Fred G. Aandahl Papers, 1917-1966

Fred G. Aandahl Papers

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Collection Overview

Title: Fred G. Aandahl Papers, 1917-1966

ID: OGLMC0051

Primary Creator: Aandahl, Fred G. (1897-1966)

Extent: 11.5 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 07/01/1968. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Politics and Government - North Dakota Governor, Politics and Government - Republican Organizing Committee (ROC), Politics and Government - Republican Party, Politics and Government - United States House of Representatives, University of North Dakota - Alumni

Languages: English

Abstract

1897-1966; North Dakota State Senate, 1931-1932 and 1939-1942; Governor of North Dakota, 1945-1950; United States House of Representatives, 1951-1953; Assistant Secretary of the Interior, 1953-1961

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Fred G. Aandahl Papers date from 1917 to 1966 and have been divided into seven series as follows:

Series 1: Biographical Information

Series 2: Newspaper Clippings

Series 3: North Dakota State Senate

Series 4: North Dakota Governor

Series 5: United States House of Representatives

Series 6: Assistant Secretary of the Interior

Series 7: Photographs

Series 8: Oversized Materials

Collection Historical Note

Fred George Aandahl was born April 9, 1897, in Svea Township, near Litchville, North Dakota. He was the son of Soren "Sam" J. and Mamie C. (Lawry) Aandahl. Sam Aandahl came to Dakota Territory in 1881 with his parents, J.S. and Martine. The family was originally from Aandalsnes, Norway. Mamie Lawry arrived in Dakota Territory in 1879, and was of English descent. Sam and Mamie were married on March 28, 1896. Sam served in the North Dakota legislature in 1903, and was also a member of the North Dakota State Railroad Commission. Sam Aandahl died in 1922, preceding the death of Mamie in 1923.

Fred G. Aandahl attended elementary schools in Valley City and rural Svea, before attending Litchville High School for three years. He received the final year of his high school education from the Model High School at the University of North Dakota, graduating in 1917.

He attended the University of North Dakota, graduating in 1921 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Liberal Arts. His major was law, with history and economics being his minor. While at UND, Aandahl was active in Delta Sigma Rho, an honorary society for oratory, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a Greek social fraternity.

Following graduation, Aandahl farmed the family homestead following the death of his farmer. He also served as principal at the Svea Consolidated School (1922-24), before becoming Superintendent of Schools in Litchville in 1924. In 1927, he retired from his career in education to focus his energies on the administration of the family farm. He married Luella Brekke, a teacher from the Litchville Elementary School, on June 28, 1926 in Forman, North Dakota. The couple had three daughters: Louise, Margaret and Marilyn.

Fred Aandahl won a seat in the North Dakota Senate in 1930, returning in 1938 and 1940. In the State Senate, Aandahl served on the Appropriations Committee and was known for his strong support of education. From 1933-35, he was a member of the Barnes County Agricultural Adjustment Administration. He served on the state level of this entity from 1935-38.

Aandahl was a leading member of the Republican Organizing Committee (ROC). The ROC was created to unite all Republicans opposed to William Langer and the Nonpartisan League. Aandahl delivered the keynote address at its first convention, held in Bismarck in March 1944. Besides Aandahl, the other founding members included Rilie Morgan of Grafton, Milton Young of Berlin, and Joseph Bridston of Grand Forks. With the strong backing of the ROC, Aandahl won the Republican nomination for Governor in the June primary. In the November election, he defeated three-term Attorney General Alvin Strutz.

One of Aandahl's first major decisions in office was to appoint a replacement for the recently deceased John Moses to the United States Senate. On 12 March 1945, Aandahl named Milton Young as the replacement. Aandahl was Governor of North Dakota from 1945 to 1950, before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1950. He served one term in the House, before deciding to seek the Republican nomination for the U.S Senate seat held by William Langer. Langer used considerable Democratic and NPL support to defeat Aandahl.

Upon the recommendation of U.S. Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, Aandahl was named Assistant Secretary of the Interior, by President Dwight Eisenhower in February 1953. He served the Eisenhower administration in this capacity until 1961. When the Kennedy Administration took office in January 1961, Aandahl retired to his Litchville farm. He died April 7, 1966 in Fargo, and is buried at Hillside Cemetery in Valley City, North Dakota.

Sources:

Current Biography. v19, no8: September 1958, pp 3-4. "Fred Aandahl" in Barnes County History. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1976.

Robinson, Elwyn. History of North Dakota. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1966.

Subject/Index Terms

Politics and Government - North Dakota Governor
Politics and Government - Republican Organizing Committee (ROC)
Politics and Government - Republican Party
Politics and Government - United States House of Representatives
University of North Dakota - Alumni

Administrative Information

Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections

Accruals:

Louise Aandahl Stockman, Fargo, North Dakota, donated additional materials: April 18, 1996 (Acc.96-2064), 1998 (Acc.98-2203), May 20, 1999 (Acc.99-2244) October 9, 2002 (Acc.2002-2582).

Material was also transferred from the North Dakota Biographical File in 1981 (Acc.81-901).

Access Restrictions: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Source: Aandahl Family

Acquisition Method: Donation

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Fred G. Aandahl Papers. OGLMC 51, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid migrated to Archon in November 2015.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Biographical Information],
[Series 2: Newspaper Clippings],
[Series 3: North Dakota State Senate],
[Series 4: North Dakota Governor],
[Series 5: United States House of Representatives],
[Series 6: Assistant Secretary of the Interior],
[Series 7: Photographs],
[Series 8: Oversized Materials],
[All]

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

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