Box 51

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Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including livestock, the creation of a game refuge in Francis Marion National Forest, the Soil Conservation Service, cotton, the management of state lands, the Plant Quarantine Act, and appropriations for the development and operation of state parks. Correspondents include Dr. R. F. Poole (President of the Clemson Agricultural College) and James G. Patton (President of the National Farmers Union).

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Correspondence concerning appropriations for a federally assisted meal program to provide low-cost or free lunches to school children. Though the program began long before, President Truman officially signed the National School Lunch Act in 1946. Senator Maybank was one of the primary sponsors of the program.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning airport and aviation legislation including funding for the Army Air Reserve Unit at the Columbia Army Air Base, the inclusion of enlisted pilots for full pilot status, and government control of the control tower in Charleston, South Carolina. Also included is a report to require federal departments and agencies to operate through duly-constituted state aviation agencies and a report from Allen M. Shinn, Commander of the United States Navy Carrier Air Groups in...

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Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 265) to prohibit interstate transportation of advertisements of alcoholic beverages by newspapers, radio, television, film, periodical, or other means.

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Correspondence concerning reductions in appropriations for the Agriculture and Forestry Department including forest products research, Farmers Home Administration, Division of Insect Identification of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, the Soil Conservation Service, and forest surveys.