NTDMG044.xml Guide to the Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers 1950-1962 Pfost (Gracie Bowers) Papers Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives

Moscow, ID 83844-2351

MG044 Gracie (Bowers) Pfost, 1906-1965 Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers 1950-1962 61 cubic feet Administrative records including inter-office memoranda and procedure statements, constituent correspondence, personal correspondence, records of committees, bills sponsored by Congresswoman Pfost, speeches, news releases, and audio tapes of radio talks. English

Gracie Pfost (pronounced Post), Democrat, achieved distinction as Idaho's only woman to serve in Congress. Representing the state's first congressional district, she was elected to five consecutive terms in the U. S. House of Representatives, ably serving her constituents from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1963. Described as a "unique and forceful political personality," Pfost diligently promoted the mining, timber and agricultural interests of the Gem State's northern counties. In 1962, the Congresswoman declined to run for her sixth term in the House and instead entered the Senate race. Nominated by the Democratic State Central Committee, she lost by narrow margin to Republican Len B. Jordan in the general election. But her career as a public servant did not end. In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy appointed Pfost administrator of Public Housing for the Elderly in the Federal Housing Administration, a position she held until her death two years later.

Born March 12, 1906 in Harrison, Arkansas to William Layfette and Lily Elizabeth (Wood) Bowers, Gracie moved with her family to the Boise Valley in 1911. She attended area schools receiving her secondary education at Meridian High School, Meridian, Idaho, and graduating in 1926 from Links Business University. On August 4, 1923 she married John Walter (Jack) Pfost, a man 22 years her senior, who played an important role in his wife's later political career. In fact Gracie credits him as the person who most encouraged and supported her campaign for election to Congress. Once Gracie was elected to the House of Representatives, Jack Pfost acted unofficially as the Congresswoman's political advisor. He worked long hours beside his wife and after his death on July 17, 1961, at the age of 77, it was said of him that his death "cost Idaho an unofficial but effective public servant who was as untiring as he was unassuming."

Gracie Pfost's public career began in 1929 when, at age 23, she was appointed deputy county clerk, auditor and recorder for Canyon County. She served the county in this capacity until 1940 at which time she was elected Treasurer. After five consecutive terms as Treasurer, she ran unsuccessfully against Republican John T. Wood in 1950 for a seat in congress. Defeated by 783 votes in that election, Pfost again announced her candidacy in 1952.

With the slogan "Tie Your Vote to a Solid Post--Gracie Pfost for Congress," she canvased the counties of the first district profiling her campaign issues. She supported stabilization of farm products, improved labor legislation and the production and conservation of domestic minerals and metals. Favoring broader Social Security coverage and reduced taxes, her platform also included support for humanitarian legislation. Of greater significance and one which marked her congressional career, she opposed private interests and championed the federal construction of a high, multi-purpose dam at Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border. Later, in her first speech before the House of Representatives on April 16, 1953, she introduced the bill to allow the federal government the right to construct a dam on the Snake River. Her vigorous support of the project earned her the sobriquet: "Hell's Belle." Throughout her career in the House, Pfost continued to support legislation protecting mining (lead-zinc) and timber interests as well as bills providing for public works and federal aid to education.

In Congress, Pfost was appointed to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and served on or chaired the subcommittees on Irrigation and Reclamation, Mines and Mining and Public Lands. She was also a member of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. She was also named to special subcommittees, one to study water resources and one to investigate Foundations Exempt from Income Tax. In 1960 she was a conference delegate to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission.

In addition to her political responsibilities, Pfost was a member of the Idaho Federation of Womens' Clubs, Business and Professional Women's Club, Soroptimist Club, Gem Area Girl Scout Council, Nampa Chamber of Commerce and the Idaho Real Estate Board. Before election to Congress, she was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1944, 1948 and 1952. For recreation and relaxation she enjoyed hunting, fishing, and painting.

On August 11, 1965, Gracie Pfost died of Hodgkin's Disease at Johns Hopkins Hospital near Baltimore, Maryland. With her death "Idaho [lost its] First Lady of Politics."

The papers of Gracie Pfost span the years 1950 to 1963, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1953 to 1962. A few of her speeches dating from the 1940s are also included.

The congressional papers include administrative records, such as inter-office memos and mailing lists; constituent correspondence, which is divided into three sections and forms the major part of the collection; general and personal correspondence; legislative material which includes bills introduced by Gracie Pfost, her statements to congressional committees, Congressional Record inserts, and committee files; public relations material which includes her speeches, newspaper clippings, news releases, and audio tapes of radio speeches. The campaign files include campaign material, files of clippings on people, places, or events of interest to her, as well as other political files.

Signatures of well known politicians such as Harry Truman, John McCormack, Frank Church, and John F. Kennedy may be found in some of the folders. Presence of these signatures is noted on the folder itself.

The University of Idaho library also has the congressional papers of Mrs. Pfost's successor in the House of Representatives, Compton I. White, Jr. (Manuscript Group 93).

The majority of Gracie Pfost's papers were in labeled folders when received; the unlabeled material was sorted and integrated into existing categories. Every effort was made to retain the original folder headings, although it was sometimes necessary to make slight alterations, such as adding a committee name in the legislative correspondence. Occasionally material relating to the same subject shows up in several series, and it is necessary for the researcher to consult each series to identify all the material.

The first series, Correspondence, is divided into five subseries, the first three of which deal with constituent correspondence. The first subdivision, Legislation, is arranged alphabetically by the Congressional committee which Mrs. Pfost contacted for assistance in answering a question or to which a particular piece of legislation had been referred. The second subseries is arranged by the government department which supplied information for answers to constituent problems; and the third subseries is arranged alphabetically by independent agency. The general correspondence contains both constituent and official letters, and is arranged alphabetically by subject. Many of the folders in this subseries were heavily sampled since many requests for publications were routine and duplicated year after year. This subseries also includes form letters, mimeographed letters, and mass mailings sent by the office, and applications for post office positions. Returns of Small Business Ballots, the opinions of small businessmen on legislation before Congress as registered on printed forms, which were also heavily sampled, are also in this section. The final subseries in this series contains personal and political correspondence.

The second series consists of legislative material. The bills introduced by Congresswoman Pfost are filed both cumulatively by Congress, and also individually by House Bill number if there is any supporting documentation such as committee or departmental reports. Some correspondence is also included in the files. Also included are typescripts of her statements to congressional committees, typescripts of speeches made on the floor of the House, Congressional Record inserts, and voting records, both official and those prepared by special interest groups. Other material includes material gathered while serving on committees. Some of these which include inter-committee correspondence or material relating to specific committee activities are filed by committee. Most of the remainder of the material is arranged alphabetically by subject. The majority of Hells Canyon material is in this section.

The Administrative series contains inter-office memos, lists of Idaho newspapers, various post office statistics, e.g. the number of box holders, to assist the staff with mass mailings, lists of members of organizations in Idaho which were used for specialized mass mailings, and samples of stationery, telephone, and telegraph accounts. Also included are names of members of a variety of organizations which were used for specialized mailing lists.

The Public Relations series contains various biographical sketches prepared by Mrs. Pfost's staff, and some published articles by and about her. Also included are her newsletters to constituents, press releases issued by her office, newspaper clippings, typed copies of speeches, and several audio tapes (reel to reel) of radio speeches.

The final series contains campaign files dating from her unsuccessful first bid for Congress in 1950 through her Senate race in 1962, also unsuccessful. Included in these files are campaign brochures, newspaper clippings dealing with Mrs. Pfost and her opponents, and election results. There are also files concerning the Democratic party and other material of a political nature, including files on Idaho politicians, and a card file listing Democrats in Idaho alphabetically by county, and items of personal interest.

The historical and research value of 33 boxes of "white" carbon copies of outgoing letters which were filed alphabetically by correspondent was questioned and found to be very limited, therefore they were discarded. Many large "single issue" files, such as the anti-liquor advertising campaign, were sampled by taking every 10th or in some cases every 25th item. In other cases only one complete folder was retained. The Small Business Ballots were sampled using the "fat folder" criteria. Only one year of statements for the teletephone, telegraph and stationery accounts was retained. The method of sampling is noted on the first folder in the sequence. The only large single issue not sampled, but retained in total, was the correspondence concerning Hells Canyon which was Pfost's major campaign issue. Single copies of machine and sample letters were retained.

In arriving at item counts for each folder all material stapled together, regardless of the number of papers involved, was counted as a single item. After the count was determined, the staples were removed.

Following the guidelines in the Senate records management guide the following types of material were discarded: declined invitations, when filed separately; out of state correspondence, when filed separately; and job applications. Using the same guidelines, only the records of those applicants accepted at the several service academies were retained. Duplicates of mimeographed material were discarded without notation; however, many correspondence files contained similar carbon responses attached to incoming letters. In these cases the carbons were discarded and a separation sheet documenting the number of such carbons was prepared. Similarly separation sheets were prepared when individual replies were sent to signers of petitions or mail campaigns waged by special interest groups.

Government documents were separated from the collection and sent to the government documents library. Other published material was removed for consideration for the general book collection.

When the Records Storage Center transferred the papers of Gracie Pfost to the office of Senator Frank Church they totaled 355 cubic feet. He and his staff reduced the records to 170 cubic feet before sending them to the University of Idaho Library where they were reduced to 157 cubic feet. There is no record of what material Church discarded, but it appears from transfer documents that the material discarded after receipt by the university library included books, government documents, plus many duplicate copies of publications. In the final processing, undertaken 22 years after receipt of the papers, the collection was reduced by another 96 cubic feet.

The congressional papers of Representative Gracie Pfost were donated to the University of Idaho Library by Idaho's Senior Senator Frank Church, in 1968.

