Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 51 - July/August
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 51 - July/August
Subject
Great Depression, 1929-1939
American Red Cross
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from July, 1934 to August 26th, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-07-25
1934-07-26
1934-08-18
1934-08-26
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34047
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 51 - July/August,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed May 7, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/104.
Text
Homestead Rehabilitation The homestead rehabilitation program a branch of which was established in Winfield recently, was becoming more active late this week. D. A. Dodge, formerly with the Topeka office, in charge here, said that until now he had been devoting much of his time helping with the water conservation program. Now that the latter program is well under way, Mr. Dodge will devote more time to the rehabilitation project which is being conducted under the jurisdiction of Case Supervisor Mrs. Jesse Miller, Poor Commissioner L. L. Petticord and County Agent T. F. Yost.
The rehabilitation program’s purpose is to make those on relief rolls self sustaining, especially tenant farms and even land owners. Where a farmer has heretofore worked on road, bridge and other projects as a relief worker, on a fixed budget, under the rehabilitation plan, he will be permitted to work on his own farm. His budget will not be reduced but he will be expected to put in more hours on his farm. That is, if under the present plan he is working six days a month on roads as a relief worker and draws compensation for that work, he will be expected to work twelve days a month on his farm, drawing the same compensation or budget as heretofore. In addition he may be granted 25 per cent of his budget allowance extra for the purpose of purchasing small tools, materials, seed and possibly some livestock, Mr. Dodge said.
The rehabilitation plan brings in a third party, according to Mr. Dodge. That is, if a person is taken from public works under the work relief plan to his farm or to some other farm, he must have a third party willing to back him at least to the amount of his budget. Such backing, in the case of tenant farmers, may be in the form of forgiven rentals, feed or other commodities, or a neighboring farmer may undertake the third party assignment by lending work to the one on relief. Mr. Dodge explained that there was really no responsibility attached to being the third party to the deal, its intent being to co-ordinate the program and make it more or less of a co-operative affair.
Mr. Dodge attended a directors meeting at Wichita Friday where standardized programs and working arrangements were discussed.
Four local boys are among 10 from the county who went to Wichita Tuesday to take the necessary examinations for admittance to the Civilian Conservation Corps. They are William Foltz, Wilbert Bowker, Harry Dunn and Calvin Hatcher. All of the boys were approved.
Ice Fund Contributions Reach Total of $176.95
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Ice fund contributions to date total $176.95. Recent donations of $5 to 50 cents were made by two friends and collections from those receiving ice Wednesday and Thursday totaled $1.77.
Reports are that the ticket sale to the benefit soft ball game Friday night is going ahead satisfactorily and it is hoped that the amount raised from this game will guarantee the fund for the remainder of the summer.
Pass CCC Tests 7-25-34
Ten boys from Cowley county possed the CCC examination at Wichita Tuesday, and they have gone on to Ft. Riley where they will take further examinations.
The boys that passed the Wichita examinations Tuesday were Virgil Kunkle of Rock, Kenneth Wheeler, also of Rock, Charles Lewis, John Duprez, Royal L. Graham, James W. McKown of Winfield, and from Arkansas City William Foltz, Wilbert Bowker, Henry Dunn, and Calvin Hatcher.
Mrs. Jesse Miller, county case supervisor, reported Wednesday that she expected almost any time now to receive a call for more boys to join the CCC that live in the rural sections of the county. When this call comes, only boys living outside the corporate limits of the cities of the county will be eligible for service.
Mrs. Miller also states that there will probably be a chance for adults to get into CCC or similar service, but if this notice comes, it will be for those adults that are especially skilled in some trade, or for those that possess a higher education and are fitted for work of such nature that requires more education than the general run of positions.
Watermelons and cantaloups that were raised at the county gardens, are still being distributed at the Winfield and Arkansas City relief headquarters.
$12,000 Relief Grant 7-30-34
The Kansas Emergency relief association notified I. I. Petticord that an additional grant of $12,000 had been made to Cowley county for work relief wages and aid in paying administrative and materials used in drilling water wells. The letter came from John G. Stutz, state director, and it read: “We are making your county an additional grant in aid of | federal emergency relief funds to- day for work relief wages and aid in paying authorized administrative costs for the period ending Sept. 6 of $12,000, plus 25 per cent for materials and rent on tools and equipment approved in projects plus necessary funds for homestead rehabilitation cases, plus necessary funds for materials
and rent on tools and equipment for community wells.”
