Thursday, Februaty 2 23, 1939. THE UNION PRESS COURIER. PAGE SIX C————— ————————— = wt ———— VROLE SEVEN BILLIONS SET AS COST OF W. P. A. PROJECTS Washington—Uncle Sam’s WPA job stands out as one of the biggest under. takings the Government ever shoul- dered. From its beginning in mid - 1935 down to the first of January, 1939, the WPA has cost a grand total of $6,854- £45,463. Of this, cities, counties, and states made a direct contribution of $1,034,- £46,000. The balance was contributed from the Federal Treasury , and in- cludes approximately $184,750,000 spent on the National Youth Administration — which, while not technically a branch of the WPA, is supported from WPA funds. Wages accounted for $5,105,402,000. Administration expense came to $231,- 543,000. The balance of $1,517,800,453 went for materials and equipment, one billion of which came from localities. So much for the cost. What did the country get out of it? According to the best official esti- mate, approximately 6,780,000 persons held WPA jobs at one time or another. Nobody knows for sure, but WPA au- thorities estimate that perhaps 600,000 of these stayed on the job from the start; the rest came and went as pri- vate employment fluctuated. The level of WPA employment has swung up and down. When the pro- gram began in August, 1935, there were 252,000 workers. By the end of Nev- ember WPA had 2,445,954 people on its rolls. Low point came in September, 1937, with 1, 151,112 workers on the rolls, and the high was reached in October, 1938, when—counting some 90,000 workers who were paid out of WPA funds but were employed on other Federal projects—it touched 3,337,578. During its lifetime WPA has put. through at least 250,000 projects. At | | ; Wren you fill up with Atlantic White Flash and Atlan- tic Motor Oil, and when you get Atlantic Lubrication Service, you count on quick, courteous service too. So stop at the Atlantic sign these cold, blustery days. Your car will get the products it needs for top winter per- formance and you’ll get the kind of attention which Whore Wiles fos Youn Woney ATLANTIC LTT TT (8 fu PRICES- CA 2h LO rion 4 "MOTOR OIL | [LUBRICATION 4 plentiful and many people were en- any given time there ate usually ab- PATTON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH James A. Turner, pastor. Church school at 10 a. m. and Pre- aching at 11 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Ep- worth League at 6:30 p.m. Mid-week Bible Class, Wednesday at 7:30. The Ladies’ Aid met at the home of Mrs. Eli Steir on Tuesday, the 14th, the following ladies being present: Mrs. Eli Steir, Mrs. Edward Jenkins, Mrs. Thomas Lowes, Mrs. William Low- Steir, Mrs. James Blake, Mrs. John Morgan, Miss Marjorie Steir, Mrs. Fannie McQuillan, Mrs. John John- son, Mrs. J. A. Turner, Mrs. Ellery | | St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, were They built 9160 miles of sidewalks and Lynn. es, Mrs Richard Lilly, Mrs Thelma, ot Jour evening meal. oul 40,000 projects under way. What do these projects include? Approximately, 14,600 public build- ings have been erected. Among them gaged until late Saturday night that explanation might have been accept- able. But no one believes it today, with shorter houfs and scarcely any- body working on Saturday evening. |are some 2400 schools, 570 gymnasiums, Moreover, you need the church worse | 1100 stadiums, 70 hospitals, 70 jails, than the church needs you. Go to | from 800 to 900 courthouses, 140 fire- church next Sunday.” houses, 110 airplane hangars, and 80 The Ladies’ Aid will conduct a Pen- | armories. In addition, improvements ny Cafeteria in the church dining room | Of repairs were made on 39,000 ather on February 28, beginning at 5 p. m. Come with a handful of pennies and | ground around public buildings were landscaped. — id The WPA men built some 32,000 Named Honor Students. bridges and 400,000 culverts, 10,000 Raymond Lieb, of Nicktown, and miles of country roads and 7600 miles Quentin Smith Portage freshmen at of, chy highways—not counting 1000 ’ ! miles of roads in parks and cemeteries. Attorney Reuel Somerville gave an | named on the honor roll for thefirst paths, 28,000 miles of roadside ditches excellent address on the life and char- worth League, Sunday evening, the 12th. Forty-five young people attend- | | March 14, 1939, sealed quotations to | 199 golf courses, 5000 tennis courts, ed. The following appeared In the edit- | orial column of the Altoona Mirror: “One of the flimsiest excuses for not attending Sunday school and church is this: ‘I work hard all week and am | right to repect any or all quotations. too tired to get up on Sunday morn- | ing’ Some years ago when work was | semester. acter of Abraham Lincoln to the Ep- | and 1000 parks. They laid out 100 air. 3 : ports and made improvements on 160 Sealed Bids. | oid ones. They built 1600 athletic fields, The School Board will receive until | nog playgrounds, 400 swimming pools, | furnish school supplies for the term upwards, of 800 horseshoe courts | 1639-40. Requisitions may be secured 60 skating rinks and some two dozen from the Secretary or Supervising | oy; jumps. (Principal. The bosrd jessives: ihe They put up 120 outdoor theatres and 80 band shells. They laid 4800 miles of water mains, aqueducts, distribution lines and the like and built 900 stor- age tanks, reservoirs and cisterns. PATTON BOROUGH SCHOOL DIST., 3t Ellen C. Dietrick, Secretary. J. EDW. STEVENS FUNERAL DIRECTOR They erected 400 sewage plants and 300 pumping stations and a million sanitary toilets. In a mosquito control campaign they dug 900 miles of dit- ches and drained 400,000 acres. One hundred and forty docks and piers were built, and eight miles of breakwaters and jetties. Dams— other KNOWN BY SERVICE than power and storage dams—to the number of 30,000 were built as part of a flood control program. Ninety miles PHONE SERVICE, Day 31-M., Night 31-J. of irrigation canals were dug, and the improvements were made on 400 miles of existing canals. They dug 320 tunnels of one sort or another, built 7000 miles of fencing and erected 96 fish hatcheries. 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ORGANIZE TWO SCOUT TROOPS Plans for the organization of two new Scout troops in the North Cam- bria District of the Admiral Robert E. Peary Council, Boy Scouts of Am- erica, were announced at a meeting of Fatton. Charles M. Chilcote, chairman of Blandburg Troop 79, said that a new troop is being formed in the Moun- taindale section and William Blatt, chairman of the organization of the district, said the Scouters are organ- izing a new troop in St. Patrick’ Catholic Church, Spangler. Both new troops will be applying for charters within the next month, it was announ- ced. District Scouters also outlined ten- tative plans for a district court of honor to be held in Patton the latter part of March. George Hoppel, district chairman, re- ported that Spangler Troop 73, and Patton Troop 81, both are being re- organized and are scheduled to reg. ister in the near future. Scouters also discussed plans for a special training course to be conducted during March by Roger Cann, assist- ani executive of the Council. The course will be open to al Scoutmasters and trops committeement. The classes will be conducted on a Saturday after- noon during the latter part of next month, it was announced. Sealed-in-Steel THRIFT UNIT with Oil Cooling “The daddy of them alll” public buildings, and 38,000 acres of existing assets. While they were build- | district leaders last Friday night in Sat ig or This public preference is the public’s proof of Chevrolet's greater dollar value. Acton it!... Buy Chevrolet for1939... and get more for your money A General Motors Yalve PATTON AUTO CO, Patton, Penna. = nr — SEIBERLING TWO TREAD