Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-07 | Page 13 | $332,400 Job Program Sent to Washington

JOB PROGRAM SENT WASHINGTON TO F FER E R A A. Projects Would Give White C Collar Jf r Men Empl Employment ym mt Designed to aid unemployed white collar workers the F FERA FER B R A Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day forwarded to Washington D. D C. C CM a six months' months program estimated t to cost A grant for that sum is ask asked d by the state relief organ organ- The program according to George I L. L Haerr a acting state FER FERA A director director tor ton is a joint endeavor of the state planning board and the tF FERA E I If approved the state planning board will have direct supervision n of three major projects and will Avill assist the FERA FER A in the remaining 16 18 A wide variety of work Is Js covered by t the c program m which will provide work for fox for six ix months Mr Haerr said id Engineers teachers eachers s social so so- cial welfare re workers meteorologists meteorologIst physicians ni nurses artists and others will be employed he said No Soft Positions Mr Haerr stressed Sed the point that thai while the program is planned for tor those who do not come under the manual labor classification there will wili willbe be no soft jobs Plenty of w work rk will be outlined for or everyone he said Pay wilbe will wil willbe be sufficient to keep the and his family off the relief rolls Nineteen projects would be undertaken undertaken under under- taken the largest being a survey of ot the development possibilities o othe of ot the states state's land and water waler resources This project would give employment to persons for tor six months at a acost acost cost of ot Survey of Mining l A similar survey of mining r re resources resources re- re sources would employ 44 workers for tor six months at a a. cost of ot while a third survey of the engineering dc de de- de tails of the Great Salt lake dUring project would cost giving employment em em- for six months to 43 per ro sons These three projects would be supervised supervised su suo su- su by the planning board i Itself elf while 16 others would be sponsored jointly by the board and the F FE FERA E R A AThey They include Personal investment and standard of living survey survey o othe of the needs needs' and nd more efficient tion of public irist institutions old age pension survey urvey archeological Icat ical work painting of f public property properly 2400 state hool lands survey social welfare and population population pop pop- study meteorological and weather survey musical vocal arid and nd symphony project artists' artists decorating and painting project project tra training ning of ot recreational directors directors di di- rectors training in making Braille books for tor the blind 1800 nursing landscape architecture ture lure survey survey 1800 unemployment relief relief re re- re lief survey 1200 tutoring of feebleminded feebleminded feebleminded feeble feeble- minded 1800