Fred G. Aandahl Papers, 1917-1966

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Biographical Information

Box 8

Folder 19: 1917 Flickertail, Yearbook for the UND Model High School

Folder 20: 1918 Flickertail, Yearbook for the UND Model High School

Folder 21: "Aandahl, Fred G(eorge)" in Current Biography, September 1958

Folder 22: Obituary, Grand Forks Herald, 7 April 1966

Folder 31: Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from UND, 1962

Series 2: Newspaper Clippings

Box 1

Folder 1: Newspaper Clippings: 1935 - 1943.

Item 1: WDAY & KFYR address on Wheat Allotment Program of Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1935

Item 2: Appointment to ND State AAA Committee, a.k.a. State Agricultural Conservation Committee, 1936

Item 3: Helps establish ND Winter show at Valley City Becomes President of ND Winter Show Board Resigns from ND State AAA Committee Candidate for ND Senate, 1938

Item 4: Speech at ND Conference of Social Work - Youth Section Narrow victory in ND Senate race Financial crisis at ND Mill and Elevator ND Senate seat challenged Grass roots meeting with Barnes County legislators, 1938

Item 5: Challenge to Senatorial seat dismissed by ND Senate, 1939

Item 6: Chairs Joint Committee of House and Senate Education Committees negotiating school aid, 1939

Item 7: legislation for distribution of State Equalization Fund, including per pupil assessed valuation plan Relief/Welfare Appropriations Deficiency Judgment Exemption Vote Moses asks legislature for Balanced Budget, 1939

Item 8: Aandahl’s Report on 1939 Legislative Session - emphasizing the State Equalization Plan Special Election Measures Recommendations of State Taxpayer Association, 1939

Item 9: 1939 ND Winter Show at Valley City, 1939

Item 10: Speech to the Valley City Kiwanis Club, 1940

Item 11: Need for close relationship between townspeople and farmers, 1940

Item 12: 1940 ND Winter Show at Valley City, 1940

Item 13: Chairman of state-wide AAA Anniversary Banquets, 1940

Item 14: Master of ceremonies for Litchville “Honor City” broadcast, 1940

Item 15: Committee against graduated land tax amendment, 1940

Item 16: Whelan-Orlady ticket: Progressive Republicans statewide campaign, 1940

Item 17: State landowners parley: Greater ND Association, 1940

Item 18: Speech at Farm Mobilization meetings Visits ND Senate, 1943

Item 19: Headline speaker at GOP statewide dinners Speech on Point Rationing Plan Permanent Progressive GOP group proposed State GOP Advisory group named 1943 ND Winter Show at Valley City, 1943

Item 20: Republican Organizing Committee (ROC) adopts statement of principles State meeting regarding War Production Board Districts ND School Officers Association annual session, 1943

Folder 2: Newspaper Clippings: 1944.

Item 1: ROC beginnings: “Re-awakening of people’s responsibilities in government.”, 1944

Item 2: Emergence of Aandahl as candidate for Governor Endorsement by state ROC convention; Aandahl as keynote speaker, 1944

Item 3: Controversy over ROC endorsement of Gerald P. Nye for US Senate, 1944

Item 4: Campaigns for Governor in primary election; statement of platform and policy Aandahl victor in primary, 1944

Item 5: NPL moves to Independent column for November election NPL newspaper, The Leader: anti-Aandahl campaign material Aandahl victor in fall election; editorial reviews of victory, 1944

Folder 3: Newspaper Clippings: 1945

Item 1: Aandahl Inaugural: Oath of Office and Message to Legislature Power struggle in legislature, 1945

Item 2: Legislative activity, 1945

Item 3: Death of US Senator John Moses: Tribute and eulogy by Aandahl, 1945

Item 4: Appointment of Milton R. Young as US Senator, 1945

Item 5: Aandahl’s views as an “internationalist”, 1945

Item 6: N.O. Jones named ND Highway Commissioner, 1945

Item 7: Mourning the death of FDR, 1945

Item 8: Speech at Rugby, ND program honoring WWII servicemen, 1945

Item 9: B.M. Ryan appointment to Workmen’s Compensation Bureau, 1945

Item 10: Speeches launching seventh War Loan Bond drive, 1945

Item 11: Speech lauds San Francisco World Security Conference, 1945

Item 12: Speech at Jamestown College commencement: Aandahl awarded honorary Doctor of Laws, 1945

Item 13: Speech on “Agriculture in the Post-war Era”, 1945

Item 14: Office of Price Administration (OPA) meat quotas, coal storage, 1945

Item 15: Addresses various High School and College Commencements Boosting industry in ND

Item 16: Controversy with State Insurance Commissioner regarding appointment of manager for Hail Division, 1945

Item 17: VE Day Proclamation, 1945

Item 18: VJ Day Proclamation, 1945

Item 19: First meeting of ND Legislative Research Committee, 1945

Item 20: Missouri Basin development, 1945

Item 21: Post-war adjustments in ND, 1945

Item 22: Otto Krueger as State Insurance Commissioner, 1945

Item 23: Garrison Dam pool level controversy, 1945

Item 24: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee, 1945

Item 26: Opposes Missouri Valley Authority (MVA)

Item 27: MVA controversy

Folder 4: Newspaper Clippings: 1946.

Item 1: Stoker coal production, 1946

Item 2: GI housing problem on campuses, 1946

Item 3: Draft Board service awards, 1946

Item 4: Pick-Sloan Diversion Plan vs. MVA

Item 5: Highway finance problems

Item 6: St. Lawrence Seaway

Item 7: Farm production address/Crop Improvement Association

Item 8: Addresses ND Winter Show in Valley City

Item 9: Statement on farm/town relationships

Item 10: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee

Item 11: National housing shortage

Item 12: Lord Halifax visit to ND

Item 13: Address on the future of small towns

Item 14: Advocate for a strong National Guard

Item 15: Gold Star presentation event

Item 16: Support of 75% tax base for school purposes

Item 17: Annual national Governors Conference in Oklahoma City

Item 18: ND wheat production

Item 19: Trucking restrictions relating to rail strike

Item 20: June primary election: news stories, editorials, and political ads

Item 21: Homecoming ceremony for veterans: Pembina County

Item 22: “Better roads” gas tax initiated measure

Item 23: Gas tax refund proposal: tax exemption abuse

Item 24: Garrison Dam District established

Item 25: Artist’s rendering of proposed Garrison Dam

Item 26: Heart River irrigation project

Item 27: “Hold the Line” regarding price inflation as OPA is discontinued

Item 28: ND Reclamation Association annual convention

Item 29: ND Veterans Rehabilitation Fund

Item 30: November election

Item 31: Aandahl’s assessment of problems facing the 1947 ND Legislature

Item 32: Garrison Dam pool level issue

Folder 5: Newspaper Clippings: January - June 1947.

Item 1: Governor’s Inaugural Ceremony: Policy speech and budget proposals

Item 2: Legislative issues: Taxes and finance, labor, education, highways, and veterans

Item 3: ROC and NPL as opposing factions in legislature

Item 4: Planning for Garrison Dam

Item 5: Possibility of Aandahl’s 1948 candidacy for third term as governor

Item 6: Aandahl’s assessment of 1947 legislative accomplishments

Item 7: Aandahl’s call for water meetings regarding eastern ND

Item 8: Three speeches: ND Boys State, Litchville Fall Fair, GI Veterans Day in Napoleon, ND

Item 9: Urges Soil Conservation Districts

Folder 6: Newspaper Clippings: July - December 1947

Item 1: Missouri Basin Governors' Flood Control Conference

Item 2: Baldhill Dam construction begins

Item 3: Missouri River Basin Inter-Agency Committee (Pick-Sloan plan)

Item 4: Heart River Dam appropriation

Item 5: “Will Aandahl be candidate for third term as governor?”

Item 6: National Governors' Conference: Salt Lake City

Item 7: ROC plans for 1948 campaigns

Item 8: ROC record of accomplishments

Item 9: Committee to evaluate the question of settlement of European DP’s in ND

Item 10: ROC record lauded: opposition from Farmers Union and NPL

Item 11: Editorial comments on Aandahl administration

Item 12: ND Natural Resources Foundation

Item 13: Aandahl editorial “Complete Education makes a Better Life”

Item 14: Aandahl speech on “Room for All” - democracy includes room for government operation and ownership of business, for cooperatives, and for private enterprise

Folder 7: Newspaper Clippings: January - June 15, 1948.

Item 1: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum column on review of historical background of ROC- NPL/Farmers Union in ND politics: projection of prospects for 1948 campaigns

Item 2: Grand Forks Herald: W.B. Alien assesses 1948 political issues

Item 3: Highway construction in ND

Item 4: Garrison Dam program and benefits of water development projects

Item 5: Meetings of Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee

Item 6: Fuel oil shortage

Item 7: Missouri River water projects; future impact of Garrison in the Missouri-Souris network

Item 8: Role of organized labor as a political force in 1948 election; possible statewide candidates as nominating conventions and primary election approach

Item 9: Alliance of NPL-FU-organized labor

Item 10: “Report to the People” in Bismarck Tribune - Aandahl “the governor’s most important duty is to work out and put into effect a sound financial policy for the state” (lengthy statement on Aandahl’s fiscal policy)

Item 11: Aandahl’s keynote address to ROC convention - full text of address, including Aandahl’s philosophy of free enterprise, key issues of 1948 election: labor law, cooperatives, roads, and taxation.

Item 12: Farmers Union dominance of NPL ticket

Item 13: Heart-Butte Dam groundbreaking

Item 14: 1948 flood emergency disaster assistance: twelve ND counties

Item 15: Homme Dam groundbreaking

Item 16: 1948 primary campaign: tactics and speeches

Folder 8: Newspaper Clippings: June 16 - October 7 1948.

Item 1: Missouri-Souris Reclamation Project

Item 2: June primary election: editorials, political ads

Item 3: Dickinson Dam project

Item 4: “Anti-garb” measure

Item 5: Girls State/Boys State

Item 6: Editorial: ROC highway program

Item 7: ND delegation to national GOP convention

Item 8: Aandahl’s address on major issues of primary election

Item 9: Farmers Union/NPL alliance: FU/NPL threaten recalls in ROC legislative districts

Item 10: Aandahl: major address on water development in ND

Item 11: Garrison Dam/Pick-Sloan impact on ND

Item 12: Highway construction issues

Item 13: November election campaign

Item 14: Red River Valley flood control proposals

Folder 9: Newspaper Clippings: October 10 - December 1948.

Item 1: November election campaign and results

Item 2: Support for crop research

Item 3: Issue of legislative salaries and expenses

Item 4: Campaign issue: highways and roads

Item 5: Editorials from state newspapers regarding elections

Item 6: Legislative alignment for 1949 session

Item 7: Garrison Dam construction progress

Item 8: Aandahl’s public appearances and activities

Item 9: Missouri River Basin development

Item 10: Plans for 1949 inaugural and governor’s ball

Folder 10: Newspaper Clippings:  January - March 20, 1949

Item 1: Third inaugural address: veterans bonus, highway funds, budget, sales tax, property tax, par clearance of checks, and Motor Vehicle Registration Department

Item 2: Legislative leadership posts

Item 3: Inaugural ball; tea for legislative wives

Item 4: Legislative proposal for state-owned cement plant, printing plant, and automobile insurance

Item 5: Proposals for school equalization fund, financing of veterans’ bonus, budget for public buildings

Item 6: Extreme winter storm emergency

Item 7: Red Cross report

Item 8: DAV/Burlington project

Item 9: Legislative vetoes: income tax hike, transfer from ND general fund, and cement plant

Item 10: Veto of bill restricting city annexation powers and veto of state-owned cement plant measure

Folder 11: Newspaper Clippings: March 24 - December 1949.

Item 1: Missouri-Souris project

Item 2: ND durum shows at Langdon: April and November

Item 3: Spring savings bond drive

Item 4: ND veterans bonus bond bids: news stories and editorials

Item 5: Mandan Rodeo, Fourth of July weekend

Item 6: Boy Scouts council Camp Wilderness dedication, Park Rapids, MN

Item 7: Speculation on 1952 political races

Item 8: Vast potential of ND water program: State Water Commission

Item 9: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee

Item 10: W. G. Sloan of Bureau of Reclamation, chairman of the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Commission

Item 11: ROC structure and policies

Item 12: National Guard troops

Item 13: Garrison Dam hydro-electric power allocations and marketing priorities

Item 14: Aandahl’s address to NW Shippers Advisory Board meeting: The Growing Economy in Our Four States

Item 15: Highway construction policy

Item 16: Evaluation and explanation of Aandahl administration’s policies

Item 17: ROC rally in Valley City

Item 18: Extended feature story by John O. Hjelle in Bismarck Tribune: ND end-of-the-year financial status and political review

Item 19: Wide range of coverage of public appearances at community events

Folder 12: Newspaper Clippings: January - May 1950

Item 1: Opposition to public power districts or a state power agency

Item 2: Discussion of potential candidates and issues in 1950 election: graduated property tax, increase in state gasoline tax, state-owned cement plant, liquor taxes.

Item 3: New “Missouri Basin Empire” envisioned

Item 4: Missouri water priorities

Item 5: ROC 1950 political convention and campaign

Item 6: Republican alignments in primary election

Item 7: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee meetings: Sioux Falls, SD and Jefferson City, MO

Item 8: Congressional candidates in 1950 primary election: Aandahl, Lemke, Burdick, Stenehjem

Item 9: Winter hay lift to save cattle

Item 10: Spring flood disaster

Item 11: Primary election campaign speeches

Item 12: Young Citizens League (YCL) convention

Item 13: Aandahl lauds ND resources: people, soil, water, coal, oil

Item 14: Aandahl launches ROC primary campaign: full text of major campaign address outlining ROC record of past six years

Item 15: Editorials on primary campaign

Item 16: Death of William Lemke raises question of his place on ballot and the need for a special election

Folder 13: Newspaper Clippings: June - September 1950.

Item 1: Aandahl’s 1950 primary campaign statements and appearances: philosophy and beliefs regarding the role of government and its functions

Item 2: Missouri-Souris Basin development plan and proposals for Jamestown Dam, Bald Hill Dam, Dickinson Dam, Heart-Butte Dam, Homme Dam, and Cannonball Dam.

Item 3: Impact of Lemke’s death on primary election contest for congressional nominations

Item 4: Dedication of new Soldier’s Home barracks in Lisbon

Item 5: Labor dispute at Zap lignite mine strike

Item 6: Governor’s Day review of National Guard troops at Camp Grafton Support for balanced national budget; position on national farm parity prices, and relationship between free enterprise and governmental activities

Item 7: Editorial lauding in Aandahl’s role in ending the Zap mine strike

Item 8: “Vote for Aandahl Only” campaign in June primary

Item 9: Primary victors June 27^th: Aandahl and Burdick

Item 10: Presentation of Liberty Bell as part of savings bond drive (to be placed in Liberty Memorial Building in Bismarck)

Item 11: Beginning editorials and speculation on Aandahl-Langer 1952 US Senate battle

Item 12: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency meeting at Denver

Item 13: Dedication of Dickinson Dam

Item 14: Planning for ND civil defense; creation of Civil Defense Council

Item 15: Federal and private enterprise partnership in water development projects

Item 16: Editorials on future realignment of ND political factions

Folder 14: Newspaper Clippings: October - December 1950.

