Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 10 - January
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 10 - January
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 January 16, 1934 to January 23, 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
1934-01-16
1934-01-17
1934-01-20
1934-01-23
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34009
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 10 - January,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 18, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/69.
Text
Describes CCC Life With Temperature of 38 Below
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The temperature was 38 degrees below zero on Christmas morning at the C. C. C. camp, in Park Rapids, Minn., and there was over a foot of snow oh the ground, Calvin E. Lewis, an Arkansas City boy, wrote to his uncle, C. M. Lewis, of route 4, in a recent letter. Life in the camp, Calvin said, was quite different in the winter than in the summer months. He reenlisted last October, he said, for another three months’ period.
Calvin describes in an interesting manner, work in the kitchen where he is employed, in the following language: “In feeding the 240 men three times a day the following rations are used for each meal; 5 pounds of coffee, 35 loaves of bread, ten pounds of butter, 20 cans of milk, 100 to 125 pounds of meat, 125 pounds of potatoes, and when the boys want pies which is about twice a week, we make 40 at one time.
“And cooking is not all there is to do, for all the dishes have to be washed three times a day, besides the pots, pans and boilers, there are the serving dishes and silverware to be washed. There are 25 tables in the hall and when the meal is set and the bell rings, the boys surely 'come and get it' "
And in telling more about the
All CWA Work Will Be Halted Monday at Noon
An order to halt work on all CWA projects in the county Monday noon was issued to foremen Saturday by L. L. Petticord, county civil works administrator, to enforce the recent 15-hour work- ing week order. CWA employes on county projects started their new week Friday morning, putting in full six-hour days Friday and Saturday, and will have filled out their time cards by Mon-day noon. Work will not be resumed until next Friday.
Employes working on projects inside the city stopped work Saturday afternoon after putting in an eight-hour day Friday. This schedule affects only about 20 men.
The 15-hour week schedule will be maintained until a new CWA appropriation is made by congress or, if the money is not granted, until the civil works program expires in February. There apparently is little chance that congress will not make the new appropriation.
camp he said they did not have to use candles now at night, as they make electricity for the lights. They have two 1500 watt, 32 volt light plants for that purpose. They also have hot and cold running water in the kitchen, hospital and bath house.
Church services are held each Thursday night and at times the boys are treated to motion pictures in recreation hall. On New Year’s, Calvin said, all the boys remained up until after midnight and there was a terrific noise at 12 o’clock. And some of the more enthusiastic lads remained up all night, he said. The camp now is quarantined on account of scarlet fever, but expected to have it lifted Jan. 17. While shut in camp for this reason, no one can go to the nearby towns, but all must be content to remain in the barracks, the large hall, or they can play on the taboggan slide and ski slide, if they desire. No work is being done except to keeu the place up and to carry wood for fuel, as the wea-teer is too cold for outside labor.
A number of the boys who were permitted to go home for the holidays have returned now.
The present term of enlistment will last for three months longer, he said.
Calvin’s address Is Park Rapids, Minn., C. C. C. No. 784.
Hopes to Work Out
CWA Extra Board
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rds, manager of the
F. M. Edwards, manager of the local reemployment office, is attempting to work out a plan through which he can maintain his “extra board” of workers to replace CWA employes that are ill.
The plan of making immediate substitutions and thus keeping the CWA ranks here filled continuously has been interrupted by the removal of the identification card files to Winfield, causing a delay in the replacement process.
Mr. Edwards hopes to be able to maintain a group of substitute workers who can be put into vacancies on almost instant notice and thus minimize losses in the local payroll due to illness.
1-23-34 Sewing Room The'sewing room CWA projects, because of the 24-hour week set, will be conducted four days a week, six hours a day, Mrs. Louise Steinberg, supervisor, states. The
women will work on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.
RESTRICTIONS
ON CWA WORK
Policy Will Be Less Liberal in Future, Officials Say
A definite restriction upon the vast CWA program seemed in prospect Tuesday as officials studied the recent bulletin from John G Stutz, state civil works administrator, directing new applications to be filed for all CWA projects.
“The rush to put men to work is over,” Mr. Stutz said, “and the time has arrived to make CWA projects outstanding for their efficiency and usefulness.
It is our purpose to weed out undesirable projects, and many previously given tentative approval will be rejected. Each project must stand upon its own merits regardless of previous approval.”
The new applications call for more complete information than was demanded on the old forms and those for all city-sponsored projects must be signed by the mayor or city manager.
It was thought that the new policy would have little effect upon the projects already in operation in Cowley county, but would make it considerably more difficult to secure approval for new work.
The CWA funds on hand are sufficient to finance the national program only until early in February, and many cities, including several in Kansas, are urging their congressmen to support quick action upon President Roosevelt’s request for additional funds to continue the program until summer.
Rotation Plan for
CWA Is Reconsidered
Administrators of the civil works program here were again discussing the possibilities of a rotation plan Thursday with the announcement that Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief adminis-trator, had authorized Carl Giles, state administrator for Oklahoma, to stagger CWA employment in counties where the number of unemployed far exceeded the quota of jobs available.
Mr. Giles plans to double the number of employes in the more heavily populated Oklahoma counties, working the shifts on alternate weeks.
A rotation policy was introduced in Cowley county about two months ago, but was declared illegal by state and federal CWA authorities. There are approximately 2,670 unemployed registered in the county against its CWA quota of 1,236 jobs.
