Box 11

Copies of annotated speeches and statements given by Representative Rivers on topics including Germany's Ambassador, Bishop Thomas, and the United States Supreme Court's decision to integrate schools. Also included are requests for assistance in acquiring speakers for various organizations.

Rivers' staff memoranda concerning various topics including vacation leave, mail forwarding, filing, scheduling, and other routine activities.

Telephone messages taken by Rivers' staff at his office.

Correspondence concerning the Farmers Home Administration (FHA) including the inability of small farmers to qualify for loans and the declaration of Charleston County as a disaster area due to adverse weather conditions.

Correspondence concerning a variety of agricultural issues including a request for a government loan to build hen laying houses, desire to correct the Productivity Index on an individual's farm for the Soil Bank Program, losses suffered from Hurricane Gracie, a request to repair the dam across Awendaw Creek in Francis Marion National Forest, and a loan from the Rural Electrification Administration to extend telephone services.

Correspondence concerning a variety of agricultural issues including a request for a Farmers Home Administration (FHA) loan, the case of the Flack-Jones Lumber Company, Inc. vs. the United States Department of Agriculture, a protest against the Francis Marion National Forest policy of the sale of its hardwood, and emergency loans from the Farmers Home Administration.

Correspondence concerning discrimination against South Carolina tobacco growers on Georgia's markets.

Correspondence containing a variety of printed endorsements and pamphlets supporting statehood for Alaska.

Correspondence primarily concerning the Savannah River Plant including a copy of A Progress Report on the Savannah River Plant given by the Savannah River Operations Office before the Columbia, South Carolina, Kiwanis Club, the dumping of radio-active waste materials 20 miles from the mouth of North Edisto River, and a request to reopen Old South Carolina Highway 28 through the Savannah River Plant.

Correspondence concerning an application from Mackey Airlines to the Civil Aeronautics Board for the flying of passengers from Charleston direct to Nassau in the Bahamas.