Item 1: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency meeting at Minot

Item 2: Construction of Missouri-Souris Project to begin

Item 3: Proposal to study adequacy of water supply in Missouri Valley (competition for purposes of irrigation, navigation, and hydroelectric generation)

Item 4: Analysis of Garrison Diversion alternatives

Item 5: Aandahl calls for balanced federal budget

Item 6: Prospect for Aandahl/Langer contest in 1952 election Bismarck hospital fund drive

Item 7: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum column reviewing history of ND governor elections

Item 8: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum column on fall election crosscurrents

Item 9: 1950 fall election campaign - multiple items

Item 10: Editorials on election results: Aandahl elected to Congress

Item 11: “Budget balance top goal for Aandahl in US House”

Item 12: Litchville recognition day for Aandahl -11/27/50

Item 13: N. O. Jones/Northwest Equipment Company, Fargo

Item 14: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee meeting - 12/50

Item 15: Seattle-Times article citing parallels between Inter-Agency Committee of Missouri Basin and Columbia Basin (no need for “valley authorities”)

Item 16: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum column reviewing of ND 1950 political events

Folder 15: Newspaper Clippings: January - August 10 1951.

Item 1: Farewell message to ND legislature

Item 2: Support of power to the US House Rules Committee

Item 3: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum column on ROC strategy for 1952: Legislature as “Testing Ground” for aspirants to higher office

Item 4: ND Emergency Relief funds flood repair to bridges and roads

Item 5: Efforts on behalf of Indian Affairs

Item 6: ND airport data given to US officials for assessment of needs for defense purposes

Item 7: W.B. Alien columns, Grand Forks Herald, on ND political jockeying

Item 8: GOP faction strength as 1952 race develops; ROC ND Senate split during 1951 session

Item 9: Universal Military Training proposal and extension of draft

Item 10: Truman’s dismissal of General Mac Arthur

Item 11: Poll of ND attitudes regarding Truman and Acheson

Item 12: Impact of ND oil discovery

Item 13: Oil, gas, and mineral rights on land taken for federal water projects

Item 14: Editorials on possible Langer/Aandahl contest 1952

Item 15: Question of US government guarantee for irrigation projects built by Federal Bureau of Reclamation

Item 16: REA cooperatives as private enterprise; opposition to federal government building of steam plants

Item 17: Statement on the Korean War - 6/13/51; Aandahl urges Korean cease-fire

Item 18: Address to Boys State warning against “big government”

Item 19: ROC plans early action for spring campaign 1952

Item 20: NPL newspaper, The Leader, editorials on Aandahl’s political theories and record

Item 21: Aandahl/Langer fight appears certain for 1952

Item 22: NPL newspaper, The Leader, editorials on MVA, state cement plant

Item 23: Editorial predictions on 1952 campaign

Item 24: Aandahl characterized as “ardent supporter of reclamation and irrigation”

Folder 16: Newspaper Clippings: August 12 - November 10, 1951.

Item 1: Foreign aid and rent control legislation

Item 2: Reasons Aandahl opposes MVA proposal

Item 3: Aandahl/Langer 1952: columns on possible campaign strategies

Item 4: Senator Robert Taft appearances in Grand Forks and Fargo

Item 5: Will the NPL join the Democratic party in 1952?

Item 6: Legal issues regarding ownership and allocation of water in federal and state projects

Item 7: W. G. Sloan report on Missouri-Souris reappraisal project (dispute on Bowbells irrigation project)

Item 8: Aandahl’s appointment as member of US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee

Item 9: Jamestown Dam construction start set

Item 10: Speech at district meeting of ND Reclamation Association in Minot

Item 11: Federal tax increase legislation

Item 12: Improvement project at VA hospital in Minot

Item 13: Speech at Water Use District meetings of ND Reclamation Association (analysis of water projects in ND)

Item 14: Speech at dedication of new hospital at Grafton State School

Item 15: “Report from Washington” speech to Fargo Kiwanis Clubs

Item 16: “Report from Congress” speech to Valley City combined Rotary and Lions Clubs

Folder 17: Newspaper Clippings: November 11 - December 1951

Item 1: Many editorials on possible Aandahl versus Langer US Senate race

Item 2: Speeches at ND Reclamation Association meeting in Jamestown, ND Farm Bureau Convention in Fargo, Mandan Chamber of Commerce, ND Implement Dealers Association, and Enderlin Kiwanis Club.

Item 3: Aandahl’s announcement of his preference for ROC endorsement for re-election to US House of Representatives -11/30/51

Item 4: Editorial reaction to Aandahl’s announcement regarding the 1952 US Senate race

Item 5: Comprehensive article on the Garrison Dam written by F. M. Albrecht, Colonel, US Army Corps of Engineers (includes excerpts from Aandahl’s speech to Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee of 12/50)

Item 6: Effect of oil discovery on basic political alignments in ND

Item 7: Strategy and planning on possible Aandahl/Langer contest

Item 8: Survey favoring Aandahl for re-election to US House of Representatives

Item 9: Speculation on possible ROC and NPL candidates for all spots on 1952 ballot

Folder 18: Newspaper Clippings: Jan. - Mar. 1952.

Item 1: Continued speculation on 1952 US Senate and US House races

Item 2: ROC Executive Committee urges Aandahl for US Senate (January)

Item 3: Brunsdale support of Aandahl as candidate for US Senate

Item 4: Questions regarding the petitions calling for a grand jury investigation of some state offices

Item 5: Appropriations for water projects in ND included in Truman’s budget requests for fiscal 1953

Item 6: Truman’s appointment of a Missouri Basin Survey Commission

Item 7: Appropriation for bank protection at Buford-Trenton irrigation project

Item 8: Comparison of “Senate question” in 1932 and “Senate question” in 1952

Item 9: Internal strife in NPL: “Old Guard” versus insurgents

Item 10: Aandahl’s Lincoln Day speech in Watertown, SD (broad review of Aandahl’s political philosophy)

Item 11: Most critical ROC issue: Aandahl for House or for Senate? (ROC’s number one problem)

Item 12: Sanish-Van Hook residents in Washington, DC, to seek funds for Newtown school

Folder 19: Newspaper Clippings: March 15 - April 30, 1952

Item 1: Issue of whether or not Aandahl should run for re-election to the US House of Representatives or be a candidate for the US Senate in 1952

Item 2: Prelude to NPL and ROC endorsing conventions

Item 3: Concern over livestock disease: foot and mouth

Item 4: Aandahl begins series of bi-weekly Congressional reports (newsletters) to his constituents

Item 5: Aandahl supports Taft for presidential race

Item 6: ROC endorsing convention (March 10-11) - Governor Norman C. Brunsdale keynote speaker

Item 7: Bismarck Tribune editor, John Hjelle, on question of “Aandahl for Senate?” (pro and con)

Item 8: Fargo Forum political editor, John D, Paulson, on question of “Aandahl: House or Senate?”

Item 9: Grand Forks Herald political writer, W.B. Alien, on “Aandahl: House or Senate?” and editor, M. M. Oppegard, column “It Seems to Me” on same topic

Item 10: Aandahl’s statements regarding his endorsement for US Senate

Item 11: Aandahl In Senate Race!

Item 12: List of ROC endorsed slate

Item 13: Aandahl-for-Senate campaign launched in Fargo (March 13)

Item 14: NPL strategy against Aandahl and ROC ticket

Item 15: NPL newspaper, The Leader, comment on ROC convention

Item 16: Aandahl foreign policy statement

Folder 20: Newspaper Clippings: March 15 – April 30, 1952

Item 1: Prelude to NPL endorsing convention to be held March 20-21 by John D. Paulson, Fargo Forum, W.B. Alien, Grand Forks Herald, and John Hjelle, Bismarck Tribune

Item 2: NPL convention

Item 3: Role of “insurgents” at NPL convention

Item 4: Relevant excerpts from NPL newspaper, The Leader

Item 5: Aandahl Speech regarding funding for Jamestown Dam

Item 6: Disaster relief funds for snow-blocked roads in ND counties (Bowman and Slope)

Item 7: Aandahl’s views on Universal Military Training (UMT) and military preparedness

Item 8: Tidelands “submerged lands” issue: oil, gas and other minerals

Item 9: Analysis of NPL convention by John D. Paulson, Fargo Forum, W.B. Alien, Grand Forks Herald and Ray Dobson, Minot Daily News

Item 10: Margaret Aandahl, daughter of FGA, represents state of ND as Cherry Blossom Princess, Washington, D.C.

Item 11: Aandahl and Senator Milton Young introduce bill in Congress to require federal land bank to sell its farm holdings without reserving mineral rights

Item 12: Aandahl and Young introduce bills in congress to allow former owners of Garrison Reservoir land to recover mineral rights

Item 13: ND Normanden editorials on Aandahl-Langer race

Item 14: “ND Showdown” by Carey Me Williams excerpt from The Nation, March 29

Item 15: Political writers analysis of Aandahl-Langer race

Item 16: Aandahl urges end of price controls, recognizing possible need for extension of some limited control mechanism

Item 17: Clyde Duffy elected state chairman of ROC

Item 18: Aandahl speeches at ROC rallies reported in ND papers

Item 19: Aandahl calls for balanced federal budget

Item 20: Aandahl statement regarding flood damage in Buford-Trenton irrigation project

Item 21: M. M. Oppegard, editor Grand Forks Herald, endorses Aandahl

Item 22: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum writer, John D. Paulson and W. B. Alien, writer, Grand Forks Herald, assess Aandahl-Langer race

Item 23: Aandahl urges full parity for farmers and calls for reduced taxes

Item 24: Aandahl comments on Korean War and Truman’s seizure of steel industry

Item 25: Young GOP convention, Jamestown, April 26

Folder 21: Newspaper Clippings: May 1952

Item 1: Article about Aandahl’s bi-weekly newsletter “Report from Washington”

Item 2: Taft-Eisenhower contest in ND as GOP state convention nears

Item 3: ND Democrat Party convention and organizational meetings: Hubert Humphrey keynotes

Item 4: Langer courts ND Democrat support

Item 5: Aandahl-Langer campaign rallies and speeches: addressing tidelands oil, public power, REA, oil production tax, labor legislation, and farm parity prices

Item 6: Editorials from ND newspapers: Fargo Forum, Grand Forks Herald, Bismarck Tribune, and Minot Daily News

Item 7: ND Republican convention, May 16-17: Everett Dirksen keynotes

Item 8: View of 1952 as the last of the old-time political battles between NPL and anti-NPL forces; preview of coming NPL-FU-Dem alliance/merger

Item 9: ROC and NPL official campaign kick-offs, May 19

Item 10: Langer’s private alien immigration bills in Congress

Item 11: ND Normanden editorials: pro Aandahl

Box 2

Folder 1: Newspaper Clippings: June 1 - June 7, 1952

Item 1: Aandahl-Langer campaign speeches

Item 2: REA and RTA as a major issue, also farm price parity, distribution of public power, and tidelands oil

Item 3: US Supreme Court decision on Truman’s seizure of steel industry

Item 4: Labor issues in union activity

Item 5: ROC-NPL campaign strategies and brochures

Item 6: Langer attacks United Nations and US involvement in WWI, WWII, and Korean War

Item 7: Campaign brochures and flyers

Item 8: Democrat supporters of Langer

Folder 2: Newspaper Clippings: June 8 - June 15, 1952

Item 1: Issues and speech topics: farm price supports and full parity, free enterprise, threat of communism, fear of nationalization of industries

Item 2: Mrs. William Lemke ads supporting Aandahl and entire ROC ticket

Item 3: Langer seeking and receiving support from Democrats on both state and national levels

Item 4: Langer’s vote on investigation of Kansas City election fraud Langer’s ties to the CIO

Item 5: Young sees Langer effort to move NPL to

Item 6: Democrat party Democrats will vote in GOP primary

Folder 3: Newspaper Clippings: June 16 - June 24, 1952

Item 1: Litchville “Aandahl Club” on tour

Item 2: Gifford Herron, Fargo Forum column regarding Aandahl’s three major topics throughout all of his campaign speeches: farm programs, rural electrification, and tidelands oil controversy

Item 3: Question of Langer’s aide for known alien communists seeking admission to the US and helping them fight deportation (private bills)

Item 4: Campaign funding and sources of contributions for Langer and Aandahl

Item 5: Final editorials underscoring philosophical differences between Aandahl and Langer

Item 6: Emphasis on Democrats voting for Langer in the primary - critical factor in deciding Langer’s strength

Item 7: Final campaign speeches, political analyses, and predictions

Folder 4: Newspaper Clippings: June 25 - August 1952

Item 1: Primary election returns: Langer defeats Aandahl

Item 2: Democrat and labor support helps to re-elect Langer: debatable speculation, but no doubt Democrats and labor were a strong factor

Item 3: Langer vote seen as an indicator that many in ND are pro-Truman

Item 4: Editorial analyses of Aandahl-Langer outcome NPL control of ND House of Representatives in 1953

Item 5: Republican National Convention: Eisenhower vs. Taft

Item 6: Financing for new school at Newtown, ND Issue of Aandahl campaign spending in primary

Item 7: Bald Hill Dam dedication scheduled for September 21 (groundbreaking August 4, 1947)

Item 8: Eisenhower’s strength vs. Stevenson in ND

Folder 5: Newspaper Clippings: September - December 1952.

Item 1: Margaret Aandahl, FGA’s daughter, as Miss ND at the Miss America Pageant, wins Grand Talent Award

Item 2: Bald Hill Dam dedication

Item 3: Eisenhower vs. Stevenson in ND

Item 4: Eisenhower campaign stops in Fargo and Valley City

Item 5: Rolla, ND, jewel plant groundbreaking, October 18

Item 6: ND Reclamation Association convention

Item 7: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum column on assessment of possible alignments in November election

Item 8: Aandahl campaigns for Eisenhower, lauds GOP farm policy

Item 9: Langer and Stevenson linked in fall campaign

Item 10: Aandahl as speaker at Evangelical Lutheran Church Brotherhood annual fall convention - Valley City circuit

Item 11: Langer urges vote for certain ND Democrat state candidates

Item 12: Eisenhower and Langer victories in general election

Item 13: Editorial speculation on Aandahl’s future role in ROC and ND politics

Item 14: J. B. Bridston criticizes Langer’s “alien immigration” bills, asks US Senate to investigate

Item 15: W.B. Alien, Grand Forks Herald, column on new political alignments in ND following November election and anticipating the 1953 legislative session

Item 16: Future of the ROC, Aandahl’s plans, and Norman Brunsdale for a third term as governor?

