: A collection of letters, telegrams, memorandums, memos, government reports & business publications. Examples are: One letter (11/11/62) from constituent Mrs. Vera V. Williams & Wilson’s reply (12/9/62) re/ complaints about San Diego businesses losing prime federal contracts; 1 letter (9/17/62) from constituent Bill Ayub & Wilson’s reply (10/3/62) re/ unemployment in San Diego & need for more federal dollars; Western Union telegrams (5/25, 5/28 & 9/12/62) from constituent D.L. Sanborn & Joe Brucia (Dist. Manager, Western Union, S.D.) re/ Mr. Sanborn’s complaints about Western Union’s monopoly of its “very slow” service to San Diego; 1 letter (8/23/62) from constituent E.H. Taliaferro & Wilson’s reply (9/25/62) re/ “an extremely irate citizen” complained about “the deplorable conditions that exist on Rosecrans Boulevard from the 500 block to the 900 block;” small packet containing corresp. (June-Aug. 1962) from James E. Webb (Administrator, NASA), Congressman Wilson & Ray T. Blair, Jr. (Manager of Community Relations, General Dynamics/ Astronautics) re/ “interest in using San Diego as the site in 1963 or 1964 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Conference on Peace Uses of Space;” 1 office note (6/6/62) re/ “New industrial plant in San Diego—Fruehauf Trailer Co.;” 1 letter (3/62) from Miss Barbara Moon & Wilson’s reply (6/13/62) re/ a ninth grade high school student’s concern about unemployment in S.D., especially at plants such as Convair; 1 copy of the Bank of America’s Doing Business in California (May 1962) re/ “The General Business Situation . . . . In San Diego, where the State’s highest employment rate was recorded, the situation mirrored the slow down in local defense industries;” 1 letter (5/17/62) from Richard L. Weiser (V.P., Rancho Bernardo) & Wilson’s reply (5/29/62) re/ sending Wilson a copy of the “Master Plan of Rancho Bernardo” land development – Wilson’s office “sent plan to Jack O’Donnell;” 1 letter (4/5/62) from constituent Miss Loretta Moody & Wilson’s reply (4/27/62) re/ an El Capitan high school 9th grader’s opinion on the excessive proliferation of billboards in San Diego; stapled packet containing corresp. (Mar.-Ap. 1962) from Congressman Wilson, Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg, Norman B. Foster (Pres., S.D. Chamber of Commerce), T.M. Heggland (Chief Admin. Officer, S.D. County) & attached news clipping—“San Diego Needs This Service,” Evening Tribune (3/8/62) re/ a proposal to include San Diego “in the Bureau of Labor Statistics major labor market surveys;” 2 small packets of letters (3/12 & 3/28/62) from constituents Mrs. Dave Evans & student Miss Marilyn Menard & Wilson’s replies (4/9 & 4/23/62) re/ the un-employment situation in San Diego & Wilson’s opinion that an election year casts “a cloud of doom over San Diego,” savings account increases curb spending & the need for more federal defense contracts to San Diego businesses; 1 letter (3/28/62) from student Kathy Bates & Wilson’s reply (4/4/62) re/ an encouragement to develop the Mission Bay Recreation Area; 1 photocopy of a letter (3/20/62) from constituent Ying Hom & Wilson’s letter (3/28/62) to George Joe’s Chinese Village re/ Mr. Hom’s interest in creating a Chinese language movie theater in San Diego; 1 letter (1/24/62) from constituent Mrs. D.A. Perry & Wilson’s reply (3/27/62) re/ the censorship “that took place at the President’s televised press conference,” & concern about unemployment in San Diego’s defense industry being connected to this area’s “going solidly Republican in the last election;” 1 copy of the 1960 Census of Housing, Advance Reports Housing Equipment Counties, California, Bureau of Census, Mar. 1962 (6 pp.); 1 Wilson memo (3/27/62) & attached copy of “Excerpt from Board of Supervisors’ Minutes of March 6, 1962 Re the Endorsement of S. 2009 now Before the Senate of the United States” & 1 copy of S.2009 . . . A Bill To provide research and technical assistance relating to the disposal of solid municipal waste, 87th Cong., 1st Sess.; 1 letter (2/26/62) from Richard M. Vail (Dir., of Special Projects, San Diego County Industries Assn.) & Wilson’s reply (3/12/62) re/ the recently published “San Diego County Business and Industry Yearbook [which] took 14 months to complete and cost over $40,000.00;” 1 letter (2/20/62) from Frank S. Martin (Pres., Coronado Chamber of Commerce) & Wilson’s reply (3/6/62) re/ the Chamber of Commerce of San Diego Bay Cities passing a resolution expressing “their sincere appreciation for the many hours of diligent effort put forth by the Bay Study Advisory Committee;” 1 copy of the California Labor Statistics Bulletin Metropolitan Areas (Feb. 1962, No. 451-A, pages 1-4, 9-10, 15-16 & 23-24)—the average weekly earnings in the Los Angeles area for Feb. 1962 was $108.53 per week; 1 Western Union telegram (1/25/62) from Dr. & Mrs. James Cahill & Wilson’s reply (1/26/62) re/ “proposed transbay crossing considered hazard;” 1 letter (12/29/62) from Thomas Talpash & 2 letters (1/5/62) from Wilson re/ Mr. Talpash’s interest in x-ray technician job opportunities in San Diego; 5 copies of Economic Research Bureau, San Diego Economic Bulletin for Mar., Aug., Sept., Oct.& Nov.,1962 (Vol. 10, Nos. 3, 8, 9, 10, & 11); 1 copy of The Union-Tribune Index (Vol. XIII, No. 3, Mar. 1962); 1 copy of San Diego Chamber of Commerce, San Diego Businesses (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2nd Half of Feb. 1962); 1 copy of Security First National Bank, Monthly Summary of Business Conditions—Conditions In Southern California (Vol. 41, No. 1, Jan. 1962); 1 copy of San Diego Chamber of Commerce, San Diego—America’s “Blue Chip” Territory 1961—“San Diego County’s Unique Economy;” 1 copy of San Diego Chamber of Commerce, “Size of Establishments In San Diego County—Employer of 50 or Over,” (Dec. 1961, 28 pp.); a small packet of corresp. (Nov.-Dec. 1961) from North Park Business Club Committee, Congressman Wilson, S.D. County Supervisor Robert C. Dent & Arthur Sylvester (Asst. Sec. of Defense, Public Affairs) concerning the San Diego Toyland Parade and . . . the El Cajon Mother Goose Parade” & Supervisor Dent thanking Wilson “on behalf of the North Park Businessmen’s Club . . . for your influence in obtaining Military Bands and Marching Units for our Toyland Parade;” 1 letter (10/5/61) from John Z. Ickes (Manager, Public Relations, Sacramento Plant, Aerojet-General Corp.) to Wilson & attached copies of “Market Plan for Straza Industries, El Cajon” & Press Release—“For Immediate Release” re/ Aerojet-General Corp. awarding “more than $160,000 in contracts to Straza Industries” & for Wilson’s “convenience . . . a press release and a suggested distribution plan;” 1 letter (3/15/61) from J.D. Thompson, Jr. (Pres., S.D. Federal Savings & Loan Assn.), Wilson’s reply (4/26/61) & attached copy of Public Law 86-359, 86th Cong., H.R. 5004, Sept. 22, 1959 re/ appropriating “$2,700,000 for the construction of a biological laboratory . . . to be constructed in San Diego, and, as I understand it, sites are being looked at in the Scripps area.”