The papers were processed by Judith Nielsen, with the assistance of Wilma Woods and Randy Doyle, between October 1990 and June 1991.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Idaho Government and Politics Photographs Pfost, Gracie Bowers, 1906-1965--Archives United States--Politics and government--1945-1989 Legislators--United States--Correspondence United States Representative from Idaho, 1952-1962; unsuccessful candidate for United States senate, 1962; administrator of public housing for the elderly after 1963 Series I. Correspondence 1952-1962 A. Legislation 1953-1962 1/1-17 Agriculture Committee 1953-1962 1069 items 1/18 Baker Bill 1953 17 items 1/19 Cattlemen's Association 1953 7 items 1/20 Cotton 1955 8 items 1/21 Farm Bill H.R.12 and farm subsidy 1955 58 items 1/22 Farm Bill 1959 1 item 1/23 Farm Bill 1962 46 items 2/24 Farm Bureau 1953 2 items 2/25 Food stamp plan 1953-1959 13 items 2/26 Forest Service 1953-1954 40 items 2/27 Forest Service, sustained yield 1953-1954 9 items 2/28 Forests 1955 15 items 2/29 Honey supports 1954 6 items 2/30 Lumber 1962 66 items 2/31 Metcalf Bill 1955-1956 18 items 2/32 Onion futures trading 1956 18 items 2/33 Potatoes 1955-1956 8 items 2/34 Price supports 1954 59 items 2/35 Rural Electrification Administration 1959 4 items 2/36 Soil bank plan 1956 33 items 2/37-39 Soil conservation 1954-1962 37 items 2/40 Sugar Bill 1956 68 items 2/41 Wheat quotas 1959-1960 13 items 2/42 Wool and wool growers 1953-1956 30 items 2/43-50 Appropriations Committee 1953-1962 260 items 2/51 Agriculture 1959 7 items 2/52 Agriculture, Forest Service 1957-1959 10 items 2/53 Budget 1959 26 items 2/54 Brucellosis research 1958 4 items 2/55 Bully Creek Dam 1957 3 items 2/56 Bonners Ferry-Troy transmission line 1953 15 items 2/57 Carrot research 1957-1959 18 items 2/58 Civil works program, 1st district, Idaho 1959 1 item 2/59 Defense cuts 1957 1 item 2/60 Dried bean research 1957 1 item 2/61 Farm weather service 1957 1 item 2/62 Farmers Home Administration 1957 1 item 2/63 Government expenditure 1957 89 items 3/64 Health 1955-1956 51 items 3/65 Health, Education and Welfare 1952-1959 14 items 3/66 John Day Dam 1957 1 item 3/67 Lake Coeur d'Alene survey for map 1958-1959 20 items 3/68 Library Services Bill 1958 30 items 3/69 Meat inspection 1959 1 item 3/70 National Defense Education Act 1959 7 items 3/71 Post Office 1957 61 items 3/72 Public works 1957 2 items 3/73 Roads 1953-1954 8 items 3/74 Silicosis research 1957 6 items 3/75 Soil conservation 1958-1959 9 items 3/76 Spruce Bark Beetle 1953 21 items 3/77 Timber 1955-1956 15 items 3/78 Tungsten 1957 13 items 3/79-82 Veterans Administration 1953-1962 181 items 3/83 Vocational education 1953-1954 14 items 3/84 Water pollution control 1957-1958 3 items 3/85 Weiser River flood control 1953 13 items 3/86 Wool 1957-1958 8 items 3/87-91 Armed Services Committee 1953-1962 136 items 3/92 Closing defense plants (Stratton bill H.R.2568) 1959 2 items 3/93 GI bill, peace time veterans 1959 5 items 3/94 National security training 1955 98 items 3/95 Orthodox church (S.106; H.R.360) 1955 19 items 3/96 Selective Service 1959 4 items 3/97 Universal military training, Against 1955 64 items 3/98 WAAC bill (S.2035) 1959 3 items 3/99 World War I veterans 1959 1 item 3/100-101 Atomic Energy Committee 1954-1959 58 items 3/102-109 Banking and Currency Committee 1953-1962 235 items 4/110 Financial Institutions Bill 1959 2 items 4/111 Free marketing of gold 1953-1955 19 items 4/112 Housing 1955-1956 17 items 4/113 Housing bills 1959 16 items 4/114-115 District of Columbia Committee 1953-1961 32 items 4/116-126 Education and Labor Committee 1953-1962 814 items 4/127-128 Fair labor standards act 1957-1959 37 items 4/129-131 Federal aid to education 1957-1959 108 items 4/132 Health 1955 21 items 4/133-134 Labor 1954-1956 67 items 5/135-136 Labor bill 1959 253 items 5/137 Middleton grange petition on NLRB 1953 6 items 5/138 Mine safety 1961 27 items 5/139 Minimum wage 1957 8 items 5/140 Minimum wage, Against 1961 88 items 5/141 Over 40 job discrimination 1958 1 item 5/142 School aid, For 1961 119 items 5/143 School aid, Against 1961 138 items 5/144 Taft-Hartley 1954 48 items 5/145 Taft-Hartley amendments 1957 1 item 5/146 Union racketeering 1959 3 items 5/147 Vocational rehabilitation 1957 1 item 5/148 Wage and hour law 1957 15 items 5/149 Youth Conservation Corps 1957-1959 19 items 5/150-159 Foreign Affairs Committee 1953-1962 384 items 5/160 Foundations Committee 1953-1955 76 items 5/161-165 Government Operations Committee 1953-1962 137 items 5/166 House Administration Committee 1953-1961 7 items 6/167-177 Interior and Insular Affairs 1953-1962 732 items 6/178 Alaska statehood 1957 8 items 6/179 Antimony on minerals purchase 1957 3 items 6/180 Bear River compact 1957-1958 33 items 6/181 Bradley mines 1953 8 items 6/182-184 Burns Creek 1957-1962 37 items 6/185 C-L Electric Company 1953-1954 1 item 6/186 Capitol building, Boise, Idaho 1957 3 items 6/187-188 Clearwater Dams 1954-1956 12 items 6/189 Coal carbonization 1957 2 items 6/190 Coal lease bill 1957 2 items 6/191 Cobalt 1959 12 items 6/192 Columbia Basin Act amendments 1957 9 items 6/193 Frying Pan, Arkansas, reclamation project 1957 4 items 6/194 Gold bill 1961-1962 31 items 6/195 Great Northern Railroad 1962 2 items 6/196 Guffey Dam 1957 2 items 6/197-198 Hawaiian Statehood 1957-1959 17 items 6/199-200 Hells Canyon petitions 1953-1958 34 items 6/201 Hells Canyon: out of state 1953-1956 80 items 7/202-224 Hells Canyon, A-Z 1953-1957 1095 items 8/225-228 Hells Canyon, Against, A-Z 1953-1956 202 items 8/229 Hells Canyon: Voice of the people 1953-1956 3 items 8/230 Hells Canyon, For 1954-1958 5 items 8/231-232 Hells Canyon, Against 1956-1957 144 items 8/233 Hells Canyon 1959 6 items 8/234-245 Hells Canyon, A-Z 1957-1958 590 items 8/246 Hells Canyon: Thank you notes to colleagues 1956 20 items 8/247 Humane trap bill 1957 5 items 8/248-251 Indian affairs 1953-1959 92 items 8/252-253 Irrigation and reclamation 1953-1960 53 items 8/254-262 Lead-Zinc 1953-1954 122 items 9/263-265 Lead-Zinc 1957-1958 72 items 9/266 Lead-Zinc barter program 1957-1958 70 items 9/267-270 Mines and mining 1953-1959 160 items 9/271 Mining and securities 1957-1958 4 items 9/272 Mountain Sheep-Pleasant Valley Dam 1957 1 item 9/273 National cemeteries 1959 2 items 9/274 National cemetery at Sarasota, Florida 1957 12 items 9/275 National forests 1957 1 item 9/276 National parks and forests 1960 24 items 9/277 National wilderness preservation system, HR.500 1957 1 item 9/278 Natural resources 1956-1957 4 items 9/279 Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 1957-1958 6 items 9/280 Paradise Dam, Montana 1957 1 item 9/281 Payment in lieu of taxes 1957 1 item 9/282-286 Public lands 1955-1961 125 items 9/287 Reclamation 1957-1959 8 items 9/288 St. Lawrence Seaway 1954 2 items 9/289 Tennessee Valley Authority 1957 1 item 9/290 Uniform grazing bill 1953-1954 112 items 9/291 Virgin Islands Organic Act, revised 1957 1 item 9/292 Water problems 1957 8 items 9/293 Whitman national monument 1957-1958 10 items 9/294-296 Wilderness bill 1957-1960 109 items 9/297-301 Wilderness bill, Against 1961-1962 350 items 10/302-303 Wilderness bill, Against 1961-1962 58 items 10/304-311 Wilderness bill, For 1961-1962 590 items 10/312 Wildlife 1954 15 items 10/313-321 Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 1953-1962 532 items 11/322 Bryson Bill 1954 7 items 11/323 Federal Communications Commission, Against exemption 1958 165 items 11/324 Federal fair trade act 1959 8 items 11/325 Firearms act 1959 1 item 11/326 Food additives 1959 1 item 11/327 Food and drugs 1953-1954 3 items 11/328-329 Freight rate increase 1956-1957 42 items 11/330 Health 1954 42 items 11/331 H.R.5713 (Railway labor act amendment) 1953 4 items 11/332 Joint committee on printing 1959 1 item 11/333-348 Liquor advertising, Letters and petitions against 1953-1961 332 items 11/349 Natural gas act 1955-1956 16 items 11/350 Railroads 1960 63 items 11/351 Railroad relief, Petitions 1958 71 items 11/352-354 Railroad retirement 1954-1959 93 items 11/355 Railroad report, Against presidential commission railroad report 1962 68 items 11/356 Territories 1953-1954 28 items 11/357 Transportation 1956 19 items 11/358 Trip leasing contracts (H.R.3203) 1953-1954 26 items 11/359 Trucking bill 1957-1958 32 items 11/360 Truck taxes, For piggyback 1961 59 items 11/361-365 Television, Petitions and letters against pay as you see TV 1958 369 items 11/366 S.1089 & S.1197 (Railroad exemption), Against 1961 19 items 11/367 Trout labeling bill 1954 1 item 12/368-376 Judiciary Committee 1953-1962 483 items 12/377 Bricker amendment 1954-1956 32 items 12/378 Congressional and judicial pay raise 1953-1954 10 items 12/379 Contracts 1953-1954 16 items 12/380-381 