Box 61

A letter requesting support for Hawaii's statehood. Hawaii eventually obtained statehood in 1959.

A letter containing a copy of Surplus Property Subcommittee Print No. 14 which contains a staff report entitled The First Three Years of Surplus Disposal. Senator Maybank was a member of this subcommittee.

A digest put together by the American Glassware Association concerning United States Tariffs and a letter from the General Manager of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association concerning fears that a newly approved charter for the International Trade Organization might harm American cotton farmer's interests.

Correspondence concerning tax legislation including a stamp tax on ammunition, copper import, organs and instruments sold to charitable organizations, social security, telephones, freight, light bulbs and tubes, barber supplies, property, and the Tax Relief Bill.

A letter from General Charles Pelot Summerall, President of the Citadel, concerning legislation affecting post-war ROTC programs.

A letter written in opposition to President Truman's Reorganization Plan Number 3 to consolidate some of the federal agencies concerned with housing into a Housing and Home Finance Agency.

Correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors including the Yadkin River, Santee-Cooper Dams, Buckingham Dam, Cooper River, Winyah Bay Project, National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Little Pee Dee River, Waccamaw River, Lyles Ford public power project, Murrells Inlet, and Clarks-Hill.

Hearings and letters concerning the Santee River, Shipyard River, Savannah River, and Edisto River.

A booklet of laws relating to federal aid in the construction of roads.

Correspondence primarily concerning the creation of the National Science Foundation.