A collection of letters, telegrams, news clippings, memorandums, memos, government documents, press releases, & office notes. Examples are: One copy of a letter (1/3/60) from W.S. Gillam (Acting Dir., Office of Saline Water) to Congressman Wilson re/ forwarding him a copy of “Advance in Chemistry Series, Volume 27, entitled ‘Saline Water Conversion;’” 1 letter (12/21/60) from Charles E. Porter (Ex. Asst. to the General Mgr., S.D. Chamber of Commerce) & a copy of Wilson’s acknowledgement (1/4/61) re/ appreciation for Wilson’s contributions to Monday’s ceremonies commemorat-ing the groundbreaking for our Point Loma sea water conversion plant;” 1 news clipping – “Sea Water Plant To Give City Lift,” Evening Tribune, Jan. 6, 1961; a small packet containing letters & telegrams (Dec. 1960-Jan. 1961) from constituent Donald C. Millburn, Congressman Wilson, W.S. Gillam (Acting Dir., Office of Saline Water), & Dr. A.L. Miller (Dir., Office of Saline Water) re/ Mr. Millburn’s proposal for the reclamation of water by the technique of using atomizer-type nozzles to pump large amounts of sea water into the air to increase rainfall inland; 1 news clipping – “Water Cost Apology Told,” Evening Tribune, March 8, 1961 re/ “Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall . . . said San Diego would have to pay five times as much for converted sea water as for fresh water from Northern California;” 1 packet containing letters (Jan.-Mar. 1961) from Congressman Wilson, Kenneth Holum (Asst. Secretary of the Interior), & constituent J.F. Stapelfeld (Society of Military Engineers) re/a discussion of Mr. Stapelfeld’s recommend-ation that the expensive distilled water from the Pt. Loma sea water conversion plant be distributed to all the “large boiler plants such as those located at San Diego Gas and Electric Company, Convair, Rohr, the Naval Training Center, the Naval Station,” rather than “be pumped to a reservoir to be mixed with our present water for distribution;” 2 postal card (12/19 & 12/15/60) from constituent Robert J. McPherson & Wilson’s replies (12/27/60 & 1/27/61) re/ groundbreaking ceremony for sea water conversion plant, acknowledgements of Charles Fletcher & Clinton McKinnon, & using I.A.S. building on Harbor Drive as a scientific information center; 1 letter (3/13/61) from constituent W. Ronald Taylor, Wilson’s responses (Mar.-Ap. 1961) & attached copy of a Dept. of the Interior press release (4/8/61) re/ information on continued “Saline Water Research and Development;” a newsclipping—“Saline Plan Called ‘Drop In Bucket,’” (The San Diego Union, 4/23/61) re/ 1 million gallons a day compared to 70-80 million gallons San Diego uses daily; a small packet of letters (Ap.-May 1961) from Congressman Wilson, Charles F. MacGowan (Dir., Office of Saline Water), & S.H. Sesskin (New York Mirror) re/ Mr. Seeskin had “been asssigned to do a free-lance article on the salt-water conversion plant being built at Point Loma;” 1 letter (5/2/61) from H.F. Poppendiek & N.D. Greene (GeoScience Ltd., La Jolla) re/ trip to Washingon, saline water conversion, & further research; 3 letters (5/9/61) from Rev. Frank B. Gigliotti (D.D.), & 1 letter (5/11/61) from CA Assemblyman Frank Luckel re/ discussion of how Robert McPherson should be credited with “initiating the study of sea water conversion;” copies of letters (Ap.-May 1961) from Kathleen Calkins (11 year old, Point Loma), Wilson’s replies, & S.D. Mayor Charles C. Dail re/ “misunderstanding about the Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Plant and its relationship to the Saline Water Plant on Point Loma; one 3 page letter (6/22/61) from Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall to President John F. Kennedy, attached copy of “a draft of bill ‘To expand and extend the saline water conversion program being conducted by the Secretary of the Interior” (13 pp.), & a copy of H.R. 7916 [Report N. 908] Union Calendar N. 375, 87th Cong., 1st Sess.