Equal rights 1953-1955 85 items 12/382 Grandmothers' day 1954 2 items 12/383-386 Immigration and naturalization 1954-1960 30 items 12/387 Juvenile delinquency 1954-1955 9 items 12/388 McCarran-Walter bill 1953 4 items 12/389 Monopolies 1955-1956 39 items 12/390 Refugees 1957-1958 85 items 12/391 Tidelands Oil 1953 20 items 12/392 World War II veterans, Incorporate organizations 1957-1958 87 items 12/393 S.1917, Watkins bill 1953 4 items 12/394 S.2026, Henley Construction Company 1954-1956 7 items 12/395-396 Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee 1953-1962 20 items 12/397 Fisheries and Game 1962 6 items 12/398-403 Post Office and Civil Service Committee 1953-1959 262 items 13/404-407 Post Office and Civil Service Committee 1960-1962 275 items 13/408 Civil Service 1954 5 items 13/409 Disabled veterans (H.R.5404) 1953 3 items 13/410 Federal employees 1954 14 items 13/411-412 Federal employees pay raise 1955-1957 101 items 13/413 Life insurance for state agency employees 1957 10 items 13/414 Pensions 1954 21 items 13/415-416 Post Office 1953-1954 70 items 13/417 Postal employee form letters 1954-1957 43 items 13/418 Postal employees 1954-1956 14 items 13/419-426 Postal employees pay raise 1955-1960 262 items 13/427-428 Postal rates 1955-1958 170 items 13/429 Postal service 1955 12 items 13/430 Postmasters salaries 1955 25 items 13/431 Railroad retirement 1954 20 items 13/432 Retirement adjustment 1957 10 items 13/433-434 Retirement and pensions 1956-1960 113 items 13/435 Retirement bill thank you letters 1958 11 items 13/436 Scientific and professional classification act 1957 8 items 13/437 Selected topics 1957 18 items 14/438-444 Public Works Committee 1953-1962 167 items 14/445 Albeni Falls, Idaho 1957-1958 2 items 14/446 Billboard advertising on interstate highways 1957 1 item 14/447 Bruces Eddy Dam 1959 16 items 14/448 Bruces Eddy and Penny Cliffs Dams 1957-1958 55 items 14/449-450 Clearwater dams, Against 1954-1956 94 items 14/451 Clearwater dams, For 1954-1955 23 items 14/452 Columbia River Development Corporation (S.3114) 1959 4 items 14/453 Council reclamation project 1955 8 items 14/454 Davis-Bacon school construction 1956 3 items 14/455 Demolition of grange building 1957 46 items 14/456 Filtration bill 1954-1955 29 items 14/457 Highway bill petition 1955 8 items 14/458 Highway construction bill 1960 1 item 14/459 Highway improvement for northwest 1959 2 items 14/460 Lewis-Clark highway 1957-1958 31 items 14/461 Libby Dam 1955-1956 8 items 14/462 Mountain Sheep/Pleasant Valley 1956 6 items 14/463 Public power 1955-1956 23 items 14/464 Recession 1958 6 items 14/465 Reclamation 1955-1956 11 items 14/466 Residence for vice-president 1957 2 items 14/467 Rivers and harbors--water rights 1958 34 items 14/468-469 Roads 1956 91 items 14/470 Roads: Highway bill 1955 46 items 14/471 Tennessee Valley Authority 1959 21 items 14/472 Tennessee Valley Authority revenue bonds 1957-1958 3 items 14/473 Water conservation act 1957 1 item 14/474 Rules Committee 1959-1961 12 items 14/475 Un-American Activities Committee (H.R.53) 1959 33 items 14/476 Small Business, Select Committee on 1958 3 items 14/477 Space and Astronautics Committee 1960-1962 2 items 14/477-482 Un-American Activities Committee 1953-1962 185 items 14/483 Communism 1954-1959 13 items 14/484 Subversives 1954 2 items 14/485-486 Veterans Affairs Committee 1953-1954 77 items 15/487-495 Veterans Affairs Committee 1955-1962 628 items 15/496 Form letters 1956 3 items 15/497 Hearings 1954 4 items 15/498 Hoover commission report on veterans rights 1955 46 items 15/499 Optometry 1960 12 items 15/500-501 Pensions 1956 125 items 15/502 Pensions, Spanish-American War veterans 1956 41 items 15/503-514 Pensions, World War I veterans 1956-1962 609 items 15/515 Summary of Veterans Affairs Committee, 84th Congress 1955 6 items 15/516 World War I veterans security bill (H.R.4264) 1956 2 items 16/517-528 Ways and Means Committee 1953-1962 964 items 16/529 Congressional pay raise 1955 12 items 16/530 Federal spending 1959 36 items 16/531-533 Forand Bill (H.R.4700) 1959-1960 381 items 16/534 Foreign trade--Oil imports 1959 2 items 16/535 Keogh Bill (H.R.10) 1959 75 items 16/536 Liquor, Against 1959 57 items 17/537 Medical care for the aged: form letters 1962 139 items 17/538-539 Medical care for the aged, Against 1962 214 items 17/540 Medical care for the aged, For 1962 25 items 17/541 Narcotics 1956 8 items 17/542 Organization for trade cooperation 1957 1 item 17/543-545 Railroad retirement 1953-1956 25 items 17/546 Reciprocal trade agreements 1958 28 items 17/547-548 Road tax, Against 1961 256 items 17/549-560 Social Security 1953-1960 337 items 17/561 Social Security, Blind 1959 3 items 17/562-563 Social Security, Clergy 1954 88 items 17/564 Social Security, Self employed 1957-1958 57 items 17/565-568 Tariffs and trade 1954-1957 60 items 17/569-570 Taxation 1954-1956 80 items 18/571-573 Taxation 1957-1959 62 items 18/574 Taxes, Admissions 1953 6 items 18/575 Taxes, Cooperatives and credit unions 1953 16 items 18/576-577 Taxes, Cooperatives 1957-1959 48 items 18/578-581 Taxes, Excise 1953-1958 81 items 18/582 Taxes, Excise: Telephone 1959 50 items 18/583 Taxes, Freight; Insurance companies 1957-1958 6 items 18/584 Taxes, Gas 1959 22 items 18/585-587 Taxes, Income 1953-1958 59 items 18/588 Taxes, Internal revenue code amendment 1957-1958 11 items 18/589-590 Taxes, Transportation 1957-1958 107 items 18/591 Taxes, For tax cut 1962 14 items 18/592 Taxes, Tax deductions 1957-1958 7 items 18/593 Taxes, Tax deduction for civil defense workers 1957-1958 7 items 18/594 Taxes, Tax reduction for small business 1957-1958 20 items 18/595 Taxes, Tax revision for teachers 1957-1958 21 items 18/596-598 Townsend Plan 1953-1958 122 items 18/599 Trade agreements 1953 23 items 18/600-601 Unemployment benefits 1954-1958 21 items 18/602 Uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act 1957 1 item 18/603 Withholding tax, Against 1962 59 items 18/604 Wool import duties 1957-1958 16 items 18/605 Unanswered 1961 15 items 18/606-614 Unsorted 1953-1962 414 items 18/615 Unsorted, Housing 1954 13 items 18/616 Unsorted, Petitions 1957-1959 3 items 18/617 Unsorted, Voting rights for minors 1954 1 item B. Department 1953-1962 19/618-633 Agriculture, Department of 1953-1962 574 items 19/634 Commodity Stabilization Service 1955 2 items 19/635-636 Farmers Home Administration 1953-1954 42 items 20/637-641 Farmers Home Administration 1957-1962 76 items 20/642-655 Forest Service 1953-1962 264 items 20/656 Forest Service: Paddy Flats Road 1955 17 items 20/657 Forest Service: Yellow Pine Road 1959 3 items 20/658 Idaho Seed Bank (Proposed) 1956 2 items 20/659 Milk price spread, Petition 1958 3 items 20/660 PMA (wheat allotment) 1953 13 items 20/661 Potatoes 1953-1954 12 items 20/662 Publications available 1953-1954 6 items 21/663-669 Rural Electrification Administration 1953-1962 112 items 21/670 Rural Electrification Administration: Cooperatives in Idaho 1954 4 items 21/671 Seed storage facility 1956 29 items 21/672-675 Soil Conservation Service 1953-1962 70 items 21/676 Trucking differential--grain storage 1956 9 items 21/677 Wheat program 1959 10 items 21/678-688 Air Force 1953-1962 192 items 21/659 Cottonwood Housing 1957 34 items 21/690 Mountain Home laundry 1953 4 items 21/691-694 Army 1953-1956 167 items 22/695-700 Army 1957-1962 163 items 22/701-713 Corps of Engineers 1953-1962 360 items 22/714 Corps of Engineers, Bruces Eddy Dam 1960-1961 12 items 23/715 Corps of Engineers: Cottonwood Road 1957 5 items 23/716 Corps of Engineers: Council reclamation project 1953-1955 12 items 23/717 Corps of Engineers: Libby Dam 1957 8 items 23/718 Corps of Engineers: Little Salmon flood control 1954-1956 9 items 23/719 Corps of Engineers Little Wood River project 1956 11 items 23/720 Corps of Engineers: Nez Perce Dam 1956-1959 13 items 23/721 Corps of Engineers: Peck, A.B. 1955 8 items 23/722 Corps of Engineers: Salmon River flood control - Dump Creek 1956-1957 10 items 23/723 National Guard 1957-1959 30 items 23/724 National Guard: 96th Division Association 1955-1956 12 items 23/725-730 Commerce, Department of 1953-1962 66 items 23/731 Air Space Committee 1957 8 items 23/732 Area Redevelopment Act 1961-1962 21 items 23/733-737 Bureau of Public Roads 1953-1963 91 items 23/738 Bureau of Public Roads: Federal construction of Highway 287, Petition 1959 4 items 23/739-740 Bureau of Public Roads: Lewis-Clark Highway 1955-1956 25 items 23/741 Bureau of Public Roads: Thompson Pass 1954 6 items 23/742 Bureau of Public Roads: Williams Creek Pass 1954 7 items 23/743-746 Census Bureau 1954-1960 31 items 23/747-751 Civil Aeronautics Administration 1953-1958 38 items 23/752 Patent Office 1954-1958 13 items 23/753 Weather Bureau 1957 3 items 23/754-759 Defense