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San Diego Guadalupe Island Weather Station, 1965-1970

 File — Box: 249, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4

Scope and Contents

Corresp. memos, news clippings, booklets & reports related to Guadalupe Island weather station. Examples are: “Memo For The Record” (12/21/70) re/ “Upper Air Station project for Guadalupe Island is going along well . . . should be operating in early 1971;” corresp. & press release, U.S. Dept. of Commerce & Congressman Wilson’s office (9/70) re/ Guadalupe Weather Station; copy of “Prosposed U.S. Support” & “Suggested” Mexican support for “Guadalupe Island Rawinsonde Station” (8/21/70), “Memo For The Record” & other office notes re/ meeting in Mexico City for initial arrangements on the weather station; copy of corresp. of U.S. Dept. of Commerce to Direccion de Geografia y Meteorolgia (8/14/70) re/ cooperation on Guadalupe Island Weather Station; “Memo For File” (6/4/70), corresp. of Dept. of State (5/22/70), Congressman Wilson (5/1/70) & two Dept. of State “Telegram Action Copies” (4/70) re/ “status of negotiations for renewal of the U.S./Mexican cooperative station Agreement . . . .”; copy of “World Weather Program Plan for Fiscal Year 1970” (3/1/69); Memo to Paul from Louise (3/1/69) re/ “Lupe Island . . . our satellite pics are always 12 hrs. late . . . .,” concern over the Mexican army delaying agreement on the weather station & Office Memo (2/26/69) re/ “the Mexican army has complained that it suspects that the U.S.might make an intelligence listening post out of the [weather] station;” U.S. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau, Memorandum W15x1 (2/7/68) re/ trip report to Guadalupe Island & Mexico City by J. Glenn Dyer (Jan.11-25, 1968); letter of Congressman Wilson to Mr. R.E. Barnes (12/5/67) re/ “copy of H.R. 13068, which I introduced last year;” Office Memo (12/5/67) re/ progress being made on Guadalupe Island Station; “ letters of U.S. Dept. of Commerce to Congressman Wilson (12/4/67) re/ “a rawinsonde station Guadalupe Island would be of great value to United States. We appreciate very much the strong support you have given toward establishment of such a station;” copy of Report No. 821, 90th Cong., 1st Sess., “Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 10345” ( “$165,000 may be used for a station on the Guadalupe Islands”); letter of appreciation from Congressman John Flynt, Jr. to Congressman Wilson (10/20/67) re/ funds for Environmental Science Services Adm. and background info. on Guadalupe Island; corresp. & copy of Calendar No. 556, Report No. 571, 90th Cong., 1 Sess. (9/26/67) re/ Depts. of State, Justice & Commerce, the Judiciary & Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 1968; packet of corresp. of Congressman Wilson (10/67) to House of Representatives conferees re/ Guadalupe Island Weather Station; copy of H.R. 13068, 89th Cong., 2d Sess. (2/24/66) “Authorizing the establishment of meteorological observation stations on Guadalupe Island, Mexico . . . .;” small packet of press releases, office notes & news clippings (Dec. 1966-Feb. 1967) re/ Guadalupe Is. weather station; corresp. of Bruce MacMahon (Ord Ingram Ltd.) & Paul Tsompanas (adm. assist. to Wilson) (1/67) re/ U.S. weather station in Mexico; copies of Congressman Wilson’s speech to House of Representatives (2/24/66) re/ H.R. 13068 (Guadalupe Weather Station); packet of corresp. of U.S. Coast Guard, Bruce MacMahon & Congressman Wilson (3/66) re/ MacMahon’s proposal “to build a four acre island in the ocean 100-150 miles west of the California/Mexico borderline . . . . to assist their ocean going barge operation [and] abalone fishing enterprise. [And also to] to explore the possiblity of establishing a weather station on [the] new island;” small packet of corresp. of Assistant Sec. of Defense, Bruce MacMahon & Congressman Wilson (4/66) re/ man-made island off the Calif./Mexican coast; corresp. of Congressman Wilson, Robert White & Hazen Beoke (ESSA Div of U.S. Dept. of Commerce) & Carl L. Hubbs (Scripp Inst. of Oceanography) (Mar.-Ap. 1966) re/ Guadalupe Island & availability of Mexican Weather Station; corresp. of Congressman Wilson, office memos & ESSA Div. of Commerce Dept corresp. (Dec.1965-Jan.1966) re/ need for international weather station off Baja Calif. coast “ to aid both military and civilian broadcasting in San Diego.”

Dates

  • created: 1965-1970

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Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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