Gerald A. Stromer, 1942- [RG5199.AM]

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RG5199.AM: Gerald A. “Jerry” Stromer, 1942-

Papers: 1970-1974
Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska: Legislator
Size: 9.5 cu.ft.; 10 boxes

BACKGROUND NOTE

Gerald A. “Jerry” Stromer was born at Hastings, Nebraska, on December 25, 1942. He received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from Kearney State College. From a young age Stromer was heavily involved in local politics. Some positions he held included serving as chairman and treasurer of the Buffalo County Young Republicans; secretary and chairman of the Nebraska Federation of Young Republicans; Nebraska delegate to the Young Republicans National Federation Convention; and as a delegate to the Buffalo County, Nebraska State, and National GOP conventions. Stromer was elected to the Nebraska Legislature on November 3, 1970 and served from 1971 to 1975.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of ten boxes of papers relating to Gerald Stromer’s service in the Nebraska Legislature. The materials date from 1970 to 1974. The papers consist mostly of correspondence, subject files and legislative bill files.

Note: See the photo component [RG5199.PH], moving image component [RG5199.MI] and audio component [RG5199.AU] for related items.

INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder

1. Jerry’s Papers
2. Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings
3. “Friends of Richard Nixon”
4. Friends of RN Correspondence, 1971-1972
5. Campaign Seminar
6. Page Contest
7. Committee for the Re-Election of the President
8. State Legislations for the Re-election of the President
9. TAR’s, 1971
10. National YR Convention, Atlanta
11. Equal Rights Amendment- For
12. Restating Purposes- State Colleges
13. Governor Correspondence, 1971
14. Governor Correspondence, 1972
15. Abortion
16. Hassel’s Resignation
17. Abortion-1972
18. LB 38, Taxation on Mobile Homes
19. LB 51, Drug Ed
20. LB 54, Establishment of Hospital Authorities
21. LB 66, Tax on Alcoholic Beverages
22. LB 67, Pari-mutuel Tax Increase Bill
23. LB 68, Blue Cross & Blue Shield
24. LB 84, Juvenile Institutions
25. LB 87, Increase in Cigarette Tax
26. LB 110, Election of School Board Members
27. LB 117, Soil & Water Conservation Dist.
28. LB 123, Arms for Lawful Purposes
29. LB 130, Lien Law for Welfare
30. LB 145, Formal Training of Psychiatric Technicians
31. LB 148, Malpractice Suits
32. LB 159, Annexation
33. LB 162, Daylight Savings Time
34. LB 167, Intangible Tax
35. LB 176
36. LB 178 & 178A, Mentally Retarded Children
37. LB 188, Sanitary and Improvement Districts
38. LB 189, Payments of Health & Welfare Fund
39. LB 231, Liquor Retailers
40. LB 247, Environmental Protection
41. LB 257, Cable Television
42. LB 260, Merchants
43. LB 264, School Aid
44. LB 266, School Districts
45. LB 278, Sexual Psychopath Bill
46. LB 275, Class III School Districts
47. LB 279, State Board of Health
48. LB 286, Manhole Safety Legislation
49. LB 287, School Redistrict
50. LB 288, Regulate Number of Pupils
51. LB 293, Public Power Districts
52. LB 319, Homestead Exemption Act
53. LB 325, Two-Way Radios in Buses
54. LB 358, Mechanical Amusement Devices
55. LB 369, Citizen Control
56. LB 391, Railway Commission
57. LB 429, Telephone Service
58. LB 440, State Aid for Pollution
59. LB 437, Workman’s Compensation
60. LB 444, Credit Bureau Operations
61. LB 446, Corporal Punishment
62. LB 445, Reserve Teacher Fund
63. LB 462, State Aid to Schools
64. LB 493, Support of the Libraries
65. LB 496, Model White Cane Bill
66. LB 526, New Corporate Tax Rate
67. LB 546, Sale of Beer to 18 Year Olds
68. LB 550, Contracts of School Officers
69. LB 567, Exemption of Food from Sales Tax
70. LB 602, Licensing on Contractors
71. LB 622, Appointment of State Treasurer
72. LB 626, Public Power District and Natural Resources
73. LB 627, Name Change for Railway Committee
74. LB 639, Public Assistance
75. LB 650, Transient Lodging
76. LB 660, & 660A, Student Personnel Services, Correspondence
77. LB 663, Educational Service Units
78. LB 685, Double Taxation on Utilities
79. LB 820, No Fault Divorce Bill
80. LB 824, Brand Inspectors
81. LB 864, Dove Bill
82. LB 785, Educational Units for Handicapped
83. LB 741, Learning Disability Children
84. LB 726, Pre-Delinquent Boys
85. LB 699
86. LB 868, Millard Annexation

