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Show 18,000 ROAD PROJECTS ARE CALLED FOR As part of the plan to put 4,000,000 men now on part-time relief work o'.i full time, under the new Civil Works administration, every state highway j commission has been urged to find a minimum of 6 road projects in each of the 3000 counties in the country on which road maintenance expenditures expendi-tures of not more than $5,000 each can be made promptly, according toj an official bulletin from RNA head-1 quarters. If fully realized, this would mean some 18,000 projects involving! potential outlay of $90,000,000. The! cost is to be advanced in the propor-i tion of G5 per cent from federal re- lief funds and 35 per cent fromj federal road aid to states. Highway j commissions were asked to list im-j mediately projects available in un-j employed areas. The new Civil j Works administration is conducted! by the Federal Emergency Relief ad-: ministrator, with the same office; force. President Roosevelt set apart: for it S400,000,000 from the public works fund to hasten full-time employment em-ployment of present part-time workers work-ers now on relief rolls, with the pur- pose of making them self-sustaining. Meanwhile the road improvement j plan is one of many to start the 4,000,000 to work and to remove them and their dependents from relief re-lief rolls. |