Folder List
R Rodgers,
Harris D., 1889-1985.
294 Papers,
1949-1965.
Six
folders and 38 photographs.
MICROFILMFolder 1: Newspaper Clippings, 1949-1957 (Selected Contents in Order of Appearance)
Date Title
15 Mar 1949 “Lucy Replaced by H. D. Rodgers on Hiway Body”
“Harris
Rodgers Named to State Road Group” – Star
Times,
“Senators Approve Harris Rodgers as Highway Chief”
“
“
“
“To State Road Post” – “Star”
“Benton Man Named to Highway commission,” – sent by Bartley R., Schwegler
“Smith
Appoints Harris D. Rodgers,
Dispatch
“Rodgers
To Be
22 Mar 1949 “Senate Confirms Harris Rodgers”
01 Apr 1949 “New
20 Mar 1949 “
“Road Plan Snipers”
“Governor’s
Road Plan Faces New Complication” – St.
Louis Globe-Democrat
08 Apr 1949 “Governor’s
Compromise Gas Tax Hike Stalled” – St.
Louis Globe-Democrat
“Chill to
“
13 Apr 1949 “New
Road Plan to
18 Apr 1949 “Four-Cent Gas Tax Bill Ready For House Group”
“Bill
To Enlarge
19 Apr 1949 “Rural Pressure On Governor Brings Revision of Roads Bill” – Post-Dispatch
20 Apr 1949 “Committee Approves Road Bill”
“Governor’s Road Plan Faces New Complication” – St. Louis Globe-Democrat
“House
Committee Approves
24 Apr 1949 “Politics
In State Road Buildings Threatened” –
26 Apr 1949 “Road Board Bill Changed To Open Entire Agency To Political Rule” – Post-Dispatch
28 Apr 1949 “Smith
06 May 1949 “Road
Bill Compromise” –
28 Jun 1949 “Gov.
Smith told By Taylor Bill To Delay 3rd Street Highway Is Legal,” – Post-Dispatch
30 Jun 1949 “Gov. Smith Road Bill Held Up By Backers Who Lose Senate Test,” – Post-Dispatch
08 Jul 1949 “Road
To
Leader
“Dedication
of Highway No. 77 Direct Approach To
Watchman Advocate, Clayton Station,
10 Jul 1949 “
29 Sep 1949 “Head Of State Highway Department Will Crown The Fall Festival Queen Saturday
Night,” – The Dexter Messenger
29 Oct 1949 “
04 Jan 1950 [Fragment] The Unionville Republican
05 Jan 1950 “Sentiment
for Wider Roadway Growing,” –
27 Jan 1950 “State
Highway Commission Backs ‘Gas’ Tax Boost,” – Star Times,
“
01 Aug 1950 “Another
09 Aug 1950 “Your Governor Reports.”
18 Aug 1950 “
25 Aug 1950 “Governor to Ask Higher Fees For Trucks, Busses.”
01 Sep 1950 “4 Groups Seek To Have Issue Placed On Ballot,” – Star Times
19 Oct 1950 “Highway
Savings,” –
23 Nov 1950 “
“3
Expressways Urged At Cost of 100 Million,” –
24 Nov 1950 “Sen.
Gilmore Proposes
Girardeau
Southeast Missourian
25 Nov 1950 “Cracks In The Pavement,” – Post-Dispatch
26 Nov 1950 “Gov.
Smith To Sponsor 2-Cent Gas Tax Hike,” –
28 Nov 1950 “Highway
Realism,” –
29 Nov 1950 “Simple
Gas Tax,” –
13 Dec 1950 “State Earmarks $11,885,000 For Highway Upkeep”
14 Dec 1950 “Road
Commission Expected To Fight For Gas Tax Rise,” – Star-Times,
18 Dec 1950 “Pushes
‘Gas’ Tax,” – Star,
04 Jan 1951 “Text Of Governor’s Message To Assembly,” – Globe-Democrat
05 Jan 1951 “The Governor’s Message,” – St. Louis Star-Times
16 Jan 1951 “Your Governor Reports”
28 Mar 1951 “Rodgers
Renamed To Road Board,” – Southeast
Missourian,
“Rodgers
Again Named To Highway Board,” – The
Daily
29 Mar 1951 “Job For Harris Rodgers,” – Post-Dispatch
31 Mar 1951 “Quinn
And Curry Again,” –
“Change
In Highway Setup Is Proposed,” –
02 Apr 1951 “Service Is Recognized,” – The Southeast Missourian
05 Apr 1951 “Rodgers
Re-named As Chairman Of Highway Commission,” –
“Job
For Harris Rodgers,” – The
08 Apr 1951 “Quinn-Curry road Bill Called Political Grab,” – St. Louis Globe-Democrat
14 Apr 1951 “Misleading
‘Balances’,” –
16 Apr 1951 “Gov.
Smith Asks Legislature To Shake Lobbyists,” –
Missourian
18 Apr 1951 “Smith Playing Politics With Roads, Cruce Says”
10 May 1951 “Highway
Group Makes New Bid For More Funds,” – Southeast
Missouri,
Girardeau
“Highway Board Lists Offsets To $46,500,000 Fund,” – Post-Dispatch
13 May 1951 “Smith
Program Headed for Flop In Assembly,” –
25 Jul 1951 “Cross
Purposes” (Editorials), The Unionville
Republican,
14 Nov 1951 “Curious
