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Show American Fork Citizen - Thursday, December 4, 2003. Page 8 Survive 0 our community who are in dire need." The funds remained as budgeted. The American Fork Co-op was in a tenuous state, soon to close. The city received a letter from the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Association of Credit Men in March, 1932, asking that the city pay a bill of $11.23 owing the Co-op. Since the bill owed by the city had been applied to the 1931 culinary water account for the Co-op, the recorder was instructed to so advice the association. Federal Programs Flow From Washington Among the new priority programs which were destined des-tined to impact American Fork, along with the rest of the nation were the following follow-ing measures, passed in the first 100 days after President Presi-dent Franklin I). Roosevelt took office in 1933: Civic Works Agency (CWA), Federal Fed-eral Emergency Administration Adminis-tration of Public Works (FEAPW), Federal Emergency Emer-gency Relief Agency (FERA), Works Project Administration (WPA), Federal Fed-eral Housing Authority , (FILA), Civilian Conservation Conserva-tion Corps (CCC) and Social Security Administration fSSA), The WPA was later called the Public Works Administration Adminis-tration (PWA) and provided loans and grants to municipalities munici-palities for the construction of bridges, highways, water systems and other public works. Each of these federal programs pro-grams was welcomed and well utilized by residents of American Fork. The local economy was a reflection of the national concern. By 1933 home building had been limited by 90 percent. It was estimated esti-mated that 50 percent of all home mortgages were technically tech-nically in default. The new FLERA had given $500 million in aid to Dt W ) IS f . 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Within 24 hours after his agency was organized, organ-ized, Hopkins had sent social workers out to check needed projects, had advised every state to establish a local FERA organization and had spent $5 million of his half-billion budget. FERA Comes to Aid of American Fork FERA funds were initially initial-ly used as direct relief to pay for food, housing, clothing cloth-ing and medical care. In American Fork, Ora H. Chipman was named as FERA social worker and was given the responsibility to investigate needs of applicants and to see that those in need received assistance. When Chipman made her report to the City Council Coun-cil for March, 1934, she noted there were 228 applications appli-cations for assistance processed by the local unit. Of this number 148 families were aided by work relief and two by direct relief. The total help for the month was $2,153.06. As an investigator for the FERA program, Chipman was required to ascertain the actual foodstuffs and supplies in the home of applicants for aid. This meant that she must report this amount on the application applica-tion form. Consequently, she was to open cupboards, etc. to learn the actual amount of food on hand for each applicant. Although this was done in as kind a manner as possible, some felt this was an intrusion and a breech of privacy. The FERA program was a great success in the first Timp Plaza DEBIT wL Utft ft. ttttawtlti Value! Valid only with new patient exam. Expires 12-31-03 4Uri-.'s TAui Cssa . j ' i '' (by sn&Ys j Fork (801J 633-0116 Continued from front page projects conducted. By April, 1934, plans were being made to submit additional addi-tional projects. The State and County FERA officials decided that the various communities needed to have a supervisor over the workers for the projects. James H. Clarke was selected select-ed to fill this position in American Fork. The federal funding would pay his salary of $57.60 a month. The recorder was authorized author-ized to issue a check for this amount. On Aug. 7, 1934, a communication com-munication was received from the Utah County FERA office notifying the city of a semi-weekly delivery deliv-ery of chilled meat in a refrigerated truck to the Provo office. County-wide distribution would be the responsibility of the various local communities. The meat would be placed in three- and six-pound containers con-tainers for consumption of relief families. Other commodities distributed dis-tributed in this manner were flour, sugar, cereal, lard, salt and other staples. One of the work programs pro-grams initiated by the American Fork FERA was a sewing room, to make clothing cloth-ing for welfare families. A room was rented over the Peoples State Bank (now Bank of American Fork) and Marcelle Hawkins Skinner was hired to supervise super-vise the project. Several women worked on the project proj-ect and many items of wearing wear-ing apparel were completed and distributed through this program. mm ! Ala? f Proposed improvements at Parks fairly controversial," said Bollwinkel. The firm proposed pro-posed an approach between the present mostly-natural situation and a full-developed scenario drawn by Swaner Design for the city several years ago. There would be two new ball diamonds, four tennis courts, some multi-use fields for soccer and football, foot-ball, and a transition area between those uses and the natural area with trees and trails on the park's east side. There would be two accesses planned for the Art New Utah will have early deadlines for holiday editions. For Dec. 25, submissions must be received by Dec. 19 at 10 a.m. S : - ei the Art Dye Park. Dye park - the existing one from 700 North, just west of the Beehive and Central League Park and the other on the park's west side from 980 North. Neighbors spoke in favor of having the city complete a bridge across the river on that roadway to allow access without having all the traffic go through residential resi-dential neighborhoods. "I would like to have an assurance that the bridge across 980 North will be done so that we won't get all the traffic," said Vicki Thompson. , Continued from front page 27 Pavilions 29 Playgrounds 5 Sand volleyball pits 5 Multi-use courts 4 Tennis courts 21 Trails 10 restrooms, plus upgrades 12 parking lots 8 large multi-purpose fields 9 small multi-purpose fields 5 new large baseball fields Additional benches and tables Sledding hills Irrigation systems opawo 0 mm 0 Ldcd cdczd gdcd cJ mm mum J 2S H POO 0 |