Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 22 - March/April
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 22 - March/April
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 March 27th, 1934 to April 6th, 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
1934-03-27
1934-03-31
1934-04-02
1934-04-06
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34018
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 22 - March/April,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 20, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/77.
Text
That’s What County May Have to Do This
Year
3-27-34
A bond issue of approximately $75,000 to take up the expected deficits in the county poor fund during the year is being planned by the county commissioners.
The fund is now overdrawn about $16,500 and the deficit is expected to reach $25,000 by Apr. 1. The commissioners are expected to seek the state tax commissioner’s permission for the issue soon.
With the county direct relief rolls expanded to unusually high levels by the demobilization of , the CWA, the county will be required to spend about $8,000 for this department in March, County Commissioner W. F. Walker said Tuesday.
The new federal work -relief program, scheduled to start about Apr. 1, is expected to reduce the county’s burden considerably, although it still will be required to pay the cost of direct relief, some administrative expenses and part of the cost of the federal program. \
Final CWA Payroll 3-31-34 The final CWA payroll in Cowley county totaled $7,182.35. The number of men employed was 412; number of women, 48; teamsters and chauffeurs, 62; total persons employed, 522. The total number of days worked last week was 264.
Distribute Lard To Needy Six hundred pounds of lard are being distributed to those on the direct relief list of Winfield and vicinity. The distribution is made cording to the size of the family. 3-31-34
Three new case workers were employed Friday to handle relief investigations in Arkansas City. They are Mrs. Della Bullard, Mrs. Au-line Clifton and Miss Ernestine Young. Their appointments are subject to the confirmation of the county commissioners and state relief authorities. Mrs. Leslie Roberts, assistant case supervisor, is in charge of this branch of relief work here.
4-6-34
‘But Nobody Will Go Hungry,’ Promises Director Hopkins
Washington, Mar. — (Ap)—
The letters CWA, once the symbol of a great peace time employment machine, went back into the alphabet today.
The civil works administration, folding the tent that once housed its 4,000,000-man army, passed along word nevertheless that the million and a half who dropped their tools yesterday may report back to work on Monday.
The men, however, will not be CWA employes but workers on relief rolls. The actual needs of each will be investigated. His work hours and earnings will be limited to his budgetary require- ments.
‘‘Nobody is going hungry if we can help it,” said Harry L. Hopkins, who directed the big emergency job from start to finish.
The passing of the CWA was a quiet affair compared to the rumblings of discontent that greeted the first news of this decision. Letters of objection poured in by the thousands at first, but this stream thinned to a trickle as the job was completed.
Exultant Over Accomplishment Hopkins was exultant over both the thousands of individual projects, costing for both labor and material about $1,000,000,000, and the carrying out of the whole plan.
“We were told we couldn’t put 4,000,000 men to work,” said the young-appearing administrator. “Later we were told we couldn’t demobilize them.
“We put them to work and we demobilized them.
“From one end of the country to the other we built playgrounds, roads and schools, and undertook great drainage projects that did more to control malaria than has been done in 25 years.”
Thus Hopkins marked the end of the CWA, exactly a month before the time its demise had been , scheduled.
For several more weeks, Hopkins explained, somewhere around 300,000 men and women will be retained as clerks and auditors in winding up the administration’s affairs.
Research workers will continue on projects that must be completed, he added, but even these jobs must be done by May 1.
Sewing Rooms Approved
The sewing room projects of Winfield and Arkansas City have been approved under the new relief program and will be started Monday, to work three days each week. Twenty-four women will find employment in this work. They will probably work in two shifts, Mrs. Jess Miller, case supervisor, said. 4-6-34
THE LOCAL relief office is distributing 638 pounds of smoked pork and 372 pounds of lard to Arkansas City’s needy this week. The commodities were remnants of last month’s allot ment and have been on hand for some time.
Two Case Workers
Resign Posts Here
4-2-34
Mrs. Alice King and Miss Louise Kroenert resigned Saturday as assistant county case supervisors in charge of relief investigations in the Arkansas City district.
Mrs. King left Saturday for Independence, where she will do similar work in Montgomery county. Miss Kroenert expects to remain in Arkansas City. There was no special reason for her resignation, she said Monday.
Mrs. Leslie B. Roberts, 219 South Eighth street, started to work Monday as assistant case supervisor here. The second vacancy will be filled immediately, it was reported at the local relief office, and there is a possibility of a third assistant supervisor being employed.
M
10 A. C. Youths Take
CCC Examinations
——
Ten Arkansas City young men received physical examinations in Wichita Monday as civilian conservation corps recruits. Those who pass this test will leave for CCC camps this week. The exact date of their departure has not been determined.
Seven places in the city’s quota of recruits were not filled. Only a few men were declared ineligible because of age or other disqualifications.
The ten applicants were Obie Jennings, 707 North Fifth street; Orvil Baird, 514 East Jackson avenue; Ira Waldren, 500 East Monroe avenue; Wendell Kennedy, 1100 East Madison avenue; Gale Martin, 500 South B street; Willie McCray, 1411 West Washington avenue; Kenneth Smith, route four; Omell Sims, 1006 South D street; Eugene Moore, 718 North Fourth street; and Eli-iah Simmons, 605 North Sixth
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 22 - March/April
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 March 27th, 1934 to April 6th, 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
1934-03-27
1934-03-31
1934-04-02
1934-04-06
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34018
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 22 - March/April,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 20, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/77.Text
That’s What County May Have to Do This
Year
3-27-34
A bond issue of approximately $75,000 to take up the expected deficits in the county poor fund during the year is being planned by the county commissioners.
