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Natural Resources: Water, 1962

 File — Box: 107, Folder: 15
Identifier: Folder 15

Scope and Contents

A collection of letters, news items, resolutions, statements & legal briefs. Examples are: a letter (1/15/62) from James Couller (Indianapolis, IN) to Wilson & attached photocopy of Daily Worker (3/13/56) re/ anti-fluoridation and anti-Rockefeller diatribe plus Mr. Couller’s antiliberal bias; office note & letters (9/61-1/62) re/ San Luis Contract, acreage limitations and other issues; a letter (1/22/62) from Mountain Counties Water Resources Assn. to Wilson re/ information to Wilson as to these 10 counties; letter (2/9/62) from Colorado River Board of California to Wilson re/ Frying Pan-Arkansas Project (HR 2206) and San Juan Chama and Navajo Projects (H.R. 7596) information; copy of a letter (2/19/62) from Governor Brown to President Kennedy re/ California water projects and need for federal support; a letter (3/7/62) from Escondido constituent W. M. Porter to Wilson re/ “you are doing a fine job” & commentary on water sources from northwest states to help California; letter & attached resolution (3/62) re/ City of Tustin supports adequate appropriations for San Luis Project; a letter (3/20/62) from the California Farm Research and Legislative Committee to the Honorable Stewart L. Udall re/ their concerns about the long-term negative effects of a public-private utility partnership for the operation of the 2,000 mile transmission line network on the Upper Colorado River Project thus limiting low cost public power; stapled packet of letters (11/61-3/62) re/ responses to La Jolla, Marine Advisers, Inc.’s “Iceberg utilization study;” a letter (4/5/62) from Governor Edmund G. Brown to Wilson and enclosed “copy of letter to President Kennedy from the Governors of the western reclamation states in support of the Bureau of Reclamation budget for the fiscal year of 1963;” letters (3/28 & 4/10/62) re/ Colorado Republican National Committee chairman requests Wilson’s support for the Frying Pan-Arkansas Bill; a letter (4/5/62) from a Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner to Wilson and enclosed “copy of the ‘General Principles to Govern, and Operating Criteria for Glen Canyon Reservoir (Lake Powell) and Lake Mead During the Lake Powell Filling Period;’” a letter (4/20/62) from Coronado constituent Walter F. Madden, his enclosed news editorial from the Cleveland New Dealer & Wilson’s reply (5/5/62) re/ criticism of the Frying Pan-Arkansas Bill & additional commentary about Eastern seaboard complaints about California getting “some 25% of defense contracting business;” a letter & a Resolution (5/62) from the Riverside County Farm Bureau, Inc. re/ complaints about granting additional Colorado River water to Mexico; letters & information (Jan.-May 1962) re/ the AgriculturalNutritional Foundation, Inc. and their focus on the problem, of “ ‘Quality production of Foodstuffs’ with especial emphasis on Irrigation, Salt water intrusion, etc.:” a letter (8/13/62) from U. S. District Court Judge James M. Carter to Congressman Wilson explaining matters related to the Fallbrook case and enclosed stapled copies of Ramsey Clark Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, July 3, 1962, To: The Resources Agency of California State Water Rights Board . . . [Re:] Statement of the of the United States of America Respecting Intention to Construct a Dam within the Naval Enclave of the Santa Margarita River (5 pp.), United States of America Plaintiff, v. Fallbrook Public Utility District, et al., Defendants (2 pp.) and letters from Ramsey Clark and Leland K. Hill (State Water Rights Board, Sacramento); a copy of Judge Carter’s “Statement as to Status of Fallbrook Case August 10, 1962” (3 pp.); letters (8/62) re/ Wilson comments on water problems and saline water demonstration plant in Point Loma; a letter (8/20/62) from the Southern California Water Coordinating Conference to Wilson re/ their opposition to S. 3153 & H.R. 11264 & 11265, the Pacific Northwest Regional Power Preference bills; a copy of “Volume 203 PARTIAL 20, 274 In the United States District Court . . . United States of America vs. Fallbrook Public Utility District, et al. – Reporter’s Transcript of Proceedings San Diego, California Thursday, August 9, 1962;” letters (Aug.-Sept. 1962) from the Dept. of Public Works (S.D. County), Wilson & excerpt from Bd. of Supervisors Minutes of July 31, 1962 re/ discussion of Super-Hodges Dam, flood control, San Dieguito River and other issues.

Dates

  • created: 1962

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Extent

From the Collection: 0.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

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