Rental on equipment - between now and Sept. 1, Mr. Petticord said, will total approximately $3,000.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 51 - July/August
Subject
Great Depression, 1929-1939
American Red Cross
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from July, 1934 to August 26th, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-07-25
1934-07-26
1934-08-18
1934-08-26
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34047
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 51 - July/August,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed May 7, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/104.Text
Homestead Rehabilitation The homestead rehabilitation program a branch of which was established in Winfield recently, was becoming more active late this week. D. A. Dodge, formerly with the Topeka office, in charge here, said that until now he had been devoting much of his time helping with the water conservation program. Now that the latter program is well under way, Mr. Dodge will devote more time to the rehabilitation project which is being conducted under the jurisdiction of Case Supervisor Mrs. Jesse Miller, Poor Commissioner L. L. Petticord and County Agent T. F. Yost.
The rehabilitation program’s purpose is to make those on relief rolls self sustaining, especially tenant farms and even land owners. Where a farmer has heretofore worked on road, bridge and other projects as a relief worker, on a fixed budget, under the rehabilitation plan, he will be permitted to work on his own farm. His budget will not be reduced but he will be expected to put in more hours on his farm. That is, if under the present plan he is working six days a month on roads as a relief worker and draws compensation for that work, he will be expected to work twelve days a month on his farm, drawing the same compensation or budget as heretofore. In addition he may be granted 25 per cent of his budget allowance extra for the purpose of purchasing small tools, materials, seed and possibly some livestock, Mr. Dodge said.
The rehabilitation plan brings in a third party, according to Mr. Dodge. That is, if a person is taken from public works under the work relief plan to his farm or to some other farm, he must have a third party willing to back him at least to the amount of his budget. Such backing, in the case of tenant farmers, may be in the form of forgiven rentals, feed or other commodities, or a neighboring farmer may undertake the third party assignment by lending work to the one on relief. Mr. Dodge explained that there was really no responsibility attached to being the third party to the deal, its intent being to co-ordinate the program and make it more or less of a co-operative affair.
Mr. Dodge attended a directors meeting at Wichita Friday where standardized programs and working arrangements were discussed.
Four local boys are among 10 from the county who went to Wichita Tuesday to take the necessary examinations for admittance to the Civilian Conservation Corps. They are William Foltz, Wilbert Bowker, Harry Dunn and Calvin Hatcher. All of the boys were approved.
Ice Fund Contributions Reach Total of $176.95
----- 8-26-34
Ice fund contributions to date total $176.95. Recent donations of $5 to 50 cents were made by two friends and collections from those receiving ice Wednesday and Thursday totaled $1.77.
Reports are that the ticket sale to the benefit soft ball game Friday night is going ahead satisfactorily and it is hoped that the amount raised from this game will guarantee the fund for the remainder of the summer.
Pass CCC Tests 7-25-34
Ten boys from Cowley county possed the CCC examination at Wichita Tuesday, and they have gone on to Ft. Riley where they will take further examinations.
The boys that passed the Wichita examinations Tuesday were Virgil Kunkle of Rock, Kenneth Wheeler, also of Rock, Charles Lewis, John Duprez, Royal L. Graham, James W. McKown of Winfield, and from Arkansas City William Foltz, Wilbert Bowker, Henry Dunn, and Calvin Hatcher.
Mrs. Jesse Miller, county case supervisor, reported Wednesday that she expected almost any time now to receive a call for more boys to join the CCC that live in the rural sections of the county. When this call comes, only boys living outside the corporate limits of the cities of the county will be eligible for service.
Mrs. Miller also states that there will probably be a chance for adults to get into CCC or similar service, but if this notice comes, it will be for those adults that are especially skilled in some trade, or for those that possess a higher education and are fitted for work of such nature that requires more education than the general run of positions.
Watermelons and cantaloups that were raised at the county gardens, are still being distributed at the Winfield and Arkansas City relief headquarters.
$12,000 Relief Grant 7-30-34
The Kansas Emergency relief association notified I. I. Petticord that an additional grant of $12,000 had been made to Cowley county for work relief wages and aid in paying administrative and materials used in drilling water wells. The letter came from John G. Stutz, state director, and it read: “We are making your county an additional grant in aid of | federal emergency relief funds to- day for work relief wages and aid in paying authorized administrative costs for the period ending Sept. 6 of $12,000, plus 25 per cent for materials and rent on tools and equipment approved in projects plus necessary funds for homestead rehabilitation cases, plus necessary funds for materials
and rent on tools and equipment for community wells.”
Rental on equipment - between now and Sept. 1, Mr. Petticord said, will total approximately $3,000.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.