Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 23 - April
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 23 - 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 April 3rd, 1934 to April 14th, 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
1934-04-03
1934-04-05
1934-04-12
1934-04-13
1934-04-14
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34019
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 23 - April,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 26, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/78.
Text
Reorganize Relief
Headquarters Here
4-3-34
A reorganization of the relief administrative office here was being made Tuesday as county officials worked to straighten the tangled affairs of the office in the hope of putting the machinery in order again soon enough to launch the new federal work-relief program here this week. L. L. Petticord, county poor commissioner and supervisor of the new program; Mrs. Jessie Miller, county case supervisor; Jack Miller, county certifying officer;
R. M. Roseberry, accountant, all of Winfield, and County Commissioner W. F. Walker, were at work in the Arkansas City office Tues- day.
The new plan will be started in Arkansas City Friday, Mr. Petticord said. More than 200 men were put to work in Winfield Monday, the date on which the program went into effect nation-ally.
RECEIVE LAST CHECKS.
Civil Works Administration Concluded; Will Complete Projects.
Workers received their last pay checks Friday under the Civil Works Administration set-up in Cowley county. The CWA projects which have not been completed will be finished under the new setup, it is said. The 522 workers on the rolls Friday received checks amounting to $7,333.85. The 14 emergency education teachers received $151.50 for the week ending Friday. 4-5-34
Apply For Garden Seeds.
Over 135 applications have been made here for garden seeds which are purchased by the county from CWA funds. The cost of the seeds given to local residents amounts to about $175. This money comes from the $590 allocated to the county for this purpose from CWA
funds. 4-5-34
CWA Spent $226,004 In Cowley in 19 Weeks
The civil works administration, during the 19 weeks of its existence, spent $226,004.34 in Cow ley county, practically all in ages for the hundreds of unemployed men put to work through the program.
The largest CWA payroll for one week amounted to $21,282.-98, and the smallest for a full week was $6,383.60, on the initial week of operation. The average payroll for the 19 weeks was approximately $11,755.
Almost 60 per cent of the county’s CWA payroll went to Arkansas City and vicinity.
The CWA employed a maximum of 1,236 men in the country.
THE FEDERAL transient service has cared for a total of 205 persons in Cowley county since it was inaugurated Jan. 1, Mrs. Louise Steinberg, county transient supervisor, announced Friday. The Arkansas City office received 110 of these cases and the Winfield office 95. Persons approached by panhandlers for assistance should notify the police station or the relief office, Mrs. Steinberg said, as all transients who are willing to register and work are cared for by the government. 4-13-34
Supplies Many With Jos.
It will be of interest to many to know that in addition to the CWA workers the federal re-employment service has furnished 122 other workers with jobs. The 122 not employed by the CWA were given work by road contractors, private employers, and companies in the county.
Miss Fostine Fox of this city will assist with the third annual music festival of the Cowley county rural and graded schools which will be held Saturday at Stewart gymnasium in Winfield. Victor Murdock editor of the Wichita Eagle, will be the principal speaker at the fes-
tival. 4-5-34
TO ASCERTAIN how many of the persons registered for work at
the national reed doyment office here are still unemployed, every applicant is being checked this week by the office staff. There are 2,041 registrations on the files. Persons registered who do not have telephones are asked to call at the office to supply the necessary information, as the supply of notification cards on hand is Jim-
ited. 4-13-34
WORKERS are APPROVED. 4-14-34
Four Women Named for Case Work in This City.
Mrs. Leslie Roberts, Mrs. Auline Clifton, Miss Ernestine Young, and Mrs. Della Bullard have been tentatively approved as county case workers in this city. They, together with three Winfield women, were approved at a meeting of the county commissioners, Mrs. Jessie Miller, county ase supervisor, Miss Carol McDowell,district case supervisor, L. L. Petticord, poor commissioner, and Jack Miller, counity certifying officer, held last Thursday in Winfield.
