Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 33 - May
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 33 - May
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. 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
[undated]
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34029
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 33 - May,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 23, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/88.
Text
FAMILY FIVE PEOPLE
Mar. 1 Mar. 8 Mar. 15 Mar. 29 26.40
26.40 26.40 26.40
Grocery Order, Apr. 9 3.50
Total— $109.10 FAMILY, EIGHT PEOPLE 14 weeks prior to March 1, $332.20
cah.
Mar. 1 Mar. 8 Mar. 15 Mar. 22 Mar. 29 $6.00 6.00 26.40 26.40 26.40
$423.40
Grocery Order, Apr 9-- $5.00 Order Fuel Apr. 14-- 1.50 Order Clothing Apr. 14-- 4.47 10.97
Total For 20 weeks FAMILY, TWO PEOPLE $434.37
Mar. 1 Mar. 8 $10.80 10.80
Mar. 15 Mar. 22 10.80 10.80
Mar. 29 Mar. 31 10.90 5.40
Total— 59.40
Grocery Order, Apr 9 FAMILY, FOUR PEOPLE Cash 14 weeks prior to Mar. 1-- $147.35
March Cash 35.85
Grocery Order and Fuel, for 20---- Weeks ---- 9.25
Total- $192.45
FAMILY, FOUR PEOPLE
Cash 14 weeks prior to Mar. 1 --- $201.00
March Cash --- 45.60
Total- $246.60
Grocery Order Apr. 1.
•FAMILY, FOUR PEOPLE
Cash 14 weeks prior to Mar. 1______$245.70
First 15 days of March____________57.00
$302.70
Grocery Orders March 27 and April 2.
Now, Mr. Reader, this is just a few of the many hundreds, that you might know just what brand of efficiency you have been importing into Cowley county from outside the state and paying handsomely for. Do you wonder that anyone who is duly elected to office by a popular vote of the people, and has one spark of respect for their oath of office, would make some sort of effort to avoid such miscarriages of justice as these? And every time I protested they would telephone the Topeka office that Commissioner Walker was interfering with their business. And would come the threats, “If you don’t let us alone, we will withdraw federal aid”.
I lay these facts and figures before you citizens and interested state, national and county officials, that you might know what this Cowley county controversy is about.
I wonder now has the time come that authority legally delegated to public officials is overruled and set aside by self styled “interpreters of federal rules and civil laws”?
All we ask is that county case supervisors attend to the duties
NSAS)
that are assigned to them as per federal rules set out in bulletin form, and also show an abiding respect for the statutes of our most sovereign state, that we, as county officials may administer, “according to law,” a justified and equalized relief to our most needy families in a business like manner.—W. F. WALKER, County Commissioner. c. c. to:
Governor Alfred Landon, Topeka, Kansas.
Harold McGugin, Washington, D.
D.
Senator Arthur Capper, Washington, D. C.
John G. Stutz, Topeka, Kansas.
By STAFF CORRESPONDENT Inspect Bridges
Russell B. Hanna, county commissioner from the first district, and Wayne Lambert, assistant county engineer, inspected two bridges being remodeled across Spring creek in Vernon township Friday afternoon. Mr. Hanna said Saturday that the two structures would be completed in a few days.
Case Workers Meet.
The local case workers attended the case workers' conference held last week end in Kansas City. They returned to the city the first of the week. It was learned at the Kansas City meeting that the budgets for those on relief in Cowley county average considerably higher than the budgets in other states in the south and middle west. It was brought out that some changes in providing employment for relief will be made. Considerable stress was placed on the rehabilitation of those on relief.
L. L. Petticord, county poor commissioner, Friday received a supplemental bulletin of instructions from the Topeka office of the Kansas emergency relief commission. The bulletin stressed | several matters for consideration by the local commissioner in the matter of relief for the needy in Cowley county. It dealt with the danger of spoilage of relief commodities and instructed that extraordinary care be exercised in handling smoked pork for distribution. Smoked pork, the bulletin said, does not carry a heavy cure and therefore is more liable to contamination. Where commodities spoil, especially meats and fats, the bulletin said, steps must be taken to send them to rending plants where an attempt at salvaging the fats will be made.
In no case must spoiled relief commodities be sent to public dumps, the bulletin said.
Where commodity shipments are not distributed in a reasonable time after arrival, special refrigeration or cooling arrangements must be made.
The bulletin reiterated its former instructions as to who is entitled to receive federal relief commodities. That passage read: "Federal relief commodities shall be issued only to certified relief clients, as authorized by the county case supervisor, except in the case of federal relief commodities issued to institutions, organizations and persons specifically authorized and investigated.”
Family allotments of three or four major commodities in the sustenance class were given. The quantity of federal relief commodities to be issued to an average family of four is as follows: lard,
2 lbs per month; smoked pork,
12 lbs. per month; milkwheat, 4 lbs. per month.
Due to the fact that flour is
put up in 24 1/2 pound sacks, the supply is not sufficient to issue a full sack to each relief client every month. Counties are to make their allotments go as far as possible and issue to the most needy of their relief clients. The sacks may be broken by county officers only if it is desired. All stock must be carefully accounted for.