Department 1953-1962 45 items 23/760 Consolidate Pacific coast military shipping overseas at one port 1959 1 item 24/761-763 Executive: Civil and Defense Mobilization Office 1957-1961 16 items 24/764-766 Executive: White House 1953-1962 47 items 24/767-778 Health, Education and Welfare, Department of 1953-1962 311 items 24/779 Cancer 1954 5 items 24/780 Federal grants 1960-1962 78 items 24/781-783 Food and Drug Administration 1953-1959 46 items 24/784 National Institutes of Health 1955 2 items 24/785 Office of Education 1958 9 items 24/786 Polycultural University of America 1953-1955 8 items 24/787-789 Public Health Service 1953-1958 47 items 24/790-793 Social Security Administration 1956-1959 72 items 25/794-796 Social Security Administration 1960-1962 89 items 25/797-799 Surplus property program 1956-1958 78 items 25/800-808 Interior, Department of 1953-1962 188 items 25/809-810 Bonneville Power Administration 1955-1959 14 items 25/811-817 Bureau of Indian Affairs 1953-1959 124 items 26/818-820 Bureau of Indian Affairs 1960-1962 58 items 26/821-832 Bureau of Land Management 1953-1962 257 items 26/834 Bureau of Land Management: Against forest land withdrawal 1959 18 items 26/835 Bureau of Land Management: Bear Valley land withdrawal 1957 3 items 26/836 Bureau of Land Management: Commodity Credit Corporation 1954-1955 3 items 26/837-840 Bureau of Mines 1953-1959 23 items 26/841-846 Bureau of Reclamation 1953-1960 95 items 27/847-848 Bureau of Reclamation 1961-1962 25 items 27/849 Bureau of Reclamation: Avondale-Dalton project 1953-1954 35 items 27/850 Bureau of Reclamation: Guffey plan 1957 3 items 27/851 Bureau of Reclamation: North side Minidoka project 1953 5 items 27/852 Bureau of Reclamation: Rathdrum Prairie project, Hayden Lake unit 1956 1 item 27/853 Bureau of Reclamation: soil conservation 1955-1956 4 items 27/854 Defense Minerals Exploration Administration 1953 9 items 27/855-857 Fish and Wildlife Service 1955-1960 40 items 27/858 Geological Survey 1957-1958 5 items 27/859-861 National Park Service 1955-1962 48 items 27/862 Water Resources 1959 1 item 27/863-868 Justice, Department of 1953-1962 44 items 27/869-873 Immigration and Naturalization Service 1953-1961 55 items 27/874 Immigration and Naturalization Service: Bakony Case 1956-1957 10 items 27/875 Immigration and Naturalization Service: New citizens 1960-1962 13 items 27/876 Onion futures 1959-1960 2 items 27/877-883 Labor, Department of 1953-1962 102 items 27/884-886 Bureau of Employees Compensation 1957-1959 16 items 27/887 Bureau of Employment Security 1957 5 items 27/888-892 Navy, Department of the 1953-1957 66 items 28/893-897 Navy, Department of the 1958-1963 60 items 28/898 Bureau of Naval Personnel 1958 3 items 28/899-900 Marine Corps 1954-1959 7 items 28/901-903 Pocatello Ordinance Plant 1954-1960 138 items 28/904 Sahwave-Black Rock gunnery withdrawal 1957-1958 17 items 28/905 Spokane Naval Supply Depot 1954-1956 41 items 28/906-921 Post Office Department 1954-1961 424 items 29/922 Post Office Department 1962 38 items 29/923 Bowmont 1953-1954 5 items 29/924 Broten 1954 5 items 29/925 Cameron 1955 1 item 29/926 Careywood 1954 7 items 29/927 Chilley 1958 1 item 29/928 Clagstone 1955 1 item 29/929 Clearwater 1954 7 items 29/930 Cocolalla 1954 14 items 29/931 Corral 1953 3 items 29/932 Culdesac: removal of Rohrman 1955 24 items 29/933 Cuprum 1953 12 items 29/934 Driggs 1950-1953 7 items 29/935 Fenn 1954-1957 13 items 29/936 Foster Grave Road (out of Cottonwood) 1954 16 items 29/937 Gibbs 1954-1957 9 items 29/938 Grangeville-Lewiston 1954 1 item 29/939 Granile 1954 5 items 29/940 Greencreek 1954 10 items 29/941 Greenleaf 1953 26 items 29/942 Hayden Lake 1959 11 items 29/943 Headquarters: Petition 1957 9 items 29/944 Hope: bids for Hope post office 1962 8 items 29/945 Juliaetta: Petition 1957 13 items 29/946 Kamiah: railroad from Kamiah to Glenwood 1954 19 items 29/947 Kooskia: Circle route #2 1954 9 items 29/948 Lenore 1959 9 items 29/949 Lucile 1953 4 items 29/950 Meadows 1953 6 items 29/951 Medimont 1954 19 items 29/952 Middleton 1954 6 items 29/953 Mohler 1954 8 items 29/954 Montour 1958 4 items 29/955 Moscow 1953 17 items 29/956 Moscow-Lewiston mail petition 1956-1957 12 items 29/957 Moyie Springs 1955 2 items 29/958 Myrtle 1954 1 item 29/959-963 North Central Idaho mail change 1955 110 items 29/964 Parma 1957 12 items 29/965 Plummer 1955 1 item 29/966 Pollock 1953 6 items 29/967 Potlatch 1953 3 items 29/968 Roswell 1954 6 items 29/969 Spalding 1954 10 items 29/970 Sweetwater 1954-1955 4 items 29/971 Springston 1954 22 items 29/972 Triangle (Twin Falls Route #2) 1953-1955 10 items 29/973 Twin Falls (R.F.D. route) 1954 5 items 29/974 Conversion and discontinuance 1958-1959 6 items 29/975 Notices of examinations 1955 8 items 29/976 Rural carriers 1958 6 items 29/977 Rural route extensions 1959 5 items 29/978 Star route, Sandpoint to Carreywood 1955-1956 2 items 29/979 Tish Erb case 1953 2 items 29/980-989 State Department 1953-1962 209 items 30/990 Refugee relief act 1955-1956 6 items 30/991-992 Visas and passports 1957-1959 8 items 30/993-1000 Treasury Department 1954-1962 62 items 30/1001 Bureau of Customs 1960 3 items 30/1002 Coast Guard 1957 1 item 30/1003-1007 Internal Revenue Service 1953-1959 91 items 30/1008 Unsorted 1953-1962 16 items C. Independent Agency 1953-1962 30/1009 Alcohol Beverage Control Board 1953 4 items 30/1010-1016 Atomic Energy Commission 1953-1962 122 items 30/1017 Budget Director 1959 1 item 30/1018 Central Intelligence Agency 1956 1 item 30/1019-1023 Civil Aeronautics Board 1955-1961 60 items 30/1024-1030 Civil Service Commission 1953-1962 63 items 30/1031 Community Facilities Administration 1962 1 item 30/1032 Development Loan Fund 1959 1 item 30/1033 District of Columbia Commission 1960 1 item 30/1034 Doorkeeper 1954-1959 8 items 30/1035 Employment Service 1961 1 item 30/1036-1037 Federal Aviation Agency 1960-1962 36 items 30/1038-1039 Federal Civil Defense Administration 1955-1958 13 items 30/1040-1044 Federal Communications Commission 1953-1957 53 items 31/1045-1048 Federal Communications Commission 1958-1962 69 items 31/1049 Against licensing TV boosters 1959 13 items 31/1050 Orchards Community TV Association 1955 45 items 31/1051 TV booster stations 1959 14 items 31/1052 TV reception in Lewiston area 1956-1957 30 items 31/1053 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 1955 23 items 31/1054 Federal Home Loan Bank 1962 14 items 31/1055-1058 Federal Housing Administration 1953-1962 40 items 31/1059-1063 Federal Power Commission 1953-1962 66 items 31/1064 Pacific Northwest pipeline 1953-1954 25 items 31/1065 Federal Reserve System 1959 1 item 31/1066-1069 Federal Trade Commission 1953-1962 31 items 31/1070-1071 Foreign Claims Settlement Commission: War claims 1954-1957 61 items 31/1072 Foreign Operations Office 1955 1 item 31/1073 General Accounting Office 1954 1 item 31/1074 Comptroller General 1958-1960 7 items 31/1075-1079 General Services Administration 1953-1962 68 items 31/1080 Mica buying depot 1957 16 items 31/1081 Government Printing Office 1958 4 items 31/1082-1084 Housing and Home Finance Agency 1953-1955 6 items 31/1085 International Cooperation Administration 1958-1961 11 items 31/1086-1091 Interstate Commerce Commission 1953-1962 65 items 31/1092 Local bus service in North Idaho 1961 3 items 31/1093-1094 Library of Congress 1957-1961 51 items 31/1095 Maritime Commission 1953 2 items 31/1096 Mental Health Commission 1957 1 item 32/1097 National Gallery of Art 1957 1 item 32/1098 National Labor Relations Board 1958-1961 2 items 32/1099 National Mediation Board 1958 1 item 32/1100 National Production Administration 1953 2 items 32/1101 National Science Foundation 1956-1958 5 items 32/1102 Peace Corps 1961 2 items 32/1103 President's Council on Youth Fitness 1961 1 item 32/1104 Price Stabilization, Office of 1952 1 item 32/1105-1107 Public Housing Administration 1954-1962 8 items 32/1108 Caldwell Labor Camp 1954 8 items 32/1109 Mullan Park 1953 7 items 32/1110 Railroad Retirement Board 1957-1962 4 items 32/1111 Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1953-1957 7 items 32/1112-1114 Securities and Exchange Commission 1953-1959 25 items 32/1115-1116 Selective Service System 1953-1962 19 items 32/1117-1124 Small Business Administration 1954-1962 163 items 32/1125 Moffett Lumber Company 1960 12 items 32/1126 Smithsonian Institution 1955 1 item 32/1127 Surplus Property Utilization 1960 1 item 32/1128 Tennessee Valley Authority 1955-1959 5 items 32/1129 United States Information Agency 1954-1961 4 items 32/1130-1132 United States Tariff Commission 1955-1960 35 items 32/1133 Alsike clover seed 1959 27 items 32/1134-1141 Veterans Administration 1953-1957 104 items 33/1142-1148 Veterans Administration 1958-1962 145 items 33/1149-1150 