Box 140

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 2759) to expand vocational rehabilitation by establishing a 65% pivot point and a 60% floor for the federal share of rehabilitation expenditures in the states.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 2927) to provide for an additional Assistant Secretary of Defense for all United States Armed Services Reserve affairs and legislation (H.R. 6573) to strengthen the United States' reserve forces known as the Reserve Officers Personnel Act.

Correspondence concerning rivers and harbors legislation including the dredging of the Shipyard River in Charleston, Buckhorn Reservoir and the Jackson Cut-off on the Kentucky River, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Port Royal Harbor, Cougar Dam (Oregon), and the Upper Colorado River Basin Storage Project. Correspondents include Senator Arthur V. Watkins of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

A letter from Senator Margaret Chase Smith, of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, requesting support for Senate Resolution 315 to investigate the operation of the Senate kitchens and restaurants in the Capitol and Senate Office Building. Senator Maybank agreed to sponsor the resolution.

Correspondence concerning social security legislation including the inclusion of dentists, doctors, cotton gin operators, attorneys, farm workers, and ministers under the social security law, an increase in the social security tax, and a reduction in the social security benefit age.

A letter from a South Carolina constituent protesting legislation (H.R. 9366) that would provide for the Federal Government to negotiate with State authorities on examinations by physicians of persons alleged to be permanently and totally disabled.

Correspondence concerning legislation for Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood. Senator Maybank opposed the legislation. Alaska and Hawaii eventually obtained statehood in 1959.

Correspondence concerning subsidy legislation including steamship, agriculture, airline, and post office.

Correspondence concerning the donation of surplus government property to educational institutions.