Milford chronicle., 1933-08-04
Commission Is To Select
Work For Quota Esti-
mated At $2,5OO, 10000.
Estimate $7,947, 800 Could
Be Spent in Wilmington
For Improvements.

The State Industrial Recovery
Survey Commission met for the first
time at Dover on Wednesday of last
week and began shaping tentative
program to give Delaware lead in
the S3,300,000,000 national public
works phase of the New Deal"
The commission was given flying
start when Gerrish Gassaway, who
was elected its secretary, laid be-
fore it a list of proposed Delaware
public works totaling $28,605,5i0
from which the commission can Sc
lect enough to fill out the States
quota, tentatively estimated at ST.
100000.
The commission is to make rec
ommendation to the Federal works
board.
The commission served notice it
dite the program in Delaware so
that large number of public works
can be started here at once, with the
object of having a large portion Of
the States unemployed at work by
October 1.
No projects were approved We'd
nesday.
Bids for many of the projects, Mr..
Gassaway said, could be asked with
in 60 days, thus meeting a basis re-
quirement of the Federal authori-
ties. OF the total number which he
suggested, s7,947 $3.50 worth were for
Wilmington including sewerage i'm
provements, water facility improve
ments, park land development, a
new senior high school building and
additions to the public building.
Other projects suggested by Mr..
Gassaway include: $10,S31, 900 in
Federal works, s4,435,O0 for State
works and SS,693,520 for school
Development program.
zMr. Gassaway is the Delaware
chairman of the National Industrial
Recovery Board, Industrial Section,
having been appointed by Gen. Hugh
S. Johnson, N. r. A. head.
Richard G. McMullen presided at
the meeting, which was attended by
Governor c. Douglass Buck. Gov
ernor Buck spoke on the States fis-
cal position, and declared that no
State funds are now available for a
public work program.
In the formal organization, Mr..
McAIullen was elected chairman;
Edward ]. Winder, vice-chairman,
and Mr.. Gassaway, secretary. Be-
sides these, the following members
were present: Walter o. Hoffecker,
John A. Downes and John H. Hick-
ey. Two were absent-E. H. Worth
and ]. Reese White.
R. c. Beckett, sanitary engineer
of the State Board of Health was in
vited to the meeting by the Cover
nor and discussed briefly number
of proposed sewer and water pro-
jects for incorporated and unincor-
porated towns and cities in the
State.
"If a special session of our Cen
eral Assembly is necessary to au-
thorize State commissioners, towns
and villages and other political sub
divisions, to contract debts with and
receive grants from the Federal gov
ernment, l earnestly bespeak your
vigorous cooperation to bring this
about"
Projects Classified
Mr.. Gassaway had classed the
proposed public works projects that
could be undertaken in Delaware
under six classifications. The Fed
eral projects which include harbor
maintenance, Chesapeake and Della
ware Canal work, the Wilmington
postoffiee, total S10,S31, 900.
Proposed State projects, including
improvements to hospitals, institu-
tions, improved housing conditions,
highways and bridge construction,
total $3,435,000
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