Lester R. Johnson Papers, 1953-1964

Contents List

Container Title
La Crosse Mss BO
Series: Writings and Publicity
Publicity
Newsletters
Box   1
Folder   1
From the Desk of Congressman Lester Johnson, 1956, 1959-1963
Weekly newsletters
Box   1
Folder   2
Lester Johnson Reports/Capitol Hill Highlights, 1957
Box   1
Folder   3-4
Congressman Johnson Reports From Capital Hill, 1958-1959
Box   1
Folder   5-9
News releases, 1955-1964, undated
La Crosse Micro 17/Micro 1146
Clipping scrapbooks
Note: Filmed without a counter
Subject scrapbooks
Reel   1
Campaign books, 1953-1962
Reel   2
Milk and Dairy, 1959
Reel   2
Redistricting, 1960-1962
Reel   2
Weddings, 1954
General
Reel   2
1954-1957
Reel   3
1957 (continued)-1964
La Crosse Mss BO
Box   1
Folder   10
Miscellaneous publicity and campaign material, 1946-1962
Box   1
Folder   11
Publicity photographs (copies)
Note: Originals are in PH 3334, listed below in the Visual Materials series.
Box   2
Scripts, 1959-1963
Audio 1201A
Recordings
1201A/3
Radio report from Washington concerning support for the Ice Age National Park, 1963 February 3
1201A/2
Radio report with Norman Clapp concerning REA Section 5 loans, 1963 October 27
1201A/1
Radio report with Alex Olson on pending dairy legislation, 1963 November 17
La Crosse Mss BO
Speeches and statements
Box   3
1955-1964
Box   4
Folder   1
Undated
Series: Subject Files
Box   4
Folder   2
Aging, 1960-1961
Box   4
Folder   3
Agricultural imports, 1960-1964
Box   4
Folder   4
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, 1961-1963
Agriculture
Box   4
Folder   5-7
1954-1956
Box   5
Folder   1
1960-1964
Box   5
Folder   2
Agriculture conservation program, 1955-1964
Box   5
Folder   3
Aid for Dependent Children, 1962
Box   5
Folder   4
Airports, 1962
Box   5
Folder   5
Alcohol, 1956-1962
Box   5
Folder   6
Arcadia flood control, 1961-1964
Box   5
Folder   7
Area Redevelopment Administration, 1961-1964
Box   5
Folder   8
Army, 1957-1963
Box   5
Folder   9
Army Corps of Engineers, 1962-1963
Box   5
Folder   10
Automobiles, 1956-1959
Box   5
Folder   11
Banks, 1957-1963
Box   5
Folder   12
Barron County disaster area, 1961-1962
Box   5
Folder   13
Beekeepers, 1954-1956
Box   5
Folder   14
Black River Falls conservation lands, 1958-1959
Box   5
Folder   15
Borden Company unfair trade practices, 1957
Box   5
Folder   16
Budget (federal), 1957-1964
Box   5
Folder   17
Burnham Chemical Co. (private bill), 1960-1963
Box   5
Folder   18
Camp McCoy, 1955-1957
Box   5
Folder   19
Charity drives, 1964
Box   5
Folder   20
Cheese industry, 1959-1963
Box   6
Folder   1
Chicago and Northwestern route discontinuations, 1961-1964
Box   6
Folder   2
Chippewa River, 1955-1956
Box   6
Folder   3
Citizenship and new citizens, 1960-1964
Box   6
Folder   4
City delivery, 1955-1957
Box   6
Folder   5
Civil defense, 1962-1963
Box   6
Folder   6
Civil rights, 1960, 1964
Box   6
Folder   7
Clark County disaster area, 1960
Box   6
Folder   8
Cochrane River flood control, 1954-1957
Box   6
Folder   9
Communism, 1962-1963
Box   6
Folder   10
Community development, 1958
Box   6
Folder   11
Congress, 1961-1963
Box   6
Folder   12
Conservation, 1957-1964
Box   6
Folder   13
Construction industry, 1960
Box   6
Folder   14
Cooperatives, 1955, 1959-1961
Box   6
