A large collection of letters, news clippings, notes & other items. These are filed from January to December. Examples from January are: note &letter re/ Wilson congratulates Ray Swaner on becoming president of the San Diego Building Contractors Assn. & looks forward to a close association with the new president; letters & news clipping re/ James D. Forward’s 56 years with Union Title Insurance Co. & commentary on the Republican high command having Dick Nixon out in front; letter & news clipping re/ Clyde N. Harmen's installation as commander of Barracks 240, Veterans of World War I; letter & news clipping re/ Francis H. Harris ( general manager for Knox Dairy Farms) is elected president of the San Diego Employers Assn.; Dale Brix becomes San Diego’s Bureau Manager for United Press International; letters & news clipping re/ congrats from Wilson to Major General Thomas A. Wornham on being promoted to Lt. General by President Eisenhower and assigned to take command of the Fleet Marine Force Pacific; a letter from RAdm. William E. Genter, Jr. to Wilson thanking him for his “letter regards to my forthcoming assignment for duty with the Chief of Naval Operations;” a letter & news clipping re/ the retirement of RAdm. Charles H. Mester, Jr. from the Naval Reserve; news clipping & letter re/ H. Ray Rainwater’s appointment to the State Veterans Board; announcement card & letter re/ formation of the Julie Anderson Enterprise, Inc. & appointment of Waldemar Hagen as Vice President. Examples from February are: Wilson’s congratulations to RAdm. Dale Harris’ new assignment as Commandant of the Eleventh Naval District; announcement & letter re/ El Cajon constituent M. D. Rogers’s achievement of the Million Dollar Council membership; news clipping & letter re/ Dr. Francis Edwin West’s appointment as a member of the state Board of Medical Examiners; news clipping & letter re/ Mrs. Bryon Starren (Jennie) is nominated as the most outstanding worker for and with the youth of community by the Kearney Mesa Women’s Club; news clipping & letter re/ Richard A. Grihalva is congratulated by Wilson “on your new agency in La Jolla” & comments about the Republican Party; news clipping & letter re/ “outstanding Jaycee” Jack Gould in El Cajon; announcement & letter re/ Chula Vista Reality, Inc.’s formal opening; other names and topics are – Keith Lister as President of the San Diego Mortgage Bankers Assn.; “The President gladly complied with your February 12th request for a greeting to Miss Mary Darby on her 105th birthday;” Wilson’s comment to attorney Charles P. Nelson (Bath, Main) that he was going “to suggest to Dick Nixon that he get in touch with” to have Nelson help strengthen the coming political campaign; telegram to Henry A. Boney re/ his being president of the Grocers Assn.; Neil Morgan & Wilson letters re/ Young Man of the Year dinner & personal commentary; news clipping & letters re/ Thomas W. Sefton, his father, J. W. Sefton, Jr., the S.D. Trust & Savings Bank & reference to “the outdoor railroad article;” letters & news clipping re/ 12 Freedom Foundation Awards; Harding C. Campbell’s installation as President of the Al Bahr Shrine Oriental Band; California Real Estate Assn.; the Honorable Byron Lindsley’s appointment as Superior Court Judge; the promotion of Joseph B. Neiser to the rank of Captain in the Naval Reserve; & Dr. Albert L. Anderson’s installation as President of the Pan American Society of Dentistry for children. Examples from March & April are: telegrams re/ contractor Falack Nielsen receiving the San Diego ACA’s distinguished service award; letters re/ Fred Heilbron being honored by the Irrigation District Officers’ Assn. & commentary on the need for another power supply dam on the Colorado River; news clipping & letter re/ honorary life president presented to Murray D. Goodrich by Temple Beth Israel; congratulation letters to Imperial Beach Mayor Miles D. Bowler, El Cajon Mayor Karl Tuttle, Coronado Mayor Robin Goodenough & Chula Vista Mayor Robert McAllister & news clipping featuring photos and names of seven local city mayors; a Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club is organized & Walter L. Chandler of La Mesa becomes the first president; local San Diegan Paul Hofflund assigned as attorney in charge of the U.S. Attorney San Diego office; packet of letters, telegram & announcement re/ Wilson’s concern about lost wire as to command ceremony relieving RAdm. Charles Hartman of the 11th Naval District; Grossmont Union High School District Superintendent Lewis F. Smith is selected El Cajon’s outstanding citizen of last year: Urban L. Jensen, Superintendent of Mails at El Cajon Post Office, retires after 32 years with the postal service & his employment in the El Cajon office since 1948; election of Cameron McDonald as president of the La Jolla Rotary Club. Examples from May are: letters & news clipping re/ the transfer of Robert E. Gebhardt from Oklahoma City Office of the FBI to the San Diego FBI Office as Assistant Special Agent in Charge; letters & telegram re/ John J. Allen, Jr.’s