Box 38

Topics: Military honored and memorialized (Pearl Harbor, Armistice Day, Military grad speeches), farm labor requirements, continued conflict between Johnson and Meredith.

Topics: Raises to employees of state institutions, funding for schools and education, continued conservation of food and other items, continued back and forth with Keen and Meredith.

Topics: Food rationing as well as other conservation efforts (coffee, scrap, soil, etc.), new hospital renovations, continued issues with Meredith

Topics: Kentucky Sesquicentennial Celebration plans, warnings of tax increases due to the war, and defense measure reinforcement.

Topics: Passage of bill that would enable T.V.A. measures, fund collection attempts from states, salvage "victory drive" for materials, more State Purchasing Division Investigation, 5,000 salary limit challenged.

Topics: Salary limit repealed, beer vote passed and then vetoed, debt decreased to the point that KY nears zero debt, vehicle registration laws, hospital remodeling is stopped due to war, Meredith offers to put aside differences to work with Johnson. Johnson accepts Meredith's offer but insults him in the process, and Meredith feels as though his offer for unity was not accepted.

Topics: Johnson pushes for further voter registration, urges the curbing of prostitution use in order to lessen disease, state park dedications, and continued hostility between Keen and Meredith.

Topics: Meredith suit stops hospital developments, Keen speaks at the opening of several schools, Keen condemns the strike at the War Plant, and continued back and forth between Johnson and Meredith.

Topics: Government pushes for unity within the state, focus on agriculture in the U.S., another successful scrap drive for materials in KY.