Folder   15
Cranberry growers, 1959
Box   6
Folder   16
Crop insurance, 1963
Box   6
Folder   17
Cuba, 1963
Box   6
Folder   18
Dairy and Milk Advisory Committee, 1961
Box   6
Folder   19
Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee (of the Agriculture Committee), 1955-1963
Box   7
Folder   1-3
Dairy legislation, 1958, 1961-1964
Dairy price supports
Box   7
Folder   4-8
1954-1961
Box   8
Folder   1
1962-1963
Box   8
Folder   2-5
Dairy program, 1962-1964
Box   8
Folder   6
Dairy products, 1963
Box   8
Folder   7
Dairy self-help plan, 191958
Box   8
Folder   8
Dairy Society International, 1963
Box   8
Folder   9
Democratic National Committee, 1954
Box   8
Folder   10
Disarmament, 1962-1963
Box   8
Folder   11
Delta Fish and Fur Farm, 1956-1961
Box   8
Folder   12
Dried Milk Coop, 1955-1956
Box   8
Folder   13
Drought relief, 1964
Box   9
Folder   1-2
Duck stamp funds for refuge acquisition, 1955-1961
Box   9
Folder   3
Eau Claire “Milk City, U.S.A.” promotion, 1963
Box   9
Folder   4-5
Eau Galle River, 1955-1964
Education
Box   9
Folder   6
General, 1960-1962
Federal aid
Box   9
Folder   7
1955-1961
Box   10
Folder   1
1961-1964
Box   10
Folder   2
Parochial school aid, 1961
Box   10
Folder   3
Education Subcommittee hearings at Eau Claire, 1957-1958
Box   10
Folder   4
Educational loans and scholarships, 1958
Box   10
Folder   5
Erickson, Leif, resolution, 1954, 1959
Box   10
Folder   6
Fabri-Tec, 1963
Box   10
Folder   7
Fair Trade, 1958-1960
Box   10
Folder   8
Fall Creek Dam, 1961-1963
Box   10
Folder   9
Fallout in milk, 1961-1962
Box   10
Folder   10
Farm credit, 1955-1956
Farm legislation
Box   10
Folder   11
1956-1958, 1960
Box   11
Folder   1-2
1961 “Omnibus bill”
Box   11
Folder   3
1962
Box   11
Folder   4
Farm program, 1963-1964
Box   11
Folder   5
Farmers Home Administration, 1954-1963
Box   11
Folder   6
Farmers Union farm package bill, 1954
Box   11
Folder   7
Federal Communication Commission, 1958-1964
Federal employees
Box   11
Folder   8
Pay raises, 1955-1958
Box   11
Folder   9
Retirement, 1954-1962
Box   11
Folder   10
Feed grain program, 1955-1963
Box   12
Folder   1
Fish and wildlife, 1959-1961
Box   12
Folder   2
Fish applications, 1954-1960
Box   12
Folder   3
Flags, 1964
Box   12
Folder   4
Fluoridation, 1955-1962
Box   12
Folder   5
Food and drug laws, 1958-1963
Box   12
Folder   6
Food for Peace, 1959-1960
Box   12
Folder   7
Food stamps, 1959-1964
Box   12
Folder   8
Foreign aid, 1957, 1963
Box   12
Folder   9
Forests, 1955-1964
Box   12
Folder   10
Foreign relations, 1961-1962
Box   12
Folder   11
GI bill, 1959-1960
Box   12
Folder   12
Greenwood telephone case, 1961
Box   12
Folder   13
Gully control legislation, 1957
Box   12
Folder   14
Gun control, 1957, 1961-1964
Box   12
Folder   15
Handicapped shelter (Eau Claire), 1962
Box   12
Folder   16
Harbors (Small boats), 1957-1963
Box   13
Folder   1
Highway 12, 1957-1958
Box   13
Folder   2-3
Highway construction, 1955-1963
Box   13
Folder   4
Highways - Wisconsin, 1960-1963
Box   13
Folder   5
Hoover Commission, 1956
Box   13
Folder   6
Housing, 1958-1964
Box   13
Folder   7
Hospitals, 1956-1963
Box   13
Folder   8
Hull memorials, 1954
Box   13
Folder   9
Humanitarian and Old Age Rights Act, 1957
Box   13
Folder   10
