Public Relations: Agricultural Yearbooks, 1960
Scope and Contents
A collection of inventory lists sent by Wilson, the response requests & several letters & postal cards. These are not filed consecutively from November to December. As with the previous folders in this box, most of the items marked or noted indicate a need for Yearbooks of different dates and topics. Selected Examples are: a list sent by Dr. Andrew C. Olson, San Diego State College (received 11/14/60) with the years 1942, 1948, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957 & 1960 circled & topics “Keeping Livestock Healthy, Grass, Plant Diseases, Water, Animal Diseases, Soil &Power to Produce” noted & “May tomorrow’s election be a happy one for you.” Wilson’s office indicated that some of these were out of stock; a list from the San Diego County Farm Bureau (n.d.); other lists (received in Nov.) from various constituents in Spring Valley, Pauma Valley, Lemon Grove (this one with congrats on re-election), La Mesa, El Cajon & San Diego; a letter (11/10) from James Nimo (Meat Inspection Branch, A.R.S. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. Navy Provision Pier, San Diego) with 11 dates & titles listed; a listing from a Solano Beach resident requesting for titles and years; the list from the Chula Vista High School Librarian, Barbara Mayfield; a list and a letter (received 11/21) from Lowell B. Fowler (V.P., Clarkson Laboratory & Supply, Inc.) with circled publications and “I am glad that your recent campaign was a success. I would also like to thank you personally as a Patron of Normal Heights Order of the Eastern Star #478, for the flag and plaque presented to us by you;” lists sent by Edith Curry (El Cajon High School), a constituent who was spending the winter in Florida, Jean M. Foley Ph.D. (U.S.P.H.S. Research Fellow, La Jolla Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Louie Iacopi (Cal Poly), Bill Self (La Jolla) & A. Gianformaggio, III (Santee) – He worked nights at Astronautics and attended SDSC during the days & voted for Wilson; other lists sent are from a Berkeley resident, several San Diego constituents, a Ramona constituent, San Diegan Don Klerner with an attach news clipping feature a picture of R.V. (Doc) Vaughan and a message “We want Bob Wilson to be re-elected, the ‘Night Owls’ are for Bob Wilson . . . . [He] is a fighter against communism . . . has seniority in Congress, and he is an important member of the House Armed Forces Committee in Congress,” El Cajon constituent Richard Colby, Michael Pilson (Jr. Research Oceanographer, Scripps), & Miss Bertha Davis (Paradise Valley Sanitarium). The remaining lists, postal cards & letters in this folder follow a similar request pattern of the above examples and a few also include political commentaries similar to those cited above.
Dates
- created: 1960
Creator
- From the Collection: Wilson, Robert (Wilson, Robert Carlton) (1916-) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 0.00 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections & University Archives Repository