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Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 10 - January
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 January 16, 1934 to January 23, 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
1934-01-16
1934-01-17
1934-01-20
1934-01-23
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34009
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 10 - January,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 18, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/69.Text
Describes CCC Life With Temperature of 38 Below
-----------| 1-17-34
The temperature was 38 degrees below zero on Christmas morning at the C. C. C. camp, in Park Rapids, Minn., and there was over a foot of snow oh the ground, Calvin E. Lewis, an Arkansas City boy, wrote to his uncle, C. M. Lewis, of route 4, in a recent letter. Life in the camp, Calvin said, was quite different in the winter than in the summer months. He reenlisted last October, he said, for another three months’ period.
Calvin describes in an interesting manner, work in the kitchen where he is employed, in the following language: “In feeding the 240 men three times a day the following rations are used for each meal; 5 pounds of coffee, 35 loaves of bread, ten pounds of butter, 20 cans of milk, 100 to 125 pounds of meat, 125 pounds of potatoes, and when the boys want pies which is about twice a week, we make 40 at one time.
“And cooking is not all there is to do, for all the dishes have to be washed three times a day, besides the pots, pans and boilers, there are the serving dishes and silverware to be washed. There are 25 tables in the hall and when the meal is set and the bell rings, the boys surely 'come and get it' "
And in telling more about the
All CWA Work Will Be Halted Monday at Noon
An order to halt work on all CWA projects in the county Monday noon was issued to foremen Saturday by L. L. Petticord, county civil works administrator, to enforce the recent 15-hour work- ing week order. CWA employes on county projects started their new week Friday morning, putting in full six-hour days Friday and Saturday, and will have filled out their time cards by Mon-day noon. Work will not be resumed until next Friday.
Employes working on projects inside the city stopped work Saturday afternoon after putting in an eight-hour day Friday. This schedule affects only about 20 men.
The 15-hour week schedule will be maintained until a new CWA appropriation is made by congress or, if the money is not granted, until the civil works program expires in February. There apparently is little chance that congress will not make the new appropriation.
camp he said they did not have to use candles now at night, as they make electricity for the lights. They have two 1500 watt, 32 volt light plants for that purpose. They also have hot and cold running water in the kitchen, hospital and bath house.
Church services are held each Thursday night and at times the boys are treated to motion pictures in recreation hall. On New Year’s, Calvin said, all the boys remained up until after midnight and there was a terrific noise at 12 o’clock. And some of the more enthusiastic lads remained up all night, he said. The camp now is quarantined on account of scarlet fever, but expected to have it lifted Jan. 17. While shut in camp for this reason, no one can go to the nearby towns, but all must be content to remain in the barracks, the large hall, or they can play on the taboggan slide and ski slide, if they desire. No work is being done except to keeu the place up and to carry wood for fuel, as the wea-teer is too cold for outside labor.
A number of the boys who were permitted to go home for the holidays have returned now.
The present term of enlistment will last for three months longer, he said.
Calvin’s address Is Park Rapids, Minn., C. C. C. No. 784.
Hopes to Work Out
CWA Extra Board
— 1-20-34
rds, manager of the
F. M. Edwards, manager of the local reemployment office, is attempting to work out a plan through which he can maintain his “extra board” of workers to replace CWA employes that are ill.
The plan of making immediate substitutions and thus keeping the CWA ranks here filled continuously has been interrupted by the removal of the identification card files to Winfield, causing a delay in the replacement process.
Mr. Edwards hopes to be able to maintain a group of substitute workers who can be put into vacancies on almost instant notice and thus minimize losses in the local payroll due to illness.
1-23-34 Sewing Room The'sewing room CWA projects, because of the 24-hour week set, will be conducted four days a week, six hours a day, Mrs. Louise Steinberg, supervisor, states. The
women will work on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.
RESTRICTIONS
ON CWA WORK
Policy Will Be Less Liberal in Future, Officials Say
A definite restriction upon the vast CWA program seemed in prospect Tuesday as officials studied the recent bulletin from John G Stutz, state civil works administrator, directing new applications to be filed for all CWA projects.
“The rush to put men to work is over,” Mr. Stutz said, “and the time has arrived to make CWA projects outstanding for their efficiency and usefulness.
It is our purpose to weed out undesirable projects, and many previously given tentative approval will be rejected. Each project must stand upon its own merits regardless of previous approval.”
The new applications call for more complete information than was demanded on the old forms and those for all city-sponsored projects must be signed by the mayor or city manager.
It was thought that the new policy would have little effect upon the projects already in operation in Cowley county, but would make it considerably more difficult to secure approval for new work.
The CWA funds on hand are sufficient to finance the national program only until early in February, and many cities, including several in Kansas, are urging their congressmen to support quick action upon President Roosevelt’s request for additional funds to continue the program until summer.
Rotation Plan for
CWA Is Reconsidered
Administrators of the civil works program here were again discussing the possibilities of a rotation plan Thursday with the announcement that Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief adminis-trator, had authorized Carl Giles, state administrator for Oklahoma, to stagger CWA employment in counties where the number of unemployed far exceeded the quota of jobs available.
Mr. Giles plans to double the number of employes in the more heavily populated Oklahoma counties, working the shifts on alternate weeks.
A rotation policy was introduced in Cowley county about two months ago, but was declared illegal by state and federal CWA authorities. There are approximately 2,670 unemployed registered in the county against its CWA quota of 1,236 jobs.
1-11-34
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page