Hungarian refugee relief, 1956-1957
Box   13
Folder   11
Ice Age National Park, 1959-1964
Box   13
Folder   12
Immigration, 1958-1962
Box   14
Folder   1
Indians, 1957-1962
Box   14
Folder   2
Internal Revenue Service offices, 1955
Box   14
Folder   3
Invitations, 1959
Box   14
Folder   4
Jacques Seed Co. “E” award, 1962
Box   14
Folder   5
Juke box bill, 1962
Box   14
Folder   6
Juvenile delinquency, 1954-1956
Box   14
Folder   7
Labor unions, 1953-1963
Box   14
Folder   8
LaCrosse, 1962-1963
Box   14
Folder   9
Lake Michigan water diversion bills, 1957-1959
Box   14
Folder   10
Land use bills, 1955-1962
Box   14
Folder   11
League of Women Voters, 1958-1962
Box   14
Folder   12
Legislative accomplishments, 1960
Box   14
Folder   13
Library of Congress information, 1958
Box   14
Folder   14
Library Service Act, 1960-1964
Box   14
Folder   15
Lodges, 1959-1963
Box   14
Folder   16
Loyalty oath, 1959-1960
Box   14
Folder   17
Manpower Training and Development Act, 1962
Box   14
Folder   18
May Day, the U.S.A. Way, 1956
Medicare
Box   14
Folder   19
Forand bill, 1959-1960
Box   15
Folder   1-2
King-Anderson bill, 1961-1962
Box   15
Folder   2A
1963-1964
Box   15
Folder   4
Messages, 1960-1963
Box   15
Folder   3
Messalt, Garth, 1957-1962
Box   15
Folder   5
Midwestern Universities Research Association, 1963
Box   15
Folder   6
Migratory labor, 1959-1964
Box   15
Folder   7
Military pay raises, 1958, 1963
Box   15
Folder   8
Milk, 1961, 1963
Box   15
Folder   9
Milk, Certified, 1961
Box   15
Folder   10-12
Milk marketing orders, 1954-1964
Milk programs
Box   16
Folder   1-2
Children , 1956-1962
Box   16
Folder   3
Military, 1954-1964
Box   16
Folder   4
Milk reconstituting machine, 1963
Milk sanitation bill
Box   16
Folder   5-9
1957-1959
Box   17
1959-1961
Box   18
Folder   1-3
1962-1964, undated
Box   18
Folder   4-5
Minimum wage, 1955-1961
Box   18
Folder   6
Mississippi River Parkway, 1959-1964
Box   18
Folder   7
Moss, 1960-1964
Box   18
Folder   8
Mutual Security Act, 1956
Box   18
Folder   9
National Defense Education Act, 1960-1964
Box   18
Folder   10
National Farm Organization, 1962-1964
Box   18
Folder   11
National Guard, 1955-1963
Box   18
Folder   12
Wisconsin, 1962-1963
Box   19
Folder   1
National Presto, 1955-1962
Box   19
Folder   2
Natural gas, 1955-11958
Box   19
Folder   3
Nike site in district, 1957-1958
Box   19
Folder   4
Nuclear test ban, 1963
Box   19
Folder   5
Nursing homes, 1957-1964
Box   19
Folder   6
Obscene mail, 1958
Box   19
Folder   7
Oleo bill re the Navy, 1957-1961
Box   19
Folder   8
“Operation Ivy” and Headquarters U.S.A. films, 1955-1956
Box   19
Folder   9
Orphan adoption, 1957, 1961
Box   19
Folder   10
Outdoor Recreation, Bureau of, 1963
Box   19
Folder   11
Paper, 1963
Box   19
Folder   12
Pepin Farm Management Club, 1960-1963
Box   19
Folder   13
Peace Corps, 1961-1964
Box   19
Folder   14
Perishable foods, 1961-1962
Box   19
Folder   15
Pesticides, 1963
Box   19
Folder   16
Pittman-Robertson conservation funds, 1958-1961
Post Office
Box   19
Folder   17
Buildings, 1954-1959
Box   19
Folder   18
Closings, 1954-1959
Box   19
Folder   19
Complaints, 1959-1960
Box   20
Folder   1-2
Legislation, 1961-1962
Box   20
Folder   3
Miscellany
Box   20
Folder   4
Rates and stamps, 1955-1963
