A large collection of news releases, letters, telegrams, memos, memorandum, news clippings, agency booklets, news letters, reports and other items. Examples are: Four letters and news releases (June-July 1964) from the Bureau of Yards and Docks re/ awards of construction contracts in San Diego with a total of $275,000; "Contract Award" from NASA to Collins Radio Co., Texas for Appolo manned space flight of approx. $20 million; memos and letters (June-July 1964) re/ price paid for certain lands acquired by United States in San Diego County; packet of corresp. (May-Aug. 1964) re/ Dept. of the Army and "reconditioning of tank engine cylinders and crankshafts by the Cylinder Service Company of Los Angeles;" Corresp. (Aug. 1964) from Wilson, AEC & constituent George Pennebaker (Hercules Oil Co., San Diego) re/ competive bidding issues; 3 Dept. of the Air Force letters (Aug & Sept. 1964) re/ awards to three San Diego companies of approx. 1.2 million dollars; 2 HEW Title VI contract awards to Mercy Hospital & the San Marcos County Water District; letters (Aug.-Sept. 1964) from Gordon F. Lee (Public Relations, SDSC), Congressman Wilson & Glenn V. Gibson (Acting Asst. Sec. of Defense) re/ R & D contracts in California & needed public support for Proposition 2, a 380 million dollar bond issue for University and State College construction; news release and letter (Sept. 1964) re/ construction permit to General Dynamics for a fast critical assembly reactor from AEC; constituent requests to Congressman Wilson and responses re/ several laundry and dry cleaning firms to conduct business at the Miramar Naval Air Station; responses by Wilson to constituent request re/ Product Qualification and Qualified Products Lists of the Defense Supply Agency; other San Diego business concerns & government departments noted in subsquent packets of corresp. in this folder are: Amtronix, Inc. (Chula Vista); Western Electronic Manufacturing Assn; Bureau of Yards & Docks; Air Force and Fluidgenics (National City); Small Business Admin. & contract by Citizens Printing for a monthly publication of Southwest Word, a newspaper for the Southwest Div. of the Bureau of Yards and Docks; Navy contract with Univ. of California, Berkeley of $1,765,944 for the Scripts Instititute of Oceanograpy, San Diego to do additional research in Marine Physics; Herman H. Neumann Construction & interest in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon Park job; letters (Oct.-Dec. 1964) from constituent Mrs. Pansy Downum (Surf 'n Sea) & Congressman Wilson re/ this skin diving shop in Ocean Beach's difficulty in obaining jobber prices from the U.S. Divers Co.; Navy Bureau of Ships contract with National Steel and Ship Building Co. for two combat ships (AFS 4 and 5) for the amount of $36,848,000; local business concerns about losing printing contract with General Dynamics covering printing Technical Orders for Atlas missile; one copy of Office of the Secretary of Defense, "Military Prime Contract Awards and Subcontract Payments or Commitments" July-Dec. 1964 (50 pp.) & "100 Companies and Their Subsidiary Corporations Listed According To Net Value of Military Prime Contract Awards, Fiscal Year 1964 (14 pp.) -- 1. Lockheed Aircraft, Corp. 2. Boeing Co. 3. McDonnell Aircraft Co. 4. North American Aviation, Inc. & 5. General Dynamics Corp.; a packet of corrsp. (Aug.-Sept. 1964) re/ candy and cigarette vending machine contracts at NAS North Island and concerns by local distributor Canteen Services of San Diego, Inc. of outside competition and losses to San Diego economy.