Box 2
Folder

1. LB 870, Teacher Tenure
2. LB 888, Disposable Containers
3. LB 964, Director of Economic Development
4. LB 977, Education of Deaf-Blind
5. LB 978, Taxation of Income
6. LB 979, Law College Building
7. LB 998, Educational Service Units
8. LB 1003 City-County Building
9. LB 915, Dog Racing
10. LB 921, Civil Service System
11. LB 948, Alcoholic Content in Blood
12. Mandatory Student Fees, Correspondence
13. LB 1241, Personal Property Tax
14. LB 1217 Election of School Board Members
15. LB 1223, Harboring Bill
16. LB 1224, Comprehensive Health Program
17. LB 1228, Powers of Court of Industrial Relations
18. LB 1230, Intangible Tax
19. LB 1231, Workmen’s Compensation
20. LB 1137, Family Farm Bill
21. LB 1171, Tuition Grant Bill, Correspondence
22. LB 1126, Halloween Bill Correspondence
23. JB 1117 & 1118, Jail Inspections
24. LB 1111, Trees for Nebraska
25. LB 1099, Aviation Fuel Tax
26. LB 1092, Sale of Liquor at Colleges
27. LB 1088, Correspondence
28. LB 1087, Photographs on Driver’s Licenses
29. LB 1086, 18 Year Olds Correspondence
30. LB 1041, Motorcycle Helmets
31. LB 1032, Judicial Reform
32. LB 1377-LB 1418, State Aid
33. LB 1417, Mandatory Reorganization- Schools
34. LB 1414, Retired Public Employees
35. LB 1402, Court of Industrial Relations
36. LB 1322, Constitutional Convention
37. LB 1335, Unlawful Advertising
38. LB 1302, Drug Abuse & VD Bill
39. LB 1270, Kidney Bill
40. LB 573, Personal Property Exemp.
41. LB 1431, Partisan Legislature
42. LB 1430, Parking Facilities
43. Budget Correspondence
44. LB 1152, Correspondence
45. Lottery
46. Governor’s Budget Cut
47. ETV Commission
48. Kearney State Correspondence
49. January 1971
50. February 1971
51. March 1971
52. April 1971
53. May 1971
54. June 1971
55. July 1971
56. August 1971
57. September 1971
58. October 1971
59. November 1971
60. December 1971
61. January 1972
62. February 1972
63. March 1972
64. St. Johns Home, Kearney
65. Sales Tax, Food
66. Right to Work
67. Midstate Reclamation
68. Alternate Directors- Electric Coops
69. Antique Firearms
70. LB 533, Apportionment
71. Attorney General’s Opinion
72. Laddie, Bicak J.
73. Blue Books, 1973
74. Boys & Girls State
75. Boys & Girls State
76. Budget, Kearney State
77. Budget, 1974
78. Budget, 1973
79. Cerebral Palsy Telethon

Box 3
Folder

1. Chadron State College
2. Chadron State- Correspondence
3. LB 667, Taxation, City Pensions
4. Chamber of Commerce, Kearney
5. Committee for Undisrupted Education
6. Congratulations Letters- Post Election, 1974
7. Congratulations, 1974
8. Congratulations, 1971-1973
9. Constitutional Amendment- Balanced Federal Budget
10. County Highway Departments
11. County Officials
12. Deposit on Disposable Containers
13. Drugs
14. LB 737, School Districts
15. East Highway 30 Project
16. Educational Television
17. Letters to Education Association
18. Educational Lands
19. Educational Service Units
20. Electoral Reform
21. Equal Rights Amendment
22. Equal Rights Amendment- Correspondence
23. Full-Time County Attorneys
24. LB 1126, Halloween Bill
25. Frank House
26. Nebraska Game & Parks Commission
27. Gibbon Bridge
28. GOP- Legislature
29. Gourley, Edna
30. Correspondence About Governor
31. Great Plains Highway
32. Guidance Counselor
33. General Correspondence
34. General Correspondence II
35. Insurance- Exchange of Company Shares
36. Kearney State College, Correspondence
37. Kidney Bill
38. Kozak, Frank
39. No Fault Insurance
40. Labor Unions
41. Legislative Ledger, 1974
42. Legislative Ledger, 1973
43. Legislative Ledger, 1972
44. Legislative Ledger, 1971
45. Legislative Race, 36^th District, 1974
46. Legislative Organization
47. Lowering Speed Limits
48. LB 1086, 18 Year Old Majority Age
49. MEDSA
50. Mid-Nebraska Mental Retardation
51. Moore File
52. Motorcycle Helmet Law
53. LB 758, Natural Gas Regulation
54. Office Space for Nebraska State Colleges

