A GUIDE TO THE
ALAN H. BIBLE SENATORIAL PAPERS
Collection NC01
SCOPE AND CONTENT
This collection contains materials covering the period of Bible's career in the U.S. Senate, 1954-1974. A large part concerns legislation introduced or sponsored by Alan Bible; also legislation affecting Nevadans. Correspondence from Nevadans requesting help or information on legislative topics is another major part of the collection.
NC01 The Senatorial Papers of Alan Bible
(Preliminary arrangement by Chris Jay and Terry Reynolds,
February - August, 1975)
Categories
1/1 Independent Agencies
1/2 Commissions
1/3 Committees
1/4 Constituent Problems
1/5 Departments
1/6 Federal Concerns
1/7 Legislation
1/8 Miscellaneous
1/9 Nevada State Concerns
1/10 Photographs
1/11 Personal/Political
1/12 Speeches
1/13 Scrapbooks
1/14 Tapes and Film
1/1 Independent Agencies
The category of Independent Agencies includes those agencies that Senator Bible dealt with on behalf of constituents.
In the Small Business Administration Category some material refers to the Small Business Committee and the other to Small Business Administration. This material has been separated into two categories, Agencies and Committees. One doing research on Small Business may want to pull material from both sources for a comprehensive view.
CAA - CAB
Box 1 1 1/1 Civil Aeronautics Administration General to CAA Winnemucca.
Box 2 1 1/2 CAB - General to Bonanza (Renewal Southwest).
Box 3 1 1/3 CAB - Bonanza (Renewal) to CAB - So. Pacific Airlines.
Federal Aviation Administration
Box 4 1 1/4 FAA 1965 - 1970 - FAA - VOR - Stations to FAA - Releases.
Federal Communications Commission
Box 5 1 1/5 FCC General 1955 - 1969.
FCC Boulder City to Southwest Publishing Company.
General Services Administration
Box 6 1 1/6 General Services Administration - General 1955 - 1974 to GSA Federal Building, Las Vegas.
Box 7 1 1/7 GSA Mercury Flasks to GSA Winnemucca.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Box 8 1 1/8 Interstate Commerce Commission 1955 to 1964 and Train Discontinuance, and Interstate Nominations.
Miscellaneous Agencies
Box 9 1 1/9 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to Subversive Activities Control Board.
Small Business Administration
Box 10 1 1/10 Small Business - Cases - Correspondence 1955 to 1963-64.
Box 11 1 1/11 Small Business - Cases - Correspondence 1964-65 to 1965-66.
Small Business Administration - Copper Canyon to SBA - Releases.
1/2 Commissions
The concentration of this material is on the Public Land Law Review Commission. The material within this section is ordered alphabetically by title of folder.
Commissions
Box 12 1 2/1 An Act S2267 to laws and policies relating to intensive agriculture. Final report and summary.
Box 13 1 2/2 Legal study of coal resources on public lands to Nevada Committee on Federal Land Laws.
Box 14 1 2/3 Public Land Law Review Commission news releases, speeches, etc. to Point Reyes Land Exchange, s2019.
Box 15 1 2/4 Public Land Law Review Commission general, 1967.
Box 16 1 2/5 Public Land Law Review Commission general, 1968, 1969.
Miscellaneous Commissions
Commission on Inter-governmental Relations
US Employees Compensation Commission, Nevada and Federal
Warren Commission
1/3 Committees
The material in this section has been split with department material. For example, material on "interior" matters can be found under the section Interior Committee, while material dealing with the Department of Interior will be found in the departmental category under Department of Interior.
Committees
Box 17 1 3/1 Agriculture Committee 1955-1967. Appropriations - Agriculture
1954 to Supplementals 1957. Agriculture 1957 to Urgent
Deficiency 1957.
Box 18 1 3/2 Agriculture 1958-1959 to Mutual Security 1958-1959.
Box 19 1 3/3 Public Works 1958-59 to Treasury & Post Office 1958-59.
Box 20 1 3/4 Appropriations Agriculture 1960 to Vocational Education 1960.
Box 21 1 3/5 Agriculture 1961 to Interior 1961-62.
Box 22 1 3/6 Agriculture 1963 to Appropriations, Interior 1963.
Box 23 1 3/7 Agriculture 1964 to HEW, Labor 1964.
Box 24 1 3/8 Interior 1964 to Weather Modification 1964.
