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Show r 91 ? . ; - Beaver County Is Big Beneficiary By Relief Funds " --Expenditure in Beaver county for relief and employment creating . public works reached a total of $534,675.82 on September 10, 1936. .... Of this $481,353.69 was contributed by the state and federal governments govern-ments and only $53,322.14 was. . raised by this county to match the state and federal grants. These up-to-the-minute figures were fui'V pished the national administration '" at Washington this week, at the w instance of Governor Henry H.'-Blood. H.'-Blood. ' ..-'- Governor Blood's report shows; ; that more than 80 cents of each' dollar spent in Utah for relief during dur-ing the depression came from the federal government and that the remaining 20 cents was paid by the':-state the':-state and the local governmental units. In return for this state -, participation the state and local . taxing units were able to provide, tor vital relief and also had obtained ob-tained public improvements of in- " estimable value. Expenditures in the entire state lor relief and work relief programs reached a total figure of $4U,12U,: 709.80. This was made possible by a lour point program carried out oy Governor iilood and the . state administration. The admin- ;: isiration passed legislation to en-aole en-aole the state, counties and cities to join in tne national pi-ogru-it.. ana to incur financial obligations .. to meet the federal requirements, it also provided tor financing the state's share of the undertaKings Dy enacting a sales tax and approv pnating the proceeds to an emer"-gency emer"-gency relief fund to be administer-eil administer-eil by Governor Blood for relief, in addition the state administration, set up the organization to carry the program into force in this state and worked out the indivi-r dual projects which put the money to advantageous use not only for relieving need among the peoplij but also to provide valuable public improvements of permanent worth'. In many instances the federal aid was obtained by Governor Blood personally presenting the plans and programs to Washington authorities au-thorities and obtaining their approval. ap-proval. ' j For some years past the state government has been preparing advanced plans covering the development de-velopment of highways and public ! buildings. The state road commission commis-sion at the time it was under the leadership of Governor Blood, pre- ' pared plans five years ahead of ! immediate finances in sight and through this far-sighted planning the state was enable to put a large part of the federal relief funds to use before any other other state ! in the nation. Governor Blood gained recognition as the first governor to put New Deal money to work on roads and public build- i ings. j The state sales tux proved the "open sesame" to the federal funds insofar as the state government was concerned. This tax, which was paid in pennies by the peopje, (Continued on last pagei ". Relief Funds (Continued from first cage) was used in matching the federal relief funds of approximately $4,-100,000 $4,-100,000 and was the means of the state assuring to the federal government that the state would cooperate in a matching program. To this fund the local counties and cities added money, equipment and materials to ' the value of about $4,990,000 and the combined local contributions with the state aid brought in more than .$32,000,000 of federal funds. This state will rank well with any state in the union in putting the money to work in good, meritorious meri-torious projects having lasting and permanent value to our people, according ac-cording to federal authorities. The report just released shows that Beaver county, with a population popula-tion of 5,13G, had as high as 29.1 per cent of its population on relief or work relief at one time. In this county ther-e has been expended for wages alone $228,234.82, with an additional $88,109.09 for materials ma-terials while direct relief took $218,331.92. In the state as a whole nearly $18,000,000 went for wages, $6,676,000 for material and about $16,670,000 for direct relief. Figures given do not include a number of state-wide and district-wide district-wide projects, which were conducted conduct-ed in connection with Beaver and other counties of the state. The civil works administration, emergency relief administration, direct relief grants, drouth relief, drouth rehabilitation and the works progress administration all are included in the figures given. It is based on expenditures and excludes funds which are now in hand to complete many projects still in progress. Some of the outstanding projects pro-jects completed or under construction construc-tion in this county through the relief re-lief funds include construction of sewer systems, replacement of water mains, preparation of thousands thous-ands of hot lunches for school children, design and making of clothing for the needy, improvement improve-ment of fish hatcheries, removal of tree stumps for road clearing, street grading and graveling, repair re-pair and construction of dams, job-training job-training for adults, and reconditioning recondi-tioning of county roads. |