Box 4
Folder

1. Partisan Legislature
2. Photo on Driver’s License
3. Privileged Communications-Counselors
4. Psychologists- Freedom of Choice
5. Purchase of Hiram Scott
6. Suspension of Driver’s License
7. Thank You Letters, 1973
8. Transfer of Cottonmill Lake
9. U. of N. Agriculture Center
10. Vice Presidential Primary
11. Voter Registration Lists- Purge Law
12. Nebraska State Education Association
13. Natural Resource Districts
14. LB 1430, Off-Street Parking
15. Open Forums
16. LB 461, Gov. as Chairman of Game & Parks Commission
17. Ombudsman Correspondence, 1972
18. Open Forum Invitations, 1973
19. Personal Correspondence
20. Recommendations
21. Personal Recommendations
22. Public Power Bills
23. State Railway Commission
24. Resolution #24, Socialized Medicine
25. Resolution #31, 18 Year Old Vote
26. Resolution #32, Conflict in Vietnam
27. Resolution #34, County Bridges
28. Resolution #40, Student Newspaper
29. LR 64, Kearney National Basketball
30. Shelton Bridge
31. Shelton Bridge Dedication
32. Sidner- Correspondence
33. Soil & Water Commission
34. Sounding Board, 1973
35. Sounding Board, 1974
36. Sounding Board, 1970-1971
37. Special Correspondence
38. State Colleges
39. Student on Board Proposal Correspondence
40. Student Fees
41. LB 362, Student Fees
42. Student Fields Trips
43. Student Requests
44. LB 175, Student Teacher Certificates
45. Thank You’s, 1974
46. LB 1434, Tax on Professions
47. TB Hospital- Kearney
48. LB 759 Technical Community Colleges
49. Unicameral Visitors
50. Correspondence, Washington Congress
51. Wesleyan Project

