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Relief Committee Has Session With Boar
The Cowley county emergency relief committee met with county officials in Winfield Friday to discuss the addition of more approved case workers to the county staff. No definite action was taken, R. H. Rhoads said.
The meeting followed a request to L. L. Petticord, county poor commissioner, from John G. Stutz, relief director for Kansas, that the case supervisor’s staff be completed.
Cowley county had four approved case workers with an average case load of 379 families during May, Stutz pointed out, adding that proper investigations were impossible with this small staff. Enough case workers should be employed that each would handle no more than 125 city families, he said.
County Allotted
County Poor Commissioner L. L. Petticord received a communication last Thursday from John G. Stuzt of Topeka, state refief director, to the effect that Cowley county has been allotted $1,200 for the purchase of materials to be used in the water conservation program for the period ending August 9. The communication also stated that additional funds to meet any emergency such as well testing, drilling, casing and rental services, will also be available.
County Board Adopts
Grocery Resolution
A resolution directing the purchase of groceries for relief purposes from locally owned stores at prices not to exceed 25 per cent higher than wholesale quotations was passed Saturday by the county commissioners.
Commissioner Russell Hanna of Winfield voted against the measure.
A committee of five merchants was appointed to hear complaints of discrimination or other faults in the operation of the plan. The committee will make recommendations on complaints to the commissioners.
About 120 grocers in the county signed a petition approving the plan.
Mattresses for Distribution
County Poor Commissioner L. L. Petticord was informed Friday that 141 mattresses will be made available for his department by the federal commodity relief organization on Oct. 1. The mattresses will be distributed to needy persons found worthy and in need of such commodities. This will mark the first distribution of commodities other than foodstuffs since the federal relief setup began operating in Cowley county.
EMPLOYES
Data on Relief Administrators Is Sent to
Stutz
County Poor Commissioner L.
L. Petticord Saturday sent to John G. Stutz, state relief director, a complete list of the personnel and salaries of the case workers and other administration employes coming under the relief program in Cowley county.
The list has been passed upon by the board of county commissioners. A list published earlier in the week was incomplete and the salaries were only the salaries of part of the employes and were approved by the county relief committee. Later the county commissioners made several reductions in salaries.
The complete approved list follows:
Case supervisor’s office: Della Bullard, Martha Noell, Ernistine Young, Nathalie Roberts, all Arkansas City case workers, $50 per month and mileage; Betty Spurlock, Arkansas City, case worker, $13.85 per week; Louise Wilcox, Arkansas City, case worker, $60 per month and mileage; Mary Ellis, Carroll Edward, Joyce Elwel, Ernest Hudson, Darlene Moore, all Winfield case workers, $50 per month and mileage; Harry Nis-bet, Winfield transient case worker, $50 per month and mileage; Leland White, Winfield, case worker, $13.85 per week.
Office employes: Ollie Brown, Arkansas City, $15 per week; John Deichman, clerk, Winfield, $15 per week; Gladys Hale, clerk, Winfield, $15 per week; Richard Jones, clerk, Winfield, $18 per week; Faye Martin, stenographer, Winfield, $60 per month; Dorothelia Mosier, Arkansas City, stenographer, $60 per month; Mary McFerren, Arkansas City, $60 per month; Orley Wilcox, clerk, Winfield, $15 per week.
Poor commissioner’s office: L.
L. Petticord, $1 per year; Ada Fox, clerk, $15 per week; E. P. Kininmonth, assistant poor commissioner, $1 per year; Ralph Roseberry, accountant, $25 per month.
Water conservation: Wayne
Lambert, project engineer, $1 per year; Sam Brown, assistant, $25 per week; Richard McManus, assistant, $18 per week; Howard Rhodes, assistant, $18 per week.
Office of work supervisor: Paul Fralic, accountant, $25 per week; Orville Grant, timekeeper, $18 per week; Jewell Gilcrease, stenographer, $15 per week; Charles Lewis, project accountant, $25 per week; Helen Michelson, stenographer, $15 per week; James Page, payroll auditor, $25 per week; Martha Robinson, stenographer, $15 per week; Ed West, timekeeper, $18 per week.
Certifying officer’s office: Marjorie Wheeler, stenographer, $15 per week.
WILL RECEIVE MORE FUNDS.
Cowley County Granted $12,000 For Month of Relief Work.
Cowley county will receive $12,000 from the federal emergency relief funds for work relief for the four-weeks’ period ending September 6. This is a considerable increase over the last allotment which was $12,000 for a five-weeks’ period. In addition to the $12,000 for the period ending September 6 the county will also receive an additional 25 per cent of this amount for materials and rent on tools and equipment for approved projects, plus necessary funds for homestead rehabilitation cases and necessary funds for materials and equipment for community wells. 8-2-34
62,863 on Relief Rolls In Kansas, Says Stutz
Topeka, Aug. 3—(AP)—There were 62,863 persons on relief in Kansas during June, approximately the same number as a year ago, a report by John G. Stutz, executive director or the Kansas emergency relief committee, showed, but total expenditures for last June were approximately $400,000 in excess of the total for the corresponding month in 1933.
Stutz’ figures showed that last June a total of $902,874 was expended for relief, of which $720,092 was federal funds and $200,781 local funds. A year ago the total was $503,250, which included $302,146 federal, 165,712 local and $35,391 state funds.
No Work in Return for 29 Per Cent of Funds
The Cowley county relief administration received no work in return for 29 per cent of the funds which it gave to work relief families during the five months ending Aug. 1, according to a report prepared for County Commissioner W. F. Walker.
At the same time, men had done $794.21 worth of work for which they had received no wages, the report shows.
Funds received by work relief families during the period totaled $81,638.05, of which $63,899.82 had been worked out and $18,532.44 had not been worked out.
The report did not include the indigent poor families that receive direct relief because they are unable to work. 8-22-34