The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

poses (maximum under the law)
nets about $4,000 for the main
tenance Of a poor farm, hospital
and old age pensions. By anticip-
ating some $1,000, which the coun-
ty commissioners hope the state
will repay, they are able to carry
Al persons on the old age pension
roll for varying amounts that av-
erage $15 per month. Less than
one-third of those legally entitled
to a pension can get it. There is
no way to provide the funds.
/ To still the clamOr for road work
as much as possible, provide some
crawling work that can be per
formed during the winter, and get
little improvement into each To-
cality, the county commissioners
are doing the maximum that the
road fund will stand. About 80
miles has been elevated to grade.
This work will continue but can
. not be increased without state or
federal funds. 1t employs nine
men on county machinery and a
dozen or Is others from the re-
lief rolls.
Relief Goes Off
Almost daily word comes from
| Washington or Helena that relic
is to be cut off on Nov. 1. A
= yet the local office has about LIP;
5 persons on it's rolls. WPA prof
: ects are to take over the load a
: the Roosevelt cOOlie wage of S4'
to $81 per month and not NOR
> than one employee to a family.
0 But WPA projects, like much o
: the rest of the Mis-Deal program
are only a rosy dream thus fal
They consist of PLANS an
2 PROMISES. For Sheridan count
t one project has been finally az
n proved. A city waterworks fO
Plentywood will cost $4,000 an
= furnish work for 80 men for 81
4 or seven weeks. Construction wi
! start about Nov. l.
It Local officials have Submitte
d plans for about two million do
r lars worth of additional constru
ton consisting of road work and
o. school house renovation campalg
e These are simply pending appro
- al somewhere in Helena or Was
= ington, all of which means exact
a nothing for present purposes.
y they were approved tomorro'
- contracts would still have to be h
% Little can be accomplished befo
IL the ground freezes. In Sheridi
~ county roads cannot be graded
the winter and they cannot
graveled until they are graded.
The only other hope of wint
work lies in letter from the ste
highway commission dated Oct.
which says: "The Nov. 1 letti1
to be held in Butte, will inclu
,er contracts for about II miles
ar grading on the Plentywood-Dani
as county line road and for all
js bridges The remaining IL mi
en- of the work will be included
lid another letting a little later,
cd soon aso it is possible to compl
Aid plans and advertising docume
O0 for this second section"
the About 800 Sheridan county n
be are now on jobs somewhere out
ing the county, mostly at Fort Pc
nts Fifty per cent of those who h
me reported have either come b
net complaining of bad conditions
have been sent back after onli
ght day or two of work. There
1ol- now about 715 more registered
1t employment and the list is ircre
.ep- ing daily.
he- A Thumb Nail Sketch
lers Boiled down to a thumb
lon- sketch, the whole picture sh
HgS that the 5000 people who cOul
& live without relief last winter
my in no better shape now. 7
ger must have relief or work. Re
cps is to be cut off. The work
t tne sight consists of Fort Peck W.
,'ieS about 800 are now employed
ny where another 100 or 200
i Lar, possibly find jObs-likewise
1 IN may not. The waterwOrks will
ne care of 80 men for six or 81
WIZ weeks. Sheridan county can
aih ten going on its road work. III
miles of road is ready to gri
! ca This job will take a few n
! oil Contract fer another IL mile
per highway has been let. IF the
arc tractor gets going there viii
leIy work for another 100 or so of
WIS., until the ground freezes. Be
NJ that are only Mis-Deal prom
toI Promises that cannot pOssibl
~ III. translated into much in the VIZ
We" !, Ico payrOlls before next spring.
l,so0 Out of more than 5000 dest
'% 10 people, not to exceed 600, prOl
O a much smaller number, of v
Ai0'" ers have a prospect of job.
steady job. Just a part ii
49,. work when you can get it
n aoI,o Assume that each of these go
III III support an average family of
auIo and One-half persons. Still
SI@ii remains more than 1000 who
90 W eat and wear clothes and
,o, rrr shelter, or perish.
cot THIS, MR.. ROOSEVELT,
arfsl- WHEELER. MR.. MURRAY,
oh as AYEKS AND d Mn. G G1STT11
ectors lHE FROSF Ell dN11, u MI ~
round SHERIDAN COUNI IL III II
NOV THE PICTURE YOUR PROG
70 re- HAS HUNG UP. THESE
crop. The COND1dONS o TN w
an ARE THE CONDITIONS
MUST MEET. WHAT ARE
live GOING TO DO ABOUT 1T.
, pro-
igible. M0nHTUvT
1sLLIo MEH NE hMIAV