Box 5
Folder

1. GOP Executive & Central Committee, 1973-1974
2. State Real Estate
3. LB 343, Teenage Minimum Wage
4. LB 354, Uniform Probate Code
5. LB 360, Free Games- Pin games Machines
6. LB 366, Permits Selling Alcohol on Election Day
7. LB 378, Authorize Dept. of Agri. To Publish & Distribute Books
8. LB 394, Differentiation- Marriage Laws
9. LB 403, Cost of Educating Handicapped Children
10. LB 404, Welfare Work Experience
11. LB 427, Nebraska Commission on Post-Secondary Student Aides
12. LB 432, Acoustically Handicapped Child
13. LB 434, Reduces Tax on Aircraft Gas
14. LB 312, Bank Facility Bill
15. LB 313, Publication of City Council Minutes
16. LB 315, Prohibits Law Enforcement Officers Having Liquor Interest
17. LB 325, 326, 327, Consumer Protection Laws
18. LB 332, Historic Motor Vehicles
19. LB 229, Creates Community Development Agencies by Ordinance
20. LB 300, Change of School District Boundaries
21. LB 302, Community Mental Health Services Act
22. LB 304, Obscene Films
23. LB 305, Prohibiting Banks from Selling Insurance
24. LB 308, Special District Benefits
25. LB 311, Mental Health Centers
26. LB 207, Reporting Cases of Child Abuse & Provides Central Registry
27. LB 219, Open Meeting Law
28. LB 221, Licensing of Board & Room Facilities Serving Welfare
29. LB 231, State Electrical Board to Make Inspections in Areas Lacking Inspections
30. LB 232, Legislator’s Salary Increase
31. LB 235, AOC Payments
32. LB 255, Fees for Use of State Parks
33. LB 261, Penalties for Drug Pushers
34. LB 275, Establishment of Additional Colleges at the U of N
35. Constitutional Amendment on Abortion
36. LB 286, Termination of Pregnancy
37. LB 288, State Lottery Bill
38. LB 293, Landlord & Tenant Residential Act
39. LB 295, National Guard Pay Correspondence
40. LB 92, Reimburses Parents of Handicapped Children for Mileage
41. LB 96, Nebraska Labor Law
42. LB 102, Education of Handicapped Child
43. LB 104, Special Tax Treatment-Noncommercial Forest Land
44. LB 111, Discounts of Purchasers Correspondence
45. LB 127, Nebraska Council on Alcoholism
46. LB 128, Driver’s License Correspondence
47. LB 129, County Attorney Correspondence
48. LB 131, Indian Bounty Act
49. LB 134, Revisor of Regulations
50. LB 141, Length of Bank Personal Loan
51. LB 149, Agriculture Center Correspondence
52. LB 161, No Fault Insurance
53. LB 162, Salaries of Court Reporters
54. LB 163, Cottonmill Lake Correspondence
55. LB 164, One Bank Holding Company
56. LB 173, Immunization of Children
57. LB 174, VP Primary Correspondence
58. LB 179, Purchase of Hiram Scott
59. LB 180, State Administration Departments
60. LB 184, Workmen’s Compensation Law
61. LB 185, Aid to Low Income Families
62. LB 196, Footpaths & Bicycle Trails
63. LB 198, Purge Law
64. LB 199, Life Safety Code 101
65. LB 202, Criminal Annulment
66. LB 17, Rewrites Nebraska’s Weights and Measures Control
67. LB 34, Memorial & Veteran’s Day Correspondence
68. LB 48, Space Tax
69. LB 49, Library Vehicle Registration Fees Correspondence
70. LB 50, State Fire Marshall
71. LB 53, Deposit on Soft Drink Container Correspondence
72. LB 64, Lowering of Speed Limits Correspondence
73. LB 65, 12 Month School Year Plan
74. LB 74, Salaries of County Officers
75. LB 86, License Real Estate Appraisers
76. LB 87, County Bridge Program
77. Miscellaneous Bills Correspondence
78. Miscellaneous Resolutions
79. Rules
80. Committee on Committees
81. Natural Resource Commission Correspondence
82. Public Works, 1974
83. LB 8, Nebraska Criminal Code Correspondence
84. LB 12, City Council Election by Districts in Omaha Correspondence
85. LB 14, Agency Legal Counsel in State Patrol
86. Campaign Letters
87. Special Projects- Campaign
88. Campaign Literature
89. Voting Record for 1974 Session
90. News Releases

Box 6
Folder

1. 1974 Correspondence
2. Congratulations for 1974 Elections
3. YR Newsletter
4. GOP Nebraska State Convention, 1974
5. State Central Commission, 1975-1976
6. Convention Clippings, Kansas City, 1976
7. GOP, National Conventions, 1974
8. GOP State Central Committee, 1974-1976
9. GOP State Convention, 1976
10. Curtis Correspondence
11. Curtis Correspondence Memos
12. CTC Campaign Meetings
13. Curtis Finance Committee
14. CTC Correspondence, April 1972
15. GOP Nebraska Correspondence
16. National GOP Convention, 1972
17. State Control Committee, 1971-1973
18. Clippings
19. Clippings II
20. Clippings III
21. Photographs File
22. Art File
23. LB 963
24. LB 975, Natural Resource-Create Development Fund
25. LB 982, National Guard- Tuition on Credit University

