White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-03-29
End Of CWA
Will See FERA
Ready oStart
HORN ROAD AMONG UNFINISHED
PROJECTS IN BENTON
COUNTY

When the Civil Works Administra-
ton comes to an end tonight Thurs
day, Benton county will be left with
nine uncompleted projects, county OF
ficials of the administration say APP
plication will Immediately be made for
funds from the FERA, however, and
there is a possibility that some Of the
projects will be finished.
The major CWA project in this
county is the Horn road, connecting
the Priest Rapids valley with the
Benton City and Prosser districts. Ii
includes ten miles Of new road along
the Yakima river. This project Is now
two-thirds completed, both grading
and crawling having been done along
a seven-mile stretch. No arrangements
have been made to finish the road.
Other unfinished projects are: Paw
ing of several blocks and installing a
drainage system in Kennewick; i'm
provements on the Prosser, KenneWick
and Richland schools, and construc-
ton Of structures in the Kiona, Sun
nyside valley and Richland Irrigation
districts.
Officially, the Civil Works Admins
tration ends March 81. On April q,
next Monday, the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration will take Its
place, and many of the projects now
being constructed under the CWA VIII
continue without break under the
new program.
According to reports from WASH
ington, d. G., H. L. Hopkins, in charge
of the Civil Works Administration,
denies that the new program Will be
lust continuation of the CWA under
a new name He points to two import
ant differences: The workers Will no
longer be federal employees, eligible
for federal compensation and paid by
federal disbursing agents, and the new
corps will be made up only of persons
in need, whereas CWA workers were
not investigated on this point.
The new relief administration has
been divided into three divisions, as
, follows. Work division, rural rehabili-
tation, and stranded populations.
, The first division applies only to
, communities of 5000 or more popula-
J. ton. All beneficial projects under the
t CWA may be transferred to this oil
S vision, and workers will continue with
l out interruption in hours or pay. There
/ will be between 100000 and 100000
workers in this class. They are the
residue of CWA workers in cities and
towns after those who have other
means of support have been dropped
! Any additional persons employed Will
be selected on a basis of need by the
It Emergency Relief Administration.
1t is expected that approximately
$50 900 families will be cared for under
y the rural rehabilitation scheme at the
y present time. This plan Will operate
e most extensively in the South, with
it's large number of tenant farmers.
Efforts will be made to set these
y needy rural families upon self-sus'
- tanning basis In cases where farms
- :, have been taken for taxes, arrange
~ ments will be made to get them back
- Where the family is in need Of COW
ie horse, or chickens efforts will be mad'
=, to secure them.
:. These reAaDlllJdJcu ldIIiAlco WIZ ~
~ ceiye their sustenance from their farms
and will be given an opportunity u
- secure a modest cash income iron
work on school buildings, marke
~ roads, house repairs, or in some Gle
" centralized industry. They will not
~ allowed to go to cities In search Q
work relief, nor will they be above
-. to raise sufficient farm products I
~, compete with commercial agriculture
~. The third part of the FERA pro
~. gram, moving stranded populations 7
o ~ rural areas, works in with the plan
' already made by the Subsistence
Homestead program. 1t is estimate
20 20 that about 100000 families will {
81 removed from WORKOUT agriculture
W numbering and mining lands to ferti
-. soil where they can become self-suf
porting.