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Correspondence between Senator Maybank and the Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission concerning the merits of South Carolina as a location for the construction of an industrial power reactor plant.

Correspondence concerning the restoration of appropriations for a census on businesses and manufacturers.

Correspondence concerning Civil Functions appropriations including the development of the Craney Island Disposal Area (Virginia), Greenup Locks and Dam (Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virgina and Maryland), Panama Canal Zone salaries, and the Pineville flood control project (Kentucky). Correspondents include Senator A. Willis Robertson, Senator John Sherman Cooper, and Senator Earle C. Clements.

Correspondence concerning civil service appropriations to cover increased annuities for retired civil service personnel.

Correspondence from Senator Cary Hayden again requesting Senator Maybank's opinion (first given in 1951) on a consolidated "single package" general appropriation bill. Senator Maybank reiterated that his opinion had not changed and that he was opposed on the grounds that it was not feasible.

Correspondence concerning defense appropriations including the closing of commissaries for military personnel, Camp Roberts and Camp Ord (California), a reduction in Air Force funding, supplemental civil defense funding, and Puerto Rican veterans.

Correspondence concerning education appropriations including veterans' education, vocational services for public schools, and the need for increased school facilities to accommodate the reactivation of the Myrtle Beach Air Base and population increase in other defense critical areas in South Carolina.

A letter containing a report on recommendations made by Senator Allen J. Ellender to the Senate Appropriations Committee after his tour of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, Australia, and New Zealand.

Two letters protesting reductions in the Food and Drug Administration's appropriation.

Correspondence concerning an increase in appropriations for the "Hill-Burton" hospital construction program. Senator Maybank successfully fought to increase this appropriation.