speech at the Propeller Club’s Maritime Day luncheon in April; letters & news clipping re/ VAdm. Ralph E. Wilson appointed to the Maritime Board, a news article discusses plans to improve 10th Avenue Marine Terminal & the American President Lines has an interest in this; Rembert James is congratulated on his appointment as Editor of the Copley News Service; letters & news clipping re/ George A. Scott’s award as “Retailer of the Year” & his newsy reply to Wilson; Wilson’s congratulation letters to S. D. Transit Co. James Reading’s “another blessed event” & to Robert F. Smith’s “new appointment to head up the Convention and Tourist Bureau;” announcement & letter re/ Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. & Wilson’s comment that he took out his policy with them when he was twenty; National Assn. of Life Underwriter’s 1960 Quality of Life Award to M.D. “Buck” Rogers or El Cajon; Golden Wedding Anniversary for Mr. & Mrs. August Heinzel; telegram & letter re/ San Diego Council of the Navy League & retirement of five Navy Captains from local stations; telegram re/ celebration by chapter 223, order of Ahepa of 31st anniversary; news clipping & letters re/ Chula Vistan Miss Florence Haneline named “Teacher of the Year’ & Wilson comments on attending the F Street Grammar School, when it was the only grammar school in Chula Vista in 1928 and 1929; change of command ceremony for RAdm. Walter F. Rodee – Naval Air Station, North Island; Dr. Ralph Smith Roberts’ election as State President of the Sons of the American Revolution; news clipping letters re/ appointment of the Rev. Martin McManus as Regent of the School of Law at the University of San Diego; news clipping & letter re/ Clarence J. McIntosh, Esq.’s assignment to the U.S. Consul, Tijuana, B.C. Examples from June & July are: announcement , note & telegram re/ opening of Security First National Bank’s new division headquarters and main office; telegram from Wilson to Lou Burgener (Honkers Restaurant, La Jolla) re/ “Congratulations on your beautiful new establishment. Am looking forward to free lunch;” news clipping & letter re/ La Jollan Larry G. Lawson’s election as President of the Convair Management Club; office reference sheet re/ graduation of Chula Vistan Miss Helen W. Edwards & “her family sent $20.00 contribution to Wilson – this was also filed under Political Contributions; other topics or names are – CA State Federation Secretary & San Diego Postal News; new president of Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club; Orien Todd, Jr. (Stanley Andrews Sport Goods Co.), Navy League Luncheon, Frank Jameson & politics; dedication of new State owned Motor Vehicle Building on Normal St. on June 21; Republican politics & Wilson’s advertising experience; Mrs. James Seiler’s award from the American Guild of Organists; Dr. Vernetti & S.D. County Council of Rotary Clubs; praise from El Cajon BPO Elks 1812 for Cmd. Ray G. Brown – U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego; packet of letters re/ Sudeten German Day in Munich; retirement of Santa Fe agent S.M. Sullivan; Silvergate Lions Club; Jaycees & Robert Crouch; Ewart Goodwin’s election as President of San Diegans Inc.; Chula Vistan Herman C. Piper & Farmers Home Adm. Program; Dwight E. Stanford as director of Lions International; Palm City resident Allen Blair appointed as area governor of Toastmasters International; Chula Vista Rotary Club; packet of letters & news clipping re/ Wilson’s congratulations to 25 U.S.Navy Captains after “almost a third of century of service to your country;” Brown & Brown law office & Donald G. Langille’s promotion to San Diego division commercial manager at Pacific Telephone. Examples from August & September are: opening of new College Grove Store; Fullbright Award to lecture on public administration at Central University in Quito, Ecuador to Dr. James D. Kitchen (SDSC); the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard’s new home port is San Diego; Capt. Burl L. Bailey assumes command of NAS Miramar; Col. W. T. Bradley is new District Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles; nomination of RAdm. E. W. Grenfell to VAdm. , Commander, Submarine Force, Atlantic; politics, Nixon & new American Consulate in Tijuana, Kennedy N. Crocket; Dr. William L. Young as President of the El Cajon Rotary Club & Ben Clark as President of the Coronado Rotary Club. Examples from October – December are: Chula Vistans John & Rachel Shuttleworth celebrate their 73rd Anniversary; Captain James M. Clement takes command of S. D. Naval Station; C. Arnholdt (U. S. National Bank) is selected as Mr. San Diego for 1961; politics, Wilson & Navy congressional liaison division; news clipping re/ Operation Handclasp for impoverished Asians & importance of Cdr. Donald M. Hanson of Coronado; news clipping & letter re/ Parts Engineering, Inc. on its 10-acre site on Johnson Ave. in El Cajon will expand its electronic and missile facilities; letter & news clipping re/ appointment of August Felando “as headman at the American Tunaboat Association.