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DO C_U MENHi ROOM T HE WO R K S PROGRAM ***** --Works Progress Ad□ inistra.tion-- For I mmedi ate Release, . Friday, J anuary 29, 1937. Army of WPA Workers Begin Task of .Rehabilitation. 11An army of more than 30,000 WPA workers is 'mopping up 1 in the wnk:e of the flood in the Ohio vaJ.ley , 11 Harry L. Hopkins, WPA Adm i nist r ator , decla red t oday after an inspection of repo rts from St a te Administrators and r egi onal r epresentatives in the flood zone . 11 Fr om Wheeling, w. Va., t o Owensboro, Ky., WPA sani tation units have been mooilized in a battle against disease. Wo r k in6 in coope r at i on with United States Public Heal th Servi ce and Sti:>.te Healt h I)e pe.rt!c!ent officials, WPA is providin6 the man- power fo r cleani ng streets a.nd public buildings of debris l eft by the flood. WPA l abo r a lso i s being used on emergency sa nitati on projects and emergency r epairs of wate r mains ani highways. ·.The water su:9pl;'l i n many com- munities h~s been cut off or contaminated and the first object ive of WPA health units is to restore pure drinking water to those commu nities. "Wh ile every facility of WPA was br ought i nto use to save life and pr opert y dur i ng the flood. peri od , W?A I s b i g j ol:J be t~Dil with the r e ce ss i on of the flood waters in the uppe r Oh io va lle;y. people from their homes. This fJ. 0 ~-" drove several hundred thousand Proper sani tar y pre caut i ons must be taken before these homes ar e reo ccupied if t he he2.l th of the comrrmni ties is t o be insured. This is WPA 1 s job.rr Repol'ts to Admi nistrat or Hopkins t his morning fr om State Ad.ri!inistrator George E. Goodman of Kentucky , stat e t ha t VrPA forces have bei::;un to clean away debris in Ashland and other eastern Kentucky citie s . With the water.slowly recedi ng in Louisville, Administrator Goodman said, the WPA forces in that city will start their clean up work Saturday morning. Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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