Item 17: Eisenhower’s victory in ND: impact on Langer in as much as Langer campaigned (unofficially) for Stevenson

Item 18: Strong write-in vote for Aandahl in November US Senate contest

Item 19: Aandahl’s final newsletter as Congressman

Folder 6: Newspaper Clippings: January - May 13, 1953

Item 1: Aandahl being considered for Department of the Interior post

Item 2: Press release regarding Aandahl appointment to Interior job, February 3

Item 3: Leaders applaud choice of Aandahl as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Power

Item 4: Aandahl’s statement regarding theory of government vs. private generation of steam power

Item 5: Senate confirmation hearing: full proceedings as presented for use of Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Item 6: Press reports of confirmation hearing, committee approval February 5, confirmation by full US Senate, February 10

Item 7: Editorial reaction to Aandahl appointment

Item 8: McKay, US Secretary of the Interior, appoints Aandahl to temporarily head Bureau of Reclamation while McKay searches for new commissioner

Item 9: Aandahl Recognition Dinner in Valley City, March 9

Item 10: Editorials and news stories on the continuing issue of private vs. public power

Item 11: Frying Pan-Arkansas Project in Colorado

Item 12: Orland, CA, irrigation project: acreage limitations

Item 13: Southwestern Power Administration (SPA) contracts for marketing hydroelectric power from federal dams

Item 14: Personnel cuts in Bureau of Reclamation: reduction offeree necessitated by requirements of new appropriation bill

Item 15: Aandahl: “No administration should turn federally produced power over to private big business”

Item 16: Aandahl’s speech to National Rural Electric Cooperatives Administration Board, May 1, discusses REA- financed cooperatives as preference customers, stressing four forms of private enterprise: individual ownership, partnership, corporate ownership, and cooperatives

Item 17: Future of Southwestern Power Association (SPA)

Item 18: Statements and speeches on public vs. private power

Item 19: Congressional Record of May 13, 1953, Aandahl speech to Chamber of Commerce of the US on “Power Policies/Effect on Multipurpose Projects”

Folder 7: Newspaper Clippings: May 14 - October 1953.

Item 1: Who will receive Southwestern Power Association (SPA) power: private companies or cooperatives and municipalities? (preference customers: municipalities and cooperatives)

Item 2: Hells Canyon issue

Item 3: Reclamation Bureau activities

Item 4: Frying Pan- Arkansas Project issues regarding sale of federal power in the Southwest (electric cooperatives vs. private electric companies)

Item 5: Southeast Power Administration (SEPA): Clark Hill-Greenwood

Item 6: Aandahl: major statement on history and purpose of Garrison Dam, June (time of closing of dam structure)

Item 7: Ceremony of Garrison Dam closing

Item 8: Heart River, ND, irrigation plan

Item 9: Georgia Power Company

Item 10: SEPA/Appalachian Electric Power Company

Item 11: REA power exchange policy

Item 12: US Bureau of Reclamation policy and reorganization plan

Item 13: Major Interior Statement on “Power Policy”, August 18 (Eisenhower, McKay and Aandahl)

Item 14: Idaho Power Company-Snake River dams as alternative to Hells Canyon Dam

Item 15: Issue of payment for surplus cooperative power

Item 16: Editorials from national publications: Electrical World, Rural Electrification Magazine, Public Utilities Fortnightly, Engineering News Record, Washington Post, and New York Herald Tribune

Item 17: Aandahl speech to Missouri Basin Inter- Agency Committee meeting in Fargo, September 29-30: major statement regarding Interior’s new power policy for selling public power to private utilities, also steam plant issue

Item 18: Criteria established for sale of federally generated power

Item 19: South Dakota questions regarding Fort Randall power: Aandahl speeches in Sioux Falls to the East River SD REA and in Pierre to the SD Municipal League

Item 20: Interior officials pledge water projects for West, Denver Post, Denver meeting of National Reclamation Association

Item 21: Clark Hill project on Savannah River in Georgia, “Electric Power Showdown: Public vs. Private” “No Intent to Create a Federal Power Monopoly”

Item 22: Dedication of Trenton Dam and Swanson Lake Reservoir, NE (Republican River Valley)

Item 23: New power policy criteria: power supply, marketing area, contracting, and adjustment in rates

Item 24: The “new policy” defines a narrow federal role in power development and puts “primary responsibility” for supplying power needs in the hands of local private and public interests

Item 25: Canton Lake Irrigation District, Greenfield, OK

Item 26: Irrigation proposals at Foss and Fort Cable Reservoirs near Hobart, OK

Item 27: US Bureau of Reclamation national headquarters will move to Denver under announced reorganization program

Item 28: Reorganization of US Bureau of Reclamation

Item 29: Langer/Young patronage deadlock

Folder 8: Newspaper Clippings: November - December 1953.

Item 1: Missouri Basin power marketing guides: new “Power Policy and Marketing Criteria”

Item 2: Call for suspension of Ralph Tudor as Under Secretary of the Interior

Item 3: “Equality clause” in purchasing agreements for preference customers of federal power; also withdrawal and recapture clauses

Item 4: REA managers and directors resist and protest new power policies, ask that new policy be postponed

Item 5: REA’s declare that they are dependent on present interest rate on REA loans and on abundant low-cost power

Item 6: Denver Post editorial critique of Reclamation Bureau reorganization, alleging negative impact and intent; relates Hoover Commission’s recommendations for consolidation of functions under Department of the Interior; McKay/Tudor accused of selling-out the Interior Department and Bureau of Reclamation, as well as surrendering to US Corps of Engineers notoriously linked to private utilities)

Item 7: Power policy revisions to answer concerns of power cooperatives regarding marketing guides; partial agreement reached on areas of discord and dispute

Item 8: Aandahl’s “clarifying statement” defends new power policy, especially marketing guides for sale of public power in Missouri Basin; “interpretations” attempt to alleviate concerns regarding preference clauses

Item 9: Revised recommendations for Upper Colorado River  Storage Project: new “unit feasibility” requirement

Item 10: Kings River and Fresno, California (hydro power and irrigation) disputes in US 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals; request for dismissal of government’s appeal for review

Item 11: Aandahl says, “Cooperatives will get all of the federal power they can use; it will be our purpose to fully protect the rights and privileges of preference customers.”

Item 12: REAs focus on need to reinstate “retraction” provisions of previous marketing policies

Item 13: Power supply for high priority groups is virtually guaranteed over a long period by the latest “interpretations”

Item 14: Continuing effort to force dismissal of Ralph Tudor, seen as “mastermind” of unwelcome changes of policy at Interior

Item 15: Virginia Power Company/Roanoke Rapids litigation

Item 16: Kings River, CA regarding Federal Power Commission

Item 17: California Water Project Authority

Item 18: Central Valley, CA: possible state acquisition and possible acquisition of Folsom Dam, CA

Item 19: Langer’s Senate Judiciary Sub Committee holds hearings on federal power policy

Item 20: Denver meeting of “grass roots” revolt against Eisenhower power policy (Colorado Association of REA Cooperatives); national two-day power conference to be held

Item 21: Denver meeting: seven hundred delegates from twenty-nine states attending National Electric Consumers Conference, James G. Patton and Glen Talbot of Farmers Union very vocal at Denver meeting Hells Canyon Association demands federal development of Idaho’s Snake River

Item 22: “Greedy” private power firms accused of trying to raid the public domain of federal power

Item 23: Announced additions and clarifications of power marketing plan and contracts with preference customers; revised criteria to assure full protection for preference customers

Item 24: Interior statement of revised standards for power allocation, assuring power as needed for preference customers

Item 25: Colorado River Basin; competition between states of CO and CA for Colorado River projects; also Clark Hill Project, GA, along Savannah River

Item 26: McKay seen as “more intimate” with Corps of Engineers than with Bureau of Reclamation

Item 27: Review of McKay’s reasons for withdrawal from Hells Canyon project on Snake River and the Idaho Power Company private interests

Item 28: Aandahl’s statement to Senator Karl Mundt (SD) regarding protection of full preference rights of all actual and potential customers of Missouri River power

Item 29: More Senate hearings on subject of contracts for public power to be held in January 1954

Item 30: Aandahl assures rural electric cooperatives that they will have full preference rights to public power

Item 31: Minnesota Power Cooperative publishes lengthy defense of Interior Department’s public power policy, article in Minnkota Memo

Folder 9: Newspaper Clippings: January - February 19, 1954.

Item 1: Congressional hearings question legality of new power marketing criteria; hear request for criteria changes (both in US House and US Senate)

Item 2: Marquis Childs, newspaper columnist, comments on new power policies

Item 3: Eisenhower defends new power sale policy and new marketing criteria

Item 4: Aandahl’s speech to National REA Convention in Miami: Aandahl fears “crusaders for a federal government monopoly of the electric power business”, using REAs to gain this end; vigorous denial and debate; highly controversial; heated response

Item 5: Aandahl’s Lincoln Day speeches in Kansas: Department of Interior is aggressively encouraging construction of additional multi-purpose dams; interior invites partnerships with local interests; recommends Department builds transmission facilities and interconnecting lines where feasible to prevent “centralization”; effort to reconcile interests of preference customers in non-preference entities

Item 6: Georgia Power Company vs. Georgia RECs regarding Clark Hill power

Item 7: In testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Sub Committee, Solicitor Clarence A. Davis repeated charges that NRECA officials are using rural electric cooperatives to crusade for a “federalization” of the electric industry

Item 8: US House Interior Committee hearings on proposed marketing criteria

Item 9: McKay refuses to extend criteria deadline

Item 10: Issue of federal “utility responsibility”

Item 11: Congressional Record, February 3, 1954: remarks of Representative A. L. Miller (NE) regarding “Criteria for Power”

Item 12: Controversy over height of Garrison Dam pool reservoir: 1850 feet vs. 1830 or 1840 feet

Item 13: US policy on “Buy American”: question of federal government accepting bids from foreign companies

Item 14: Continued controversy over distribution of power in Georgia; Clark Hill, publicly built reservoir; Georgia Power Company vs. REAs

Item 15: Georgia Power Company proposal for distribution of Clark Hill power given White House approval; (controversy between power companies and REAs began in 1950); article on details of proposal regarding preference customers; withdrawal clauses; low-cost, widespread distribution under government control at all times and orderly amortization of government investment

Item 16: Georgia REAs strongly oppose contract with Georgia Power Company, declaring that selling power directly to private utilities is a departure from former policy; decision would be a turning point in distribution policy for federally generated power

Item 17: Hoover Commission to hold hearings on Water Resources and Power, seen as partial victory for public power advocates

Item 18: Southwestern Power Administration (SPA) reorganization ordered by McKay, including staff cuts and downgrading; move is seen as a “grab” by private utilities

Folder 10: Newspaper Clippings: February 22 - March 18, 1954.

Item 1: Thomas L. Stokes: comments on Clark Hill/Georgia Power Company

Item 2: Planning for Missouri-Souris Project in ND

Item 3: Marquis Childs, newspaper columnist: cooperatives fear loss of preference for public power; farmers discontented with Eisenhower’s farm policy; administration is accused of destroying the partnership between the federal government and local power systems; Aandahl complaint against promoters of a “federal power monopoly” raises anger and resentment among rural cooperatives

Item 4: REA cooperatives protest plan for Clark Hill Dam power disposal

Item 5: Leland Olds accuses administration of using the strategy of private power utilities to destroy the foundation of low-cost federal electricity upon which rural cooperatives depend (Olds is former chairman of the Federal Power Commission, 1939-1949)

Item 6: Court fight predicted in Georgia Power Company contract award

Item 7: Speech by Herbert Hoover, April, 1953, outlined a program for getting the federal government “out of the business of generating and distributing power as soon as possible”

Item 8: Dispute over Southwest Power Administration (SPA) reorganization plan

Item 9: Langer condemned by national press for Earl Warren “smear” (during Warren’s nomination for US Supreme Court Chief Justice)

Item 10: Rural Electrification articles on Clark Hill power plan and the reorganizing of SPA

Item 11: Rural Power Magazine: SPA being “systematically strangled”

Item 12: Effort to restore funds in Table Rock Dam, MO; cuts were made by Bureau of Budget in 1953, after construction had begun

Item 13: Aandahl emphasizes: “we must face up to the fact that federal power is not going to be sufficient”; cooperatives must find other power sources, such as private electric utilities

Item 14: Governor Frank Clement (MS): speech in defense of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Item 15: Public Power: SPA demoted by Interior, no longer to be a federal agency, but instead a “marketing division”

Item 16: Electrical World: Clark Hill/Georgia Power Company offer for delivering power to preference customers from federal project is supported by Interior; this is expected to have a wide effect on existing public- private contracts

Item 17: Newsweek: “A Shift to Free Enterprise” (a basic change in policy on the sale of government-generated electric power

Item 18: Time: Langer as “Bilbo of the North” (in connection with hearings on Earl Warren appointment as US Chief Justice)

Item 19: Clarence A. Davis, Solicitor of the Department of the Interior: explanation of all public power legislation since 1906, especially as related to preference customers

Item 20: Bismarck Tribune editorial: pro-administration power policy

Item 21: Meetings to determine basis for distribution of Missouri River power among preference customers Denver Power Conference to allocate federal power under new marketing regulations; also meetings in Lincoln, NE and Casper, WY

Item 22: At Denver, Lincoln and Casper meetings, Aandahl repeatedly asserts that all rights of preference customers will be protected under the new criteria; “We don’t want to do anything to hurt the REAs”

Item 23: Missouri Basin power goes only to preference customers or will be held available to them; there will not be enough power to supply private utilities and the needs of the entire Missouri Basin (power shortage anticipated after 1956 in region of Colorado, Wyoming, and western Nebraska)

Item 24: Aandahl urges two new power projects in Wyoming and Montana: Yellowtail Dam and Glendo Unit

Item 25: Denver Power Conference brings new harmony and agreement of purpose and procedures between Interior and REAs; REAs see a “relaxation” of previously announced power marketing standards by the Eisenhower  administration; Aandahl insists there has been no change in the policy adopted in 1953, original statements had been misunderstood

Item 26: Nebraska: controversy between Nebraska Public Power System and Consumer Public Power District

Item 27: Bureau of Reclamation “office” will be retained in Casper, WY

Item 28: Discussion of state-wide power grid for Wyoming

Item 29: American Public Power weekly newsletter: no twenty-year contracts without withdrawal clauses for private power companies

Item 30: Casper, WY: Aandahl urges further meetings to establish sites for generating plants and to permit further planning of the state power grid; cooperation promised by public and private power groups

Item 31: Fargo Forum: insurgents have full “feel” of victory in ND politics

Item 32: Public Utilities Fortnightly: consolidation of SPA Meetings to be held with preference power customers in the eastern division of the Missouri Basin

Folder 11: Newspaper Clippings: March 22 - April 1954.

Item 1: Pine Bluffs, WY, seeks proposed federal power plant

Item 2: Electrical World: at meetings in Denver and Casper, Aandahl urges private and public power companies to begin planning steam plants at once to take care of anticipated needs after 1956

Item 3: South Dakota power users to get power from Fort Randall, Gavins Point, and Garrison dams; meetings held on the availability and allocation of hydro-power

Item 4: North Dakota NPL convention keynote speech

Item 5: Walton Tribune (Monroe, GA): defends rural electric cooperatives in contract fight with Georgia Power Company

Item 6: Progress (Acworth, GA): should Clark Hill electricity be sold to Georgia Power Company or to the REA cooperatives?

