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Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 27 - April

Title

Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 27 - 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 16th, 1934 to April 29th, 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

1934-04-16

1934-04-19

1934-04-29

Contributor

Red Cross volunteers

Rights

Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.

In Copyright In Copyright

Format

application/pdf

Language

English

Type

Clippings

Identifier

RC34023

Coverage

Cowley County, Kansas



Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 27 - April,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed May 2, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/82.
Text

Open Sewing Rooms
The sewing rooms in Arkansas City and Winfield will be opened Monday, it was announced. Mrs. Frazee will manage the Arkansas City project and Miss Hale the Winfield room. Mrs. Miller agreed with Mr. Walker that an inventory of the goods and fixtures in the rooms should be furnished the county.
The teaching projects have been transferred from the CWA to the relief program, Mr. Petticord said, and teachers will be required to go through the regular preliminary routine of registration, investigation and budgeting if they are to retain their jobs.
After a noon adjournment, the discussion of the relief program was resumed at an early afternoon session.
WOULD RE A CALAMITY. 4-19-34

As conditions are now between the case workers and commissioners they are in quite a mess and there is no telling as to the outcome.
It would fee a very hard blow to Cowley County and its large number of unemployed if it should happen to fee deprived of federal aid by the arbitrary and foolish action of someone in authority, which appears to be the case at this time.
No federal aid would be a calamity to the masses, the taxpayers and especially to the unemployed in this county.
Should this ever happen you will have no trouble in placing the blame where it properly belongs.
It is up to the board of county commsisioners to get the federal aid this counity is entitled to. If it follows instructions of the state director of federal aid it can get it. If it doesn't this county will be cut off.
Differences are now feeing stirred up which may result in cancellation of federal aid in Cowley county. It has already been cut to $10,000 when the county is entitled to almost three or four times that sum.
The way things are feeing carried on now it looks as if a big effort was feeing made to revive the commissary plan. If the commissary ever stages a come-| back the unemployed should remember they will receive no cash and will have to take just what those in temporary authority desire to give them.
If you should happen to be “no favorite” of the powers that fee you might fee picked out for discipline. Your menu, no doubt, would not be very palatable.
LIST OF COUNTY CLAIMS.
Poor Fund Spent Over $8,000 In March, Road Fund Over $3000. --------------
The list of claims allowed fey the county commissioners at their April meeting, was printed for the first time in the new official county or-|j gan, the Winfield Independent Record. At the bidding on this advertising the Independent-Record submitted an offer of 1 cent a line. The legal publication of April 12 contained d 540 lines costing the county 4U, in comparison with $43.20 sum computed from a rate that predominated for many years, of 8 cents a line. This marks a j saving of around $38 on this advertisement to the taxpayers, over what they did pay when the weekly newspapers were not submitting bids,
The mileage and expense account shows that W. F. Walker, commissioner from this district, received a mileage renumeration of $52.10; Russell Hanna, $26.40 and James Grant $37.30. Other mileage items printed under this head show the following: F. A. Kelley, $7.60; H. L. Payne $113.40; M. C. Ancers, $115.41; M. I. Williams. $89.65; E. C. Day, $99.13; G. W. Stanley, $28.42; Bert Moore, $50.90.
The county poor fund shows an expenditure for March of $8,918.37and the Road Fund which furnishes considerable employment, paid out a total of $3,174.07.
THE COUNTY case workers investigating relief applications in Arkansas City expect to move their offices Saturday from the relief office at 405 South Summit street to their new headquarters at 401 South A street. The

building, a residence, will provide more ample and convenient accommodations for handling this aspect of the relief program. Mrs. Leslie Roberts, assistant case supervisor, is in charge of the Arkansas City office.
Move Relief Office The county relief office ha. been moved to the second floor of the Hamilton building, across from the court house. On Monday the national reemployment office in Winfield was moved across the hall to the office formerly occupied by the assistant poor commissioner. 4-16-34

Original Format

Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page