The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-12-07
COUNTY FIRST in
STATE With FULL
QUOTAON PAYROLL
Cook Praises Office Helpers,
City, Village Officials for
Cooperation
OVER 800 NOW WORKING
Says Mistakes Have Been Made
in Effort to Get Relief
Jobs Underway


Redwood county will have jobs
ready Friday morning for the last of
its quota of 400 men to be employed
under the federal civil works pro-
gram, it was announced Wednesday
by Richard Cook, county engineer,
who is in charge of the program.
With more than 800 men already
employed, Redwood county is believed
to be leading the state in percentage
of men allotted who are already do
ing useful work.
Sixty-six men are crawling a
strip of road near Revere and sc 9TH
ers are busy on Vesta crawling
project. The gravel jobs are giving
work to the largest number Of men.
When the final shift is started Fri
day, 4O5 will be on the payroll on sew
eral projects and four others will be
busy in the employment office, bring
ing the total of 400.
Following are the other projects
and the number of men working:
Redwood Falls crawling job, % men
now and % more Friday; Is men
cleaning bitches at Wabasso; 10
cleaning bitches at Belview; IL clean
ing bitches at Wabasso; IL cleaning
bitches at Milroy; Is building storm
sewers in Redwood Falls; 8 on the
Redwood Falls city hall, Toulouse adj
dition; 10 On the county highway
shop; 81 at the Redwood Falls pump
house road; moving the North
Redwood bridge to Sheridan township
and 20 at Lamberton working on the
school grounds and city park.
Forty-five men will start work this
morning on crawling near Clements.
At Vesta, AZ men are hauling gravel
with teams and wagons and 20 are
working in the pits.
Mr.. Cook who has been personally
supervising every angle of the pro-
jects issued the following statement
Wednesday:
Authorization was received on
most of these projects Friday morn
ing, December and officials have
worked night and day to get these
men working quickly.
1.-THE fact that we were able to put
so many to work so quickly is due
largely to the fact that we have re-
ceived wonderful cooperation from
the officials of the city and villages
throughout the county and especially
from the personnel assigned to assist
us.
'Lyle Garlock was appointed by
the state CWA office as certifying Of
fcer and Leland Tyler as discussing
officer. These men have given US
first class service and one hundred
per cent cooperation. They have done
the work assigned to them in very
creditable manner and in addition to
that have helped the engineering and
unemployment Offices to accomplish
their tasks. Without this co-opera-
ton it would have been impossible to
have been able to get these men to
work SO quickly.
"In putting 400 men to work in less
than a week we have probably made
some mistakes and there are probably
some men on the payroll who are not
deserving and some who are not on
the payrolls who should be. It was
to investigate the merits
of each case separately and we be-
lieve that it was more important to
put the men to work quickly and IN
vestigate the individual cases later.
"Had we taken time to investigate
each case separately before putting
them to work, we would probably not
have been able to reach our quota be-
fore December Is. Now that the men
are working, the questionable cases
will be investigated to see that all de-
serving men are put to work."