Boise Hospital 1955 108 items D. General 1953-1962 33/1151 American Enterprise Association 1959 1 item 33/1152-1155 Applications: General 1954-1961 140 items 33/1156 Applications: Federal Judge 1961 1 item 33/1157 Applications: Chaphe, Franklin G. 1955-1956 15 items 33/1158 Applications: U.S. District Attorney 1961 6 items 33/1159 Applications: U.S. Marshall 1960-1961 23 items 33/1160 Appointments: Idaho State Advisory Committee 1962 1 item 33/1161 Architect of the Capitol 1955 3 items 33/1162 Army-Navy tickets 1959 3 items 33/1163 Calendars 1954-1962 9 items 33/1164 Capitol Hill Pages 1957 1 item 33/1165 Cattlemen's Association resolutions 1957-1959 2 items 33/1166 Clerk of the House 1953-1960 52 items 33/1167-1169 Colleagues 1953-1962 219 items 33/1170-1171 Communism 1954-1962 17 items 33/1172 Condolences and sympathy 1954-1961 38 items 33/1173-1177 Congratulations and greetings 1953-1961 309 items 34/1178 Congressional Directory 1953-1960 32 items 34/1179 Congressional Record 1956-1962 106 items 34/1180 Constituent positions 1959 2 items 34/1181-1183 Constituent services 1953-1958 150 items 34/1184 Contributions from GP 1956-1957 4 items 34/1185 Cuba 1959 3 items 34/1186 Delegations 1956 6 items 34/1187 Democratic Breakfast Club 1953-1955 28 items 34/1188 Democratic Caucus 1954-1955 20 items 34/1189 Democratic National Committee 1956-1959 10 items 34/1190 Democratic Program 1957 3 items 34/1191 Democrats 1962 1 item 34/1192 Employment 1962 1 item 34/1193 Equipment 1952-1958 13 items 34/1194-1197 Folding Room 1953-1962 124 items 34/1198-1209 Form letters and sample letters 1953-1962 808 items 34/1210-1215 Graduation: school lists, certificates, and letters of congratulation 1953-1960 113 items 34/1216 Aged, Medical aid to 1961-1962 13 items 34/1217 Agriculture: farm bill 1961-1962 17 items 34/1218 Alcoholic beverages 1959-1961 28 items 34/1219 Bonneville Power 1961 2 items 34/1220 Burns Creek 1960-1961 24 items 34/1221 Common Situs 1961 1 item 34/1222 Communism 1961-1962 5 items 34/1223 Education, Aid to 1960-1961 40 items 34/1224 Federal Communications Commission 1961 1 item 34/1225 Foreign aid 1960-1961 11 items 34/1226 Gold bill 1961 5 items 34/1227 Highways, Federal 1961 1 item 34/1228 Lead-Zinc 1960-1961 5 items 34/1229 Mail petition 1956 4 items 34/1230 Minimum wage 1960-1961 12 items 34/1231 Nepotism 1961 1 item 34/1232 Piggyback and road taxes 1961 3 items 34/1233 Postal increase 1960-1962 3 items 34/1234 Requests 1961 10 items 34/1235 Service Academies 1961-1962 2 items 34/1236 Small business ballot letters 1957-1960 27 items 34/1237 Social security 1961 2 items 34/1238 Sugar act 1961 1 item 34/1239 Tax on dividends 1962 3 items 34/1240 Veterans 1960-1961 30 items 34/1241 Wheat 1960 10 items 34/1242 Wilderness bill 1961-1962 12 items 34/1243 Wool act 1961 2 items 34/1244 Youth Conservation Corps 1961 4 items 35/1245-1246 General 1959-1963 40 items 35/1247 Idaho Democrat (newspaper) 1961-1962 2 items 35/1248-1263 Idaho State Matters 1954-1961 728 items 36/1264-1270 Idaho State Matters 1961-1962 300 items 36/1271 Against communism, Castro, etc. 1961 60 items 36/1272 Dr. Distler case 1957 11 items 36/1273 Drivers license applications 1955 2 items 36/1274 Federal building for Boise 1961 3 items 36/1275 Game waste 1962 5 items 36/1276 Idaho National Guard 1962 20 items 36/1277 Initiative 1954 63 items 36/1278 Water rights (S.B.113) 1955 7 items 36/1279 Idaho Territorial centennial 1959-1961 20 items 36/1280 Impossible file 1962 53 items 36/1281 Investigations 1954 3 items 36/1282-1290 Invitations 1953-1958 536 items 37/1291-1295 Invitations 1959-1962 232 items 37/1296 "Keep Congress in session" 1961 21 items 37/1297 League of Women Voters 1959 1 item 37/1298 Legislative Reference 1962 3 items 37/1299-1300 Library of Congress 1955-1962 61 items 37/1301 Literature: Brigham Young 1953-1954 4 items 37/1302-1303 Literature: Publications sent to GP 1953-1959 77 items 37/1304 Lower Wood River: Army engineers 1956 2 items 37/1305 Material sent to chiefs of police 1954 5 items 37/1306 Messages received by and sent to GP 1957 12 items 37/1307-1314 Miscellaneous 1954-1962 271 items 37/1315 National Federation of Business and Professional Women 1959 1 item 37/1316 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association 1952 5 items 37/1317 National Rural Letter Carriers' Association 1959 1 item 37/1318 Newsletter correspondence 1960 17 items 37/1319 Nutri-Bio meetings 1959 2 items 37/1320-1322 Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 1958-1962 38 items 37/1323 Patronage 1955-1959 12 items 37/1324-1327 Pending 1961-1962 75 items 37/1328 Petitions 1960-1962 36 items 37/1329 Communism 1954 1 item 37/1330 East Fork Bridge (Valley County) 1956 2 items 37/1331 Paddy Flats Road 1955 2 items 37/1332 Petitions not answered 1961 26 items 38/1333 Post Office Applications: General 1961-1962 16 items 38/1334-1394 Post Office Applications: Alphabetical by town 1960-1962 478 items 38/1395-1296 Postmaster requests (for correction of names) 1954-1955 118 items 38/1397 Power of Supreme Court 1969 1 item 38/1398 Priest Lake land leases 1962 1 item 38/1399 Prisoners of war 1956 2 items 38/1400 Projects file 1961 3 items 38/1401 Public Power Committee 1955 6 items 38/1402 Publications, miscellaneous 1955-1957 18 items 38/1403 Receipts 1954 2 items 38/1404-1405 Recommendations 1953-1959 17 items 38/1406 Referrals 1961 12 items 38/1407-1409 Requests 1960 236 items 39/1410-1412 Agricultural Yearbooks 1953-1960 254 items 39/1413 Baby books 1954-1959 8 items 39/1414 The Capitol 1960 6 items 39/1415 City officials 1953 14 items 39/1416 Cookbooks 1954 10 items 39/1417 Congressional Record 1955 44 items 39/1418-1419 From Gracie Pfost 1953-1959 64 items 39/1420 Library of Congress 1953-1954 27 items 39/1421 Our laws and how they are made 1955 15 items 39/1422 Photographs and autographs 1954-1959 15 items 39/1423-1425 Students 1960-1961 107 items 39/1426 Our American Government; American creed 1961 81 items 39/1427 To Gracie Pfost 1953-1961 65 items 39/1428 Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee 1957 1 item 39/1429 Sergeant at Arms 1953-1957 13 items 39/1430 Service Academies: Forms undated 7 items 39/1431-1443 Service Academies: General 1953-1962 266 items 39/1444 Service Academies: General, not first district 1962 6 items 39/1445 Air Force Academy 1953-1959 22 items 39/1446-1452 Annapolis (Naval Academy) 1953-1959 84 items 39/1453 Merchant Marine Academy 1956 8 items 39/1454-1457 West Point (Military Academy) 1953-1958 70 items 40/1458 Small business ballots: General information 1953-1955 9 items 40/1459-1466 Small business ballots: Individual returns 1953-1961 48 items 40/1467-1470 Small business ballots: Tabulations 1953-1962 197 items 40/1471 Small business letter: list of those receiving 1958-1960 3 items 40/1472 Stamps 1953-1956 19 items 40/1473 Subsidies 1954 2 items 40/1474 Supreme court 1962 1 item 40/1475-1480 Telegrams 1955-1961 1014 items 40/1481 Television 1958-1959 17 items 40/1482 Tennessee Valley Public Power Association 1957-1960 3 items 40/1483-1486 Thank you letters 1953-1956 348 items 41/1487-1491 Thank you letters 1957-1962 369 items 41/1492 Tickets: Football 1954-1956 10 items 41/1493 Townsend plan, Payette petition 1955-1957 10 items 41/1494 Treaties 1954 3 items 41/1495 Unanswered mail 1962 63 items 41/1496 United Nations 1953-1962 14 items 41/1497 Unsorted mail 1959-1961 49 items 41/1498 Visitors 1958 1 item E. Personal and Other 1950-1962 41/1499-1511 Personal 1952-1962 640 items 41/1512-1516 Personal, A-E 1953-1958 218 items 42/1517-1531 Personal, F-Z 1953-1958 646 items 42/1532-1550 Personal, A-Z 1959-1962 209 items 42/1551 Birthday wishes 1961 3 items 42/1552 Crackpot 1953-1962 12 items 42/1553 Christmas cards 1954-1956 9 items 42/1554 Family 1952-1956 60 items 42/1555 From government offices 1958-1962 16 items 42/1556 Minerals 1952-1956 7 items 42/1557 Pfost, Jack 1955-1956 6 items 42/1558 Illness 1955 15 items 42/1559 Get well cards and letters 1955-1956 56 items 42/1560 Patent material 1960 9 items 42/1561-1563 Sourdough 1953-1962 167 items 43/1564 Thank you letters 1962 2 items 43/1565 Thanks from Cub Scouts 1959 10 items 43/1566-1575 Wilson, Asher B. 1953-1960 497 items 43/1576-1596 Political correspondence 1950-1956 762 items 44/1597-1606 Political correspondence 1956-1960 410 items 44/1607 Democratic National Committee 1950-1952 37 items 44/1608 Hedges and Pledges 1953 187 items 44/1609-1613 Publicity 1953-1958 198 items 44/1614-1615 Sent to Nampa 1953-1954 81 items 44/1616-1618 Unanswered 1960-1961 97 items 44/1619-1622 Unsorted 1957-1962 136 items Series II. Legislative 1952-1962 A. Gracie Pfost's Contributions 1953-1962 44/1623-1628 Statements to Committees 1953-1958 106 items 45/1629-1632 Statements to Committees 