The bulletin also said that the relief commission was sending out to each county a federal relief commodity order form known as KERC Form A to replace commodity tickets.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 33 - May
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. 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
[undated]
Contributor
Red Cross volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34029
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 33 - May,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 23, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/88.Text
FAMILY FIVE PEOPLE
Mar. 1 Mar. 8 Mar. 15 Mar. 29 26.40
26.40 26.40 26.40
Grocery Order, Apr. 9 3.50
Total— $109.10 FAMILY, EIGHT PEOPLE 14 weeks prior to March 1, $332.20
cah.
Mar. 1 Mar. 8 Mar. 15 Mar. 22 Mar. 29 $6.00 6.00 26.40 26.40 26.40
$423.40
Grocery Order, Apr 9-- $5.00 Order Fuel Apr. 14-- 1.50 Order Clothing Apr. 14-- 4.47 10.97
Total For 20 weeks FAMILY, TWO PEOPLE $434.37
Mar. 1 Mar. 8 $10.80 10.80
Mar. 15 Mar. 22 10.80 10.80
Mar. 29 Mar. 31 10.90 5.40
Total— 59.40
Grocery Order, Apr 9 FAMILY, FOUR PEOPLE Cash 14 weeks prior to Mar. 1-- $147.35
March Cash 35.85
Grocery Order and Fuel, for 20---- Weeks ---- 9.25
Total- $192.45
FAMILY, FOUR PEOPLE
Cash 14 weeks prior to Mar. 1 --- $201.00
March Cash --- 45.60
Total- $246.60
Grocery Order Apr. 1.
•FAMILY, FOUR PEOPLE
Cash 14 weeks prior to Mar. 1______$245.70
First 15 days of March____________57.00
$302.70
Grocery Orders March 27 and April 2.
Now, Mr. Reader, this is just a few of the many hundreds, that you might know just what brand of efficiency you have been importing into Cowley county from outside the state and paying handsomely for. Do you wonder that anyone who is duly elected to office by a popular vote of the people, and has one spark of respect for their oath of office, would make some sort of effort to avoid such miscarriages of justice as these? And every time I protested they would telephone the Topeka office that Commissioner Walker was interfering with their business. And would come the threats, “If you don’t let us alone, we will withdraw federal aid”.
I lay these facts and figures before you citizens and interested state, national and county officials, that you might know what this Cowley county controversy is about.
I wonder now has the time come that authority legally delegated to public officials is overruled and set aside by self styled “interpreters of federal rules and civil laws”?
All we ask is that county case supervisors attend to the duties
NSAS)
that are assigned to them as per federal rules set out in bulletin form, and also show an abiding respect for the statutes of our most sovereign state, that we, as county officials may administer, “according to law,” a justified and equalized relief to our most needy families in a business like manner.—W. F. WALKER, County Commissioner. c. c. to:
Governor Alfred Landon, Topeka, Kansas.
Harold McGugin, Washington, D.
D.
Senator Arthur Capper, Washington, D. C.
John G. Stutz, Topeka, Kansas.
By STAFF CORRESPONDENT Inspect Bridges
Russell B. Hanna, county commissioner from the first district, and Wayne Lambert, assistant county engineer, inspected two bridges being remodeled across Spring creek in Vernon township Friday afternoon. Mr. Hanna said Saturday that the two structures would be completed in a few days.
Case Workers Meet.
The local case workers attended the case workers' conference held last week end in Kansas City. They returned to the city the first of the week. It was learned at the Kansas City meeting that the budgets for those on relief in Cowley county average considerably higher than the budgets in other states in the south and middle west. It was brought out that some changes in providing employment for relief will be made. Considerable stress was placed on the rehabilitation of those on relief.
L. L. Petticord, county poor commissioner, Friday received a supplemental bulletin of instructions from the Topeka office of the Kansas emergency relief commission. The bulletin stressed | several matters for consideration by the local commissioner in the matter of relief for the needy in Cowley county. It dealt with the danger of spoilage of relief commodities and instructed that extraordinary care be exercised in handling smoked pork for distribution. Smoked pork, the bulletin said, does not carry a heavy cure and therefore is more liable to contamination. Where commodities spoil, especially meats and fats, the bulletin said, steps must be taken to send them to rending plants where an attempt at salvaging the fats will be made.
In no case must spoiled relief commodities be sent to public dumps, the bulletin said.
Where commodity shipments are not distributed in a reasonable time after arrival, special refrigeration or cooling arrangements must be made.
The bulletin reiterated its former instructions as to who is entitled to receive federal relief commodities. That passage read: "Federal relief commodities shall be issued only to certified relief clients, as authorized by the county case supervisor, except in the case of federal relief commodities issued to institutions, organizations and persons specifically authorized and investigated.”
Family allotments of three or four major commodities in the sustenance class were given. The quantity of federal relief commodities to be issued to an average family of four is as follows: lard,
2 lbs per month; smoked pork,
12 lbs. per month; milkwheat, 4 lbs. per month.
Due to the fact that flour is
put up in 24 1/2 pound sacks, the supply is not sufficient to issue a full sack to each relief client every month. Counties are to make their allotments go as far as possible and issue to the most needy of their relief clients. The sacks may be broken by county officers only if it is desired. All stock must be carefully accounted for.
The bulletin also said that the relief commission was sending out to each county a federal relief commodity order form known as KERC Form A to replace commodity tickets.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook page