jesse E. 37 C2271 Blair, James Thomas, Jr. (1902-1962), Papers, 1957-1961 Page 94

Subject Folders Volumes Image Wyckoff, Marple S. 4651 Young Democratic Clubs 788, 789 Young Men's Christian Association 1332 Young, George D. (1930- ) 638, 1398, 1399, 3721, 3734, 3736, 3740, 3754, 3772, 3789, 3926, 3941, 3953, 4012, 4026, 4053, 4165, 4182, 4223 Young, Howard Isaac (1889-1965) 2719 Young, Robert Ellis (1919- ) 42, 130, 354, 4342, 4653, 4706, 4775, 4890 Youngdahl, Benjamin E. 1763 Zevely, William L. 1407, 3665, 3929, 4166, 4464, 4609, 4624, 4629 Zimbalist, Chaim Herman 3877, 4157, 4393, 4590, 4591