1959-1962 34 items 45/1633-1642 Congressional Record inserts 1953-1962 218 items 45/1643-1652 Floor statements 1953-1962 124 items 45/1653 Bills introduced by GP, 83rd Congress 1953-1954 20 items 45/1654 H.R.4707, Lee Yim Quon relief 1953-1954 23 items 45/1655 H.R.5704, Mining assessment change of date 1953-1955 36 items 45/1656 H.R.6156 & H.R.6912, Gold bills 1953-1954 6 items 45/1657 H.R.6543, To create a United States Department of Mineral Resources 1953-1955 5 items 45/1658 H.R.6654, Mine incentive payment 1953-1954 28 items 45/1659 H.R.7031, Mrs. George Meffan relief 1953-1954 33 items 45/1660 H.R.8007, Price supports--milk 1954 3 items 45/1661 H.R.8558, Price supports--dairy products 1954 5 items 45/1662 H.Con.Res.212, Indians 1954 11 items 45/1663 H.J.Res.482, Investigation of gold mining industry 1954 8 items 45/1664 Bills introduced by GP, 84th Congress 1955-1956 35 items 45/1665 H.R.1331, Luigi Tozzi 1953-1955 22 items 45/1666 H.R.2423, Sandpoint sewage disposal plant 1955-1956 20 items 45/1667 H.R.4690, Relief for the city of Priest River 1955 35 items 45/1668 H.R.4719, To authorize construction of Hells Canyon Dam 1955 4 items 45/1669 H.R.5261, To amend domestic minerals program extension act of 1953 1955 10 items 45/1670 H.R.5411, To amend the sugar act 1955 7 items 45/1671 H.R.5904, Postal pay raise 1955 3 items 45/1672 H.R.8068, Relief of Elma Agnes Gibson Hollingsworth 1955 25 items 45/1673 H.R.9916, Free marketing of newly mined gold 1956 14 items 45/1674 H.R.9918, Riverside Irrigation District 1955-1956 18 items 45/1675 H.R.9999, Strategic minerals bill 1956 3 items 45/1676 H.R.10257, H.R.10316, & H.R.10317, Amend organic act of Virgin Islands 1956 5 items 45/1677 H.R.10346, Hayden Lake unit Rathdrum Prairie 1956 18 items 45/1678 H.R.10347, Domestic antimony purchase program act 1956 4 items 45/1679 H.R.11381, Cascade Reservoir, sale of certain lands for community development, Boise Federal Reclamation Project 1956 5 items 45/1680 H.R.11604, H.R.11632, & H.R. 11894, Tungsten, asbestos, fluorspar, and columbium-tantalum production and purchase act 1956 18 items 45/1681 H.R.12437, Amend federal power act 1956 2 items 45/1682 H.J.Res.545, Lewis and Clark national tourway 1956 5 items 45/1683 H.J.Res.578, Investigation of gold mining industry 1956 3 items 45/1684 Bills introduced by GP, 85th Congress 1957-1958 32 items 45/1685 H.R.5, Hells Canyon 1957 2 items 45/1686 H.R.375, Free marketing of gold 1957-1958 47 items 45/1687-1689 H.R.376, Onion futures 1957-1958 191 items 46/1690 H.J.Res.74, Investigate gold mining industry 1957 3 items 46/1691-1693 H.R.607, Retirement increases 1957-1958 70 items 46/1694-1696 H.R.1209, Retirement increases 1957-1958 248 items 46/1697 H.R.3682, Palisades 1958-1959 7 items 46/1698 H.R.3860, 5,000 acre limit on public land withdrawals 1957 5 items 46/1699 H.R.3955, Indian tribal lands 1957 10 items 46/1700 H.R.4616, Authorize funds for roads under Federal Highway Act 1957 11 items 46/1701 H.R.4819, National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 1958 6 items 46/1702 H.R.6512, To prohibit exportation of national forest timber 1957 13 items 46/1703 H.R.8307, Import taxes on lead and zinc 1957 12 items 46/1704 H.R.9323, To prohibit government agencies from acquiring or using national grange headquarters 1957-1958 25 items 46/1705 H.R.9696, To support the price of milk 1958 50 items 46/1706 H.R.9973, To extend the National Wool Act of 1954 1958 40 items 46/1707 H.R.10086, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 1958 4 items 46/1708 H.R.10245, To add certain lands to Boise and Payette National Forests 1958 6 items 46/1709 H.R.10285, Federal Aid Highway Act 1957-1958 6 items 46/1710 H.R.10384, Withdrawal of public lands 1956 5 items 46/1711 H.R.13228, Mineral production stabilization 1958 37 items 46/1712 Bills introduced by GP, 86th Congress 1959-1960 53 items 46/1713 H.R.2497, Add lands to Boise and Payette National Forests 1959 5 items 46/1714 H.R.3057, Free marketing of newly mined gold 1959 3 items 46/1715 H.R.3192, Amend REA reorganization plan number 2 of 1953 1959 7 items 46/1716 H.R.3349, Price support for milk and butterfat products 1959 5 items 46/1717 H.R.3395, To direct the Secretary of the Interior to administer certain acquired lands 1959 2 items 46/1718 H.R.3496, To revise the boundaries of the Kings' Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina 1959 2 items 46/1719 H.R.3682, Caribou and Targhee National Forests 1959 5 items 46/1720 H.R.3743, Rural television reception--Community Television Bureau/FCC 1959 5 items 46/1721 HR.3744, Youth Conservation Corps 1959 8 items 46/1722 H.R.3915, Domestic Cobalt industry 1959 4 items 46/1723 H.R.4604, Withdrawal public lands/water rights 1959 3 items 46/1724 H.R.6110, Amend flood control act of 1950 re: Libby Dam 1959 2 items 46/1725 H.R.6259, Stabilize domestic market prices, lead-zinc 1959 2 items 46/1726 H.R.6926, Transmission of electric power 1959 3 items 46/1727 H.R.7339, Authorize use of funds arising from a judgment in favor of the Coeur d'Alene tribe 1959 3 items 46/1728 H.R.7956, Nez Perce reservation 1959 1 item 46/1729 H.R.8234, Federal land to Nez Perce Indian tribe 1959 5 items 46/1730 H.R.9288, Mann Creek federal reclamation project 1959 2 items 46/1731 H.R.9366, Milk program for children 1960 11 items 46/1732 H.Con.Res.180, Domestic mining and mineral industries 1959 13 items 46/1733 H.J.Res.635, Senior Citizens Month 1960 5 items 46/1734 H.R.3683, Pacific Northwest Account 1960 2 items 46/1735 H.R.3915, Domestic cobalt industry 1960 2 items 46/1736 H.R.10364, Family farm income act 1960 3 items 46/7137 H.R.10824, Appropriation of funds for Federal Highway Act 1960 36 items 46/1738 H.R.11786, Import taxes on lead and zinc 1960 2 items 46/1739 Bills introduced by GP, 87th Congress 1961-1962 35 items 46/1740 H.R.36, Burns Creek 1961 1 item 46/1741 H.R.3898, To authorize funds arising from a judgment for the Nez Perce tribe 1961 2 items 46/1742 H.J.Res.364, Equal rights 1961 11 items 46/1743 H.R.11265, Northwest preference (electric consumers) 1962 6 items 46/1744 H.R.11699, Forest roads and trails 1962 6 items 46/1745 H.R.12475, Lumber problems 1962 15 items B. Committee Files 1953-1962 47/1746 List of standing committees of the House 1956-1961 2 items 47/1747 Regulations for standing, special and select committees 1960 1 item 47/1748 Government Operations Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources 1954-1956 6 items 47/1749-1753 Interior and Insular Affairs Committee 1953-1962 78 items 47/1754-1757 Bills, resumes, notices 1953-1962 85 items 47/1758 Committee press releases 1960-1961 6 items 47/1759 Committee members 1953-1956 2 items 47/1760 Alaska 1955 13 items 47/1761 Arrowrock Division, Boise project 1956 10 items 47/1762 Bent's Old Fort (H.R.6851) 1959-1960 5 items 47/1763 Black Canyon irrigation project 1954 18 items 47/1764 Bureau of Reclamation background data 1953 1 item 47/1765 Castillo de San Marcos national monument (H.R.8226) 1959-1960 4 items 47/1766 Columbia Basin Act (H.R.4802) 1956-1957 4 items 47/1767 Echo Park Dam 1954-1955 38 items 47/1768 Frying Pan-Arkansas project 1953-1956 9 items 47/1769-1770 Hells Canyon Proxies 1953-1958 72 items 47/1771 Ionics (desalting water) 1953 6 items 47/1772 Michaud Flats project 1954-1956 7 items 47/1773-1774 Montana earthquake 1959 32 items 47/1775 Mountain Home irrigation project 1953 1 item 47/1776 Pleasant Valley dam 1955-1956 6 items 47/1777 Public power 1954-1956 7 items 47/1778 Puerto Rico 1959 22 items 47/1779 Spokane Valley irrigation 1961 15 items 47/1780 Territories 1955-1956 49 items 47/1781 Trips 1953-1962 25 items 47/1782-1784 Upper Colorado River Basin Project 1953-1956 35 items 47/1785 Virgin Islands 1955-1959 20 items 47/1786 Water rights settlement act 1956 12 items 48/1787 Irrigation and Reclamation Subcommittee 1956-1957 15 items 48/1788 Columbia Basin Account 1959-1960 20 items 48/1789 Burns Creek 1961-1962 4 items 48/1790 Public power 1962 34 items 48/1791 Water rights 1959 6 items 48/1792 Mines and Mining Subcommittee 1957 2 items 48/1793-1794 Cobalt 1959 38 items 48/1795 Gold 1961 22 items 48/1796 Lead-Zinc 1959-1961 6 items 48/1797-1801 Public Lands Subcommittee 1953-1962 155 items 48/1802 Bills referred 1957 16 items 48/1803-1804 C & O Canal national historic park 1959 56 items 48/1805 Payment in lieu of taxes 1955-1956 8 items 48/1806 Squatter problem, Colorado River 1959 2 items 48/1807 St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia 1956 30 items 48/1808 Wilderness 1961-1962 36 items 48/1809 Western Trip 1959 29 items 48/1810 Post Office and Civil Service Committee 1955-1960 30 items 48/1811 Hearings and Reports 1954-1957 20 items 48/1812 Mrs. Pfost's report on S.3315 (amendment to Civil Service Retirement Act) 