Box   20
Folder   5
Route consolidations, 1955-1957
Box   20
Folder   6-7
Salaries, 1954-1960
Box   21
Folder   1
Potato acreage allotments, 1962-1963
Box   21
Folder   2
Poultry, 1959-1963
Box   21
Folder   3
Poverty, 1964
Box   21
Folder   4
Powdered milk dump, 1954
Box   21
Folder   5
Presidential letters, 1964
Box   21
Folder   6
Propaganda in utility ads, 1959-1960
Box   21
Folder   7
Public Works Acceleration Act, 1963
Railroads
Box   21
Folder   8
District issues, 1959-1962
Box   21
Folder   9-10
Legislation, 1958-1964
Box   21
Folder   11
Retirement, 1956-1960
Box   21
Folder   12
Rice Lake Creamery case, 1962-1963
Box   21
Folder   13-14
Rural Area Development Administration, 1961-1964
Box   22
Folder   1-2
Rural Electrification Administration, 1954-1959
Box   22
Folder   3
St. Lawrence Seaway, 1953-1964
Box   22
Folder   4
Sanford, A., disappearance, 1954
Box   22
Folder   5
School lunch program, 1961-1962
Box   22
Folder   6
Small Business Administration, 1955-1963
Social Security
Box   22
Folder   7-8
1954-1956
Box   23
Folder   1-2
1957-1964
Box   23
Folder   3-6
Polls (of doctors, dentists, lawyers, ministers, and veterinarians), 1954-1955
Soil Bank
Box   23
Folder   7
1955-1957
Box   24
Folder   1
1957-1964
Box   24
Folder   2
Soil conservation, 1962-1963
Box   24
Folder   3
Soil surveys, 1963
Box   24
Folder   4
Sonic booms, 1962-1963
Box   24
Folder   4a
Sorenson Fish Co., 1956-1957
Box   24
Folder   5
Soybeans, 1962-1964
Box   24
Folder   6
Special cases, 1955-1957
Box   24
Folder   7
Stanley eagle, 1962
Box   24
Folder   8
Statehood legislation, 1957-1959
Box   24
Folder   9
Surplus food, 1954-1963
Box   24
Folder   10
Surplus property, 1954-1964
Box   24
Folder   11
Conservation use, 1959
Box   24
Folder   12
Taft-Hartley, 1954
Box   24
Folder   13
Tariffs, 1954, 1961
Taxes
General
Box   24
Folder   14
1955-1958
Box   25
Folder   1
1961-1965
Box   25
Folder   2-4
Bills, 1961-1963
Box   25
Folder   5
Cabaret, 1950-1960
Box   25
Folder   6
Cooperatives, 1954
Box   25
Folder   7
Dividend withholdings, 1961-1962
Box   25
Folder   8
Excise, 1954-1960
Box   25
Folder   9
Expense accounts, 1963
Box   25
Folder   10
Gasoline, 1956, 1961-1962
Box   25
Folder   11
Savings and loans, 1962
Box   25
Folder   12
Television and radio, 1960-1964
Box   25
Folder   13
Tennessee Valley Authority, 1954
Box   25
Folder   14
Time (Standard and daylight), 1960-1961
Box   25
Folder   15
Tobacco, 1956-1964
Box   25
Folder   16
Tornado damage, 1958
Box   26
Folder   1
Townsend Plan, 1954-1957
Box   26
Folder   2
Trade legislation, 1955-1962
Box   26
Folder   3
Transportation, 1956-1964
Box   26
Folder   4
Trempealeau River, 1954-1958
Box   26
Folder   5
Truax Field surplus buildings, 1957
Box   26
Folder   6
Truckers, 1956, 1962-1963
Box   26
Folder   7
Turkeys, 1961-1964
Box   26
Folder   8
Truth in packaging, 1963
Box   26
Folder   9
Tuition tax credit, 1958
Box   26
Folder   10
Unemployment compensation, 1961-1962
Box   26
Folder   11
United Nations, 1954-1956, 1962
Box   26
Folder   12
Universal Military Training, 1955-1957
Box   26
Folder   13
Urban affairs cabinet post, 1962
Box   27
Folder   1-3
Veterans affairs, 1954-1964
Box   27
Folder   4
Vocational education, 1954, 1963
Water pollution
Box   27
Folder   5
