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Show Thirty Per Cent On Relief In Sanpete With 54.9 per cent of its population on the relief rolls, Garf'eld county led the list of all counties in the state during the first quarter of 1935, it is shown in a report released recently by the division of research and statistics sta-tistics of the Utah ERA. The percentage for Garfield county was the highest registered since the beginning of the Utah relief administration adminis-tration in August, 1932, the report says. Morgan county, with 11.3 per cent on rel'ef, showed the lowest percentage per-centage of any county during the first three months of the year. Grand county was next lowest with 17.4 per cent. Other counties reporting more than 30 per cent on relief were Duchesne, Emery, Daggett, Washington, Millard, Mil-lard, Piute, Beaver, Kane, Utah, Rich, Uintah, Sanpete, Tooele and Sevier. An average of 31,798 cases, each representing approximately four and one-half persons, received relief from funds administered by the Utah ERA during the three-months period. The case load advanced during each of the thro months unt:l the peak was reached in March, when 32,279 cases were on the rolls, representing 127,-348 127,-348 persons or 25.08 per cent of the total population of the state. Since March, the 'case .load has de-cl'ned de-cl'ned to about 23,000 or 20 per cent 'of the population. Direct relief expenditures during the first quarter totaled $1,270,467.82 or 49.76 per cent, and work relief totaled $1,189,185.15 or 46 per cent (Continued on last page) Thirty Per Cent On Relief In Sanpete (Continued from page 1) of the total funds expended under the general relief program. Relief expenditures expen-ditures for the general program averaged aver-aged $821,911.52 per month for each of the three months. The report shows also that from April 1, 1934, to March 31, 1935, 2860 projects were approved at a total cost of $10,934,900.60. Of this number, num-ber, 1804 projects were completed and 950 projects were in operation at the close of the period. "Aside from the immediate relief brought to the citizenry of Utah by employment on the useful projects carried on under the emergency work program during its first year of existence," exis-tence," the report sa;d, "the results of the program are more far-reaching in that the construction of roads, sidewalks and sewer systems, of dams and reservoirs, drilling of wells, erection of public buildings and schools, improvement of airports and recreation areas, flood control, pest control and weed eradication, have contributed to the future welfare of the people of this state and are of lasting benefit." The report pointed out an average of 8176 persons were employed weekly week-ly on the projects of the emergency work program from April 1, 1934, to March. 31, 1935. The activities of the women's division, di-vision, the surplus commodity division, divi-sion, the transient relief ser-vice and the emergency education program also were outlined. Expla'ning the financial set-up, the report said that during the first quarter, 84.25 per cent of the total relief funds were supplied by the federal fed-eral government, 9.47 per cent by the state and 6.28 per cent by local agencies. agen-cies. These figures compare with 77.8 per cent in federal funds, 9.4 per cent in state funds and 12.8 per cent in local funds as an average for the period throughout the United States. Of the total amount expended dur-ng dur-ng the quarter, 66.65 per cent was for relief, 8.59 per cent for administration, adminis-tration, and 24.76 per cent for all other costs. The latter includes such items as wages of non-relief employees, em-ployees, earnings of college students employed to conduct emergency education edu-cation classes, and wages of other non-relief persons employed in technical tech-nical and supervisory act'vities in connection with special activities, in addition to equipment rentals and materials used on rel'ef projects. |