1956 4 items 48/1813-1815 Manpower Utilization Subcommittee 1955-1957 53 items 48/1816 Reports 1956-1958 4 items 48/1817 Retirement Subcommittee 1957 3 items 48/1818 Public Works Committee 1958-1959 21 items 48/1819 Special Committee to investigate tax exempt foundations 1953-1954 47 items C. Subject 1952-1962 48/1820 Agriculture 1954-1960 27 items 48/1821 Albeni Falls 1955-1958 4 items 48/1822 Al Serena case 1956 8 items 48/1823 Atomic energy 1954 4 items 48/1824 Avondale & Dalton irrigation districts 1961 19 items 49/1825-1826 Bonneville Power Administration 1953-1961 11 items 49/1827-1829 Bruces Eddy Dam 1954-1958 86 items 49/1830 Burns Creek 1956-1962 10 items 49/1831 C & O Canal 1957-1958 30 items 49/1832 Colorado River transmission lines 1962 3 items 49/1833 Columbia basin 1957-1961 4 items 49/1834 Committee for an effective congress 1954-1956 7 items 49/1835 Conservation of migratory fish 1959 6 items 49/1836 Council project 1953 4 items 49/1837 Dams 1954-1957 16 items 49/1838 Education 1960 3 items 49/1839 Emergency lead-zinc committee 1962 3 items 49/1840 Equal pay 1962 6 items 49/1841 Equal rights amendment 1953-1961 40 items 49/1842 Everglades national park 1957-1958 14 items 49/1843 Export origin study, Idaho 1962 2 items 49/1844 Family farm program 1957-1960 10 items 49/1845 Farm subsidy 1953-1956 15 items 49/1846 Federal grants in aid, Washington and Oregon 1954 4 items 49/1847 Federal range code, Helmick case 1955 2 items 49/1848 Feed grain and livestock data 1962 5 items 49/1849 Flood control 1958-1962 3 items 49/1850 Food certificate amendment 1956 7 items 49/1851 Food stamp bill 1958 6 items 49/1852 Foreign aid 1959 4 items 49/1853 Forest access roads 1958 3 items 49/1854 Forests (map) 1953 1 item 49/1855 Gas; natural gas bill 1955 2 items 49/1856 German bond 1953 7 items 49/1857-1858 Gore Access roads, Lewis-Clark highway 1957 33 items 49/1859 Government subsidies 1954-1957 3 items 49/1860 Guam 1961 1 item 49/1861 Guffey Dam 1955-1960 6 items 49/1862-1869 Hells Canyon, General 1952-1958 134 items 49/1870 Brochures 1953-1958 17 items 49/1871-1873 Brownlee Dam 1956-1958 18 items 49/1874-1876 Congressional Record inserts 1952-1957 28 items 49/1877-1879 Correspondence 1951-1954 44 items 50/1880-1883 Correspondence 1955-1958 89 items 50/1884 Correspondence: Interior and Insular Affairs Committee 1955-1958 6 items 50/1885 Correspondence: Lee Metcalf letters 1953 13 items 50/1886 Correspondence: Voice of the people responses 1953 14 items 50/1887 Data and maps 1952-1955 16 items 50/1888-1889 Department of Interior material 1948-1957 25 items 50/1890 Federal Power Commission material 1953-1954 19 items 50/1891 Hearings Weekly Roundup 1954 8 items 50/1892 Hells Canyon Association 1951-1958 29 items 50/1893 Idaho Power Company 1953-1958 28 items 50/1894-1896 Legal opinions and briefs 1953-1957 28 items 50/1897-1905 Newspaper clippings 1951-1960 328 items 50/1906 Pacific supply cooperative material 1952 2 items 50/1907 Photographs 1956 21 items 50/1908 Publication: "The development of the Snake River projects" 1955 1 item 50/1909 Publications about Hells Canyon 1953-1957 4 items 50/1910-1911 San Francisco REA meeting, material for 1953 67 items 51/1912-1923 Speeches, statements, testimony, etc. 1952-1958 204 items 51/1924 Washington Post editorials 1953 4 items 51/1925 Hells Canyon Scenic Area 1962 1 item 51/1926 Highway statistics (Haynes & Hartzler) 1955 8 items 51/1927 Hillcrest/Minidoka 1953-1956 8 items 51/1928 Hoover Report 1955 5 items 51/1929 Housing 1959 1 item 51/1930 Ice Harbor dam 1953 1 item 51/1931 Idaho farm statistics 1961 2 items 51/1932-1933 Initiative (Idaho Power) 1953-1954 91 items 51/1934 Irrigation: Jensen proposal 1953 5 items 51/1935 Irrigation: Leadore, Idaho 1961 1 item 51/1936-1943 Lead-zinc 1953-1962 87 items 51/1944 Lake Coeur d'Alene 1958 7 items 51/1945 Lewis and Clark Highway 1955-1958 10 items 51/1946 Liquor on aircraft 1959-1960 3 items 51/1947 Little Wood River, Idaho 1955-1956 2 items 51/1948 Lucky Peak photographs 1953 2 items 51/1949 Lumber 1962 6 items 51/1950 Mann Creek federal reclamation project 1959-1962 47 items 51/1951 Mentally retarded 1957 13 items 52/1952 Mexican migrant workers 1953 3 items 52/1953 Michaud Flats: Budge plan 1953 5 items 52/1954 Middle Snake River, feasible storage sites 1951 2 items 52/1955 Mine assessment bill 1958 2 items 52/1956-1958 Mining 1953-1959 59 items 52/1959 Mountain Sheep dam 1958-1962 19 items 52/1960 Mountain Sheep reclamation project 1953-1955 8 items 52/1961 National cemeteries 1955-1957 4 items 52/1962 National forests 1959 1 item 52/1963 National parks 1956-1957 7 items 52/1964 Nez Perce Dam 1960 3 items 52/1965 Oil 1957 3 items 52/1966 Omnibus public works bill 1962 1 item 52/1967 Onion and carrot research 1961 3 items 52/1968 Onion futures 1957-1958 21 items 52/1969 Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 1958 7 items 52/1970 Pensions 1953 12 items 52/1971 Phosphate 1956 7 items 52/1972 Pleasant Valley 1958 1 item 52/1973 Potato marketing 1956 1 item 52/1974 Power plants undated 2 items 52/1975 President's budget 1959 7 items 52/1976 Public housing undated 1 item 52/1977 Public land transfers 1954 4 items 52/1978-1983 Public power 1953-1962 51 items 52/1984 Public power: Columbia river 1960 3 items 52/1985 Reclamation 1953 4 items 52/1986 Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1953 1 item 52/1987 Redevelopment 1961 22 items 52/1988 Relief of Asae Nishimoto (S.1034 introduced by Frank Church) 1959 4 items 52/1989-1990 Retirement 1957-1958 20 items 52/1991 Rural areas development 1961 16 items 52/1992-1993 Rural Electric Cooperative Association 1954-1958 7 items 52/1994 Salmon flood control project 1953 1 item 52/1995 School construction 1953-1956 8 items 52/1996 School lunch and milk program 1961 5 items 52/1997 Selway-Bitterroot wilderness 1961 2 items 52/1998 Silver 1953 1 item 52/1999 Small business 1958-1959 4 items 52/2000 Small Business Administration 1961-1962 4 items 52/2001 Snake River, Upper and Middle reports 1955 5 items 52/2002 Snake River dams 1960-1961 7 items 52/2003 Social Security 1957-1958 4 items 52/2004 Soil Conservation 1954-1961 8 items 52/2005 Subsidy 1954-1958 6 items 52/2006 Surplus property 1955-1960 6 items 52/2007 Taxes 1952-1953 2 items 52/2008 Tennessee Valley Authority 1957-1958 4 items 52/2009 Tennessee Valley Authority: self financing 1959 3 items 52/2010 Tidelands oil 1952-1955 13 items 52/2011 Timber 1961 1 item 52/2012 Trade expansion 1962 5 items 52/2013 Transmission lines 1953 10 items 52/2014 United Nations 1954 3 items 52/2015 Veterans 1962 2 items 52/2016 Virgin Islands 1957-1958 2 items 52/2017-2019 Water resources 1954-1960 29 items 52/2020 Water rights 1959 2 items 52/2021 Withdrawals of Idaho lands 1962 12 items 52/2011 Wool: National wool act 1958 1 item 52/2023 Yellowtail dam 1956 5 items D. Other 1952-1962 52/2024 Departmental news releases: Agriculture 1953-1962 8 items 52/2025 Air Force 1962 2 items 52/2026 Army Corps of Engineers 1962 9 items 52/2027 Defense 1962 2 items 52/2028 Health, Education and Welfare 1962 1 item 53/2029 Idaho Bureau of Reclamation 1953 14 items 53/2030-2031 Interior 1960-1962 35 items 53/2032 Congressional Record, roll calls 1953 32 items 53/2033 Consent Calendar, August 6 1961 1 item 53/2034 House of Representatives membership and information 1953-1956 17 items 53/2035 House rules and manual 1952 1 item 53/2036 Major accomplishments of the session 1961 1 item 53/2037-2038 GP's typed and manuscript notes 1953 11 items 53/2039 Reports to be made to Congress 1960 1 item 53/2040 Trips 1953-1955 24 items 53/2041 Voting record: Official 1953-1962 5 items 53/2042 Prepared by Democratic National Committee 1953-1961 2 items 53/2043 Prepared by Republican National Committee 1953-1957 5 items 53/2044 Prepared by special interest groups 1954-1961 11 items 53/2045 Whip notices 1960 7 items 53/2046 Women members of Congress 1954 2 items Series III. Administrative 1953-1962 53/2047 Applications, work Records, salaries 1960-1962 3 items 53/2048-2049 Appointment calendars 1956-1960 9 items 53/2050 Books on loan from Library of Congress 1962 1 item 53/2051-2052 Correspondence 1953-1962 99 items 53/2053 Correspondence re: Virginia Rishel as administrative assistant 1952 1 item 53/2054 Letterhead undated 2 items 53/2055 Idaho projects--money reported by White House 1962 28 items 53/2056 Lists to be carded 1954-1958 12 items 53/2057 Lists which have been carded 1957 1 item 53/2058 American Legion 1958-1959 2 items 53/2059 Congressional Record distribution list 1960 1 item 53/2060 Democratic Digest subscribers 1956 2 items 53/2061 Farm related organizations 1953-1959 6 items 53/2062 Idaho (various lists) 1956-1957 13 items 53/2063 Idaho County Light and Power membership undated 1 