1955-1962
Box   28
Folder   1
1963-1964
Watersheds
Box   28
Folder   2-5
General, 1954-1964
Box   28
Folder   6
Glen Hills, 1961-1964
Box   28
Folder   7
Mill Creek, 1957-1961
Box   28
Folder   8
Plum Creek, 1957-1964
Box   28
Folder   9
Wetlands, 1956-1962
Box   29
Folder   1
Wheat, 1963-1964
Box   29
Folder   2
White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960
Box   29
Folder   3
Wildlife refuges, 1956-1962
Box   29
Folder   4
Wilderness bill, 1961-1962
Box   29
Folder   5
Wisconsin Breeders Association, 1954
Box   29
Folder   6
Wisconsin Conservation Commission, 1961
Box   29
Folder   7
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, 1954-1957
Box   29
Folder   8
Wisconsin State Colleges, 1961-1964
Box   29
Folder   9
Youth conservation, 1962-1964
Box   29
Folder   10
Yugoslavia, 1957
Series: General Correspondence
Box   29
Folder   11-13
A, 1954-1964
B
Box   29
Folder   14
1954-1955
Box   30
1955-1962
Box   31
Folder   1
1962-1964
Box   31
Folder   2-6
C, 1954-1964
Box   32
Folder   1-4
D, 1954-1964
E
Box   32
Folder   5-7
1954-1962
Box   33
Folder   1
1962-1964
Box   33
Folder   2-4
F, 1954-1964
G
Box   33
Folder   5-7
1954-1958
Box   34
Folder   1-2
1959-1964
H
Box   34
Folder   3-5
1954-1958
Box   35
Folder   1-5
1959-1964
Box   35
Folder   6
I, 1954-1963
Box   36
Folder   1-5
J, 1954-1964
K
Box   36
Folder   6-8
1954-1958
Box   37
Folder   1-4
1959-1964
L
Box   37
Folder   5-6
1954-1959
Box   38
Folder   1-2
1960-1964
M
Box   38
Folder   3-6
1954-1961
Box   39
Folder   1-3
1962-1964
Box   39
Folder   4-5
Mc, 1964-1964
Box   39
Folder   6-9
N, 1954-1964
Box   40
Folder   1-3
O, 1954-1964
P
Box   40
Folder   4-7
1954-1960
Box   41
Folder   1-2
1961-1964
Box   41
Folder   3
Q, 1954-1964
R
Box   41
Folder   4-7
1954-1960
Box   42
Folder   1-2
1961-1964
S
Box   42
Folder   3-5
1954-1958
Box   43
1959-1964
Box   44
Folder   1-4
T, 1954-1964
Box   44
Folder   5
U, 1954-1964
Box   44
Folder   6-8
V, 1954-1964
W
Box   45
Folder   1-5
1954-1962
Box   46
Folder   1
1963-1964
Box   46
Folder   2-3
U-Z, 1954-1964
Series: Visual Materials
PH 3334
Photographs
Publicity photographs
Office staff and Johnson with others
PH 3-7367
Campaign poster
M64-392
Television spots
Can   1
Compilation Reel 1
Note: Content includes farm cooperatives with John A Baker, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; visit with 4-H members in DC for citizenship course; farm legislation and aid to the Philippines with Representative Clement J. Zablocki; minimum price supports for dairy farmers with Gilbert Rohde, Wisconsin Farmers Union; Bureau of Indian Affairs with Philleo Nash; legislation to create a state scientific reserve to study the Ice Age; Wisconsin School Safety Patrols in DC for 26th Annual Parade; food stamp program with Leonora Sullivan; Dairyland Power Cooperative with John P. Madgett
Can   2
Compilation Reel 2
Note: Content includes defeat of Wheat Growers Program; reduce taxes for small businesses with Representative Joe Evans, Chair of the Committee on Small Business; dairy bill to attack overproduction and raise farm income; Peace Corps with Sergeant Shriver; Brazilian project to blend milk and butter for nutrition with Edmund R. Bailey, Information Director of the Agency for International Development; cropland conservation program with Wallace Mullberg; water management with Carl R. Brown, Soil Conservation Service; Food for Peace program in Brazil with Leonard G. Wolf