Item 7: Concern over rumor of boost in power rates; Aandahl denies any “formal” study of revised federal power rates in the Missouri Basin

Item 8: Rural Electrification: “The New Look in Federal Power”; “Withdrawal Clause to Remain in Long-term Power Contracts”

Item 9: Colorado Rural Electric News : lengthy report on Denver meeting

Item 10: Cooperatives herald announcement that withdrawal clause will remain in all long-term private utility contracts for federal power

Item 11: Rural Electric Missourian: Southwestern Power Administration restructuring protested by cooperatives

Item 12: Colorado Rural Electric: cooperatives’ claim triumph in battle against new policies of Eisenhower administration regarding public power contracts, preference customers, and withdrawal clauses

Item 13: Idaho Reclamation News : Aandahl as a principal speaker at the 18^th annual meeting of Idaho State Reclamation Association

Item 14: Rural Electric Missourian: Georgia cooperatives fight contract which may form pattern all over the country, i.e. Georgia Power Company; also report of Missouri State ERA annual meeting

Item 15: Public Power magazine: report of Denver meeting with representatives of power customers (again preference guidelines and inclusion of withdrawal and “recapture” clauses)

Item 16: Public Utilities Fortnightly: “Washington and the Utilities, the Preference Clause”; implication of “recapture clause” in operation of private utilities (they would have no assured claim on federally generated power)

Item 17: Fargo Forum: Aandahl says Garrison Dam power is assured for Mooched, MN

Item 18: Policies regarding Missouri River power; marketing and applications for hydroelectricity

Item 19: Aandahl outlines a three point proposal for sale of firm power from Missouri River projects (eastern division including Montana east of Continental Divide, North Dakota, South Dakota, portions of Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska); series of meetings in Sioux Falls, Bismarck, and Billings; Aandahl proposal receives general acclaim and support

Item 20: Montana push for legislation approving construction of Yellowtail Dam

Item 21: Negotiating meetings to settle issue of sale of Clark Hill (GA) power

Folder 12: Newspaper Clippings: May - July 18, 1954

Item 1: Editorial comment, National Union Farmer, on Hoover Plan, forgetting the federal government “out of the business of generating and distributing power as soon as possible”; Hoover Commission set up as a temporary task force to study the reorganization of the federal venture in electric power

Item 2: Rural Electrification: Congressional funding for SPA operations; rural electric coops in Georgia offer new marketing proposals for Clark Hill Dam federal power

Item 3: Oklahoma Rural News : dispute over contracts between SPA and Central Electric Cooperative in Missouri

Item 4: Congressional Record: extension of remarks of Hon. A_. L. Miller (NE) in the House of Representatives on subject of rural electrification

Item 5: Meeting of Idaho State Reclamation Association: Aandahl outlines the primary responsibilities of the Department of the Interior; Aandahl logs irrigation initiatives

Item 6: Salt Lake City Tribune: Aandahl says irrigation is top Reclamation duty

Item 7: Congressional Record: remarks by Hon. William Langer (ND) of the Senate: violation of Rural Electrification Administration contracts

Item 8: New York Times: the West renews demands for water and power

Item 9: Congressional Record: transmission and disposition of electric energy generated at Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande; discussion of an amendment regarding “preference” clauses

Item 10: ERA plea for share of electric power in eastern North Carolina regarding John H. Kerr Dam at Buggs Island, Carolina Power and Light (CP&L)

Item 11: Rural Electrification: report of federal appropriations recommendations for ERA, TV A, and federal hydro projects under construction by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers

Item 12: Controversy regarding SPA hydro facilities and generation and transmission (G-T) cooperative generator and line capability usage (Clyde Ellis speaking for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association)

Item 13: Rural Electrification: further articles on Georgia Power Company-dark Hill Dam power dispute

Item 14: ROC campaign rally in Lisbon, ND

Item 15: Public Utilities Fortnightly: Aandahl statement on “Federal Power Policy” Allocation issue regarding Buggs Island (John H. Kerr Dam) power; requests by eastern North Carolina cooperatives

Item 16: Langer continues opposition to Eisenhower Administration power policies, citing fear of a “wholesale power monopoly by private utilities”

Item 17: Rural Electric Missourian: SPA funding to service G-T cooperatives

Item 18: Western Water News : Pine Flat Dam-Kings River Conservation District; proposed contracts regarding irrigation acreage limitations and lump sum payments

Item 19: Aandahl speech on “Partnership Power Policy” at Republican fund raiser in Wenatchee, WA

Item 20: Aandahl week-long tour of Pacific Northwest agencies (Bonneville Power Administration, etc.); discussion of “Basin Account System” and “Partnership” policy for construction of dams using both federal and local funds

Item 21: Wenatchee Daily World: wide-ranging press conference by Aandahl; editorial, “Aandahl Was a Welcome Guest”

Folder 13: Newspaper Clippings: July 19 - December 1954.

Item 1: Seattle Daily Times: “Streamlining” of Columbia Power agency (Bonneville Power Administration)

Item 2: Congressional Record: Senate debate on Eisenhower policies, July 21-22, specifically the “partnership policy”

Item 3: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum column on analysis of election results June 1954 ND primary

Item 4: Reorganization plan for Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) plus SPA and Southeastern Power Administration (personnel, executive committee, engineering division, etc.)

Item 5: Controversy over sale of water from the Kendrick Reclamation project in Wyoming to Nebraska irrigation districts further down the North Platte River

Item 6: Disagreement between Colorado eastern and western slopes regarding upper Colorado River storage project

Item 7: “Whirligig” Fargo Forum column on C.P. Dahl as major Republican prospect for governor of ND in 1956

Item 8: Fresno Bee: San Luis Project; irrigation water for the San Joaquin Valley’s west side

Item 9: Wall Street Journal: BPA rates

Item 10: Delay in awarding contract for Georgia’s half of the power from Clark Hill project on the Savannah River

Item 11: Coppers Farmer: Aandahl comprehensive statement on Eisenhower Administration power policy

Item 12: Aandahl speech to Iowa Utilities Association at Des Moines: “trend toward federal monopoly has been stopped; partnership with local groups is key to progress”

Item 13: Tulsa Tribune: new dams proposed for Oklahoma; alternative to earlier proposals which are hotly debated because of inundation of farm land

Item 14: Tulsa World: SPA to reduce power outputs because of drought

Item 15: Aandahl appearance in Boise, Sacramento, and cities in Oregon

Item 16: Reclamation policies debated in Boise election campaign appearances; “private vs. public power”

Item 17: Aandahl discusses power policy at Boise Kiwanis Club; navigation, flood control, and irrigation

Item 18: Weiser (ID) Signal: “Partner Power Policy Succeeds”

Item 19: Burly (ID) Herald, Burns (OR) Times-Herald: Aandahl speeches on power policy, specifically Hells Canyon Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Union: Trinity River Project, Sacramento Valley Canals, Red Bluff, Shasta Dam, and Monticello Dam

Item 20: The Tulelake (CA) Reporter: Aandahl tour of Tulelake basin and Klamath River areas

Item 21: Klamath Falls (OR) Herald and News : Klamath Falls power and water meeting

Item 22: SPA contracts for marketing G-T cooperatives’ surplus power

Item 23: Discussion for arrangements for disposal of Kerr Dam power in NC

Item 24: Atlanta Constitution: action near on four-year controversy over distribution of federal power from Clark Hill Project on the Savannah River

Folder 14: Newspaper Clippings: January. - September 1955

Item 1: Rocky Mountain (CO) News : plans to start construction on Colorado River Storage Project (Upper Colorado River Basin); congressional hearings seeking authorization

Item 2: Denver Post: Denver assured of receiving western slope water through the purchase of Blue River water if Congress approves; or if Congress does not approve the controversial Upper Colorado legislation, Denver may still be able to legally buy the water through negotiation

Item 3: Aandahl statement regarding firm power allocations from Fort Randall (SD) Dam

Item 4: Beatrice (NE) Daily Sun: denial of budget request for money to build a higher voltage transmission line from Fort Randall Dam to Neligh, NE

Item 5: Kansas City Star: Aandahl speech to Missouri Valley Electric Association Engineering Conference regarding federal and local cooperation on power projects

Item 6: Aberdeen (SD) American News : Aandahl speech to the SD Press Association; visit to Sand Lake Federal Game Refuge; “Aandahl stresses power partnership”

Item 7: Discussion of the fact that ND will need power sources in addition to power generated by Garrison Dam

Item 8: Electric Light and Power: Aandahl's plea for “partnership” at Missouri Valley Electric Association Engineering Conference in Kansas City, MO

Item 9: Utah Water News : Aandahl, speaking for Eisenhower Administration, approves development of Upper Colorado River Basin Storage Project, also Frying Pan-Arkansas Project

Item 10: Bismarck Tribune: Aandahl defends US power policy

Item 11: Washington Post: power policy scored by ex-Interior aide

Item 12: Anchorage Daily Times: proposal for operation and maintenance of Eklutna Power Project near Anchorage

Item 13: Discussion of future policies regarding irrigation in ND

Item 14: Numerous articles on Eisenhower’s power policy and the “partnership” concept

Item 15: Congressional hearing regarding pool level of Garrison Dam and total cost of Missouri Basin projects

Item 16: Dedication of the Kirwin (KS) Dam, North Fork Solomon River (a multipurpose dam based on national, area, and local cooperation; a major project of the Missouri Basin Flood Control series)

Item 17: US Senate hearings on question of SPA funding (rural electric cooperatives vs. private utilities, once again)

Item 18: Department of Interior opposition to proposed federally built Hells Canyon project; Aandahl declares position of Eisenhower Administration favoring “ partnership” concept; if non-federal sources are available, they should be encouraged

Item 19: Support for “non-federal” approach to Trinity project in Upper Colorado legislation in Senate

Item 20: Question of allocation of power from proposed Big Bend Dam in SD

Item 21: Power agreement (modified wheeling agreement) regarding transmission from Clark Hill Dam to rural electric cooperatives in GA; impact on theory of” preferred customers”

Item 22: Question of feasibility of power line from Fort Randall Dam to Neligh, NE

Item 23: The North Dakotan (GNDA): interview of Aandahl by Fred J. Fredrickson regarding Garrison Diversion

Item 24: Aandahl as guest of Republican organization, Minute Men, at annual Constitution Dinner, Tulsa, OK

Item 25: Negotiations over SPA contracts regarding cooperatives’ steam-generating plants, Tulsa, OK

Folder 15: Newspaper Clippings: October - December 1955

Item 1: Aandahl review of Eisenhower Administration power plan and policies for House Committee on Government Operations; preview of public-private power dispute shaping up for 1956 election; Aandahl states: “federal monopoly threat discourages local responsibility”

Item 2: Continuing dispute over contract for sale of power to Georgia Power Company and Georgia electric cooperatives (wheeling arrangement) for Clark Hill Dam

Item 3: Heated discussions at hearing held by the Sub Committee of House Government Operations Committee; accusations regarding US Attorney General’s opinion in conferences at White House on the issue of power contracts for Clark Hill Dam

Item 4: Articles on subject of US Attorney General’s opinion in conferences at White House conference regarding Clark Hill Dam/Georgia Power Company: New York Times, Washington Post-Times Herald, Denver Post, Wall Street Journal, Journal of Commerce, Bismarck Tribune, National Union Farmer, Electrical World, and the American Public Power Association Newsletter

Item 5: Question: Are REC’s receiving the preference which Congress intended them to have in buying public power?

Item 6: Aandahl: “Federal regional monopoly in the production of power is discouraging local responsibility” in those areas; issue: public vs. private power; defense of “partnership” approach

Item 7: Washington Post: Democrats in US House accused of biased inquiry and hearing on Clark Hill controversy (unwillingness to allow opposing point of view to be heard); “biased argument for partisan purposes”

Item 8: Electrical World: expanded interpretation of 1955 US Attorney General’s opinion regarding “preference” customers and the protection of rights of “non-preference” customers, as well; Georgia Power Company president presents answers to US House Sub Committee’s Clark Hill probe

Item 9: Rural Electrification: discussion of definition of “socialism”

Item 10: Ancher Nelson, REA Administrator, testimony before the US House Committee

Item 11: REC national organization requests resignation of three Interior officials: McKay, Davis, and Aandahl

Item 12: Electric Light and Power: editorial comment on House Committee hearings

Item 13: Public Power: editorial on US Attorney General’s opinion; preference law is “mandate”

Item 14: White House blocks Interior contracts to two American electrical equipment companies; wants contracts given to European companies which had underbid American suppliers; “White House move aids foreign contract bidders”

Item 15: ND GOP Unity meetings bring ROC and NPL leaders together (November 1955)

Item 16: Public Utilities Fortnightly: “Washington and the utilities”; analysis of House Government Operations Sub Committee hearing to “investigate” Interior Department power policies

Item 17: Speech to ND Reclamation Association Convention; “water strongest factor in ND growth”; “need to find ND market for irrigation water in order to secure funds for Garrison Diversion’”

Item 18: Economic Outlook (CIO publication): Pamphlet # 24 1 “Power Resources”

Item 19: Public Power and Rural Electrification: editorial columns regarding US Attorney General’s opinion, Clark Hill power allocation, Hells Canyon

Item 20: Atlanta Journal: report on further discussion and negotiation on Clark Hill power

Item 21: Denver Post: Sherman Adams’ statement regarding need for a public water policy adopted by national government; sees federal government as a “partner”, not a “boss"

Folder 16: Newspaper Clippings: January - May 18, 1955.

Item 1: Rural electric cooperatives assert identity as “conservative” fanner utilities

Item 2: Democrats press to tighten preference laws; administration seeks flexibility and a reasonable time limit in order to facilitate federal-state-local “partnerships”

Item 3: Washington Post Time Herald: editorial column on “giveaway” charges concerning Interiors policy regarding water resources and hydroelectric power. “Partnership or Power Giveaway?”

Item 4: Clark Hill Dam federal power marketing agreement under consideration

Item 5: King’s River Project, Fresno County, CA, repayment contract under

Item 6: Georgia Power Company - Clark Hill Dam controversy: statement in Congressional Record by Congressman Earl Chudoff of Pennsylvania

Item 7: Senator Estes Kefauver’s speech denouncing administration power policies

Item 8: Rate increase proposal for Southwestern Power Administration

Item 9: Engineering News-Record: future role of Bureau of Reclamation; specific projects under consideration, especially irrigation projects

Item 10: Aandahl and Kerr (Senator Dem - OK) debate Southwestern Power Administration rate hike at joint House-Senate subcommittee hearing; allocation methods at issue

Item 11: Studies underway on all federal power rates, discussion of uniform policy of cost allocation for federal projects and the issue of “wheeling” authority

Item 12: Dedication of Folsom Dam (American River) at Sacramento, CA

Item 13: Congressional committee accuses Department of Interior of trying to establish a “private power monopoly” and of a “negative attitude” towards statutory preference customers

Item 14: McKay resigns as Secretary of Interior to oppose Wayne Morris in Oregon race for US Senate

Item 15: John Davis nominated for ND Governor at the “United Republicans” convention

Item 16: Public Utilities Fortnightly: article on “Power Policy Politics”

Item 17: Problem of potential water shortage in America addressed at convention of American Waterworks Association

Item 18: Public Utilities Fortnightly: article on “Indirect Legislation in Committee Report” regarding utilities committee reports used as an attempt to establish evidence of “intent of Congress”; issues relate to use TBA funds, appropriation for Southwestern Power Administration, and Clark Hill power to Georgia  cooperatives and municipalities

Item 19: Compromise settlement contract regarding dispute over Clark Hill power: Georgia Power Company and Southeastern Power Administration; supplemental contracts with preference customers

Folder 17: Newspaper Clippings: May 21 -  August 13, 1956.

