A collection of letters, telegrams & news notices. Examples are: letters (May-July 1958) re/ Santa Ysabel residents and their claim to the Air Force concerning the crash of a jet airplane in the Mesa Grande area, starting a wild fire that destroyed an estimated $12,843 worth of their property, contest the offered settlement of $2,523; letters (May-Aug. 1958) re/ Leonard’s Precision Brake Service seeks compensation from the 11th Naval District for damages allegedly caused by sonic boom on December 27, 1957; letter and telegram (Aug. & Sept. 1958) re/ “inquiry concerning the request of Mr. Arthur Alford and 12 other named claimants to hasten the payment of claim settlements arising out of the Pine Mountain fire in California;” a copy of an “Important Notice” from the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (n.d.) and a copy of a news release (9/16/58) from this commission re/ claims against the Government of Czechoslovakia; letters (July-Sept. 1958) re/ more references to the claim for damages arising from the Pine Mountain fire; letters (June-Sept. 1958) re/ La Mesa constituents receive information related to their claim for damages arising out of the Pine Mountain fire; stapled package of letters & telegrams (Aug.-Sept. 1958) re/ responses to Mesa Grande resident Fred J. Rynerson as to claim for damages arising out of the Pine Mountain fire and reference to Public Law 85-729; letters (July-Sept. 1958) to Santa Ysabel residents Mr. and Mrs. Angel concerning their claim to damages arising out of the Pine Mountain fire; letters (May-Oct. 1958) re/ Lakeside resident Ceil Morgan and claims related to the Inaja fire & the National Forest Service; letters (July-Oct. 1958) re/ La Mesa constituents Mr. & Mrs. Whitney F. Hindes thank Wilson for his assistance in facilitating their claim with the Air Force for damages caused by the Pine Mountain fire.