Jack Miller, county certifying officer, has reported that $226,004,-34 of CWA money was spent in Cowley county from November, 1933, to April 1, 1934. The money was paid to 20,051 workers, and represents 453,323 hours’ work.
First FERA Workers Will Start on Friday
The first Arkansas City men to participate in the new federal work-relief program will be put to work Friday, with 94 unemployed persons scheduled to receive cards. A out 180 men will be sent out in the county.
The city will receive the services of 33 laborers under the week’s program and plans to use 12 men to pour concrete in Wilson park and 21 to lay drainage tile in Riv-erview cemetery. The remainder of the men will be employed on county projects, with most of them scheduled for the West Chestnut avenue road work and the Anderson bridge north of Parker cemetery.
Revision of the county budget system, which limits the amount of time a man can work in accordance with the needs of his family, to conform with the small federal grant received, still was in progress Thursday, it was reported. The maximum working week probably will be reduced from 34 to 30 hours, with other schedules cut correspondingly.
County Sewing Room Into a New Location
Turning over to the county case workers the location in the Trimper building which it has on cupied since Dec. 11, the count sewing room moved to 110 Adams Wednesday.
From Dec. 11 up to the end the March the ten women working in the organization sewed 1,009 completed garments, 505 of which were delivered. They have also at this time 285 garments. Two thousand three hundred and ninety-four yards of material were. Mrs. May
Frazee is the of
organization. 4-15-34
Walker Getting Ready To Blast Case Workers
Using records of CWA wages and county commodity orders paid to dependent as evidence, County.
W. F. Walker is prepare a public letter charging wastefulness and inefficiency in the distribution of relief funds in the county on the part the case workers, who are changing of relief allotments.
Copies of the letter, which will be issued in a few days, will be sent to Gov. Landon, Senator Capper, Representative McGugin, John G. Stutz, federal relief administrator for Kansas, and other officals, Walker said Wednesday.
The letter will concern the period between last September and Apr. 15, with particular emphasis on disbursements during March the early part of April when the commissioner believes relief expenditures were unreasonably heavy among families which were receiving CWA wages. 4-19-34
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 23 - 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 April 3rd, 1934 to April 14th, 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
1934-04-03
1934-04-05
1934-04-12
1934-04-13
1934-04-14
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34019
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 23 - April,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 26, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/78.Text
Reorganize Relief
Headquarters Here
4-3-34
A reorganization of the relief administrative office here was being made Tuesday as county officials worked to straighten the tangled affairs of the office in the hope of putting the machinery in order again soon enough to launch the new federal work-relief program here this week. L. L. Petticord, county poor commissioner and supervisor of the new program; Mrs. Jessie Miller, county case supervisor; Jack Miller, county certifying officer;
R. M. Roseberry, accountant, all of Winfield, and County Commissioner W. F. Walker, were at work in the Arkansas City office Tues- day.
The new plan will be started in Arkansas City Friday, Mr. Petticord said. More than 200 men were put to work in Winfield Monday, the date on which the program went into effect nation-ally.
RECEIVE LAST CHECKS.
Civil Works Administration Concluded; Will Complete Projects.
Workers received their last pay checks Friday under the Civil Works Administration set-up in Cowley county. The CWA projects which have not been completed will be finished under the new setup, it is said. The 522 workers on the rolls Friday received checks amounting to $7,333.85. The 14 emergency education teachers received $151.50 for the week ending Friday. 4-5-34
Apply For Garden Seeds.
Over 135 applications have been made here for garden seeds which are purchased by the county from CWA funds. The cost of the seeds given to local residents amounts to about $175. This money comes from the $590 allocated to the county for this purpose from CWA
funds. 4-5-34
CWA Spent $226,004 In Cowley in 19 Weeks
The civil works administration, during the 19 weeks of its existence, spent $226,004.34 in Cow ley county, practically all in ages for the hundreds of unemployed men put to work through the program.
The largest CWA payroll for one week amounted to $21,282.-98, and the smallest for a full week was $6,383.60, on the initial week of operation. The average payroll for the 19 weeks was approximately $11,755.