Item 1: Democratic-controlled House subcommittee (Chudoff) attack on Eisenhower Administration power policies; OOP rebuttal

Item 2: Electrical World: Clark Hill power contract

Item 3: Congressional Record: remarks regarding appointment of Fred A. Seaton to succeed Douglas McKay as Secretary of the Interior

Item 4: Aandahl announces Interior Department’s Defense Power Preparation for possible national emergencies: “to assure electric power for defense purposes in event of a national emergency”

Item 5: Distillation of sea water as source of water supply

Item 6: House Government Operations Committee democrat majority denounce Eisenhower power policy; Republicans issue dissenting report

Item 7: Public Power: article on Clark Hill power settlement

Item 8: Public Utilities Fortnightly: article by Aandahl stating plans and policy regarding Defense Emergency Power mobilization; Interior given coordinating authority by Defense Mobilization Office and by Federal Civil Defense Administration; “Operation Alert -1956” (mock attack)

Item 9: American Public Power Association (APPA) Newsletter: House Government Operations Committee report on Eisenhower power policies

Item 10: Business Week: appoint of Fred A. Seaton

Item 11: Electrical World: House Government Operations Committee report on Eisenhower power policies (“partnership concept”); Democrat majority report and Republican minority response

Item 12: House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee studies federal power rate freeze

Item 13: Rural Electrification: article on House Government Operations Committee (Chudoff) report on Eisenhower Administration power policies

Item 14: Public Power: article on House Government Operations Committee (Chudoff) report on Eisenhower Administration power policies

Item 15: National Union Farmer: article on House Government Operations Committee (Chudoff) report on Eisenhower Administration power policies

Item 16: Electric Light and Power: article on Republican minority response to Chudoff report

Item 17: Dispute over booklet prepared by private power companies relating to federal power program

Item 18: Electrical World: analysis of Chudoff s attack on private power company’s sponsorship of booklet on the subject of federal power program

Item 19: Dedication of Bostwick Irrigation District, Red Cloud, NE

Item 20: Public Power: article on Chudoff hearings regarding publication of booklet by private power companies

Item 21: Article on need for contracts with water user organizations before construction of Bureau of Reclamation projects strictly for irrigation

Item 22: Southwestern Power Administration rate increases opposed by rural electric leaders

Item 23: APPA Newsletter: Congress passes legislation to freeze Southwest power rates

Item 24: Hasting (NE) Daily Tribune: Bostwick Irrigation project along Republican River in NE and KS; Aandahl gives dedication address at Red Cloud, NE; similar articles also in Omaha World Tribune, Lincoln Star, and Lincoln Evening Journal

Item 25: Inspection tour of sight for proposed Mid-State Irrigation project near Grand Island, NE

Item 26: Pact for SPA to sell power to Bentonville, AR SPA rate freeze vetoed by Eisenhower

Item 27: Dedication of Fort Randall Dam near Mitchell, SD

Folder 18: Newspaper Clippings: August 16 - December 1956.

Item 1: Electric Light and Power: Chudoff House Committee hearing on the sponsorship of booklet on the subject of “The Federal Power Program”

Item 2: Date set for dedication of Sheyenne, ND development farm; originated to demonstrate the possibilities of irrigation from Missouri River Diversion project

Item 3: Public Utilities Fortnightly: article on Eisenhower veto of rate hike freeze and Eisenhower veto of a rivers and harbors bill approving projects and basin improvements

Item 4: Rural Electrification: article on Eisenhower veto of Kerr Bill which was the rate hike freeze legislation relating to the Southwestern Power Administration

Item 5: Public Power: President’s veto of Southwest rate freeze

Item 6: Aandahl: no diversion water from Garrison until farmers indicate they want it; Aandahl’s vision of the benefits of irrigation (Fargo Forum and Valley City Times Record coverage of annual meeting of ND Reclamation Association)

Item 7: Public Utilities Fortnightly: “Fixing Government Power Rates in the Southwest”; what is the outlook following the veto of the Kerr Bill which froze the rates charged to power cooperatives and municipalities for power marketed by Southwestern Power Administration?

Item 8: Speech at dedication of Sheyenne development farm, pilot project to demonstrate value of gravity irrigation; irrigation called the key to “ND Farm Empire”

Item 9: Fargo Forum: editorial advice to gubernatorial candidate John E. Davis

Item 10: Aandahl as popular reclamation speaker throughout the nation

Item 11: Yakima, WA: call for use of “basin accounting principles” in Yakima Irrigation Project; also call for hearing of the size of irrigation units in the Columbia Basin; Aandahl stresses “partnership” development of resources - federal, state, local

Item 12: Report on record increase in reclamation extension in Columbia Basin; request to end special limitation on land ownership in the Columbia Basin project

Item 13: Allocation of federal power to Roseville, CA; “Roseville wins fight to obtain federal power for municipal utility”

Item 14: Possibility of a “basin pooling plan”

Item 15: Speech at Reclamation Congress in Salem, OR and at Willamette Basin Project Committee joint meeting

Item 16: Interior press release regarding Southwest Power Administration rate schedule for preference customers

Item 17: Nevada Water Conference in Carson City as a means of coordinating federal and state programs and keeping all entities informed

Item 18: Speech in Iron Mountain, MI to address an Eisenhower-for-President Rally

Folder 19: Newspaper Clippings: January - May 20, 1957

Item 1: Columbia Basin hearings on farm size limitations; hearings held in Washington state: Mesa, Moses Lake, and Quincy, as reported in Wenatchee and Spokane Newspapers

Item 2: Missouri Basin Power Conference in Sioux Falls, SD. Purpose: develop a coordinated approach to the overall power supply problem in the area. Representatives of utility companies, Bureau of Reclamation, REA, US Corps of Engineers, Federal Power Commission, et al. Aandahl addresses group, describing Interior Department’s role in marketing federal power. Electrical World: discussion of power pool

Item 3: Denver Post: Aandahl Speech at Four-States Irrigation Council regarding western slopes benefits of upper Colorado River project; also discussion of Frying Pan-Arkansas project, dwindling ground water supplies, and potential for future food scarcity

Item 4: National Reclamation Association board meetings in Washington, DC

Item 5: Joint meeting of Missouri Basin and the Arkansas-White-Red interagency committees in Vicksburg, MS as reported in Vicksburg Evening Post and New Orleans Times-Picayune; Aandahl opposed to creation of new federal agency to carry out water resource development, i.e. MVA

Item 6: Des Moines, IA: meeting of National Farm Institute. Topics include desalted ocean water and a food allotment program for the needy. “Natural resources are to be used wisely for betterment of human life but must not be wasted”; need for water for a growing population

Item 7: New York Times: work being done to convert salt water for general use. Promise of solving the problem of future water supplies for nation; pilot plants, production costs, etc. Similar coverage in Washington Evening Star, all based on Aandahl speech in Des Moines, IA

Item 8: Testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, indicating willingness to recommend upward revision of land limitations on Columbia Basin Project

Item 9: Testimony at meeting of House Interior Subcommittee regarding production of fresh water from salt water

Item 10: Denver Post: article on cost of desalting sea water, as revealed in testimony at hearing of House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee; Aandahl defends continued research on desalination

Item 11: Public Utilities Fortnightly: statement of “partnership” power policy of Eisenhower Administration; use of natural resources to meet human needs of today and tomorrow; need for federal government to work with private enterprise and with state and local governments; effort to balance the role of each entity in controlling development of natural resources, consistent with maximum conservation. Also a revue of saline water research and development

Item 12: Senate passes bill on increasing the limit on land ownership in Columbia Basin Project

Item 13: Aspinall and others in Congressional hearing challenge

Item 14: Interior Department’s optimism regarding saltwater conversion Interior Department proposes renewed effort to construct federal “high” dam at Hells Canyon on Snake River (Aandahl letter to chairman of Senate Interior Committee)

Item 15: Senate action regarding payment to Indians for flooded land for the Big Horn River dam in Montana

Item 16: Announcement regarding awarding of construction contract for Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona

Item 17: New York Times: “Utilities Ready if Disaster Hits”. Nations electric utilities are ready for almost any major calamity. Plan for power supply interchange to guarantee service in important production centers, particularly in the event of an atomic attack. Nation has been divided into 16 regions. Utilities themselves doing the planning, but Interior provides the overall policy and supervision

Item 18: Speech at Klamath Falls, OR, banquet to celebrate 50 years-operation of Klamath Falls Federal Reclamation Project

Item 19: Daily Blade Tribune (Oceanside, CA): promise that saline water conversion will provide water to southern California cities for industrial and domestic purposes within next several years; analysis of three possible methods of conversion

Folder 20: Newspaper Clippings: May 24 - December 1957.

Item 1: Visit to Trinity River Dam project in California; reconfirms “partnership” approach; question of a private company building power facilities using dam’s falling water (newspapers from Redding and Sacramento, CA); photos from Humboldt Times of Eureka, CA

Item 2: Address to high school graduating class at Fairmont, MN (George Eddie Superintendent); Aandahl’s message: “High Achievement by Ordinary People”

Item 3: Barnes County (ND) Livestock Picnic held at Aandahl farm

Item 4: International Operating Engineer: article regarding address by Aandahl on the subject of “Planning a National Defense in the Power Plant Industry”. Reprint of Aandahl speech “The Electric Utility Industry in Civil Defense” presented at the American Power Conference sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago

Item 5: Main speaker at 50^th anniversary celebration at Huntley Reclamation Project near Billings, MT

Item 6: Speech to conference on problems of local water supply, sponsored by Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, held in Peoria. Three approaches to conserving water: desalt sea water, halt evaporation from reservoirs, and develop anti-pollution techniques. Reported in Peoria Journal Star and Engineering New-Record

Item 7: Federal government and Georgia Power Company sign contract linking all government built dams in GA and providing for the Georgia Power Company to deliver their output to preference customers. This ends a dispute of seven year’s standing (and expansion of the Clark Hill contract signed in 1956). Sources: Department of Interior Information Release, Columbus (GA) Inquirer, Moultrie (GA) Observer, Columbus (GA) Sunday Ledger-Inquirer

Item 8: Department of Interior Information Release: meeting of Colorado Basin States on Glen Canyon Reservoir, Aandahl chair of meeting, opening remarks by  Aandahl. Topic of concern: initial storage of water and power head

Item 9: Speculation that Aandahl may oppose Langer for US Senate in 1958 primary election

Item 10: Los Angeles Times: Glen Canyon controversy becomes acute, upper vs. lower Colorado River states. Will there be enough power for Hoover Dam, etc. as Glen Canyon on the upper river is filling?

Item 11: Engineering News-Record: states stir up Colorado River water fight; governors debate Glen Canyons effect on Hoover Dam’s power; effect on Lake Mead, competition among states

Item 12: Phoenix annual meeting of National Reclamation Association. Purpose should be to “foster widespread national understanding and acceptance of reclamation and its benefits”

Item 13: Meeting in Las Vegas: Colorado River Basin states meet to attempt to work out problems for filling the reservoir to be created by Glen Canyon Dam; lower basin states fear impoundment of water to fill reservoir, they want water released into Lake Mead; some upper basin state governors boycotted meeting; Aandahl promised that the interests of all states will be protected; problems of down-stream water users

Item 14: Public Utilities Fortnightly: article on desalting sea water; Interior Department’s Office of Saline Water meeting of international scientists and technicians in Washington DC; need for continued government assistance in developing process for desalination (still very expensive)

Item 15: Construction of power line from Fort Randall Dam (SD) into Nebraska

Item 16: Aandahl to be principal speaker of annual meeting of Minot (ND) Chamber of Commerce

Folder 21: Newspaper Clippings: 1958

Item 1: ND meetings regarding status of Garrison Diversion unit as part of broad national reclamation program; entire package to be assessed and reviewed by the Bureau of Budget, then proposal will be sent to Congress if Bureau gives “go ahead”

Item 2: Extensive excerpts of Aandahl’s speech to Minot Chamber of Commerce and related interviews regarding Garrison Diversion, et al ii, (strategy for gaining Congressional approval)

Item 3: Lincoln Day speech at Niles, MI

Item 4: Fargo Forum: editorial on pending US Senate race: should Langer receive Republican Convention endorsement?

Item 5: Aandahl declares no interest in US Senate race

Item 6: New York Times: saline water conversion tests advance

Item 7: Review of Columbia Basin problems: repayment contracts for irrigation construction, ownership limitations (units per farm owner), and impact of inflation and price increases on authorized construction

Item 8: Corning Canal (CA) controversy, part of Sacramento Valley Canals Project; clamor for interior action to complete Corning Canal

Item 9: Klamath Basin-Tule Lake homesteading issue; threat to wildlife habitat, need for flood protection

Item 10: San Luis (CA) authorization

Item 11: East River Electric Cooperative of Madison (SD): request for further power

Item 12: Aandahl to receive UND Alumni Distinguished Service citation and to give commencement address at UND

Item 13: Sioux Falls SD: Eastern Missouri Basin Power Conference; electric power suppliers seek a power pool program; envision savings on generating and operating costs; sharing of supply and reserve capacity

Item 14: Rural Electrification Newsletter: Idaho Power Company portrayed as having an anti-rural electrification record

Item 15: Reclamation News: lengthy statement on “status of saline water conversion”, prepared in office of Assistant Secretary of the Interior, “shows progress”

Item 16: Dedication of Lovewell Dam and Reservoir (KS) on White Rock Creek in Jewell County, part of Pick-Sloan development in the Republican River Basin

Item 17: Commencement address at UND’s 75^th Anniversary graduation ceremonies

Item 18: Corning Canal (CA): angry landowners threaten to sue US to get water; wrath centered on Bureau of Reclamation; Aandahl responds

Item 19: Congressional Record: text of Aandahl address to 45^th Annual Convention of National Rivers and Harbors Congress, entitled “Water: Our Greatest Natural Resource”

Item 20: Chemical and Engineering News: article on plans to build a number of plants to demonstrate saline water conversion processes; Congressional hearings on approval

Item 21: Who’s News and Why: “Current Biography” extended biographical article on Aandahl

Item 22: Aandahl supports ND constitutional amendment establishing four-year terms for state and county officials

Item 23: Northwest Electric Light and Power Association annual convention at Sun Valley, Idaho: Aandahl’s remarks regarding federal role in water development and conservation policies

Item 24: Address at ND Farm Bureau Convention; irrigation as key to crop diversification and stable farm economy

Item 25: Guest speaker for dedication of new National Guard Armory in Mayville, ND

