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Show CASH FOB RELIEF IS APPRDVEO i County Relief Plan Approved By Utah R. F. C. Head Cash payment for workers on Utah county's unemployment unemploy-ment relief setup was assured Saturday night when B. H. Robinson, state R. F. C. representative, rep-resentative, approved of the :ounty relief plan and said that the change might be made from payment in produce to payment in cash. No cash wages will be available, however, until the city appoints supervisors for the work projects and outlines work for the men to go ahead on. Then they will be paid under a regular salary plan, the checks to be made out on Saturday Sat-urday nights, checked by the work supervisor then given out the following fol-lowing Wednesday, according to Mrs. Thelma Weight, relief director. di-rector. Direct relief is still going on under un-der direction of Mrs. Weight at her office in the basement of the city and county building. Even under un-der the new system of cash payment pay-ment for work, direct relief will be available for those families where there are no able-bodied men capable of working for it. Mr. Robinson expressed himself as pleased with the Utah county plan at the meeting Saturday night which was presided over by J. W. Gillman, county relief chairman. After a check was made of the organization Mr. Robinson approved approv-ed the recommendation of Mr. Gill-man Gill-man and suggested that hereafter payment would be in cash as in other Utah counties. One reason that the other counties coun-ties were permitted to pay in cash before Utah county is that they have had relief and investigation organizations in previous years and were all ready to go, according to Clayton Jenkins, secretary of the relief organization. Several weeks ago Utah county i was asked by the governor's committee com-mittee to hire a social worker to find out the needs and direct the relief before any further money would be available. Under direction direc-tion of the R. F. C. representatives, Mrs. Weight was employed and , since then she has been developing the relief system in cooperation with the existing committees. Mrs. Weight who is a trained worker is head of the social and investigation division and Arnold Dixon is head of the bookkeeping and accounting department. The new plan will be in no sense a make-work project, Mr. Jenkins said Monday. It is a relief plan and only those eligible for relief will get aid. |