Attitude,” – The Unionville Republican
16 Nov 1951 “
“Brief
Visit,” (Photo) –
17 Nov 1951 “
18 Nov 1951 “163-Million
Urban
“Expressways
Program,” –
19 Nov 1951 “200
Attend Dedication Of
“Memorial Is
Dedicated On Highway 40,” – Daily
Democrat,
12 Dec 1951 “Air
Protests To New Road Route At
22 May 1953 Photo
of “Members and Staff Of the
03 Jun 1953 “Harris
D. Rodgers Presented With Scroll,” – Scott
07 Oct 1954 “States
Along
Dispatch
“
28 Oct 1954 “Harris
D. Rodgers, Veteran
–
“Announcement,”
– Southeast Missourian
02 Nov 1954 “Harris
Rodgers Sells Abstract Company To
28 Feb 1957 “First
Sector Of
“
Folder 2: Newspaper Clippings, no date (Selected Contents in Order of Appearance)
Title
“Judge M. Sweet Wore Tails and Dined On Lobster”
“Inaugural Committee….”
“Governor Smith Backs Down”
“
“Governor’s Road Strategy”
“Opponents of Gas Tax Bill Called ‘Road Wreckers’”
“Early Days—In
Folder 3: Correspondence, 1949-1954 (93 items)
Date To
From
01 Mar 1949 Gov.
Forrest Smith Marvin
L. Carroll,
02 Mar 1949 Hon. Forrest Smith Harry C. Blanton
02 Mar 1949 Hon.
Forrest Smith Leroy
C. Leslie,
n.d., ca. 02 Mar 1949 Hon.
Forrest Smith Joel
Montgomery,
n.d., ca. 02 Mar 1949 Hon. Forrest Smith Robert A. Dempster, Scott County, MO
15 Mar 1949 Harris D. Rodgers Jack E. Barton
15 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers Mrs.
James V.
15 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers C.
L. Blanton, Jr.,
15 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers C.
D. Hicks,
15 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers Claude
L. Lambert,
15 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers J.
R. Lucy,
15 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers Forrest
Smith,
15 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers Daffodil
16 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers J.
Abner Beck,
n.d. Harris
D. Rodgers Julia
Dodge
16 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers J.
Ray Chaney,
16 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers R.
R. Deal,
16 Mar 1949 Harris D. Rodgers W. O. Finney, Chaffee, MO
16 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers
16 Mar 1949 H.
D. Rodgers H.
L. Harty,
16 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers R.
W. Holt,
16 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers Milton
D. Lowestein,
16 Mar 1949 Harris D. Rodgers C. D. Matthews, 3rd
16 Mar
16 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers Forrest
Smith,
16 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers W.
F. Webb,
17 Mar 1949 Forrest
Smith R.
D. Clayton,
17 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers Mooris
R. Sweet,
17 Mar 1949 H.
D. Rodgers C.
A. Vandivort,
18 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers John
J. Craig,
18 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers Harold
C. Hanke,
18 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers T.
R. Saltsman,
19 Mar 1949 H.
D. Rodgers J.
W. Baker, Jr.,
19 Mar 1949 Honorable
Forrest Smith J.
W. Baker, Jr.,
19 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers Victor
B. Harris,
19 Mar 1949 Honorable
H. D. Rodgers Paul
C. Jones, Missouri Congressman, 10th District,
19 Mar 1949 H.
D. Rodgers Franklin
E. Reagan,
20 Mar 19491 Harris
D. Rodgers C.
H. Winger,
21 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers Mrs.
Robert Lilliard,
21 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers Etna
Harris
21 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers J.
H. Meredith,
22 Mar 1949 Honorable
Harris Rodgers “Chilli,”,
23 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers Robert
A. Dempster,
23 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers John
C. Talbot,
23 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers
24 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers A.