Box 25 1 3/9 Agriculture 1965 to Interior 1965.
Box 26 1 3/10 Judiciary 1955 to Treasury 1965.
Box 27 1 3/11 Agriculture 1966 to Treasury 1966.
Box 28 1 3/12 Agriculture 1967 to Public Works (out of state, 1967).
Box 29 1 3/13 Public Works 1967 (civil functions) to Treasury 1967.
Box 30 1 3/14 Agriculture 1968 to Transportation 1968.
Box 31 1 3/15 Appropriations General 1969 to Floods 1969.
Box 32 1 3/16 Labor - HEW 1969 to Office of Economic Opportunity 1969.
Box 33 1 3/17 Public Works 1969 to Treasury (Post Office) 1969.
Box 34 1 3/18 Appropriations 1970 to Interior (National Park Service) 1970.
Box 35 1 3/19 Interior (Outdoor Recreation) 1970 to Legislative General 1970.
Box 36 1 3/20 Military Construction 1970 to Public Works (Army Civ.) 1970.
Box 37 1 3/21 Appropriations General 1971 to Interior 1971.
Box 38 1 3/22 Interior 1971 to Treasury - Post Office 1971.
Box 39 1 3/23 Agriculture, General 1972 to Interior, National Foundation on Arts & Humanities (& Fine Arts) 1972.
Box 40 1 3/24 Interior - Smithsonian 1972 to Treasury - Post Office 1972.
Senate Armed Services Committee and related material (Selective Service included)
Box 41 1 3/25 Armed Services Committee 1955-1970. Armed Services - Cemeteries through Armed Services Reorganization
1969-1972.
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Box 42 1 3/26 AEC Statements 1971 to Weapons 1971.
Senate Banking & Currency Committee
1 3/26 Banking & Currency Committee 1955-1973.
District of Columbia
Box 43 1 3/27 District of Columbia Committee 1955 to District of Columbia Committee 1965- 1966.
Box 44 1 3/28 Senator Bible D.C. Bills 1967 to D.C. Transportation & Mass Transit
Interior Committee
Box 45 1 3/29 Interior Committee 1955-1963.
Box 46 1 3/30 Interior Committee (Public Land Subcommittee 1964) 1964 to 1971.
Box 47 1 3/31 Interior Committee 1973-1974. Parks & Recreation Subcommittee 1965 to 1971.
Public Lands Subcommittee 1957 to 1966.
Box 48 1 3/32 Interior Committee - special - Amistad National Recreation Area to Yosemite National Park.
1 3/32 Alaska Mental Health to Alaskan Pipeline Claims 1969.
Box 49 1 3/33 Boulder City Canyon Project to Wilderness Bill.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Box 50 1 3/34 Interstate General 1955 to Interstate 1968. Local Airlines - Certification to Interstate Highways.
Box 51 1 3/35 Government Guaranteed Loans - Aircraft to UHF.
Judiciary Committee
1 3/36 Judiciary Committee 1957 to Judiciary Committee 1970.
Antitrust, Immigration, and Civil Rights.
Miscellaneous Committees
Box 52 1 3/37 Miscellaneous Committees, Special Committee on Aging to Foreign Relations Committee.
Box 53 1 3/38 Committees General to Joint Committee on Washington Area Problems.
Committee Assignment Book of the 90th Congress.
Small Business Committee
Box 54 1 3/39 Small Business Committee 1957-1958-1968-1970 to Bible Legislation and Proposals.
1/4 Constituent Problems
Constituent problems refers only to Nevadans who have written in reference to the following problems: civil service, immigration, military, railroad
retirement, social security, and veterans' problems. Other constituent problem correspondence will be found in the Nevada State Concerns section.
Since constituent correspondence is so enormous and touches every subject, it cannot be put under one heading or even two; however, an effort has
been made to categorize as many like items as possible.
Constituent Problems - Nevada Correspondence
Civil Service Cases
Box 55 1 4/1 Civil Service Cases 1955 to 1971.
Immigration
Box 56 1 4/2 Immigration Cases 1955 to 1957-58-59, A-G.
Box 57 1 4/3 Immigration Cases 1957-58-59, HL to Immigration 1965, W-Z.
Box 58 1 4/4 Immigration Cases 1968-69, A-Z to Immigration 1970-71.
Military
Box 59 1 4/5 Air force 1953 to Air force 1961.
Box 60 1 4/6 Air force 1961 to Air force 1963.
