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Show STUDY SHOWS PLANS OUT IN MANY AREAS Post-war public works planning in the nation had virtually bulged with promise of widespread economic eco-nomic benefits in many states this week a city and state construction con-struction officials found their programs pro-grams still walled in by materials mater-ials and manpower shortages. Plans were expanding generally in both states and cities with stress on highway programs, parking park-ing and market projects and general gen-eral improvement of city and state-owned properties, but few projects are currently under way in the nation. Both state and municipal public works department were considering consider-ing use of auxiliary federal aid funds, but the best of plans had found "themselves tabled indefinitely indefi-nitely for lack of building materials mater-ials and supplies. Maj. Gen. Fleming, federal works administration, announced that federal funds are now allocated allo-cated on a reserve basis and in a recent report stressted the fact that of 8300 municipalities polled recently, 4300 were without plans for improvement projects. Despite federal aid, however, the brunt of the coast of public works must be borne in the individual indi-vidual states. The extent of federal fed-eral aid, however, was stressed recently in Utah. Federal funds there aggregateing 82,767, had been made available to Decern' ber 31, 1945, for the preparation of plans and specifications for public works construction to cost 2,466,000, it was announced last week by H. C. Jassen, district engineer en-gineer of the Federal Works Agency. |