Item 26: Power Users Conference in Sioux Falls, SD: Aandahl presents position of Bureau of Reclamation and Interior on power allocations and the ratio of firm power available to the net load; seeking users response to plans for disposition of available power, “Eastern Division Power Users of Missouri Basin”: a new statistical formula for determining power allotments from Fort Peck, Garrison, Oahe, Fort Randall, and Gavin’s Point

Item 27: Carrier Corporation awarded contract to build pilot plant for converting salt water to fresh water by direct freezing process (to be built in Syracuse, NY)

Folder 22: Newspaper Clippings: 1959-1961

Item 1: Question of system for allocating Missouri Basin public power among states

Item 2: Aandahl receives “Distinguished Service Award” from Department of Interior

Item 3: Groundbreaking ceremonies for Stanaker Dam of Vernal Unit, Central Utah Project of Colorado River Storage Project. Reported in: Vernal Express and Salt Lake Tribune

Item 4: Power pooling pacts: integration of public and private power generation and transmission in the Upper Missouri Basin

Item 5: ND delegation confers with representatives of Wall Street investment

Item 6: Speech at dedication of Litchville, ND waterworks and sewer project

Item 7: Speech at dedication of new facilities at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Medora, ND, also at Rugby and Jamestown, series arranged by ND Water Users Association; speech describes value of irrigation projects to individual farmers and the state economy, future of Garrison Diversion project, status of Congressional action on Garrison Diversion and other Bureau of Reclamation projects

Item 8: Speech at dedication of Bureau of Reclamation’s system dispatch center near Watertown, SD; dispatch center is the “nerve center” for control of power output by the Missouri dams; advocates “power pooling” among utility systems across the nation; Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee (MBIAC) meets in Watertown in conjunction with dedication ceremony

Item 9: Garrison Diversion plan  submitted to the Bureau of the Budget

Item 10: Bureau of Reclamation and MBIAC respond to criticism; Aandahl defends Bureau at town meeting

Item 11: Request by Denver to release water from Green Mountain Reservoir to help East Slope of Colorado

Item 12: Glen Canyon Dam Reservoir to be named Powell Lake, after explorer-geologist Major John Wesley Powell

Item 13: Speech at Syracuse, NY regarding sea water conversion at conference sponsored by the Temporary State Commission on Water Resources

Item 14: Speech at “Salute to Eisenhower” event at Sidney, NE as part of a series of seventy-five fund raising dinners across the nation, Aandahl’s topic is farm legislation and failure of past farm programs

Item 15: Bureau of Budget report cannot authorize Garrison Diversion project in present form; “Aandahl still hopeful”

Item 16: Series of discussion meetings in ND on strategy for promoting Congressional hearings and approval of Garrison Diversion legislation

Item 17: Bids submitted for building saltwater conversion plant

Item 18: Aandahl declares final Congressional approval of Garrison Diversion project faces and long and intensive battle

Item 19: Aandahl urges change in farm laws

Item 20: New Southwest Power Administration (SPA) hookup between Table Rock Dam and the Springfield Missouri SPA substation, Aandahl states line’s value to state of Missouri

Item 21: Meeting at University of Colorado on the subject of “Governmental Coordination of Water and Related Land Resources Developments”, Aandahl Speech on “Organization and Objectives of the Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources” (meeting included representatives from Interior, Bureau of Budget, and five water inter-agency groups)

Item 22: Garrison Conservancy District Board of Directors urged to continue work to get project approved by Congress; Young, Burdick, and Aandahl attend meeting at Oaks, ND

Item 23: Aandahl retires from Interior Department in January, 1961

Item 24: Aandahl appointed as Greater North Dakota Association consultant on natural resources despite some critics in ND Democrat leadership, both ND Republicans and ND Democrats praise Aandahl’s efforts on behalf of Garrison

Item 25: Editorial and interviews regarding Aandahl’s retirement in North Dakota and his political legacy

Series 3: North Dakota State Senate

Aandahl represented Barnes County in the North Dakota State Senate from 1931 until 1932, as well as from 1939 until 1942.

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Folder 1: Correspondence: 1939 – 1941

Box 8

Folder 23: Business Card, 1938

Series 4: North Dakota Governor

Aandahl was elected Governor of North Dakota in 1944 and served until 1950.

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Folder 1: Speeches: 1944—1946

Item 1: First Keynote Address. March 1944

Item 2: R.O.C. Radio Address. May 1944

Item 3: R.O.C. Radio Address. June 1944

Item 4: R.O.C. Radio Address. June 1944

Item 5: Radio Address. September 27, 1944

Item 6: General Election Radio Address. October 30, 1944

Item 7: General Election Address. November 1, 1944

Item 8: Radio Address. November 6, 1944

Item 9: General Election Radio Address. November 6, 1944

Item 10: R.O.C. Radio Address. February 13, 1946

Item 11: The R.O.C. Convention. 1946

Item 12: R.O.C. Radio Address, Jamestown. May 21, 1946

Item 13: R.O.C. Radio Address. May 22, 1946

Item 14: R.O.C. Radio Address. June 7, 1946

Item 15: 75% Tax Base Measure Radio Address. June 19, 1946

Item 16: R.O.C. Radio Address. June 21, 1946

Item 17: R.O.C. Radio Address. June 24, 1946

Item 18: 1946 Primary Campaign Address. June 24, 1946

Item 19: Radio Address. June 24, 1946

Item 20: R.O.C. Radio Broadcast. November 1, 1946

Folder 2: Speeches: 1945

Item 1: North Dakota Victory Garden Proclamation. April 17, 1945

Item 2: Broadcast on Salvage. April 27, 1945

Item 3: V. J. Day Radio Address. August 14, 1945

Item 4: National War Fund Address. September 27, 1945

Item 5: Victory Loan Drive Address. October 27, 1945

Item 6: Armistice Day Address, Jamestown. November 12, 1945

Folder 3: Speeches: 1945-1950

Item 1: Missouri River Development. September 1945

Item 2: Garrison Dam Statement Before House Subcommittee. Jan. 17, 1946

Item 3: Missouri River Basin Development, House Subcommittee May 26, 1947

Item 4: Missouri River Basin Development (N.D.A.C.). February 17, 1948

Item 5: Water Development Projects in North Dakota. July 6, 1948

Item 6: Water Development in North Dakota, Bowbells. October 22, 1948

Item 7: Trend in the Missouri Basin, Minot. April 27—29, 1950

Item 8: Importance of Missouri Basin Program to North Dakota. Oct. 6, 1950

Item 9: The Missouri Basin Inter—Agency Committee. December 1, 1950

Folder 4: Speeches: 1945-1950

Item 1: Memorial Address at John Moses Funeral. March 7, 1945

Item 2: Memorial Resolution for Kenneth W. Simons. April 1948

Item 3: Memorial Address at George F. Shafer Funeral. August 16, 1948

Item 4: Radio Address — W.D.A.Y. 25th Anniversary. May 22, 1947

Item 5: Dedication of K.N.O.X., Grand Forks. September 15, 1947

Item 6: Dedication of K.F.G.O., Fargo. January 3, 1948

Item 7: Transcription for K.B.M.W., Wahpeton—Breckenridge. August 27, 1948

Item 8: Transcription for K.G.C.X., Williston. November 19, 1948

Item 9: Congratulation to Bismarck. June 4, 1947

Item 10: Congratulations to K.F.Y.R., Bismarck. April 28, 1949

Item 11: Dedication Address, St. George’s Episcopal Church, September 10, 1949

Item 12: Dedication Address, Soldiers Home. June 7, 1950

Folder 5: Speeches: 1946-1948

Item 1: Better Roads Address. September 11, 1946

Item 2: Radio Address — Better Roads Bill. October 26, 1946

Item 3: Highway Problem. March 13, 1948

Item 4: The North Dakota Road Program. October 28, 1948

Folder 6: Speeches: 1946-1950

Item 1: Queen for a Day Program at Minot. May 24, 1946

Item 2: Acceptance of National Guard Colors, Bismarck. November 11, 1946

Item 3: Welcome “The Man on the Street”— W.D.A.Y. February 3, 1947

Item 4: Assessed Property Valuations Address, Jamestown. March 1, 1947

Item 5: Remarks at Farm Bureau Convention, Bismarck. Nov. 18, 1947

Item 6: Thrift Week Program — W.D.A.Y. February 9, 1948

Item 7: The Governor’s Most Important Duty. February 27, 1948

Item 8: Address at Bond Sales Dinner. April 19, 1949

Item 9: Hospital Address, Mohall, North Dakota. August 21, 1949

Item 10: Address at Northwest Shippers Advisory Board, Minot. November 3, 1949

Item 11: Rural Life Sunday. May 7, 1950

Folder 7: Speeches: 1946-1950

Item 1: R.O.C. Radio Broadcast. November 4, 1946

Item 2: Remarks at Jamestown R.O.C. Meeting. October 13, 1947

Item 3: Address at R.O.C. Rally at Devils Lake. February 20, 1948

Item 4: Keynote Address — R.O.C. Convention. March 22, 1948

Item 5: R.O.C. Opening Rally Remarks, Minot. June 1, 1948

Item 6: R.O.C. Radio Address. June 4, 1948

Item 7: R.O.C. Radio Address. June 18, 1948

Item 8: R.O.C. Radio Address. June 28, 1948

Item 9: G.O.P. Address. October 7, 1948

Item 10: “The Issue Before the People on November 2nd”. October 19, 1948

Item 11: Republican Thinking. October 27, 1948

Item 12: Three Election Address. November 1, 1948

Item 13: Talk Given at Political Rally at LaMoure.  December 15, 1949

Item 14: 1950 Political Issues. May 24, 1950

Item 15: 1950 Political Issues. May 24, 1950

Item 16: National Questions. June 14, 1950

Item 17: Closing Campaign Remarks. June 26, 1950

Item 18: Republican Campaign. October 3, 1950

Item 19: Republican Address. October 20, 1950

Item 20: Republican Address. November 1, 1950

Item 21: Republican Address. November 6, 1950

Folder 8: Messages to Legislature: 1945 – 1951

Folder 9: Speeches: 1951

Folder 10: Speeches: 1952

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Folder 24: "This is Aandahl's Record Which Affects the Public Welfare." Pamphlet published by the Nonpartisan League, 1944

Folder 25: "The Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee: What It Done and What It Can Do." Text of Speech Delivered by Aandahl in December 1950

Folder 26: "Governors of the American States and Territories." 1950

Contains information regarding the Governors' Conference and biographical information about each state governor

Folder 27: "Message to the Legislature by Fred G. Aandahl, Retiring Governor." 1951

Folder 29: Campain Materials, 1944, 1946

Series 5: United States House of Representatives

Aandahl served North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives from 1951 to 1953.

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Folder 2: Congressional Records Excerpts: 1951 – 1953

Folder 3: Aandahl’s Bills: 1951 – 1952

Folder 4: Committee Hearings: 1951 – 1952

Folder 5: Correspondence; Appropriations: 1951 – 1952

Folder 6: Correspondence- Miscellaneous Subjects; Agriculture, Appointments, Commerce, Government Agencies, Independent Business Ballots, Interior, Labor and Public Welfare, National Defense, Politics, Post Office, Publications, State Department, Taxation: 1951 – 1953

Folder 7: Correspondence; International Relations: 1951 – 1953

Folder 8: Correspondence- Legislation; Rules Committee, Governmental Agencies, Defense Production Act, Hoover Commission, Pay Increases for Federal Employees, Railroad Retirement, Social Security (College Faculty), Agriculture (General), Agriculture (Extension Work), Hoof and Mouth Disease, Parity, Commerce (General), Interior, Arizona Project, Dickinson Reservoir, MVA, St. Lawrence Seaway: 1951 – 1953

Folder 9: Correspondence- Legislation; Tidelands Oil, Labor and Public Welfare, Taft-Hartley Amendments, Townsend Plan, National Defense, Hospitalization of Korean War Vets, 10% Military Pay Increase, UMT (Universal Military Training), Post Office, Postal Pay Increase, Postal Rates Increase, Reduction Parcel Post Sizes, State, Mutual Aid, Wheat to India, Treasury : 1951 – 1953

Folder 10: Correspondence- Legislation; Revenue Act: 1951 – 1953

Folder 11: Correspondence- North Dakota; General, Aluminum Plant, Census 1950, Flood Relief: 1951 – 1953

Folder 12: Correspondence- North Dakota; Highways, International Peace Garden, Jamestown Dam, Missouri River Basin, Red River, Sugar Beet, Yellowstone Compact: 1951 – 1953

Folder 13: Correspondence- Mineral Rights; Langer Bill, Other: 1951 – 1953

Folder 14: Correspondence; Personal, Panama: 1951 – 1953

Folder 15: Correspondence; Pre-Election: 1952

Folder 16: Correspondence- Politics; Commendations on Aandahl, Commendations on Others: 1950 – 1952

Folder 17: Correspondence- Politics; Pre-ROC Convention: 1951 – 1952

Folder 18: Correspondence- Politics; Post-Election Correspondence; 1952 Fall Campaign: 1952 – 1953

Folder 19: Correspondence- Politics; N.D. Union Farmer Open Letter, Farmers Union, Lemke Memorial, Langer, Petitions, Publicity, Comments on “Report from Washington”: 1951 – 1953

Folder 20: Correspondence and Press Releases- Politics; Press and Radio Statements, “Coffee in Washington,” KFYR, KLPM, WDAY, United States Government, Draft Deferment, Internal Revenue Reform, Military Policy, 164th Infantry, REA,

Folder 21: "Report from Washington”: 1952

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Folder 28: Guest Register for Aandahl's Washington, D.C. Office, 1951-1952

Series 6: Assistant Secretary of the Interior

Fred G. Aandahl served as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior in Eisenhower Administration from 1953 to 1961.

