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Show ! NEW DEAL UNITS j UNDERGMHANGEi I Although a number of new deal federal agencies were outlawed by supreme court .decisions or abol- r icahed when the 1 " SECOND government felt OF A the need for them I SERIES no longer existed, i ' 1 they still operate either in principle or under other 1 name j. " " : " J Yesterday W P A and F E R A and their personnel were discussed. Today other are enumerated ae- , , . cording to present and past status (as disclosed by an investigation of Allen T. San ford, Utah director of the national emergency council. ' I The national reemployment senr-,t senr-,t Ice was a new deal method designed I to place unemployed persons In Jobs. Although it no longer opeites as a federal agency, it Is still in business busi-ness as a state affair under the unemployment un-employment Insurance. IYrager Waa First George Teager was the first N R. S director. He was succeeded by Thomss R. Fsddis as scting di-s di-s rector, then by Joel L. Priest Jr. I j Mr. Faddis stepped in as full-time J director after Mr. Priest's resigna-I resigna-I I lion. ! I The N R A (National Recovery y administration! came. Lota being . with Mr. Sanford as state adminis- trator until August, 1934, when he resigned to devote his full time to the national emergency council Mr. Sanford was succeeded by Alfred Al-fred A. Kinney, who was killed In a Washington, D. C, traffic mishap mis-hap shortly after the supreme court outlawed N R A. F. E. Morris, who was chief state , . labor compliance officer under N R A. Is now an employe of The Salt Lake Tribune. E. A. Smith at Helm Although the RFC (Reconstruction (Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation) waa organized or-ganized under former President Hoover, it was enlarged under President Pres-ident Roosevelt. Elias A. Smith was the Utah manager until the agencies' functions were greatly curtailed and it stopped making loans. Today. Gerald L Leaver, then assistant as-sistant manager, takes care of the R F C's present business in an office of-fice in the federal reserve bank. When the AAA with its manifold mani-fold divisions were outlawed in part By a supreme court decision, the agricultural adjustment administration adminis-tration went out as such, but continued con-tinued many of its functions under guise of the soil conservation and domestic allotment acts. William Peterson of Logan, director di-rector of extension service for the Utah State Agricultural college, was named director of Utah's part of the AAA and is now director under the soil conservation and domestic allotments acts. He is the official representative here of the secretary of agriculture. Council Created The national emergency council was created November 17, 1933. to coordinate work of all the new deal and other government agencies. Mr. Sanford was named its Utah director. di-rector. It was the business of the NEC to find out what all the other agencies agen-cies needed or wanted locally, then present the needs or other business to Washington. The NEC will cease to exist De-i De-i cember 81. |