Box 61 1 4/7 Air force 1964-1968 to Air force 1971-1974.
Box 62 1 4/8 Army 1953-1955 to Army 1961-1965.
Box 63 1 4/9 Army-A-1967 to Army W-X-Y-Z 1967.
Box 64 1 4/10 Army-A-1968 to Army P-Z 1971, 1974.
Box 65 1 4/11 Marines 1953-1974, Coast Guard and National Guard 1974, Navy 1953 to Navy-Fallon Air Base 1960.
Box 66 1 4/12 Navy 1968 to Navy 1971.
Railroad Retirement Cases
1 4/13 Railroad Retirement 1955-57, 1969.
Social Security Cases
Box 67 1 4/14 Social Security 1955 to Social Security-Medicare 1967.
Box 68 1 4/15 Social Security 1968 to Social Security 1974, State Welfare and Medicare 1974.
Veterans' Cases
Box 69 1 4/16 Veterans 1955 to Veterans General-Loan Office 1959-61.
Box 70 1 4/17 Veterans 1962 to 1967.
Box 71 1 4/18 Veterans 1970 to 1974.
1/5 Departments
Material in this section includes Senator Bible's dealings with the various departments of the government. Also, included in the material is information concerning departmental actions and constituent comment.
Departments
Department of Agriculture
Box 72 1 5/1 Department of Agriculture 1955 to 1971.
Box 73 1 5/2 Agriculture- Acreage Allotment to Agriculture-Research.
Box 74 1 5/3 Agriculture-Sugar to Agriculture-Wool. Farmer's Home Loan Administration 1954 to 1971.
Box 75 1 5/4 Forest Service 1955 to 1971.
Box 76 1 5/5 Rural Electrification 1952 to 1971. Rural Electrification Adm. -Fish Lake to REA-White Pine County.
Box 77 1 5/6 Soil Conservation Service 1953 to 1968.
Box 78 1 5/7 Agricultural Yearbook Requests 1955 to 1970.
Department
of the Army
Box 79 1 5/8 Army General 1955-1974.
Army-Corps of Engineers to Army 365th.
Civil Defense 1955 to Civil Defense-Survival Products.
Department of Commerce
Box 80 1 5/9 Commerce Department 1959-69.
Air Modernization Board to Commerce Department Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Box 81 1 5/10 Customs to Commerce-Weather Bureau.
Department of Defense
Box 82 1 5/11 Department of Defense 1965 to 1972.
Defense Contracts.
Pueblo Incident.
National Guard 1955 to 1971.
Department of Health, Education, & Welfare
Box 83 1 5/12 HEW General 1955 to 1972.
HEW Bulletins to HEW Miscellaneous.
Box 84 1 5/13 HEW-National Institutes of Health to White House Conference on Education.
Food and Drug Administration.
Box 85 1 5/14 Health-Abortions to Health-Releases.
Box 86 1 5/15 Housing-Battle Mountain to Housing-Las Vegas.
Box 87 1 5/16 Housing-North Las Vegas to Housing-Virginia City.
Box 88 1 5/17 Housing-Community Facility Assistance to Housing & Urban Development-Urban Renewal 1971.
Department of the Interior
Box 89 1 5/18 Department of the Interior 1955 to 1974-General.
Interior-Bonneville Power to Interior-Fish and Wildlife.
Box 90 1 5/19 Interior-Geological Survey to Interior-Office of Saline Water.
Box 91 1 5/20 Interior-Summer Employment to Interior-Water Pollution Control.
BLM 1955 to BLM 1957 U through Z-General.
Box 92 1 5/21 BLM A through H 1956-58 to BLM C 1956-62.
Box 93 1 5/22 BLM 1960-1962 D to BLM 1961-1963 X-Y-Z.
Box 94 1 5/23 BLM 1963 A to BLM 1962-1963 S.
Box 95 1 5/24 BLM 1963-64 S to BLM General 1967.
Box 96 1 5/25 BLM 1966-1969 A to BLM 1969 X-Y-Z.
Box 97 1 5/26 BLM-Bulletins and Firearms to BLM-Grazing.
Box 98 1 5/27 BLM-Land Classification to BLM-Wadsworth.
Box 99 1 5/28 Park Service 1955 to Park Service 1967.
Park Service-Correspondence to Park Service-Voyageurs National Park.