Box 4

Folder 1: Appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Interior: 1953

Folder 2: Appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Interior: 1953

Folder 3: Congratulatory Letters: 1953

Folder 4: Correspondence: 1953, A-C

Folder 5: Correspondence: 1953, D-H

Folder 6: Correspondence: 1953, I-M

Folder 7: Correspondence: 1953, N-S

Folder 8: Correspondence: 1953, T-Z

Folder 9: Correspondence: January – February 1954

Folder 10: Correspondence: March 1954

Folder 11: Correspondence: April – June 1954

Folder 12: Correspondence: July – September 1954

Folder 13: Correspondence: October – December 1954

Folder 14: Correspondence: January – March 1955

Folder 15: Correspondence: April – June 1955

Folder 16: Correspondence: July – December 1955

Folder 17: Correspondence: January – June 1956

Folder 18: Correspondence: July – December 1956

Box 5

Folder 1: Correspondence: January – June 1957

Folder 2: Correspondence: July 1957 – February 1958

Folder 3: Correspondence: March – December 1958

Folder 4: Correspondence: January – May 1959

Folder 5: Correspondence: June – December 1959

Folder 6: Correspondence: January – July 1960

Folder 7: Correspondence: August 1960 – January 1961

Folder 8: General Correspondence: 1953—1957

Folder 9: General Correspondence: 1953—1957

Folder 10: General Correspondence: 1953—1957

Folder 11: General Correspondence: 1953—1957

Folder 12: General Correspondence: 1953—1957

Folder 13: General Correspondence: 1958—1961

Folder 14: General Correspondence: 1958—1961

Folder 15: General Correspondence, Committee for Electoral College Reform: 1961 – 1964

Folder 16: North Dakota General: 1953

Folder 17: North Dakota General: 1954

Folder 18: North Dakota General: 1955 – 1957

Folder 19: North Dakota General: 1958 – 1960

Folder 20: Statements Made Before Congressional Committees: 1955

Folder 21: Statements Made Before Congressional Committees: 1956

Folder 22: Statements Made Before Congressional Committees: 1957

Folder 23: Statements Made Before Congressional Committees: 1958

Folder 24: Statements Made Before Congressional Committees: 1959, 1960

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Folder 11: Invitations Accepted: 1953

Folder 12: Invitations Accepted: 1953

Folder 13: Invitations Accepted: 1954

Folder 14: Invitations Accepted: 1954

Folder 15: Invitations Accepted: 1955

Folder 16: Invitations Accepted: 1956

Folder 17: Invitations Accepted: 1957

Folder 18: Invitations Accepted: 1957

Folder 19: Invitations Accepted: 1958

Folder 20: Invitations Accepted: 1958

Folder 21: Invitations Accepted: 1959

Folder 22: Invitations Accepted: 1960

Box 7

Folder 1: Invitations Regretted: 1953

Folder 2: Invitations Regretted: 1954 – 1956

Folder 3: Invitations Regretted: 1957 – 1960

Folder 4: Speeches: 1953

Item 1: “Reflections on the Interior Department’s Role in Electric Power.” Delivered at the 15th Annual Meeting of the American Power Conference, Chicago; March 1953

Item 2: “Effect of Multiple-Purpose Projects.” Delivered at the 41st Annual Meeting—Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington D.C.; April 28, 1953

Item 3: “Interior’s Power Policy as It Applies to the Missouri Basin.” Delivered at the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee Meeting, Fargo; September 29, 1953

Item 4: “Power Marketing Criteria for Federal Power Projects.” Delivered at Power Management Conference of Rural Electrification Administration, Washington D.C.; November 4, 1953

Folder 5: Speeches: 1954

Item 1: “Interior’s Power Policy.” Delivered at the NRECA Convention, Miami; January 12, 1954

Item 2: “Federal Power Policy.” Unknown location; May 5, 1954

Item 3: “Interior’s Power Policy.” As prepared for Capper’s Farmer; August 12, 1954, rewritten by editors with new title “REA Is Not in Danger!”

Item 4: “Integration in the Public Interest.” Delivered at Iowa Utilities Association Management Conference, no location specified; October 11, 1954

Item 5: “Is the Administration’s Power Policy in the National Interest?” Prepared for and used in part in CBS exchange with Mike Strauss; December 19, 1954

Item 6: “Is the Administration’s Power Policy in the National Interest?” Transcript, as broadcasted; December 19, 1954

Folder 6: Speeches: 1955

Item 1: “Panel Discussion on Public Works Policies.” Delivered to the Joint Committee on the Economic Report; February 3, 1955

Item 2: “Resources for the People by Private Enterprise.” Delivered at Annual Convention of South Dakota Press Association, Aberdeen, South Dakota; March 25, 1955

Item 3: Transcript of remarks made at the Rotary Luncheon in Denver; June 9, 1955

Item 4: Transcript of remarks made at the Rotary Luncheon in Denver; June 9, 1955

Item 5: Statement to the Subcommittee on Public Works and Resources, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Washington D.C.; October 11, 1955

Item 6: Statement to the Subcommittee on Public Works and Resources, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Washington D.C.; October 19, 1955; reply to Chairman’s statement of October 12

Item 7: “Irrigation from Garrison.” Delivered to the North Dakota Reclamation Association, Harvey, North Dakota; November 14, 1955

Folder 7: Speeches: May 5 – 8, 1956

Folder 1: Remarks made at the dedication of Folsom Dam and Appurtenant Facilities on the American River in California; May 5, 1956

Folder 2: “The Nation’s Water Resources.” Delivered at American Waterworks Association Convention, St. Louis; May 8, 1956

Folder 8: Speeches: June 28 – September 29, 1956

Item 1: “Statement on S.3338 Relating to Rates Charges to Public Bodies and Cooperatives for Electric Power Generated at Federal Projects Department of the Interior.” Presented to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; June 28, 1956

Item 2: Address at the dedication ceremonies of the Bostwick Irrigation District in Nebraska, Red Cloud, Nebraska; August 3, 1956

Item 3: Comments made at the dedication ceremonies at Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota; August 11, 1956

Item 4: “The Next Steps in Missouri Diversion.” Delivered at the North Dakota Reclamation Association, Valley City, North Dakota; September 24, 1956

Item 5: “Pattern for the Future.” Delivered at the dedication of the Sheyenne, North Dakota, Development Farm on the Missouri River Basin Project; September 29, 1956

Folder 9: Speeches: October 6 – 18, 1956

Item 1: “More Water for Kansas.” Delivered at dedication of Webster Dam on the South Fork of the Solomon River near Stockton, Kansas; October 6, 1956

Item 2: “Progress in Reclamation” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Washington State Reclamation Association at Yakima, Washington; October 12, 1956

Item 3: Remarks at a joint meeting of the Oregon State Reclamation Congress and the Willamette Basin Project Committee, Salem, Oregon; October 18, 1956

Folder 10: Speeches: January 10 – March 28, 1957

Folder 1: “Western Water Development.” Delivered at the Four States Irrigation Council, Denver; January 10, 1957

Folder 2: “Coordination of Water Resources Development: Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources.” Delivered at the joint meeting of the Missouri Basin and the Arkansas White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committees, Vicksburg, Mississippi; January 31, 1957

Folder 3: “Coordination of Water Resources Development: Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources.” Delivered at the joint meeting of the Missouri Basin and the Arkansas White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committees, Vicksburg, Mississippi; January 31, 1957

Folder 4: “The Electric Utility Industry in Civil Defense.” Delivered at the AIEE Luncheon of the American Power Conference, Chicago; March 28, 1957

Folder 11: Speeches: April 22 – August 23, 1957

Item 1: Address at the Connecticut River Watershed Council, Amherst, Massachusetts; April 22, 1957

Item 2: “The Self-Organization of Electric Utilities for National Defense under Department of the Interior.” Delivered at the Engineering and Operation Section of the Southeastern Electric Exchange, Miami; May 2, 1957

Item 3: Remarks at Observance of 50th Anniversary of Water Delivery on the Klamath Reclamation Project, Klamath Falls, Oregon; May 24, 1957

Item 4: Address at the Huntley Project Picnic commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Huntley Project, Worden, Montana; July 13, 1957

Item 5: “Water Resources Development—A Growing National Problem.” Delivered at the Statewide Local Water Supply Conference sponsored by the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, Peoria, Illinois; August 22, 1957

Folder 12: Speeches: October 23 – December 10, 1957

Item 1: Opening remarks at Conference with Governors and Other Representatives of the States of the Colorado River Basin; October 24, 1957

Item 2: “Water for Food and Fiber.” Delivered at the National Reclamation Association, Phoenix, Arizona; November 8, 1957

Item 3: Address at the Annual Salute to Industry Dinner sponsored by the Latrobe Chamber of Commerce, Latrobe, Pennsylvania; December 9, 1957 (released December 10, 1957)

Item 4: Address by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton at Annual Meeting of the Inland Daily Press Association, Chicago; October 14, 1957

Item 5: Address by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton at the Forbes Magazine Banquet Honoring America’s “Fifty Foremost Business Leaders,” Hotel Waldorf Astoria, New York City; November 6, 1957

Folder 13: Speeches: January 9 – June 5, 1958

Item 1: “Utilizing Our Natural Resources.” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Minot, North Dakota; January 9, 1958

Item 2: “The American Way.” Delivered at the Lincoln Day Program, Niles or Paw Paw, Michigan; February 11 or 12, 1958

Item 3: “Water—Our Greatest Natural Resource.” Delivered at the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Washington D.C.; May 16, 1958

Item 4: “Fresh Water from Salt.” Delivered at the Briefing Conference on Water Resources sponsored by the Federal Bar Association, Washington D.C.; May 23, 1958

Item 5: Remarks at the dedication of Lovewell Dam on White Rock Creek, near Courtland, Kansas; June 5, 1958

Item 6: Supplemental address by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton at the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco; March 21, 1958

Folder 14: Speeches: June 8 – November 11, 1958

Item 1: “Today’s Challenge.” Commencement address at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota; June 8, 1958

Item 2: Telegram from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to May 1958 UND graduates, presented by Fred G. Aandahl

Item 3: “Federal Hydroelectric Power.” Delivered at Northwest Electric Light and Power Association Annual Meeting, Sun Valley, Idaho; September 19, 1958

Item 4: “Water and Farming.” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the North Dakota Farm Bureau, Dickinson, North Dakota; November 10, 1958

Item 5: Remarks at the National Guard Armory Dedication, Mayville, North Dakota; November 11, 1958

Item 6: Address by Under Secretary of the Interior Elmer F. Bennett at the Annual Meeting of the Irrigation Districts Association of

Item 7: Address by Under Secretary of the Interior Elmer F. Bennett at the Meeting of the Inland Empire Waterways Association, Portland, Oregon; December 12, 1958

Item 8: “Views of Water Users on Federal Reclamation Projects” Presented by William I. Palmer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science at a Symposium on Water and Agriculture, Washington D.C.; December 30, 1958

Folder 15: Speeches: May 14 – September 14, 1959

Item 1: Remarks at the Groundbreaking at Stanaker Dam, Central Utah Participating Project of Colorado River Storage Project; May 14, 1959

Item 2: Address at the dedication of the Medora Visitor Center and other new facilities at the South Unit, Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, North Dakota; September 12, 1959

Item 3: Address at the dedication of the new facilities in the North Unit, Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, North Dakota; September 13, 1959

Item 4: Address by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton at the Rural Electric Association, Lincoln, Nebraska; February 2, 1959

Item 5: Remarks by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton at the National Farm and Ranch Congress, Shirley-Savoy Hotel, Denver; March 2, 1959

Item 6: Address by Under Secretary of the Interior Elmer F. Bennett to the American Public Power Association, Olympic Hotel, Seattle; May 27, 1959

Item 7: Remarks by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton at the ceremony marking the first official raising of the new 49-star flag, Fort McHenry National Monument, Baltimore; July 3, 1959

Item 8: Address by Commissioner of Reclamation Floyd E. Dominy at the Meeting of the Missouri River Basin Inter-Agency Committee, Helena, Montana; August 13, 1959

Folder 16: Speeches: September 14 – December 10, 1959

Item 1: “The Economics of Reclamation.” Delivered to North Dakota Water Users Association and Rugby Chamber of Commerce, Rugby, North Dakota; September 14, 1959

Item 2: “Reclamation and North Dakota’s Future.” Delivered at the North Dakota Water Users Association, Jamestown, North Dakota, September 14, 1959

Item 3: Address at the dedication of the Power Dispatching Center, Watertown, South Dakota; October 14, 1959

Item 4: “Water Resources Problems of the United States.” Delivered at the Statewide Conference and Workshops on Water Resources Planning and Development Problems, Syracuse, New York; December 10, 1959

Item 5: Supplemental remarks: “Reclamation Today and Its Challenge for Tomorrow.” Delivered by Commissioner of Reclamation Floyd E. Dominy at the National Reclamation Association, Denver; October 28, 1959

Folder 17: Speeches: January 20 – August 16, 1960

Item 1: Address at the “Salute to Ike” Dinner, Sidney, Nebraska; January 27, 1960

Item 2: Address at the Bruce Johnson Testimonial Dinner, Bismarck, North Dakota; February 4, 1960

Item 3: Address at the dedication of the Southwestern Power Administration’s 161 KV Table Rock to Springfield Transmission Line, Springfield, Missouri; August 16, 1960

Item 4: Supplemental remarks: “Water Supply and Water Problems.” Delivered by Chief Hydraulic Engineer Dr. Luna B. Leopold at the Iowa Academy of Science, Iowa City, Iowa; April 23, 1960

Folder 18: Speeches: August 19 – December 12, 1960

Item 1: Address at the Joint Meeting of Basin Inter-Agency Committees, Boulder, Colorado; August 19, 1960

Item 2: Transcription of extemporaneous remarks at Mid-West Electric Consumer Association Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; August 22, 1960

Item 3: Remarks at ceremonies marking the dedication of the Francis Scott Key American Credo Stamp, Fort McHenry, Baltimore; September 14, 1960

Item 4: “Priorities for Water Use.” Delivered at National Conference on Water Pollution, Washington D.C.; December 12-14, 1960

Item 5: Supplemental paper: “Yardsticks or a Lesson in the New Mathematics” Presented by LeRoy R. Patterson, Vice President, Electric Operations, Public Service Company of Colorado, at the Spring Conference, Rocky Mountain Electrical League, Boulder, Colorado; April 17, 1961

Folder 19: Department of the Interior General File, 1953

Folder 20: Department of the Interior General File, 1953

Folder 21: Department of the Interior General File, 1954-1955

Folder 22: North Dakota Highways

Folder 23: Republican Party, 1956-1962

Folder 24: Department of the Interior, Power Policy

Folder 25: Garrison Diversion Project, 1959-1961

Folder 26: Garrison Diversion Conservancy District, 1960-1961

Box 8

Folder 1: Missouri Basin Power

Folder 2: Citation for Distinguished Service from the Secretary of the Interior, undated

Folder 3: Clean Water, A Challenge to the Nation: Highlights and Recommendations of the National Conference on Water Pollution. US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1960.

Aandahl was a participant in a panel session entitled "Meeting the Growing Competition for Water" (beginning on page 22)

Folder 4: "The Nation's Water Resources: An Address Delivered on May 8, 1956, at the Diamond Jubilee Conference, St. Louis, Mo., by Fred G. Aandahl."  Journal of American Water Works Association, August 1956

pages 931-941

Folder 5: "Effect on Multi-Purpose Projects," Speech by Aandahl at the Annual Meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, April 1953

Folder 6: "Relationship of Repayment of Interest-Free Irrigation Costs and Interest-Bearing Power Costs." Essay by Aandahl, August 31, 1959

Folder 7: "Department Urges Action on Offer to Buy Surplus BPA Power." Press Release Regarding Aandahl, March 29, 1960

Folder 8: "Hearing Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs." Nomination of Aandahl to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior, February 5, 1953

Folder 9: "Power Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives." December 1953 and January 1954

Testimony from Aandahl on pages 2, 91, and 168

Folder 10: "Upstream Benefits: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives." July 1959 and January 1960

Testimony from Aandahl begins on page 149

Folder 11: "Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate"

Item 1: "Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colo." June 1953

Testimony from Aandahl begins on page 68

Item 2: "Saline Water Research Program." March 1957

Testimony from Aandahl begins on pages 5 and 26

Item 3: "Columbia Basin Project Act Amendment." March 1957

Testimony from Aandahl on pages 15 and 35

Item 4: "Saline Water Research Program." April 1957

Report of the Committee, highlighting Aandahl's testimony

Folder 12: "Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives"

Item 1: "Bonneville (Pacific Northwest)-California Intertie." April 1959

Testimony from Aandahl begins on page 43

Item 2: "Bonneville (Pacific Northwest)-California Intertie." May 1960

Testimony from Aandahl begins on pages 9 and 43

Item 3: "Cheney Division, Wichita Project, Kansas." June 1960

Testimony from Aandahl begins on page 27

Folder 13: "Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee of the Judiciary, United States Senate."

