A collection of letters, memos, telegrams, articles, news clippings, & government reports. Examples are: A collection of  newsclippings from San Diego newspapers published in 1959 re/ sea water conversion & San Diego’s interest in a test plant being located here; Copies of 3 letters (1/30 & 2/2/59) from San Diego Mayor Charles C. Dail & a copy of his “Excerpts of Report by Five Leading Water Experts Re Sea Water Conversion Plants” re/ the Mayor’s communication to the Secretary of the Interior, two congressmen, & news sources indicating that he & Southern Californians were “seriously disturbed . . . to learn that the President’s budget for 1960 does not carry any appropriation for construction of a Salt Water Conversion Demonstration Plant, as authorized by the Anderson-Engle Bill passed in the last Session of Congress; 1 “copy of letter which was the subject of Press Release of Senator Clair Engle February 10, 1959” re/ water shortage & power facilities on the Trinity River and other related matters; 1 copy of a letter (2/28/59) from Elmer Bennett (Under Secretary of the Interior) to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn re/ discussion on Saline Water legislation, appropriations, demonstration plants & other information; a small packet of corresp. (Jan.-Feb. 1959) from constituent Sidney Cornell, Wilson’s replies, & enclosed copies of newsclippings—“President’s Kim Hails Role of Proposed Bank (UPI, 1/19/59), editorial from The San Diego Union (n.d.)—“A Bigger San Diego Role In the Americas,” & “San Diego- ‘Showplace of the Americas’” re/ Mr. Cornell’s interest in sea water conversion plant for the Sweetwater District, the Western Salt Company, & promoting San Diego’s role in the Americas; 1 copy of a letter (2/28/59) from the Sec. of the Interior to Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn re/ “the long tube vertical (LTV) distillation process . . . has been selected for use in the first demonstration plant;” “Memo to Bob From: Marge” (3/5/59) re/ Mayor Dail to confir with Secretary Seaton in Washington about saline conversion plant & her comment that the Mayor is “making it appear he is the sole supporter of all these projects. I’m upset!;” a copy of Congressman Wilson’s letter (3/5/59) to the Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton & Asst. Secretary Fred G. Aandahl’s reply (3/16/59) re/ possible choice of San Diego as a site for the demo plant & reference to long-tube verticle distillation process; copies of corresp. & an office note (3/59) from Congressman Wilson, a constituent Ina Magener (Realtor), & Dr. A.L. Miller (Dir., Office of Saline Water) re/ interest in saline water conversion & new report for 1958 recently published by the Interior Dept.; a small packet of corresp. (3/59) from S.D. Mayor Charles Dail & Congressman Wilson, & an enclosed copy of Dr. Glenn G. Havens & Mayor Charles Dail, Sea Water Conversion Commission, “Information Relative To Selection of Saline Water Conversion Plan Sites,” 1958 (11 pp.) re/ Mayor Dail sends a copy of the commission report to Congressman Wilson & a copy of his letter to Harry Bank, Dir. of the Dept. of Water Resources, State of California; 1 letter (3/23/59) from Don West (West Publishing Co.), Wilson’s reply (4/1/59), & attached copy of his (4/9/59) to Mayor Dail re/ sea water conversion plant to be built in San Diego & possibility of surplus Navy land in Imperial Beach; 1 letter (3/23/59) from Imperial Beach constituent L.W. Bruce, attached clipp-ing from TV Guide (n.d., A-24)—“The Big Ear” & Wilson’s reply (4/6/59) re/ interest in sea water conversion & “invasion of privacy by eavesdropping & wire-tapping” in program on NBC with Chet Huntly; 1 letter (3/30/59) from J.A. Beck (Sec. of the Senate, State of CA), enclosed copy of Senate Joint Resolution No. 4 (Adopted 3/20/59), & Wilson’s reply (4/6/59) re/ California’s adoption in a resolution of Public Law 85-883; 3 letters (4/8, 4/10 & 4/20/59) from Mayor Dail, Patrick H. McLaughlin (Wash-ington Rep., City of S.D.) & Congressman Wilson re/ deadline set by Interior Dept. for application for test sites; 1 letter (4/17/59) from CA Assemblyman Jack A. Beaver (73rd Dist.), a copy of Power For Water Report of the Subcommittee On Water Project Power (Assembly Interim Committee Reports, Vol. 13, No.27) & Wilson’s reply (4/22/59) re/ actions of the “Subcommittee on Water Project Uses For Atomic Power;” a collection of letters (Ap.