Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
173980029
label
Cross Reference Memorandum
core
doc
dtoType
document
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
173980029
contentType
document
title
Cross Reference Memorandum
citationUrl
collections
President's Personal Files (Truman Administration)
President's Personal Files
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
imageCount
1
hasImages
yes
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
naId
173980029
levelOfDescription
item
productionDates
day
18
logicalDate
1951-07-18
month
7
year
1951
recordType
description
ocrSource
nara-archive
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
fdbe992bf23369bf
ocrText
P.P.P.
As
CROSS REFERENCE SHEET
1224
Name: SKELTON, Iice
Date: July 19, 1951
Organization:
Address:
Lexington, Mo.
Regarding:
Ltr
to President saying he has been authorized by the distressed flood victims
of Rey County and Lefayette County to do what he can to secure adequate levee protection.
Goes into the destruction of the flood and discusses ways and means to help. Thinks that
the people in Missouri suffered a great deal more than the ones in Kansas and protests the
write-ups in the Kansas City Star. Urges Prosident to use all his power to sea that any of
the
flood rolief appropriation is well divided so that the Missouri River basin will re-
coive just as nuch federal aid as the stricken residents of the Kaw Valley.-uThe President,
July 24th, wrote "Doer Ilee" (personal) saying if the people along the lissouri River had
been as anxious to help the President obtain a program of navigation, flood
control
and
power
five
years ago, this present flood could have been controlled but the Missouri Gov-
ernor, Governor Forrest Smith, and the legislators were absolutely opposed to the Missouri
Valley Authority as were eight other governors and legislators in the states in which the
Missouri River drains. The President sid all the fingerwpinting and orying about the
present situation will not now aure the matter. The proper thing to do is to go ahead
now
and get the situation in hand so it won't happen again.
See:
83-Floods Middle West
16-59420-1 GPO