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Show UTAH WPA ROLLS INCREASED 1000 SALT LAKE CITY, March 1 HUM Federal relief rolls in Utah were swelled today with authorization authori-zation of 2,300 additional Works Progress administration employes as result of a $250,000,000 relief appropriation increase recently voted by congress. The increase brings the maximum maxi-mum number of WPA employes in the state to 1,000, Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, saiu in a telegram to Gov. Henry H. Blood. Of the newly authorized WPA workers, 1,300 had been added to the federal payroll on temporary tempor-ary authorization following passage pas-sage of the relief increase measure, meas-ure, Darrell Greenwell, state WPA administrator said. Actual increase in-crease in relief employment will total only 1,000 persons, he said. The relief increase will give Utah and additional $50,000 purchasing pur-chasing power monthly, Green-well Green-well estimated. |