-May 1959) from constituent George Haines, Congressman Wilson, Dr. A.L. Miller (Dir., Office of Saline Water), & William B. Macomber, Jr. (Asst. Secretary, Dept. of State) re/ corresp. of Mr. Haines as to saline water program & his questions about a dollar exchange problem with the government of the Philippines; a loose collection of letters (5/59) from Copp Collins (Asst. to Executive V.P., Burns & Roe, Inc.), Robert L. Wynn (Imperial Beach City Mgr.), Congressman Wilson, & Oceanside Mayor Erwin Sklar re/ news clippings on Saline Water demonstration plants in Southern California, Imperial Beach interest in this enterprise & Oceanside’s Resolution No. 59-43 calling for a demonstration plant to be constructed at USMC Camp Pendleton; 1 Wilson office note & a letter (5/29/59) re/ “2 possibilities for a site . . . So. Bay regardless of pollution problems [&] . . . So. end of Pt. Loma;” a loose collection of letters & a telegram (6/59) from Dr. A.L. Miller (Dir., Office of Saline Water), Allen Cywin (Acting Asst. Dir., Demonstration Plants, Office of Saline Water), constituents Grace Hudson & Barbara L. Micheal & a two page copy of a Dept. of the Interior Information Service, Office of the Secretary press “release June 22, 1959” re/ Imperial Beach site & Navy as “possible location of sea water conversion nuclear reactor demonstration plant” & coverage of “a 3rd process to be tested . . . electrodiallyis . . . in the Norther Great Plains or an arid area of the Southwest;” letters (June-July 1959) from Mayor Dail, Congressman Wilson, & Richard X. Donovan (Special Asst. to the General Mgr., U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) re/ posssible location on West coast of saline water conversion using atomic energy; copy of a letter (7/10/59) from Mayor Dail to Saline Water Office Directror Miller re/ “the Commission’s visit to San Diego of your Site Selection Board;” letters (7/13 & 7/14/59) from Director Miller to Congressman Wilson, & Robert L. Wynn (City Mgr., Imperial Beach), & attached copies of “a press release and speech that Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton will be making on the West coast, Tuesday, July 14” (7pp.) re/ “Freeport, Texas, Selected for first saline water conversion plant—west coast site narrowed to seven . . . San Diego, Lompoc, Ventura County, Orange County, San Clemente, Monterey County, and Camp Pendleton” – these sites will be visted between July 14 & July 24; 1 letter (7/20/59) from Mayor Dail to Congressman Wilson re/ Site Selection Board “will arrive in San Diego at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, July 23” & Mayor Dail’s hopes that Wilson would be present in the Mayor’s office to meet the members of the Board; 1 letter (7/20/59) from constituent Gilbert S. Wright, Wilson’s reply (7/23/59) & attached news item (n.s., n.d.) re/ “Largest ‘Fresh From Salt’ Plant” – A Glasgow firm had received an order from the Govt. of Kuwait; a collection of letters (June-July 1959) from Director Miller, Congressman Wilson & Frank K. Pittman (Dir., Div. Of Reactor Dev., Atomic Energy Commission) re/ possible west coast site for “experimental low-temperature process heat reactor” & a Michigan Congressman wants it in his state; a Dept. of Interior press release for 8/5/59 – “Technical Data On Saline Water Conversion Reseach Made Available for Public Inspection;” 1 letter (8/11/59) from Harvey O. Banks (Dir., Dept. of Water Resources, State of California) & Wilson’s reply (8/18/59) re/ Senate passed HR 7978, supple-mental appropriation for fiscal year 1960, including $2,950,000 additional for the Office of Saline Water—California legislature has appropriated $1,600,000 for cooperation with federal govt. on sea-water conversion; 1 letter (8/12/59) from constituent Grace Tully & Wilson’s reply (8/19/59) re/ sea-water conversion plant—Oceanside a better location than Point Loma, & ex Forest Service Tully’s extensive Republican commentaries about labor bosses & other topics; 1 office note & a collection of letters (8/59) from Congressman Wilson, George E. Bean (S.D. City Mgr.), constituent Charles R. La Dow, & Dr. Charles H. Graves (Executive V.P., Stimson Aircraft Tool and Engineering Corp.), & en-closed photocopy of “Atomic Plant Held Key to Water Woes,” The San Diego Union (3/17/52, a-4) re/ new sewage treatment plant & “proposed saline water conversion plant site” on Point Loma, a Point Loma resident’s concerns, & comments by Dr. Graves; a small packet of corresp. (Aug.