The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
WPA EMBARKS
ON CAMP AICN TO
EMPLOY $4,000
Marion County Increase by
$500 Is Goal Set by
Officials.

The Indiana Works Progress Ad.
ministration today embarked on 9
campaign to hire by Nov. IL hall
again as many persons ON works re.
lief projects as are now employed.
The Marion County total is to b.
increased by $500, and the state BY
approximately $4,000. officials re-
ported.
WPA state headquarters depart
ments worked all day Saturday anc
Sunday in forwarding notices Of
eilotn1ents OF funds to the clever
district headquarters offices.
The present employment in the
state is about $1,000 persons, al
though approximately 10000 more
assignments have been sent out.
More Assignments Than Jobs
More assignments are needed thar
jobs, because many workers take
other employment. some fail to re-
port because of illness and other
causes, state WPA officials said
Hence the employment mark of IA
900 actual workers will call for as
Segment of approximately $4,000
workers before ali Jobs are filed.
District headquarters in the state
and the number. of persons now en-
ployed in each are:
District one, South Bend, 6786;
district two, Ft. Wayne, 6255; dis
trict three, Muncie, 3711; district
four, Franklin, 1916; district five,
New Albany, 2438; district six, In
dianapolis, 8345; district seven, Gary,
1859; district eight, Lafayette, 2744;
district nine, Terre Haute, 62O2; dis
trict 10, Vincennes, 6208; district II,
Evansville, 4147. Total, 55,712.
Special stress will be laid on the
employment of women with view
to absorbing the TOO in the state
who have been certified for WPA
employment.
Most of the projects designed for
women are sewing or book repair
work in libraries In Marion County,
BIT women were at work Nov. /, out
of potential 1900. The second dis
trict in the state in number of
women available for work is the
seventh district, at Gary, where 1879
of possible 1893 are at work.
1000 Women Employed
The women employed are ex-
pected to number 1000 in the state
by the end OF this week, instead of
the present 1865. In Marion County,
where pproximately $500 persons
will start work Wednesday, the prin-
cipal projects on which they will be
employed and the number of men
to be taken on are.
Clearing channel OF White River
between Kentucky and Oliver avs,
$50 additional men; Fall Creek
levee at w. 16t'l-st, 300 additional;
Shadeland-dr at 46th and 56th-sts,
230; county roads, 100 additional;
building improvement, State Fair
ground, 81; culverts and bridges,
35; national guard airport, 100 adj
ditional; girls school, Clermont, Ill;
city parks, 346 additional; municipal
airport, $50; sewage disposal, $50;
city streets, 400; Pleasant Run-blvd,
S. Meridian-st to Bluff -rd, 100; Nora
School, "a; County Detention Home,
two; Board of Children's Guardians
Home, 10; West Newton school,
seven; low dams, IT; marking linen
at Riley Hospital, three women.
Among the larger projects in the
county already under way are the
channel clearing project in White
River, now employing 1000 men;
Fall Greek levee, $50 men; grade
crossing improvement, ITO men;
landscaping at Riley Hospital, 140;
building improvement in city
schools, 155, and State School for
the Blind