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Show Lunch Projects To Be Open To Visitors "The week from May 13 to 17 is open house for the school lunch project as operated by the WPA and sponsored by the State Board of Education," Miss Alice Todd, state WPA supervisor of the school lunch project, said today. Everyone is invited to visit the projects which are operating in nearly every community throughout through-out the state. Visitors will have the opportunity to see how the WPA, in cooperation with sponsors spon-sors and other agencies, furnishes furnish-es one hot meal daily to the undernourished un-dernourished and needy children, as well as to those who must carry their lunches to school. At the present time, the lunch project is operating in twenty-nine twenty-nine counties of the state, and up until March has served 1,749,403 lunches, or an average of 23,400 lunches daily. It has given employment em-ployment to 500 people, and 266 schools are cooperating. Miss Todd stated that following follow-ing the school lunch program, food preservation centers will be opened, so that relief clients will have an opportunity to get foodstuffs food-stuffs canned and foods may be preserved for use in the school lunches and on the nursery school project during the coming year. |