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FEDER1U, WORKS AGEWCY
WORK PROJECTS ADNINISTRATION
For Reiease to Morning Newspapers
Monday, November 25 , 19£10.
WP.A DEFENSE PROJECTS APPROVED NOW EXCEED $100 , 000 , 000 , 1HJNTE..'R. RJ,--:rr,QRTS
Nati ona l def ense projects approve d by the Work Proj ects Ad.ministrat ion during t he current fiscal yea.r passed the $100 ,000 ,000 mark during
t he s ecoI;.d week in November , Howard
o.
Hunter , Acting Commi ssioner of Work
Proj ec t s , announced today.
}tr . Hunter said t hat 63 new proj ects , wi t h an aggregate cost in
WPA funds of $12 ,683 ,677, were given final a,ppr oval during the t wo-week
period ending November 15.
This brought to $107, 884 ,034 the grand total of
W'PA na t ional defense projects approved since the beginning of t he fiscal
year on July 1.
rationa l defense project s , he said, now accounting for ap:proximat e ly t went y percent of t he entire W.PA pr ogrnm, tD.lrn pr ecedence over all
other types of pr oj ects .
Most are placed in operation within thirty days
after t heir appr oval in Washington.
Included in the latest group of approvals i s a s i ngle project
sponsored by t he Nati onal Defense Commission totaling $5 , 820 , 000 .
This is
primarily for the employment of WPA white collar workers on a variety of
clerical and statist ical undertakings essential to the defense program.
It
wi ll oper ate on a nati on- wide basis and furnish employment for an average of
5 , 563 persons over a period of twelve mont hs .
It is one of t he lar ges t
singl e projects approved by WPA under t he defense program, Mr. Hunter said.
Of the remair:ing total of projects npproved during the first t wo
weeks in t he month , $3 ,020 , 336 worth are sponsored by the
.Army
fo r construction
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and improvements at posts in twonty stat8s, Now York City and t ho District
of Coll:ur.bia.
Civil airports , all of which aro rat od as national dof onsc
projects , account for $2 , 855 , 180 of tho t otal; projects sponsored by tho
National Guard for $365 , 34 2, and b:r tho Navy, -$ 296 , 166 .
Miscollcmoous
projects aggregating $326 , 653 complete tho t otal.
Work at several of the Army 1 s impcrtant air bases is included
among tho projects approved during thG first two weeks in Novombor .
At
Scott Field, Illinois , $1 , 244 , 485 of WPA fun c.s will be devoted to tho construction of barracks and the improvement of tho landing fi e ld , r oads ,
utili tics and tho field lighting s:rst ,3m.
At Bowrrnn Fi old, which is used
by the air detachment a.t Fort Knox, Kentucky , streets ancl roads , undergr ound
u t ility lines , gasoline storage tanks and other facilities will be built
Now run,1ays will be gr-:tdod , storm sewor lines
under a $420 , 170 project .
extended , and a gr oup of garages and. motor sheds will be built at McChord
Flying Field , noar Lakeview, Washingt on, under a project for $ 144 , 610 .
Studies and experiments in the art of camouflage and tho conduct
of blackouts will be concluctod by WPA workers in lfassachusetts under an
.Army-sponsored project for $261 , 838 •
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Tho work will include , accordi ng to
constructing mode ls of strato gic inst a llations
and photogra~hing, camouflaging, and rephotographing those installations
from a prope~ proportional hei ght with a view tow~rds devising metho ds for
concealing such installations from aerial observation •
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ThJ work also}
includes , accordin~ to tho description, experiments with blackout materials
and the chemistry of paint .
Among the group of airport projects approved during the period is
one for the City of Jacksonville , Florida, cnlling for WPA C},,-p ondi tures of
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These fund.s will be used to effect a sizeable increase in t he
area and. genernl facilities of t~e .rrn.micipal airport , including extension
of runwa;:/ s D...rid. tho field lighting system in order t o accommodate largo
military p l anes .
Similar work will be u..rider t ake n at Chandler Field.,
Fresno , Cal iforni a , under a $508 1 480 :project sponsored by the City of
Frcsno 0
The City of Salinas , California, is sponsoring a $310, 630 projec t
for tho cons t ruction of a now airport , while the Wisconsin Nn.tional Guard
i s sponsor for a $254 , 609 project for the construction of n.n armory, hangar
and. now ru.nways nt the Milwaukee County Airport .
Of t hree projects sponsored by the Navy , tho lar ges t is for tho
construction of a Naval and Marine Corps Armory at Los Angeles , California.
The cost in WPJ. fu..'1.ds will be $255 , 549 .
A group of five engineering survey projects sponsored by the
Army nnd ag 5regating $201 , 555 in WP.A. funds is a lso included in the group of
proj ects approved during the first two weeks of t he month.
Two of those
aro for tl10 preparation of topographical and tactical maps required for
military maneuvers and artillery fire control.
