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Show HIGHWAY WORK TO PROVIDE WINTER JOBS FOR MANY Utilization of the far-flung maintenance organization of the forty-eight State highway departments depart-ments Is planned by the Administration Adminis-tration as part of the program to provide employment through the winter for the many unemployed unem-ployed now on relief rolls it was' announced today. In a recent telegram to all State highway departments, . Thos. H. MacDonald, Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, U. S. Department of Agriculture, outlined a tentative tentat-ive setup by which relief labor will be furnished and paid by the Federal Relief Administration up to 65 percent of the total expenditure. expend-iture. The remaining 35 percent will be from Federal funds supplies sup-plies to the State highway departments, depart-ments, and this money will be used to pay for supervision, supplies, material and equipment. Maintenance supervisrs of the various State highway departments, depart-ments, under the plan outlined by MacDonald, will prepare, with the aid of county officials, a list of six, or eight highway maintenance mainten-ance projects in each county or district where serious unemployment unemploy-ment exists. Each of these projects pro-jects will provide for a $5,000 ex- ( Continued on Page Six) HIGHWAY WORK TO PROVIDE WINTER JOBS FOR MANY (Continued from page 1) penditure. Additional projects are contemplated in populous or needy counties. Twelve classes of work are listed list-ed for immediate undertaking; grading and draining roads and streets largely by hand labor; widening wid-ening inside curves and flattening slopes: laying tile underdrains; cobble gutters; fencing right of way; dry masonry guard walls; surfacing and. resurfacing with local materials or with materials supplied from other than helief funds; roadside clean-up and selective sel-ective cutting of brush and trees; footpaths of local materials on outlying streets and suburban roads: clean-up of streets and trimming trees; production of road and maintenance material. ! State maintenance supervisors in each county will assign experienced ex-perienced men as foremen on individual in-dividual projects. The work is not to be confined to State highway high-way systems. "The resourcefulness of the State highway departments should enable employment progressively to be given to hundreds of thousands thous-ands of men -before the end of the month." the telegraphic appeal states. Action on the program and financing will follow immediately immed-iately upon submission of State highway department lists of pro- jects so that actual work may d started without delay. "This is a big order," the telegram tele-gram says, "but on the other hand the State highway departments are the outstanding agencies of Government controlling closely knit and disciplined organizations sufficiently dispersed to insure reasonable success to this emergency emerg-ency effort. "It is an opportunity for constructive con-structive effort that must be carried car-ried through to successful completion." com-pletion." Response received immediately by telegraph from all 48 State, highway departments show that projects will be submitted and begun be-gun immediately. |