Box 7
Folder

1. LB 1032, Trucker’s Bill
2. LB 92, Daylight Savings Time
3. LB 99, Constitutional Amendment-Convention
4. LR 124, Wholesale-Retail Power Rates Interim Study Committee
5. LR 124, Wholesale Retail Power Rates Interim Study Committee
6. LR 138, Wild Life Refuge
7. LB 438, Exempts Vehicles Used for Transportation of Bank Checks
8. LB 439, Appropriate Money to Defray Expenses Provided by REA
9. LB 656, Joining of Power & Distribution Facilities
10. LB 659, Workmen’s Compensation
11. LB 672, Amends Uniform Commercial Code
12. LB 691, Computation of Franchise of Income Taxes
13. LB 712, Psychologists Freedom of Choice
14. LB 761, Tax on Beverage Containers
15. LB 770, Agency Shop
16. LB 772, State Support- Public Schools
17. LB 774, Full-Time County Attorneys
18. LB 777, Change Dates for Memorial & Vet’s Day
19. LB 783, Liquor on Campuses
20. LB 816, Licensing of Medical Laboratory Personnel
21. LB 851, Interest Rates
22. LB 853, Technical Colleges, Const. Funds Means of a Tax
23. LB 862, Privileged Communications, Counselors
24. LB 883, Change of Primary Election Dates
25. LB 940, Sanitary & Improvement Bonds
26. LB 445, Increases State Service Annuity for Retired School Employee
27. LB 448, Lincoln City Council Election
28. LB 449, Water Fluoridation Bill
29. LB 452, Establishes State Controller
30. LB 465, Land Use Act
31. LB 487, Personal Liability of County Officials
32. LB 499, Vietnam Veterans Educational Act
33. LB 502, District Public Defenders
34. LB 534, Exemption of Taxation of Goods Stored in Transit
35. LB 592, Electing Class III School Boards
36. LB 600, No Smoking in Certain Public Places
37. LB 613, Changes Term Household Homestead Exemption Act
38. LB 616, Changes Liquor Laws
39. LB 621, Recognition of Disabled Veteran’s Organization
40. LB 649, Partisan Legislature
41. News Releases
42. News Articles
43. AP Stories- Correspondence
44. Platte River, Navigable Stream
45. Smith Newsletter & Clippings
46. Stromer, Leg PR 1974, Pre-Primary
47. Stromer, Gerald A.
48. Eagleton Institute of Politics
49. Executive Board
50. Stromer Bills, 1971-1972
51. America Counsel for Young Political Leaders- ACYPL
52. ACYPL NATO Trip
53. Conservative Movement, Skyline
54. University of Nebraska Correspondence
55. University of Nebraska- Lincoln
56. LR 138, Wild Life Refuge
57. Terry Carpenter

Box 8
Folder

1. State Convention, 1970
2. State Convention, 1971
3. State Convention Correspondence, 1972
4. State Convention Correspondence, 1972
5. Nebraska Republican Yearbook, 1965
6. YR Central Committee, 1971-1972
7. “Awards”
8. Campaign Material, 1972
9. Advisory Board
10. Central Comm., 1973-1974
11. New Central Committee, 1972-1973
12. Chairman Campaign State, 1971
13. Club Roster
14. College YR’s
15. State Convention, 1972
16. YR Convention, 1973
17. YR State Convention Correspondence, 1973
18. YR Convention, 1974
19. State Convention, 1974
20. Douglas County
21. YR Executive Committee, 1971
22. Executive Committee, 1972
23. YR Executive Committee, 1973
24. YR Executive Committee, 1974
25. Founder’s Day, 1973
26. High School Grads, 1970
27. Insights, 1973-1974
28. Lancaster County
29. YR Letters to the Editor
30. Membership Committee
31. National Correspondence
32. YR National Platform Committee, 1971
33. National YR Convention, 1971
34. Organizational Chart
35. YR Publicity
36. Resolutions, 1971

Box 9
Folder

1. Resolutions, 1972
2. Resolutions, 1973
3. Roman’s Letter
4. Speaker’s Bureau
5. Special Delivery, 1971
6. Special Delivery, 1972
7. GOP State Convention, Delegate, 1972
8. GOP Platform Committee, 1972
9. TARs, 1972
10. TAR Constitution
11. Voter Registration
12. Walls Campaign
13. Sr. Party Newsletter
14. YRLC Chairman
15. Leadership Conference, 1973
16. National Leadership Conference, 1972
17. YR Leadership Conference, 1974
18. YR Correspondence, 1971
19. YR June Correspondence, 1971
20. YR Correspondence, January- April 1972
21. YR Correspondence, April- September 1972
22. YR Correspondence, October 1972
23. YR Correspondence, 1973
24. YR Correspondence, April 1973
25. YR Correspondence, June 1973
26. YR November 1973
27. YR Correspondence, 1974

Box 10
Folder

1. Correspondence
2. Speeches, Campaign 1970
3. Scheduling
4. Organization
5. Special Groups
6. Advance PR & Press Release
7. Young Adult
8. Printed Material Signs
9. Bereuter, Senator Douglas
10. Anderson, Senator Gary L.

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Stromer, Gerald A., 1942-

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