Almost 60 per cent of the county’s CWA payroll went to Arkansas City and vicinity.
The CWA employed a maximum of 1,236 men in the country.
THE FEDERAL transient service has cared for a total of 205 persons in Cowley county since it was inaugurated Jan. 1, Mrs. Louise Steinberg, county transient supervisor, announced Friday. The Arkansas City office received 110 of these cases and the Winfield office 95. Persons approached by panhandlers for assistance should notify the police station or the relief office, Mrs. Steinberg said, as all transients who are willing to register and work are cared for by the government. 4-13-34
Supplies Many With Jos.
It will be of interest to many to know that in addition to the CWA workers the federal re-employment service has furnished 122 other workers with jobs. The 122 not employed by the CWA were given work by road contractors, private employers, and companies in the county.
Miss Fostine Fox of this city will assist with the third annual music festival of the Cowley county rural and graded schools which will be held Saturday at Stewart gymnasium in Winfield. Victor Murdock editor of the Wichita Eagle, will be the principal speaker at the fes-
tival. 4-5-34
TO ASCERTAIN how many of the persons registered for work at
the national reed doyment office here are still unemployed, every applicant is being checked this week by the office staff. There are 2,041 registrations on the files. Persons registered who do not have telephones are asked to call at the office to supply the necessary information, as the supply of notification cards on hand is Jim-
ited. 4-13-34
WORKERS are APPROVED. 4-14-34
Four Women Named for Case Work in This City.
Mrs. Leslie Roberts, Mrs. Auline Clifton, Miss Ernestine Young, and Mrs. Della Bullard have been tentatively approved as county case workers in this city. They, together with three Winfield women, were approved at a meeting of the county commissioners, Mrs. Jessie Miller, county ase supervisor, Miss Carol McDowell,district case supervisor, L. L. Petticord, poor commissioner, and Jack Miller, counity certifying officer, held last Thursday in Winfield.
Jack Miller, county certifying officer, has reported that $226,004,-34 of CWA money was spent in Cowley county from November, 1933, to April 1, 1934. The money was paid to 20,051 workers, and represents 453,323 hours’ work.
First FERA Workers Will Start on Friday
The first Arkansas City men to participate in the new federal work-relief program will be put to work Friday, with 94 unemployed persons scheduled to receive cards. A out 180 men will be sent out in the county.
The city will receive the services of 33 laborers under the week’s program and plans to use 12 men to pour concrete in Wilson park and 21 to lay drainage tile in Riv-erview cemetery. The remainder of the men will be employed on county projects, with most of them scheduled for the West Chestnut avenue road work and the Anderson bridge north of Parker cemetery.
Revision of the county budget system, which limits the amount of time a man can work in accordance with the needs of his family, to conform with the small federal grant received, still was in progress Thursday, it was reported. The maximum working week probably will be reduced from 34 to 30 hours, with other schedules cut correspondingly.
County Sewing Room Into a New Location
Turning over to the county case workers the location in the Trimper building which it has on cupied since Dec. 11, the count sewing room moved to 110 Adams Wednesday.
From Dec. 11 up to the end the March the ten women working in the organization sewed 1,009 completed garments, 505 of which were delivered. They have also at this time 285 garments. Two thousand three hundred and ninety-four yards of material were. Mrs. May
Frazee is the of
organization. 4-15-34
Walker Getting Ready To Blast Case Workers
Using records of CWA wages and county commodity orders paid to dependent as evidence, County.
W. F. Walker is prepare a public letter charging wastefulness and inefficiency in the distribution of relief funds in the county on the part the case workers, who are changing of relief allotments.
Copies of the letter, which will be issued in a few days, will be sent to Gov. Landon, Senator Capper, Representative McGugin, John G. Stutz, federal relief administrator for Kansas, and other officals, Walker said Wednesday.
The letter will concern the period between last September and Apr. 15, with particular emphasis on disbursements during March the early part of April when the commissioner believes relief expenditures were unreasonably heavy among families which were receiving CWA wages. 4-19-34
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page