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MAR 9 - 133 0
No. 4 - 1064
THE
WORKS
PROGRAM
-- Works Progress Adroini stration
For release in afternoon newspapers
Monday, W'iarch 9, 1936
More tha.n half of South Carolina's WPA cost to supply work for women an d
white-collar workers.
Slight! y more than half of the money for Works Progress Administration
projects in South Carolina will be spent giving work to unemployed women, white
collar and other professional and technical unemployed persons on educational,
clerical, sanitation ·and health, and sewing and other goods projects, according
to an announcement ma.de today by Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator.
A listing by types and cost of projects sho ws that of the total
$9,834,319 to be sp ent as of December 31, 1935, the following will receive a
slight majority of the allotment; educational, professional a nd clerical, $802,635
or 8 .2 per cent; sewing and other goods projects, $1,181,572 or 1 2 .0 per cent;
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sanitation and health, $1,332,449 or 13.6 per cent and miscell aneous projects,
$1,824,569 or 18 .5 per cent.
The balance of tho money will bo spont on highway s , roads and streets,
public buildings, both governmental and educatio nal, parks and playgrounds, flood
control and otber conservation, water supply and sewer systems, el ectric utilities
and transportation.
Note:
A detailed table is attached.
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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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SOUTH CAROLI NA
WR.KS PROGRESS ADMI NISTRATION
Works Progress Administratio n Projects Selected for Operation
Through December 31, 1935
(Subject to Revi sion )
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Type of Work
100.0
$9,834,319
100 . 0
1 65
106
22
4
33
16.2
10.4
2. 2
0.4
3.2
2,451,172
1,905,956
142 ,804
56,764
345,648
24.9
19.4
1.4
0.6
3.5
188
133
9
46
18.5
13.l
0.9
4.5
1, 21C, 391
661,232
205 ,176
343,983
12 . 3
6. 7
2 .1
3.5
Parks and Playgrounds
30
3.0
198 , 938
2 .0
Floo d Control and Other Conservation Total
Erosion control and land utilizati on
I rri gati on and water conserva tion
Other*
11
2
2
7
1.1
0 .2
0.7
77,906
7,218
26 , 520
44,168
0.8
0 .1
0 .3
0.4
Water Supply and Se wer System - Total
Water purificati on and supply
Sewe r systems
Other*
52
17
25
10
5.1
1. 7
2.4
1.0
476 , 04-1
144, 000
256,001
76,040
4.8
1.4
2. 6
0.8
2
0.1
Highways,
Farm to
Str eets
Bridges
Ot her*
Roads and. Streets - Total
market & other s econdary roads
and alleys
and viaducts
Public Buildings - Total
Edu cational building s
Federal Government bui ldings
Other*
p
Total Cost Estimate
Percent
Dist.
Amount
1,016
GRAND TOTAL
"
Number of Proj ect s
Percent
Dist.
Number
0.2
Electric Util it ies - Total
Gener ating plants and equipment
Other*
1
1
0.2
0.1
0 .1
7 , 742
1,076
6 , 666
0 .1
Transportation - Total
Airports and airway s
Other*
7
6
1
0 .7
0.6
0 .1
270 , 904
264,411
6,493
2.8
2 .7
0 .1
Educational, Professional & Clerical - Total 246
8
Education
17
Clerical
1 25
Prof essional and technical
17
Research & Statistical surveys
48
Art, litera ry and recreat ional
31
Other*
24.2
0.8
1. 7
12.3
1. 7
4 .7
3.0
802,635
1 5 ,403
30,730
255 , 219
63 , 221
310 ,1 45
127 ,917
8 .2
0.2
0 .3
2.6
0.6
3. 2
1.3
6.4
5.7
0.7
1,181,572
1,137, 660
43,912
12 . 0
58
7
Sanitation and Heal th
133
13.1
1,332,449
13.6
Miscellaneous
117
11.5
1,8 24,569
18 .5
Goods Projects - Total
Sewing
Other
65
*
Includes projects classifiable under more than one of the headings above.
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Less than . 05 per cent
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11.6
0.4
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