Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/25/05 to Chairman Principi from the Columbus, OH City Council in support of retaining DFAS Columbus and DSCC.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/11/05 to Chairman Principi from Whitehall, OH Mayor Lynn Ochsendorf in support of retaining DFAS Columbus and DSCC and enclosing a resolution dtd 08/02/05 to that effect.

Executive Correspondence – Resolution 2005-8 dated 08/01/05 from the Village of Danville, OH in support of repealing DoD’s recommendation to close Mansfield Lahm Air Guard Station.

Executive Correspondence – Resolution 27-05 dated 08/01/05 from the Village of Bellville, OH in support of repealing DoD’s recommendation to close Mansfield Lahm Air Guard Station.

Executive Correspondence – Letter received 08/12/05 to Chairman Principi from the Mid-Willamette Valley Mayors Coalition (OR). The mayors request that the 142nd Fighter Wing not be removed from Portland International Airport.

Final Cobra Run - Navy/Marine Corps Reserve Center Akron/Cleveland.

From Introduction: "The difficulties experienced in cooling the exhaust-valve seats of the rear-row cylinders have been overcome to a considerable extent by improving the mixture distribution through application of the injection impeller (reference 1) and by augmenting the flow of cooling air to the critical baffles (reference 2). Flight tests of this airplane (reference 3) indicated that the temperatures of exhaust-valve seats on rear-row cylinders were markedly lowered by these modifications and that airplane range, altitude, and gross weight previously limited by these temperatures could be greatly increased."

The following report analyzes experiments on urinary samples of personnel who were exposed to radioactive materials. This report describes the procedure employed for this assay, and data to show its performance and reasons for its present course are presented.

Letter from Marilou Smith,the mayor of the City of Kettering, Ohio, BRAC Chairman Anthony Principi. Mayor Smith voiced concern about the recommended closure of Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) Dayton (located in Kettering). She included several reasons as to why DFAS Dayton should not be closed, including economic concerns for Kittering and its strong military value ranking.

Patent for an improved policemen's baton made of flexible material, such as india-rubber or gutta-percha, and sometimes an interior metal stem. Using a flexible material makes the baton elastic enough so that no serious injury can be caused, yet it is still effective. Illustration included.

Patent for an improved dredging apparatus "and it consists in combining with the well known bucket chain form of excavator a suction pipe provided with a hopper and a crushing or breaking device so that the material being deposited in the hopper by the continuously moving buckets will be carried under the action of gravity to the breaking or crushing device and thence through a suction pipe and pump and delivery pipe to the place of deposit" (lines 9-18).