item 53/2064 Irrigation districts, Officers 1956-1958 3 items 53/2065 Kootenai County voting list 1959 1 item 53/2066 Mailing lists 1955-1956 12 items 53/2067 Newspapers in Idaho 1954-1959 17 items 53/2068 Physicians in Idaho undated 2 items 53/2069 Political lists 1954 5 items 53/2070 Postmasters and Post offices 1961 2 items 53/2071 Specialized mailing list 1957 1 item 53/2072 Soil conservation managers 1961-1962 2 items 53/2073 Union officers (Idaho locals) undated 1 item 53/2074 Veterans Organizations 1955-1957 31 items 54/2075 Log of letters sent from D.C. 1957 1 item 54/2076-2088 Office memos 1953-1962 693 items 54/2089 Office Procedures 1955-1960 57 items 54/2090 People who called office 1957-1962 35 items 54/2091 Phone messages 1953 35 items 54/2092 "Pinks" hold for GP 1959 19 items 54/2093 Post Offices 1956-1958 4 items 54/2094 City delivery data 1953 19 items 54/2095 Delivery statistics 1950-1961 16 items 54/2096 Box holder material 1952-1954 8 items 54/2097 Records Management Handbook: Plain letters 1955 1 item 54/2098 Samples of mailings 1954-1958 22 items 54/2099 Telegrams and telephone list 1953 60 items 54/2100 Telephone, telegraph, and stationery accounts 1958 4 items Series IV. Public Relations 1953-1962 54/2101 Articles by Gracie Pfost 1955-1960 10 items 54/2102 Business and Professional Women, Lewiston 1958 7 items 54/2103 Business and Professional Women, Birmingham, Alabama 1959 13 items 54/2104 Congresswoman Knutson 1953 1 item 54/2105 Craters of the Moon 1953 1 item 54/2106 Democratic State Convention 1958 1 item 54/2107 Editorials for Idaho Statesman 1956 2 items 54/2108 House recording studios 1961 2 items 54/2109 Indian conference 1954 3 items 54/2110 Jackson club of Oregon 1953 4 items 54/2111 New Plymouth Grange meeting 1958 4 items 54/2112 News release list 1953 1 item 54/2113 Newsletters, General 1959 2 items 54/2114-2116 Newsletters 1960-1962 7 items 54/2117-2126 Newspaper clippings 1953-1962 270 items 54/2127 Patten scandal 1954 11 items 54/2128-2134 Press releases 1953-1959 277 items 55/2135-2137 Press releases 1960-1962 301 items 55/2138-2157 Speeches and statements 1949-1959 443 items 56/2158-2160 Speeches and statements 1960-1962 37 items 56/2161 Speech: "The dollar is a lady" 1948 7 items 56/2162-2163 United Nations and other speech material 1952 59 items 56/2164 Credit union speech in Caldwell 1953 2 items 56/2165 Rural Electric Cooperative Association speech 1954 6 items 56/2166 Wheat speech 1960 2 items 56/2167 TV appearances 1953 1 item 56/2168 Washington Post article on Hells Canyon 1953 2 items 56/2169-2174 Audio tapes of radio talks 1956 12 items Series V. Campaign and other material 1950-1962 56/2175 Altar of the Nation, war dead memorial undated 1 item 56/2176 Army engineers bids 1959-1960 46 items 56/2177 Biography: Correspondence requesting 1952 5 items 56/2178 Background sketches 1950-1957 14 items 56/2179 Brief sketches 1951-1958 25 items 56/2180 Newspaper clippings 1952-1958 3 items 56/2181 Publications 1953-1960 10 items 56/2182 Borah on public power ca. 1957 5 items 56/2183 Budge, Hammer 1953-1958 9 items 56/2184 Bureau of Reclamation projects in Idaho 1953-1954 1 item 56/2185 Bureau of Reclamation photographs ca. 1951 27 items 56/2186 Business and Professional Women's Club 1951-1957 30 items 56/2187 Campaign: Democratic advertising undated 4 items 56/2188 Campaign: Gracie Pfost letterhead undated 2 items 56/2189 Campaign 1950 25 items 56/2190 Speeches 1950 21 items 56/2191 Mats and printing plates 1950 9 items 56/2192 Campaign: Announcements, advertising 1952 13 items 56/2193 Correspondence 1952 60 items 56/2194-2195 Newspaper clippings 1952 101 items 56/2196 Primary and general election results 1952 12 items 56/2197 Primary opponents 1952 21 items 56/2198-2199 Radio addresses, speeches, news releases 1952 59 items 56/2200-2204 Wood, John T., files on 1952 191 items 57/2205 Campaign 1954 2 items 57/2206 Advertisements 1954 12 items 57/2207 Democratic National Committee 1954 4 items 57/2208 Election results 1954 18 items 57/2209 Other candidates 1954 11 items 57/2210 Petitions 1954 49 items 57/2211 Political lists 1954 10 items 57/2212 Campaign: Advertisements, announcements 1956 53 items 57/2213 Democratic National Committee material 1956 19 items 57/2214 Election results 1956 2 items 57/2215 Itinerary, talks, etc. 1956 19 items 57/2216 Radio talks 1956 8 items 57/2217 Shadduck, Louise 1956 20 items 57/2218 Other candidates 1956 11 items 57/2219 Petitions 1956 35 items 57/2220 Campaign: Election results 1958 1 item 57/2221 Petitions 1958 60 items 57/2222 Political endorsements 1958 11 items 57/2223 Speeches 1958 23 items 57/2224 Campaign: Advertising 1960 17 items 57/2225-2226 Correspondence 1960 79 items 57/2227 Democratic National Committee 1960 10 items 57/2228 Itineraries and speech material 1960 12 items 57/2229 Newspaper clippings 1960 13 items 57/2230-2236 Petitions 1960 46 items 57/2237 Sample ballots and election results 1960 21 items 57/2238-2239 Campaign 1962 58 items 57/2240 Canyon County statistics--FHA Black Canyon undated 1 item 57/2241-2243 Church, Frank 1957-1962 111 items 57/2244 Congressional Handbook and lists 1961 4 items 57/2245 Congressional Hotel, rent invoices 1958 9 items 57/2246 Democratic Digest "Facts to file" 1959 6 items 57/2247 Democratic lists 1949-1954 3 items 57/2248 Democratic party platforms; National 1932-1960 5 items 57/2249 Democratic party platforms; Idaho 1954-1960 2 items 57/2250-2251 Democratic National Committee 1955-1962 26 items 57/2252 Democratic National Committee, Natural Resources Advisory Committee 1956 3 items 58/2253 Democratic National Congressional Committee 1954 1 item 58/2254-2255 Democratic National Convention 1956-1960 13 items 58/2256-2259 Democratic Study Group fact sheet updates 1961-1962 171 items 58/2260 Diets undated 4 items 58/2261 Dinners, receptions, etc. 1952-1961 15 items 58/2262 Dworshak, Henry 1962 2 items 58/2263 Early reclamation in Idaho undated 1 item 58/2264 Equal rights 1955 3 items 58/2265 Farm information 1958 5 items 58/2266 Feed grain 1962 1 item 58/2267 Fishing 1953 5 items 58/2268 Flood in Boise, Idaho; Forest Service Report 1959 1 item 58/2269 Forests 1953-1958 8 items 58/2270 Garden City undated 1 item 58/2271 Gold; Fort Knox statistics 1959 2 items 58/2272 Harding, Ralph 1961-1962 30 items 58/2273 Highways, Interstate routing in Idaho 1960 1 item 58/2274 Idaho 1952-1955 10 items 58/2275 Idaho Democratic Central Committee 1961 5 items 58/2276 Idaho State Society in Washington, D.C. 1952-1960 8 items 58/2277 Idaho wilderness 1960-1962 9 items 58/2278 Inaugural information and invitations 1953-1957 30 items 58/2279 Interparliamentary union 1961 10 items 58/2280 Itinerary 1961 1 item 58/2281 Kennedy, John F., messages 1962 4 items 58/2282 Kennedy-Johnson Natural Resources Advisory Committee 1961 5 items 58/2283 Law and order, Nez Perce Indian hunting treaty rights 1955 1 item 58/2284 Lewiston, Idaho 1952 1 item 58/2285 List of percentage depletion rates for minerals 1959 1 item 58/2286 McKay, Douglas 1953 24 items 58/2287 Miscellaneous 1953-1961 20 items 58/2288 Miscellaneous manuscript notes undated 19 items 58/2289 Miss Washington contest 1959 1 item 58/2290 Mountain Home Air Force Base 1962 1 item 58/2291 Nampa, Idaho 1961 1 item 58/2292 National Guard, Idaho 1953 3 items 58/2293 National Park Service 1957 3 items 58/2294 New York Tour 1953 8 items 58/2295 Newspaper clippings on various topics 1953-1956 33 items 58/2296 North Idaho 1962 7 items 58/2297 Palisades project 1955 1 item 58/2298 Peas: problems and background 1961 2 items 58/2299 Penny Cliffs Dam; Fish and Game photographs 1954 16 items 58/2300 Pfost, Jack: Death 1961 4 items 58/2301 Photographs of Gracie Pfost 1950 4 items 58/2302 Property tax 1961 1 item 58/2303 Publications on U.S. history and government 1952-1961 10 items 58/2304 Publications about Washington, D.C. 1953-1961 17 items 58/2305 Rayburn, Sam: Testimonial 1955 1 item 58/2306 Recipes undated 4 items 58/2307 Roosevelt, Theodore undated 3 items 58/2308 Saund, D.S. "Judge" 1961-1962 2 items 58/2309 Schweibert, Erwin 1955 5 items 58/2310 Soroptimist Club 1945-1949 26 items 58/2311 "The Spirit of America" 1955 1 item 58/2312 Steelworkers strike 1959 4 items 58/2313 Sugar beets 1957 4 items 58/2314 Taylor, Glen 1949-1956 9 items 58/2315 Taxes 1952-1953 6 items 58/2316 United Nations 1953-1957 7 items 58/2317 Visitor passes 1953-1962 3 items 58/2318 Wallace, Idaho 1958 10 items 58/2319 Welker, Herman 1953-1954 30 items 58/2320 White, Compton I. 1954 1 item 58/2321 Wilson, Asher B. 1946-1960 2 items 58/2322 Wood, John T.: Legislation file 1951-1953 5 items 59/2323-2324 Alphabetical list of Democrats in Idaho by county: Adams-Boundary 2475 60/2325-2326 Canyon-Idaho 2850 61/2327-2329 Kootenai-Washington 3975