Item 1: "Power Policy." December 1953

Testimony from Aandahl begins on page 2

Item 2: "Power Policy." January and March 1954

Testimony from Aandahl begins on page 489

Folder 14: "Power Rates-Southwestern Power Administration: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works United States Senate." February and March 1956

Testimony from Aandahl begins on pages 45, 97 and 399

Folder 15: "Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives."

Item 1: "Private Electric Utilities' Organized Efforts to Influence the Secretary of the Interior (Ebasco Services, Inc., and Rocky Mountain Group)." July 1956

Testimony from Aandahl begins on pages 299 and 303

Item 2: "Army-Interior Reservoir Land Acquisition Policy." June and July 1957

Testimony from Aandahl begins on page 177

Folder 16: "Effect of Administrative Acts and Policies of Department of Interior and Rural Electrification Administration on Rural Electric Cooperatives, Public Bodies, and Municipal Electrics. Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives." July, August, September, and October 1955.

Testimony from Aandahl begins on pages 1198, 1246, 1302, 1375, 1403, 1434 and 1675

Folder 17: Official Briefing Book, Department of the Interior, October 1959

Folder 18: 3 Ring Binder for the Official Briefing Book, Department of the Interior

"Fred G. Aandahl, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Water and Power Development" is imprinted on the cover of the binder

Folder 30: U.S. Department of the Interior Honor Award, 1959

Box 9

Item 1: Scrapbook of photographs and documents from Aandahl's tenure as Assistant Secretary

Series 7: Photographs

Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.

Photograph 1: Fred G. Aandahl presenting Certificate of Appointment to the United States Senate to Milton Young, March 12, 1945

Photograph 2: Fred G. Aandahl presenting Certificate of Appointment to the United States Senate to Milton Young, March 12, 1945

Photograph 3: Untitled

Photograph 4: Senator Gerald P. Nye, Senator William Borah, Senator Lynn Fraser, Fargo, North Dakota, 1928

Photograph 5: North Dakota State Senate, 1931

Photograph 6: North Dakota State Senate, 1939

Photograph 7: North Dakota State Senate, 1941

Photograph 8: North Dakota State Senate, 1945

Photograph 9: North Dakota State Senate, 1947

Photograph 10: North Dakota State Senate, 1949

Photograph 11: North Dakota State Senate, 1951

Photograph 12: Portrait of Fred G. Aandahl, undated

Photograph 13: Untitled, March 27, 1953

Photograph 14: Untitled, March 27, 1953

Photograph 15: American Power Conference, March 26, 1953

Photograph 16: American Power Conference, March 26, 1953

Photograph 17: Untitled, February 10, 1953

Photograph 18: Untitled, February 10, 1953

Photograph 19: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, April 28, 1953

Photograph 20: Eastern Carolina Electric Membership Corp., May 26, 1954

Photograph 21: Fred G. Aandahl, 1946

Photograph 22: Fred G. Aandahl, 1958

Photograph 23: Governor Fred G. Aandahl Inauguration Ceremonies, 1945

Photograph 24: Fred G. Aandahl in Governor's Office, undated

Photograph 25: Governor Fred G. Aandahl, undated

Photograph 26: Freedom Train, Minot, North Dakota, 1948

Photograph 27: Governor Fred G. Aandahl in Governor's Office, undated

Photograph 28: Governor Fred G. Aandahl in Governor's Office, undated

Photograph 29: Governor Fred G. Aandahl in Governor's Office, 1947

Photograph 30: Governor Fred G. Aandahl in Governor's Office, undated

Photograph 31: Governor Fred G. Aandahl in Governor's Office, undated

Photograph 32: Governor Fred G. Aandahl at Inauguration Ceremonies, 1947

Photograph 33: Governor Fred G. Aandahl at Inauguration Ceremonies, 1947

Photograph 34: Governor Fred G. Aandahl at Inauguration Ceremonies, 1949

Photograph 35: Governor Fred G. Aandahl at NDEA Convention in Bismarck, 1947

Photograph 36: Governor Fred G. Aandahl in Governor's Office, undated

Photograph 37: Governor Fred G. Aandahl and Spence Boise in Governor's Office, undated

Photograph 38: Governor Fred G. Aandahl boarding the X-Ray, 1949

Photograph 39: Governor Fred G. Aandahl boarding the X-Ray, 1949

Photograph 40: UND President West presenting relic to Aandahl from British House of Parliament, 1949

Photograph 41: UND President West presenting relic to Aandahl from British House of Parliament, 1949

Photograph 42: Scholarship Award presented by Governor Aandahl, 1949

Photograph 43: Johny Holsen, undated

Photograph 44: Johny Holsen, undated

Photograph 45: Johny Holsen, undated

Photograph 46: Easter Seals Drive: Governor Aandahl, Mrs. G.A. Gilbertson, Leonard Underland, 1950

Photograph 47: Easter Seals Drive: Governor Aandahl, Mrs. G.A. Gilbertson, Leonard Underland, 1950

Photograph 48: Easter Seals Drive: Governor Aandahl, Mrs. G.A. Gilbertson, Leonard Underland, 1950

Photograph 49: Easter Seals Drive: Governor Aandahl, Mrs. G.A. Gilbertson, Leonard Underland, 1950

Photograph 50: Easter Seals Drive: Governor Aandahl, Mrs. G.A. Gilbertson, Leonard Underland, 1950

Photograph 51: Governor Aandahl, Jerry Burtte, Mrs. Burtte, Miss Marjorie Norby, and Mrs. Fred Layton, 1949

Photograph 52: Governor Aandahl, Jerry Burtte, Mrs. Burtte, Miss Marjorie Norby, and Mrs. Fred Layton, 1949

Photograph 53: Drawing winning number for dream house at N.D. Conservation Show, 1948

Photograph 54: Unidentified

Photograph 55: Unidentified

Photograph 56: Governor Fred G. Aandahl, 1949

Photograph 57: Governor Fred G. Aandahl, 1949

Photograph 58: Governor Fred G. Aandahl in Mandan, 1949

Photograph 59: Mandan Rodeo, 1949

Photograph 60: Unidentified

Photograph 61: Governor Fred G. Aandahl at Medina Fall Festival, 1949

Photograph 62: Crowing Miss Bismarck, Maurine Ault, 1949

Photograph 63: With Carol Ostley, N.D. Dairy Queen, 1950

Photograph 64: Crowning Juanita Olson Dairy Queen at Jamestown, 1948

Photograph 65: Unidentified

Photograph 66: Unidentified

Photograph 67: Governor's Conference in Colorado, 1949

Photograph 68: Youngdahl, Dewey, Aandahl, Warren, undated

Photograph 69: Governor's Conference in West Virginia,1950

Photograph 70: Front Lawn at 42nd Annual Governor's Conference, 1950

Photograph 71: Governor's Conference in Michigan, 1945

Photograph 72: Governor's Conference in Michigan, 1945

Photograph 73: General Assembly of States: Gov. Driscoll, New Jersey; Aandahl, North Dakota; and Caldwell, Florida, 1949

Photograph 74: Canyon Ferry 307, undated

Photograph 75: Arthur S. Caeprudes, 1945

Photograph 76: Governor Aandahl and Minnesota Governor Youngdahl at dedication of Boy Scout Camp, 1949

Photograph 77: Fred G. and Luella Aandahl, 1949

Photograph 78: Devils Lake Boy Concert Band, 1941

Photograph 79: Manuel G. Sousa, undated

Photograph 80: Manuel G. Sousa, undated

Photograph 81: Hunting party at Beulah, 1949

Photograph 82: Receiving High School Safety Training Drive Award for State Insurance Convention, 1950

Photograph 83: Unidentified

Photograph 84: Indian Affairs Commission Meeting, 1949

Photograph 85: Howard Lydecker of Republic Productions, Inc. and Fred G. Aandahl, 1945

Photograph 86: Patterson Hotel, 1946

Photograph 87: Charter Night-Bismarck Exchange Club, 1949

Photograph 88: Governor Aandahl with Lord and Lady Halifax, 1946

Photograph 89: Governor Aandahl with Lord and Lady Halifax, 1946

Photograph 90: Governor Aandahl with Lord and Lady Halifax, 1946

Photograph 91: Lemke, Aandahl, Young

Photograph 92: Planning N.D. Cancer Drive and Publicity: Mr. Hoakonson, Gov. Aandahl, and Dr. Leonard Larson, 1949

Photograph 93: Veterans Adjusted Compensation Bond Issue, 1949

Photograph 94: Governor Aandahl

Photograph 95: Governor Aandahl

Photograph 96: Math Dahl shoveling, while Governor Aandahl and Sathre Jacobson look on

Photograph 97: Unidentified

Photograph 98: Unidentified

Photograph 99: Unidentified

Photograph 100: Hughes, Aandahl, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, and Max Moore, 1948

Photograph 101: Fred G. Aandahl, unidentified

Photograph 102: Fred G. Aandahl, unidentified

Photograph 103: Fred G. Aandahl, unidentified

Photograph 104: Fred G. Aandahl, unidentified

Photograph 105: Fred G. Aandahl, unidentified

Photograph 106: Fred G. Aandahl, unidentified

Photograph 107: Presentation Dan Dugan Highway Safety Award, 1949

Photograph 108: Aandahl with FFA members, 1946

Photograph 109: Aandahl with Rugby Lions Club, 1948

Photograph 110: UND Homecoming, 1948

Photograph 111: Moorhead Spuds, undated

Photograph 112: Unidentified

Photograph 113: Unidentified

Photograph 114: Unidentified

Photograph 115: Game and Fish Conference, 1946

Photograph 116: Fred G. Aandahl

Photograph 117: Unidentified

Photograph 118: Unidentified

Photograph 119: Hebron Fall Festival, 1950

Photograph 120: Aandahl with Al Benes, 1949

Photograph 121: 1950 Governor's Conference

Photograph 122: UND Students at press conference, 1950

Photograph 123: Freedom Train, 1948

Photograph 124: Unidentified

Photograph 125: Unidentified

Photograph 126: Unidentified

Photograph 127: Laying Cornerstone at Minot YMCA, 1950

Photograph 128: Aandahl with Louis T. Smith, USNR, undated

Photograph 129: House Chambers accepting French Gratitude train car, 1949

Photograph 130: Unidentified

Photograph 131: Aandahl at Farm Institute in New England, 1950

Photograph 132: Organization Meeting of the Legislative Research Committee

Photograph 133: Aandahl at Homme Dam, 1948

Photograph 134: Veterans/Wyoming Farm Project, 1949

Photograph 135: Aandahl at Shoshone 983, undated

Photograph 136: Peterson and Aandahl at Shoshone 979, undated

Photograph 137: Peterson and Aandahl at Shoshone 988, undated

Photograph 138: Unidentified

Photograph 139: Missouri Basin Interagency Committee, 1947

Photograph 140: Missouri Basin Interagency Committee, 1949

Photograph 141: Governor Mickelson (South Dakota) on far left, undated

Photograph 142: Governor Mickelson (S.D.) On far right, undated

Photograph 143: Canyon Ferry 306, undated

Photograph 144: Fred G. Aandahl, 1948

Photograph 145: Riverton, Wyoming, 1948

Photograph 146: Gov. Ford (Montana), Gov. Peterson (Nebraska) and Aandahl, 1948

Photograph 147: Aandahl, Peterson, and Ford, 1948

Photograph 148: Aandahl, Peterson, and Ford, 1948

Photograph 149: Groundbreaking of the Baldhill Dam, 1947

Photograph 150: Aandahl at Epping Dam, 1946

Photograph 151: Interagency Garrison Dam, 1949

Photograph 152: Aandahl at Garrison Dam Site, 1949

Photograph 153: Aandahl at Heart Butte Dam, 1948

Photograph 154: Aandahl at Heart Butte Dam, 1948

Photograph 155: Heart Butte Dam, 1948

Photograph 156: Heart Butte Dam groundbreaking, 1948

Photograph 157: Heart Butte Dam groundbreaking, 1948

Photograph 158: Baldhill Dam groundbreaking, 1947

Photograph 159: Baldhill Dam groundbreaking, 1948

Photograph 160: Governor Peterson and Governor Aandahl, 1949

Photograph 161: Missouri Basin Interagency Committee, 1949

Photograph 162: W.G. Sloan, Chairman of Missouri Basin Interagency Committee, 1949

Photograph 163: Governor Aandahl receives welcome from Mrs. Blosser, 1949

Photograph 164: Aandahl being sworn in as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, 1953

Photograph 165: Aandahl visiting on the Carl J. Williams Farm Unit "C", 1954

Photograph 166: Aandahl visiting on the Carl J. Williams Farm Unit "C", 1954

Photograph 167: Aandahl visiting on the Carl J. Williams Farm Unit "C", 1954

Photograph 168: Aandahl visiting with Robert C. McClymonds, who was awarded Farm Unit "D", 1954

Photograph 169: Charles Welteroth, Mark Kulp, Fred Aandahl, and Clifford Fix, 1954

Photograph 170: Palisades Project: W.H. Tuller, Paul Swanson, F.G. Aandahl, L.B. Ackerman, and E.L. King, 1954

Photograph 171: Palisades Project: W.H. Tuller, Paul Swanson, F.G. Aandahl, L.B. Ackerman, and E.L. King, 1954

Photograph 172: Palisades Project: W.H. Tuller, Paul Swanson, F.G. Aandahl, L.B. Ackerman, and E.L. King, 1954

Photograph 173: Palisades Project: W.H. Tuller, Paul Swanson, F.G. Aandahl, L.B. Ackerman, and E.L. King, 1954

Photograph 174: Distinguished Service Awards Convention, 1954

Photograph 175: Honor Awards Convocation, 1954

Photograph 176: Interior Department Resource Development Committee, 1954

Series 8: Oversized Materials

Separated and placed in the Oversize File Cabinets.

Oversize Folder 1

Item 1: Color photograph of the Aandahl farmstead in Litchville, North Dakota

Item 2: Distinguished Service Citation to Aandahl from the UND Alumni Association, June 1958

Item 3: UND Bachelor of Arts Diploma, June 1921

Item 4: Portait Photograph of Aandahl, 1945

Item 5: Autographed photo of President Dwight Eisenhower

"For: The Honorable Fred G. Aandahl with best wishes and high esteem for a valuable member of this administration"

Item 6: Certificate appointing Aandahl as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, February 10, 1953

Signed by Douglas McKay, Secretary of the Interior, and President Dwight Eisenhower

Item 7: Autographed photo of personnel in the Department of the Interior