Box 156

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Correspondence concerning requests from constituents for information regarding the whereabouts and status of family members and friends serving in the armed services.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning Charleston, South Carolina, including the airport, health center, site for a black school on Harmon Field, that was taken over by the Army, the construction of a Tuberculosis Sanitarium after the war, tax exemptions for contributions to the Charleston County Development Fund, Roper Hospital, Ashley River Bridge, school districts, tug boats, relocation of the Charleston office of the Office of Defense Transportation, electrical elevator for city hall, housing,...

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Correspondence concerning proposed improvements to garbage, sewage, and firefighting facilities in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Correspondence concerning the Charleston Navy Yard including the construction of a new dry dock, manpower shortages, wages for Navy Yard employees, oil tanks, mechanics pay ratings, construction of a naval hospital, and other improvements to the Navy Yard.

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Correspondence concerning Charleston's port facilities including lend-lease shipments and the full utilization of the port by the Army.

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A letter from Senator Albert W. Hawkes wishing Senator Maybank and family a Merry Christmas.

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Correspondence concerning the Civil Aeronautics Board including applications for National Airlines and Colonial Airways to operate out of Charleston, South Carolina.

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Correspondence concerning the Clarks Hill Project located north of Augusta, Georgia, on the Savannah River. The project was constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers between 1946 and 1954 for the purposes of flood control, hydroelectricity and downstream navigation.

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Correspondence concerning Clemson, South Carolina, including hospital construction, acquisition of equipment for the Clemson Agricultural College's School of Engineering and physics labs, Clemson school districts, the Clemson College Athletic Association, rice shortage, and a research project awarded to the college, by the War Production Board, to study the use of bamboo in the reinforcement of concrete.

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Newspaper clippings concerning Senator Maybank and various issues.