Show BIG BIB Bi SUMS SPENT ON CIVIL WORKS u u. S. S Spending fri JJ Weekly According T to Estimates I oJ WASHINGTON Dec Dee 27 UP- UP Civil works projects employing ing approximately ap proximately men and women women wo wo- wo men are costing the government an average of a week weck it was estimated from unofficial reports to day Payroll figures were not available The estimate was based on expenditures expendi tures from an original allotment of made to the C W A from the public works fund The C W A AIs Ais Ais is six weeks old but its weekly cost has risen to the mark Inthe Inthe in inthe the last two weeks Its fund is expected to be exhausted in about si six then replenished with an additional to continue continue con con- the work well into spring In addition to the civil and public works expenditures the government is spending huge sums weekly through the Federal Emergency Relief Re lief Ilef corporation to help finance state work relief programs These affect about families In seven months relief activities exclusive of the C W A have cost cast Wisconsin Ohio and Indiana have greatly exceeded their C VI W A employment employment em em- quotas indicating that the original goal of the civil works program pro program pro pro- gram iram had been exceeded b by |