Evening star., 1935-10-18
HIGHWAYS HEAD
RELIEF PROJECTS
c. c. c. Second and School
Buildings Third Largest
Enterprises.
BY the Associated Press.

All O1uCldl dCCou1itAlAS Va uPPiOFCu
work-relief projects said today that
highway and street construction had
become the largest single cog in the
Governments job-making machine.
The amount set aside for such work
was calculated at $855, ,000, 900. Other
big items in the summary Of Federal
allotmentS for approved enterprises
were:
Civilian Conservation Corps, $522,-
084, 900.
School buildings. $174,24S, 900.
Other public buildings included in
Works Progress Administration pro-
grams, $ll3.475,000.
Parks, athletic fields and similar
projects under w. P. A., $l56.610, ,920.
Waterworks, sewers. drainage and
related work under w. p. A., $l42,-
603,767.
Community Service Projects.
Community service" and "miscel-
laneous" projects under w. p. A., in
cluding servings centers to produce
clothing for persons on relief, relief
garden projects, clerical and library
work and other white collar" enter
prises. $80,931 500.
Bureau of Reclamation. for power
plants, dams, drainage projects,
mapping, irrigation and the like,
$79,650,0 900.
For projects under the War Depart
ment's Engineering Corps, including
flood control, harbor dredging and
preliminary work on the Atlantic
Gulf Canal. $144.716,169.
Resettlement Administration. $685.
100000.
Navy Department, sl7,37O,470. most
ly for improvement of buildings and
grounds at yards and docks.
Sanitation projects under w. P. A.,
$22,654,540
Airport work under w. P. A., ST.
3ss,624.
Erosion surveys and control work
under the Soil Conservation Service.
$25. 100000.
National youth movement. s27,o56,-
268.
Projects for unemployed artists,
writer's, musicians, actors, directors,
ETC., $27,315,217.
Division of Road Work.
The large amount of approved high
way and street projects was shown to
be made up of 1891 ,000. 900 admins
tered by the Bureau of Public Roads,
500, ,000,0 to pay for Federal high
ways previously authorized under the
Hayden Cartwright act, $183,729,91
for street work under the Jurisdiction
of w. P. A., approximately sl64, ,000, 900
Of secondary or farm-to-market roads
to be handled by w. P. A. and $15,-
989, ,743 Of p. w. A. grants.
The accounting issued today cov-
cred more than 100000, 900 of ap-
proved w. p. A. projects, 81 ,396, $685.
759 Of projects under various Federal
departments and agencies, and p. w. A.
grants amounting to approximately
$3.50, 100000. In addition, the Presi-
dent has approved P. w. A. loans
amounting to $182,095,58l.
P.W. A. grants for various utilities
sewers, sewage disposal plants, water
systems, electric distribution systems
and the like-were placed at $780,
197,626.
Other approved allotments made to
different Government agencies in.
clude: Bureau Of Animal Industry,
mainly for tick and pest control, ST.
682,sO0; game protection, 1886 6,2s9;
Bureau Of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine, $l6,559,817; Forest Serv-
ice, sl3,827,500; Census Bureau, for
a survey of retail trade, a survey of
business and preparation of an alpha
betical index Of the 1900 census, So
881 ,948; construction OF fish hatch
cries and improvement of spawning
grounds, $3.50, 1896: road construction in
Alaska, $67l 500; occupational survey
under the United States. Employment
Service, $900,100; boats, telephone
systems. repairs and Improvements for
the Coast Guard, $5,263, ,9s5; public
health inventory. $3.450, 900: survey Of
tax collections and tax investigations,
$6,313,1 ,126; improvements and repairs
at Army posts and national GENE.
teries, $l2,s47,766; Rural Electrifica.
ton Administration. for power dis.
tribution lines, s4.s18,267; Veterans
Administration. for improvement Of
buildings and grounds at veterans
hospitals and other institutions.
$1,234,1 ,120.