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CORRESPONDENCE FILE, 1941-1966

1941-62

• Letters of appreciation and commendation
• Fred G. Aandahl to Douglas G. Wright concerning SPA, 1941-62

1960

• D. J. DeBaer to Douglas G. Wright on the subject of Nebraska hydroelectric production, 1960

1964

• May 12- Request from Paul Eaton concerning U.S. Senate testimony
• May 13- Request from Paul Eaton to Senator Carl Hayden, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee concerning objections by M & A Electric Power Cooperative to construction of items as proposed by SPA for FY 1965
• May 15- Statement of the Department of the Interior on "Updated Power Policy"
• May 20- Request from Paul Eaton concerning protest of construction projects of SPA
• May 21- Letter from City of Jonesboro, Ark. to Congressional leaders re funds for SPA
• May 21- Letter from City of Popular Bluff, Ark. concerning funds for SPA
• May 26- Letter from Allen E. Hoshall to Congressman Clifford Davis re funds for SPA
• May 28- Letter to Senator William Fulbright re funds for SPA construction
• June 1- Letter to Senator Edward V. Long re power service for Sikeston and Poplar Bluff, Missouri
• June 8- Letter to City of Paragould, Ark. re funds for SPA Jonesboro-Idalia transmission line
• June 9- Letter to Senator Edward V. Long re power service for Sikeston and Poplar Bluff, Missouri
• July 17- Protests to Senator Allen J. Ellender concerning Jonesboro-Idalia transmission line
• July 21- Letter to Senator Edward V. Long re protests to Jonesboro-Idalia line
• July 29- Letter from City of Paragould, Arkansas concerning power for that city
• November- Statement concerning Southwest Power Administration

1965

• Public Works Appropriations hearings
• May 14- Letter to Chairman, Public Works Subcommittee of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee re fund for SPA construction
• June 9- Two letters to Senator Edward V. Long re funds for SPA
• June 16- Letter to Chairman, Power Work Groups for Comprehensive Studies of White and Red Rivers re Benefits of SPA 161 KV Inter-tie with Missouri River Basin
• July 1- Memorandum to Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior - water and power re SPA Committee actions on Hydro System operations
• July 13- Activity summary - Southwest Power Administration
• August 3- Memorandum to Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior - water and power re program developments- FY 1965
• August 11- Letter to U.S. Geological Survey re water resource utilization and development programs in Arkansas

1966

• February 16- Letter to H. M. Dillon, Secretary-Treasurer, Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest regarding "Recreation, Fish and Wild Life Benefits on Multipurpose Dam Projects"

SPEECH AND STATEMENT FILE

1944

• August 8- "Grand River Dam Goes to War and Then What?", Resources Board, State of Oklahoma

1946

• December 4- Statement and Plans for the construction of Dams on the White River and its tributaries, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

1948

• July 9- Power Supply in the Southwest-Missouri State Rural Electric Cooperative Association

1949

• October 20- "Where Is Our Power Coming From?"- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

1950

• N.D.- Excerpts from addresses
• February 9- "Electric Power and the Three Freedoms"- Missouri State Rural Electrification Association
• March 31- "Power Supply for the REA Cooperatives in the Southwest"- Oklahoma Statewide Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• April 10- "Service"- Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• July 15- " A One Package Development of Our Water Resources", Dedication of SPA Building, Muskagee, Oklahoma
• August 15- "Service-The Unfinished Picture", Farmers Electric Cooperative
• October 27- "For Today You Are A Man", National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

1951

• March 29- "Power Prospects of This Date", Oklahoma Statewide Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• April 10- "Aladdin's Lamp", Alfalfa Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• April 13- "Power Supply in Oklahoma", East Central Oklahoma Electric Cooperative
• June 29- "And the Greatest of These is Charity"- Laclede Electric Cooperative, Lebanon, Missouri
• October 1- "Competition"- National Rural Electrification Cooperative Association
• December 3- "Meow"- National Rural Electrification Cooperative Association

1952

• February 5- "The Little Hand", Hermann, Missouri
• March 27- "Out of This Air", Oklahoma Statewide Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• April 7- "Federal Power for Municipal Utilities", Missouri Association of Municipal Utilities
• September 15- Speech - Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest
• October 3- "Quo Vadis?", Where are you Going- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

1953

• March 26- "The Right Road to Rome", Missouri State Rural Electrification Association

• April 6- Address - Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest
• April 21- "What SPA Means to Muskagee", Muskagee, Oklahoma
• September 1- Address- Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• September 4- Sign Posts and Hitching Posts- Texas Power Reserve Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• September 14- "Your Responsibility in Power Supply", Chamber of Commerce, Springfield, Missouri
• September 15- "Neighbor by Neighbor", Three Rivers Electric Cooperative, Linn, Missouri
• October 13- "The Hand of Friendship", National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

