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Correspondence, bulletins and questionnaires relating to Republican Nominee Richard Obenshain's 1978 campaign for the US Senate

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23 items. Items include 1974 and 1978 correspondence regarding obscenity laws, copies of 1974 Newport News laws, copies of 1974 Newport News obscenity ordinances, and photocopies of court decisions regarding obscenity, 1956-1964.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Office files, 1968-1982, of Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia Republican State Senator from Newport News. Includes correspondence with constituents and state officials; bills and legislative materials; memorandum; reports; pamphlets; and publications arranged according to subject. The collection contains background information and committee working papers showing Virginia's responses to the energy crisis of the late 1970's and to Ronald Reagan's "New Federalism" programs as well as the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Office files, 1968-1982, of Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia Republican State Senator from Newport News. Includes correspondence with constituents and state officials; bills and legislative materials; memorandum; reports; pamphlets; and publications arranged according to subject. The collection contains background information and committee working papers showing Virginia's responses to the energy crisis of the late 1970's and to Ronald Reagan's "New Federalism" programs as well as the...

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Correspondence, facts sheets and JLARC staff briefing regarding licensing of occupational therapists in Virginia. (16 items)

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17 items. Including constituent correspondence (some with Bateman's reply), and memoranda on environmental impact of refinery.

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Explaining reasons for state paying 70% (instead of current 65%) of students' education, and February 1982 letters from O.D.U. students urging Bateman to vote against tuition increases. (8 items)

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Office files, 1968-1982, of Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia Republican State Senator from Newport News. Includes correspondence with constituents and state officials; bills and legislative materials; memorandum; reports; pamphlets; and publications arranged according to subject. The collection contains background information and committee working papers showing Virginia's responses to the energy crisis of the late 1970's and to Ronald Reagan's "New Federalism" programs as well as the...

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23 items. Including copy of bill (HR 205), copies of newspaper clippings, undated statement by Virginia Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and packet of information on optometrist profession.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Office files, 1968-1982, of Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia Republican State Senator from Newport News. Includes correspondence with constituents and state officials; bills and legislative materials; memorandum; reports; pamphlets; and publications arranged according to subject. The collection contains background information and committee working papers showing Virginia's responses to the energy crisis of the late 1970's and to Ronald Reagan's "New Federalism" programs as well as the...

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Correspondence and memoranda relating to protest against Federal Trade Commission's new regulations on advertising ophthalmic goods and services. 10 items. Including correspondence with Or. Bernard Morewitz, who instigated the protest and State Attorney General Marshall Coleman, and draft of FTC regulation.

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60 items. Items include copy of bill and voluminous letters, enclosures, and telegrams from optometrists and constituents.

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Correspondence regarding Bateman's sponsorship of a bill to require parents to support children under 21 attending secondary school on a fulltime basis. (2 items)

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6 items. Including research brief and booklet from the Council of State Governments, October 1981 issue of State Legislatures, booklet opposing gambling from Indiana Council of Churches, and undated Senate bill to legalize pari-mutuel betting.

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Official forms and applications for ex-felons seeking to gain restoration of their civil rights, including inquiry and application by one ex-felon. (12 items.)

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Correspondence and memoranda, regarding Patrick Henry Hospital's certification of need to operate a nursing home in Isle of Wight County 20 items. Including Bateman's correspondence with state Health Commissioner James B. Kenley and hospital officials, and outline of hospital's request with Bateman's comments on margins.

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First (1975, 1979) to allow commission to issue industrial revenue bonds, note (1982) to reflect withdrawal of Williamsburg and James City County from Commission. 13 items.

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Documents relating to reinstatement of Peninsula Catholic Scholarship Fund, Inc., by State Corporation Commission. (2 items)

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15 items. Including proposed budget list of proposed officers for 1977 and amended by-laws for Council.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda, and technical information relating to (unsuccessful) bid by Newport News Industrial Council (NNIC, a subsidiary of Newport News Shipbuilding Co.) to build replacement steam generators for Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO) at Surry, Virginia40 items. Including voluminous correspondence between officials of NNIC and VEPCO, summary report of NNIC, and draft (undated) of Bateman's letter to VEPCO president questioning the final decision. Items...

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29 items. Items include resolutions of Progress Committee of Newport News to merge into PEDC, proposed by-laws, lists of members and officers, and minutes of initial PEDC meetings, and information on economic conditions on Peninsula. See also Newport News Downtown, series 123.

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33 items. Including agendas and minutes of board meetings and Director's reports, July-December 1980, summaries of VPEDC activities and marketing strategies, documents relating to July 1980 agreement between VPEDC and Peninsula Port Authority of Virginia for marketing of industrial revenue bonds, and agenda, minutes, and reports for 1982 VPEDC "Competitive Factors" workshop. See also Industrial Revenue Bonds, series 81.

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Spiral-bound notebook of materials on Peninsula Nature and Science Center with letter from Center president to Bateman appealing for continuation of $50,000 state appropriation. (2 items.)

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May 1978 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) memoranda refuting a Newport News Shipbuilding and Peninsula Shipbuilders Association, challenge of election victory by United Steelworkers Union at the Shipyard. 5 items. Also includes a 9 February 1979 letter from Bateman in which he explains his support of Virginia's right to work laws, and other 1979 correspondence. See also Privileges and Elections Committee, series 151.

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Including Bateman's January 1976 correspondence with Pentran officials regarding state funding. 9 items.