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f fl3Y "l D 1935
'lorthwest ern
Un iversity
THE
W'{\ 0 :R'rJt S
PROGRAM
Works Progress Ad.ministration
For immediate release
;hursday,,, November 14, 1935
~ine additional States have been given their last FERA funds:
total new 26.
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief A~~inistrator and
forks Progress Administrator, today announced that Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado,
[~aho, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, and Virginia have been given their
last allotments of Federal funds by the FERA.
The actual transfer of funds
iomprising the final grants will be completed in a few days.
The addition of t he nine States to those that will not again
1ppear on the FERA allotment list when other allotments are made l ater for the
.ast half of November brings the total tl'l 26.
rom the grant l:f st are;
Other States already removed
Alabama~ Indiana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Vermont,
yoming; Maryland, Delaware, South Dakota, Rhode Island, Georgia, Iowa, New
exico, Ohio, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Connecticut.
The allotments have ended for the 26 States because Works Program
mployment is either well enough along or will be soon to take care of employbles transferred from the relief rolls, and also, the needs of unemployables
re provided for by States and their localities.
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