1954

• February 17- Address - Oklahoma Municipal Power Users Association
• February 22- What and Where is the SPA- Arkansas State Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• October 28- Address- New-Mac Electric Cooperative, Neosho, Missouri

1957

• July 25- "Marketing Federal Hydroelectric Power in the Southwest", Arkansas White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee
• July 26- Address - Craighead Electric Cooperative, Jonesboro, Arkansas

1959

• June 8- Dedicatory address- John Hobbs Memorial, Cassville, Missouri

1960

• March 15- Press Release - Silver Jubilee Edition of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Directory

1965

• December 7- Address - Directors of Arkansas State Electric Cooperative, Inc.

1966

• April 14- Speech - Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest
• May 26- Speech - Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest
• November 9 - Transcript- Chamber of Commerce, West Plains, Missouri

1967

• March 21 - "The REA Story", Student Branch of the IEEE, University of Arkansas

1969

• February- "The Role of Energy in the Environment of Man"
• No date- "Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address", REA Cooperative

GENERAL FILE

• Grand River Dam Project- Oklahoma- Contract Data Book, 1937-1943
• A History of SPA, Southwestern Power Administration, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 1, 1952
• A History of SPA, Southwestern Power Administration, Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 8, 1960
• Anniversary- 20 years- Southwestern Power Administration, 1943-1963

• Meeting- Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest, February 21, 1964
• Meeting- Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest, May 28, 1964
• Meeting- Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest, September 17, 1964
• Meeting- Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest, January 14, 1965
• Meeting- Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest, May 6, 1965
• Meeting- Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest, October 5, 1966
• "The Energy Key to our Future" (Recommendation submitted to President Lyndon B. Johnson)- 1967
• United States Department of the Interior - Southwestern Power Administration - It's Character and Role, October, 1967
• Transmission Study 190 (Steering Committee report), U.S. Department of the Interior, February, 1968
• Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Morton and King- Brief for Appellee, January 14, 1974

PRESS RELEASE AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPING FILE

1950

• January 11- Tie with Central Missouri and Sho-Me Cooperative
• May 30- First Direct Service to Preference Customers
• December 28- Contract with Southwestern & Electric Company- Narrows Dam

1951

• No date- Negotiations with 15 private utility companies- Tulsa, Oklahoma
• December 7- The News As They See It (Station KRMG) Tulsa, Oklahoma

1952

• January 21- Service to Wood County Electric Cooperative, Ouitman, Texas
• February 28- Transmission line for Service to City of Hermann, Missouri
• March 20- Service to Fort Sill, Ryan, and El Dorado, Oklahoma
• June 6- Information- Public Utility Manual
• September 19- Power Service to Purcell, Oklahoma

1953

• March 13- Federal power production

1954

• November 17- Effect of drought on hydroelectric power in the Southwest
• December 30- Southwestern Power Administration rate schedules

1959

• June 4- Civil Defense Activities
• June 5- Dedication of Table Rock Dam
• June 10- Table Rock Dam- power production
• June 12- Table Rock Dam dedication
• June 19- Transmission line from Springfield, Missouri to Table Rock Dam
• June 30- Steel Towers- line from Springfield, Missouri to Table Rock Dam
• July 29- Marketing of power
• August 16- Annual meeting of East Central Oklahoma Cooperative
• August 31- Incentive Awards Program for Federal government employees
• September 1- Construction of transmission line from Springfield, Missouri to Table Rock Dam and Incentive Awards Grant
• September 8- Superior Performance Awards- SPA
• September 29- Civil Defense Training
• December 4- Incentive Awards- SPA
• December 17- Biographical sketch of Douglas G. Wright
• December 26- Pumped storage electric generating systems and article on Douglas G. Wright

1960

• January 4- Incentive Awards
• January 5- Legislative history- power program in state of Oklahoma
• January 17- Power program of the Southwest
• February 5- Review of events- 1959
• March 15- Silver Jubilee- Oklahoma Rural News
• March 25- Silver Jubilee- Rural Electric Missourian
• May- Radiological monitoring

1961

• August 17- Electric power to Carthage, Missouri
• August 31- Rate decrease in electric power- Bentonville, Arkansas

1964

• August 10- Silver Anniversary of Three Rivers Electric Cooperative- Linn, Missouri
• August 11- Power generation at Eufaula Dam- Canadian River, Oklahoma
• December 10- Electric power service to Popular Bluff, Missouri
• December 11- Tribute to Douglas G. Wright

1965

• February 24- Electric power service to Jonesboro, Arkansas

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