Two are general engineering
sm:·veys of mili tc1.ry resorvc1.tions and one is a simil8.r typo survey of airpor t
sit es in t ho State of M~ine .
The following table shows , by states ~:id sponsor<J , the number
and. value of WP.A national defense projects ap:!_)roved during the . two- week
porio d cnciing November 15, and. cUI!D.lln.tively since July 1 , 1940 .
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I. P. A. NATIONAL DEFENSE PROJECTS APPROVED 8'1' THE PRESIDENT
UNDER THE EWERGENl'Y RCLIEf' APPRUPR IAT IUN ACT, F'ISCAL VEAR 1941
F'ROII JULY 1, 1Q40 ANO NOVEMBER 1 , 1\.140 THHCUGH NOVEMBER 15, 1940
F' R O M NO VEMBER
STA ff
F'ROU JULY 1, 1940
THROUGH NOV 1 1:!1 1940
.
NUIIBEA
I 1,586,630
892,392
705,3!56
3,304,025
3,336,070
COl{l:li\00
CONNECTICUT
O[LAIARt
DISTRICT Of' COLIM~ IA
HORI DA
15
2,238,949
1,5n,69'
GEORGIA
ll"lo\HO
ILr..lNOIS
IN ">l,.NA
!VIA
KANSAS
KENTl,CKY
LOUISIANA
UAIN[
YARYUND
lilASSACHUSE TT$
MICHIGAN
MIN:~ESO TA
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
NEI HAMPSH I PE
N(I JERSEY
NEI MEXICO
N£1 YORK Cl TY
N[W YORK {£XCL. N.Y.C.)
NORTH CAROl lNA
NORJH GAKOTA
OHIO
OKLAHOUA
OREGON
PEN"lSYLVANIA
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROL INA
SOUTH DAKOTA
l£NNE$SEE
lEXAS
UTAH
VEIWONJ
VIRGINIA
IASHINGTOO
IEST VIRGINIA
IISCONSIN
IYOMINQ
ALASKA
HAWAII
Pl...(RTO RICO
VIRGI ~ ISLANDS
TOTAL STATES & TERRI TORIES
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11
•
,
17
5
11
•
15
16
30
5
1
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93,Bn
27, 137
2 7,137
z
82,740
703,502
17,042
3 , 418
4 ,010
4 , 01 0
1,301,773
1 , 301 , TTl
420,1 70
361,386
236,320
207,9-W
420,170
575,500
420,691
625,295
72,713
37, 397
37 ,397
20,390
20,3QO
110,1~0
2,703
··-
13 , 8 71
4,034
110, 150
2,703
73,992
73,9'0Z
55, 700
178,337
55 , 700
-
824,169
7,968,047
1,461,551
1,691,588
1,358,331
3,406,040
2,122,867
233,799
2, e 60,152
2,195,266
1,395,527
272,521
32
11
8
5
•••
19
zo
5
10
•
z
•
3,971,820
738,001
2,5al,459
579,395
742,2n
1
16
17
11
•
•
z
1,833,642
80,541
2,968,-453
1,587,825
437,852
446 ,022
1,354,615
711,895
293,9ZB
2,9Q4,879
537,114
19 , 128
y
2,033,676
295,491
261,706
1,382,375
~t;iS,965
122,697
2, ns,e12
3,915,730
64,894
1,177,789
1t2,537
10
3
•
5,021
1,375,030
10,332,689
739,100
585
90,853,004
NATION-elOE
GRANO TOTAL
z
z
!,/
...
3,b35,34<4
3
1 5 ,
NAVY
COAIT
GUARD
GUARO
[TC.
1107,884,0)4
82,7"8
693 , 745
355,367
189,000
3'4, 278
173, 713
.,
6,'63,677
!5,257
150,460
3 , 020,336
22,530
,,z . 683,677
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3e2,658
14,209
28,610
254,609
296,166
305,342
z,ess, 1eo
5,820,<XlO
63
6,019
120,531
326,b53
5,A20,000
13,020,336
1296,166
1365,342
St.,p~ElltNTAAY APPROVAL•
!I
I 1t0,433
25,134
556,371
1-4,209
283,219
1
a 79,oze
27,877
z
3
STATE
PROGRAM
OlHU:
65,098
6,339
47,320
2 07,979
3,433
37,214
3
STAT£
PROGRAM
AIRPORT8
819,110
71,100
11,109
3,433
41,698
22 , 530
y
1 9 4 0
6,649
255,549
25,134
17,031,030
568
NOVEMBER
I 239,4M
e, Q89
5
5
ARUY
6,64-9
819,11 0
335,638
27
THROUGH
NATIONAL
Nl.lllBER
25
5
11
16
16
8
1 9 4 0
Fl:DCAAL
ALABAMA
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS
NORTHERN CALIF'ORNIA
SOUTHERN CALlf'ORNIA
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1,
f O TA L
Ao.NeUO ,.DA RCICl8SION9 ANO A£0UCTl~S.
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12,855,180
16,146,653
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