-Sept. 1959) from Alonzo H. Foss (Advance Building Co., Inc.), Dr. Miller (Dir. Office of Saline Water), Congressman Wilson, W.S. Gillan (Chief, Basic Research Div., Office of Saline Water), & enclosed copies of “drawings for sea water conversion” re/ Mr. Foss’s plans for this enterprise & evaluations by W.S. Gillan; 1 copy of “Remarks By Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton . . . Scottsbluff, Nebraska, October 5, 1959” (6 pp.) re/ salt water conversion & various processes including “a low-pressure low-temperature atomic reactor” to be located in California;” draft copy & copy of a “Statement By Congressman Bob Wilson RE: Seawater Conversion Plant” (10/5/59) – “I am elated at the choice of San Diego for the site of the first atomic energy seawater conversion plant;” 1 copy of Dept. of the Interior Information Service” press release for 10/6/59, “San Diego, California, Selected As the Site for the West Coast Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant” – This “site was selected from more than twenty west coast cities and communities . . . . The Point Loma site is located . . . just south of the famous Cabrillo Monument . . . . The plant will be designed to convert sea water to fresh at the anticipated rate of at least 1 million gallons per day. It will use a conversion process known as multi-stage flash distillation;” 1 copy of an “Address By Dr. A. L. Miller, Director, Office of Saline Water . . . Before the Western Petroleum Refiners Association, Broadview Hotel, Wichita, Kansas, October 7, 1959—Effects of the Saline Water Program on the Oil Industry” (7 pp.); 1 Wilson office note (10/9/59) re/ “AEC & Interior announcing XPEDT agreement . . . . low temp heat reactor;” 1 copy of Dept. of Interior news release for Oct. 10, 1959, “Joint Announcement . . . AEC and Interior” re/ “Nuclear-Powered Saline Water Conversion Plant . . . . located at Point Loma, San Diego, California. Estimated cost of reactor is $4,000,000 and estimated cost of the conversion plant is $2,000,000;” 1 letter (10/13/59) from Louis Koenig (Research Consultant, San Antonio, Texas) to Congressman Wilson, & attached copy of Louis Koenig, “Economic Boundaries of Saline Water Conversion,” reprinted from Journal American Water Works Association (Vol. 51, No. 7, July 1959, pp. 845-862); letters (10/7 & 10/16/59) from constituents Mrs. Grace L. Slagel & Leonard L. Drogin, & Leon Parma’s reply (10/13/59) re/ saline water conversion, chances for employment in the project & Drogin’s commendation to Wilson for all his efforts to this community; a small packet of corresp. (Sept.-Oct. 1959)—“Memo To Washington Office From: Marge,” & letters from Glenn Voran (Vista, CA), Congressman Wilson, Dr. Miller (Dir., Office of Saline Water), & Leon W. Parma (Admin. Asst. to Wilson) re/ Mr. Voran’s “interest in possible job openings that may arise if San Diego is granted the seawater conversion plant;” letters (10/59) from Evelyn Maconnell, Leon W. Parma, & David S. Jenkins (Acting Dir., Office of Saline Water) re/ Mrs. Maconnell’s interest in employ-ment at the proposed demonstration plant, & the Saline Water Office’s indica-tion that the plant “will probably not entail a government employment secretary;” a small packet containing corresp. (Oct.-Dec. 1959) from Loren A. Hart (Educ-ation Officer, Offutt AFB, Nebraska), Congressman Wilson, Dr. A.L. Miller (Dir., Office of Saline Water), Margaret M. Young (Secretary to Congressman Wilson), Leon W. Parma (Admin. Asst. to Wilson), & E.A. Cadwallader (Engineer, Office of Saline Water) re/ Mr. Hart’s proposals for a saline water conversion unit & the Saline Water Office’s evaluation of the proposal—“It is my opinion that your proposed distillation system would not meet the criteria of having promise of low-cost conversion;” 1 “Memo To Maggie From Marge” (12/9/59) & letters (12/16 & 12/30/59) from Congressman Wilson & Director Miller re/ Bonita, CA resident, Mr. Westley Burns Harris Johnson’s interest in obtaining employment with the conversion plant in San Diego.