—“Aspinall (6/28/61) & printed (8/15/61), 20 pp.; 1 letter (6/26/61) from constituent Walter Klein & Wilson’s reply (7/12/61) re/ San Diego’s water supply problems; 4 letters (June-July 1961) from David Karr (Pres., Fairbanks Whitney Corp.), Congressman Wilson, & Thomas G. Pownall (Fairbanks, Morse & Co.) re/ a discussion of the corp. & co.’s “vacuum freezing process . . . for the conversion of sea water into fresh water;” 1 letter 7/25/61) from Colonel H.N. Turner (Dist. Engineer, Corps of Engineers) to Wilson re/ sending him “five copies of an information pamphlet entitled Water Development by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in California, 1961; 2 letters (7/20/61) from CA State Senator Stephen P. Teale ,Wilson’s reply (8/3/61) re/ the senator’s letter to U.S. Senator Clinton P. Anderson & Congressman Wayne N. Aspinall indicating the state’s support for expanding “Federal research & development for the conversion of saline water;” 1 letter (8/8/61) from Richard A. Cabell (V.P., The International Nickle Co., Inc.) & Wilson’s reply (8/11/61) re/ “an unusually well-written report on the subject” of saline water conversion by W.D. Mogerman in the International Nickle Corrosion Reporter; 1 copy of “Expanding and Extending The Saline Water Conversion Program Being Conducted By the Secretary of the Interior,” Report No. 908 [To Accompany H.R. 7916], 87th Cong., 1st Sess.—8/15/61, 28 pp.; 1 copy of “87th 1st Wilson of California To amend title II of the Housing Amendments of 1955 to authorize loans under the community facilites program for sea and brackish water conversion plants, and for other purposes” (4 pp., n.d.); 1 photocopy of a letter (4 pp., n.d.) from the Secretary of the Interior to Congressman Wayne N. Aspinall & attached “proposed draft bill which in-corporates the changes we would like to see in H.R. 4721 . . .” (18 pp.); 2 letters (1/25 & 2/3/62) from Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall & Wilson’s reply (8/23/62) re/ “Construction work on the saline water conversion demonstation plant . . . is complete and start-up testing is underway.” Congress-man Wilson was invited to attend the official start-up ceremony on March 10th & to “give a brief speech on that occasion because it is your home district.” Wilson accepted; 1 page of office notes for 2/12/62) & 2 pages of “Loan For Water Convention Plants” (n.s. & n.d.); a small packet containing 2 letters (1/25 & 3/6/62) from Congressman Wilson & La Vonk Stuart (Secretary to Fred A. Seaton), 1 photocopy of “State Reported Not Insistant On Atom Plant,” The San Diego Union, April 29, 1960, 1 copy of H.J. Res 54, 85th Cong., 2nd Sess., 2/10/58 (2 pp.) & Dept. of the Interior press releases for 1/16/62 & 12/19/60 (8 pp.) re/ Wilson’s comments on the Kennedy administration and Democrats, his original pessimism about not being invited to the start-up ceremony at Point Loma, & lots of info on saline conversion in the Interior Dept.’s press releases; 1 Dept. of the Interior press release for 3/10/62 (3 pp.) & 1 news clipping—“Saline Plant Dedication Tomorrow Federal Official Hopes For Big Public Turnout,” The San Diego Union, 3/9/62 re/ “Remarks of Secretary Stewart Udall at the dedication of the Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant, San Diego, California, March 10, 1962;” a collection of letters (4/62) from Congressman Wilson, Charles F. MacGowan (Dir., Office of Saline Water), & Bob Rast (student at Crawford High School) re/ Mr. Rast’s interest in saline water conversion; a collection of 1 telegram & several letters (Ap.-May 1962) from John Charles Smith (Solar Aircraft Co.), W.O. Flaschar (Supervisor, Application Engineering, Solar), Alan McCone (Sp. Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, & Leon W. Parma (Wilson’s admin. asst.) re/ a meeting between Hubert Kunzel of Solar Aircraft Co. & Alan McCone as to gas turbine generator equipment for standby power supply with reference to SATURN project & radar sites; a collection of letters (July-Aug. 1962) from George E. Lindsay (Dir., Natural History Museum, Balboa Park), Lucille Zellers (Secretary, American Malacological Union, Pacific Div.), James K. Carr (Undersecretary of the Interior) & Congressman Wilson re/ “hot brine outfall from the salt water conversion plant on Point Loma is killing the marine animals and plants in the rocky-shore habitat of the Cabrillo National Monument;” 1 news clipping—Kimmis Hendrick, “River Salinity Disturbs Californians,” The Christian Science Monitor (1/10/63) re/ “Rapidly growing mineral content of the Colorado River;” letters (Mar.-Ap. 1963) from Congressman Wilson, constituent Dennis B. Robinson & attached copy of H.R. 3042 . . . January 29, 1963, Mr. Utt . . . A Bill To Authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant easements for the use of lands in the Camp Joseph H. Pendleton Naval Reservation, California , for a nuclear electric generation station, 87th Cong., 1 Sess. (3 pp.) re/ Mr. Robinson’s suggestion of “constructing a saline water plant in conjunction with the Atomic Energy Electric Power Plant for surplus Camp Pendleton land.”