The fund is now overdrawn about $16,500 and the deficit is expected to reach $25,000 by Apr. 1. The commissioners are expected to seek the state tax commissioner’s permission for the issue soon.
With the county direct relief rolls expanded to unusually high levels by the demobilization of , the CWA, the county will be required to spend about $8,000 for this department in March, County Commissioner W. F. Walker said Tuesday.
The new federal work -relief program, scheduled to start about Apr. 1, is expected to reduce the county’s burden considerably, although it still will be required to pay the cost of direct relief, some administrative expenses and part of the cost of the federal program. \
Final CWA Payroll 3-31-34 The final CWA payroll in Cowley county totaled $7,182.35. The number of men employed was 412; number of women, 48; teamsters and chauffeurs, 62; total persons employed, 522. The total number of days worked last week was 264.
Distribute Lard To Needy Six hundred pounds of lard are being distributed to those on the direct relief list of Winfield and vicinity. The distribution is made cording to the size of the family. 3-31-34
Three new case workers were employed Friday to handle relief investigations in Arkansas City. They are Mrs. Della Bullard, Mrs. Au-line Clifton and Miss Ernestine Young. Their appointments are subject to the confirmation of the county commissioners and state relief authorities. Mrs. Leslie Roberts, assistant case supervisor, is in charge of this branch of relief work here.
4-6-34
‘But Nobody Will Go Hungry,’ Promises Director Hopkins
Washington, Mar. — (Ap)—
The letters CWA, once the symbol of a great peace time employment machine, went back into the alphabet today.
The civil works administration, folding the tent that once housed its 4,000,000-man army, passed along word nevertheless that the million and a half who dropped their tools yesterday may report back to work on Monday.
The men, however, will not be CWA employes but workers on relief rolls. The actual needs of each will be investigated. His work hours and earnings will be limited to his budgetary require- ments.
‘‘Nobody is going hungry if we can help it,” said Harry L. Hopkins, who directed the big emergency job from start to finish.
The passing of the CWA was a quiet affair compared to the rumblings of discontent that greeted the first news of this decision. Letters of objection poured in by the thousands at first, but this stream thinned to a trickle as the job was completed.
Exultant Over Accomplishment Hopkins was exultant over both the thousands of individual projects, costing for both labor and material about $1,000,000,000, and the carrying out of the whole plan.
“We were told we couldn’t put 4,000,000 men to work,” said the young-appearing administrator. “Later we were told we couldn’t demobilize them.
“We put them to work and we demobilized them.
“From one end of the country to the other we built playgrounds, roads and schools, and undertook great drainage projects that did more to control malaria than has been done in 25 years.”
Thus Hopkins marked the end of the CWA, exactly a month before the time its demise had been , scheduled.
For several more weeks, Hopkins explained, somewhere around 300,000 men and women will be retained as clerks and auditors in winding up the administration’s affairs.
Research workers will continue on projects that must be completed, he added, but even these jobs must be done by May 1.
Sewing Rooms Approved
The sewing room projects of Winfield and Arkansas City have been approved under the new relief program and will be started Monday, to work three days each week. Twenty-four women will find employment in this work. They will probably work in two shifts, Mrs. Jess Miller, case supervisor, said. 4-6-34
THE LOCAL relief office is distributing 638 pounds of smoked pork and 372 pounds of lard to Arkansas City’s needy this week. The commodities were remnants of last month’s allot ment and have been on hand for some time.
Two Case Workers
Resign Posts Here
4-2-34
Mrs. Alice King and Miss Louise Kroenert resigned Saturday as assistant county case supervisors in charge of relief investigations in the Arkansas City district.
Mrs. King left Saturday for Independence, where she will do similar work in Montgomery county. Miss Kroenert expects to remain in Arkansas City. There was no special reason for her resignation, she said Monday.
Mrs. Leslie B. Roberts, 219 South Eighth street, started to work Monday as assistant case supervisor here. The second vacancy will be filled immediately, it was reported at the local relief office, and there is a possibility of a third assistant supervisor being employed.
M
10 A. C. Youths Take
CCC Examinations
——
Ten Arkansas City young men received physical examinations in Wichita Monday as civilian conservation corps recruits. Those who pass this test will leave for CCC camps this week. The exact date of their departure has not been determined.
Seven places in the city’s quota of recruits were not filled. Only a few men were declared ineligible because of age or other disqualifications.
The ten applicants were Obie Jennings, 707 North Fifth street; Orvil Baird, 514 East Jackson avenue; Ira Waldren, 500 East Monroe avenue; Wendell Kennedy, 1100 East Madison avenue; Gale Martin, 500 South B street; Willie McCray, 1411 West Washington avenue; Kenneth Smith, route four; Omell Sims, 1006 South D street; Eugene Moore, 718 North Fourth street; and Eli-iah Simmons, 605 North Sixth
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page