Box 101 1 5/30 Reclamation-Battle Mountain to Reclamation-Pyramid Lake Fisheries.
Box 102 1 5/31 Reclamation-Releases to Reclamation-TCID Alpine.
Box 103 1 5/32 Reclamation-Trout World to Reclamation-Water Resources.
Department of Justice
Box 104 1 5/33 Department of Justice 1955 to 1974.
Justice Department-Civil Disorders to Justice-Wire Tapping.
Department of Labor
Box 105 1 5/34 Department of Labor 1955 to 1974.
Box 106 1 5/35 Labor-Bureau Apprenticeship and Training to Labor- Workman's Compensation.
Miscellaneous Departments
Box 107 1 5/36 Department of the Air Force.
Department of the Navy.
Department of Transportation.
Department of the Treasury.
Department of State
Box 108 1 5/37 Department of State 1955 to 1969.
Department of State-Aid to Department of State-Trading with the Enemy.
1/6 Federal Concerns
Coinage
Box 109 1 6/1 Coinage-Bills, Reports, etc. to Gold Coins.
Box 110 1 6/2 Silver Coins to Coinage Act of 1966 (Book). Two volumes.
Commerce
1 6/2 US Commerce
Consumer Affairs
SST
Crime
Box 111 1 6/3 Crime Bill to Prisons-State & Federal.
Economy
Box 112 1 6/4 Economy-Gas & Oil to Economy-Inflation.
Foreign Relations
Box 113 1 6/5 Foreign Relations-Aid to Foreign Relations-United Nations.
Industry
1 6/5 Industry-General to Industry-Solar Energy.
Internal Revenue
Box 114 1 6/6 Internal Revenue 1954 to 1967.
Internal Revenue-Complaints to Reorganization.
Miscellaneous
Box 114 1 6/6 CIA to Library of Congress.
Legislative Reference.
Natural Resources
Box 115 1 6/7 Air Pollution to Forestry.
Box 116 1 6/8 Geothermal Steam to Public Lands.
Box 117 1 6/9 Mining-Bureau of Mines to Pyramid Lake.
Box 118 1 6/10 Reclamation (TCID) to Water-Saline Conversion.
Post Office
Box 119 1 6/11 Post Office-Alpine Village to Post Office-Paradise Valley.
Box 120 1 6/12 Post Office-Reno to Post Office-Zephyr Cove.
Post Office General-1955 to 1958.
Box 121 1 6/13 Post Office General 1958 to 1974.
Commemorative Stamps to Post Office-Transportation.
Science & Space
Box 122 1 6/14 National Aeronautical and Space Agency to Science-Research.
Supreme Court
Box 123 1 6/15 Supreme Court General 1955 to 1968.
Nominations.
Tariffs & Taxes
Box 124 1 6/16 Tariffs 1955-1967.
Tariffs-Lead & Zinc to Tariffs-Titanium.
Taxes 1955 to 1964
Taxes-Federal Income to Gore Amendment to the Tax Bill, 1962.
United Nations
Box 124 1 6/16 United Nations 1963-1971.
Vietnam
Box 125 1 6/17 Vietnam 1964-1972 Correspondence.
1/7 Legislation
The category of Legislation is divided into four categories: Bills; Legislative Correspondence; Private Law Bills; and LegislativeAccomplishments and Voting Record of Senator Bible. In total there are 79 boxes in this category.
Arrangement:
Bills: the bills are arranged by congress and then by number within each individual congress.
Legislative Correspondence: the correspondence is arranged by topic and alphabetically ordered. Within each topic the material is arranged by date.
Private Law Bills: this material is arranged by congress and by sequence of
bill number within each congress.
Legislative Accomplishments and Voting Record of Senator Bible: within this category is a list of accomplishments by county; a complete index of all bills sponsored or co-sponsored by Senator Bible with date of introduction and bill number and subject. Also included is a Congressional Record Index with all Bible related items from the 84th to 92nd Congress.
Legislation
84th Congress, 1955-1956
Box 126 1 7/1 S172 to S497
Box 127 1 7/2 S514 to S669
Box 128 1 7/3 S756 to S1179
Box 129 1 7/4 S1268 to S2856
Box 130 1 7/5 S2879 to S3453
Box 131 1 7/6 S3305 to S4299
SJR19 to SJR151
SCR15
SR18 & 280
HR1, HR7225, HR10660
85th Congress, 1957-1958
Box 132 1 7/7