L. Biffle,
25 Mar 1949 Mr.
Rodgers
26 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers J.
C. Harlin,
28 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers J.
S. Kevil,
28 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers Maxwell
Williams,
29 Mar 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers B.
F. Burns,
30 Mar 1949 Harris
Rodgers Walter
G. Kriegshauser,
02 Apr 1949 Harris Rodgers D. W. Gramling, Braman, OK
04 Apr 1949 Harris
Rodgers J.
P. Ross, Essex and
n.d. Harris Rodgers Joe Allen
08 Apr 1949 Harris
Rodgers Arthur
F. Deneke,
20 Apr 1949 Harris D. Rodgers Bill & Daisy
23 Apr 1949 H.
D. Rodgers Clyde
R. Welman,
25 Apr 1949 Harris
D. Rodgers W.
D. [McGee?],
25 Apr 1949 H.
D. Rodgers James
C. Kirkpatrick,
13 Feb 1950 “Gentlemen” Ray
Metzger,
28 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers George
A. Lough, ?
28 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers Forrest
Smith, Governor,
28 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers James
C. Kirkpatrick,
29 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers O.
F. Anderson,
29 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers Tom
F. Baker,
29 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers Robert
B. Brooks,
29 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers Paul
C. Jones,
29 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers J.
G. Morgan,
29 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers Arthur
W. Swacker,
31 Mar 1951 H.
D. Rodgers Harry
C. Blanton,
02 Apr 1951 H.
D. Rodgers Edward
L. Clark,
04 Apr 1951 Charles L. Blanton Jr. H. D. Rodgers
04 Apr 1951 Harry C. Blanton H. D. Rodgers
04 Apr 1951 James C. Kirkpatrick H. D. Rodgers
04 Apr 1951 J. C. Morgan H. D. Rodgers
04 Apr 1951 Honorable Forrest Smith H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 O. F. Anderson H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 Tom F. Baker H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 Major Robert B. Brooks H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 Dr. Edward L. Clark H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Limbaugh H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 George A. Lough H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 Lloyd Poe H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 Arthur W. Swacker H. D. Rodgers
05 Apr 1951 T. A. Wilson H. D. Rodgers
10 May 1951 Honorable Forrest Smith J. H. A.
(Copies of enclosures: “Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press”
“Statement of Commission Relative to Finances of the State Highway Department”)
09 May 1951 Finances
of
24 Jun 1952 H.
D. Rodgers Ralph
Corbridge,
30 Oct 1954 Fred Naeter Harris D. Rodgers
n.d. Grace
[?] Ella
Hunter,
Folder 4: Miscellaneous papers, 1949-1965 (20 items)
Date Paper
ca. 1949 Procedure for coronation ceremony
Apr 1949 Highway News
Jul 1949 The Construction Advisor
Jan 1950 The Construction Advisor
26 Jan 1950 “A
Statement To The People of
08 Feb 1950 Construction News Monthly, (2 pages)
16 Nov 1950 The Southwest Trafficway,
Nov 1950 Highway News
08-09 Feb 1951 Program
Midwinter Meeting,
International House New Orleans (badge)
Business card – J. Lester White, State of Louisiana, Department of Public Works, Baton
Rouge, LA
08 Feb 1951 Banquet card – St. Charles Hotel
15 Feb 1951 Guest
card – International House,
08 Feb 1951 Certificate
– H. D. Rodgers as Honorary Citizen of
23-26 Oct 1951 Program
– 37th Annual Meeting of American Association of
1951 “The Shack” – menu
Apr 1952 The Bulletin
Invitation to 1965 Presidential Inauguration (3 items)
Folder 5: Dedicatory programs, 1950-1953 (6 items)
Date Program
03 Nov 1951 7th Annual Service Award Meeting Program
16 Nov 1951 Program
and Brochure for dedication of the Southwest
MO
16 Nov 1951 Division
7, Highway Department Dedication New
18 Nov 1951 Griffith Roadside Park Dedication, Saline—Cooper County Line, 8 miles east of Route U.S. 65
02 Jul 1952 Dedication
Ceremony for the
17 May 1953
08-09 Oct 1953
11 Oct 1953
Folder 6: Resolutions on retirement, 1957
(2 items)
Resolution by members of the 69th General Assembly, Missouri House of Representatives, regarding the retirement of Harris D. Rodgers from the Missouri Highway Commission, ca. March 1957.
Resolution on retirement of Harris D. Rodgers, signed by members of the Missouri State Highway Commission, ca. March 1957
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