Box   1
Can   3
Veterans Affairs funding needed for rural districts with Representative William Jennings Bryan Dorn
Box   1
Can   4
Price support system for farmers with Robert J. Lewis, Wisconsin Farmers Union
Box   1
Can   5
Milk Sanitation Bill with Ivan A. Nestingen, Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Box   1
Can   6
Human Relations workshop sponsored by 4-H with Eileen Layton, home agent from central Wisconsin
Box   1
Can   7
Hope that farm incomes are on the rise with John Baker, Director of Agricultural Credit Bureau
Box   1
Can   8
Milk Sanitation Bill with Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture
Box   1
Can   9
National Peace Corps with Ed Bailey, Director of Public Information for the Peace Corps
Box   1
Can   10
Bill to eliminate federal funding for wetland drainage with Russ Neubauer, Assistant Chief of Conservation Education Division of National Wildlife Federation
Box   1
Can   11
Additional funding for watershed protection in 1961 with Representative Frank Smith of Mississippi
Box   1
Can   12
Milk Sanitation Bill with Representative Bob Kastenmeier
Box   1
Can   13
Library Service Act with Representative Carl Elliott of Arkansas
Box   1
Can   14
Silver Anniversary of Rural Electrification Movement with Clyde Elliott, General Manager of National Rural Electric Co-operative Association
Box   1
Can   15
Interstate highway system with Representative John A. Blatnik, Chairman of Special Committee on Interstate Highways
Box   1
Can   16
Polk-Johnson Farm Bill with Bob Lewis, Agricultural Advisor to Governor Gaylord Nelson; Gilbert Rohde, President of Wisconsin Farmers Union; Linley George, Director of Dairy Section of Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Cooperatives; Paul Affelt, President of Pure Milk Products Cooperative
Box   1
Can   17
President's Conference on Occupational Safety with Otis Berger, President of Wisconsin Rural Electrification Administration
Box   1
Can   18
Farm Family Income Act with Representative Bob Polk
Political ads, 1961
Box   1
Can   19
Rural electrification
Note: Johnson receives requests for improved postal service, applications to military schools, student loan and social security questions; Johnson was supporter of Rural Electrification Program, now 96 percent of farmers are living better as a result
Can   20
Social Security and environment
Note: Johnson has voted for progressive programs, is a member of the House Veterans Committee, and House Committee on Agriculture; Johnson is a leader in conservation and helped with wetlands legislation; 35,000 people in the 9th District are on Social Security, and Johnson supports liberalizing the Social Security program; Johnson says that control of water pollution is crucial, and sewer plants must be modernized
Can   21
Environment and agriculture
Note: Johnson wants a national standard for milk regulation; the first national park in Wisconsin, the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve; wetland conservation for the propagation of waterfowl; importance of watershed programs to prevent soil erosion