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—Works Progress Administration— Fori Release to Newspapers Sunday, December 19,. 1937. WPA and NYA Workers Make 1,500,000 Toys For Needy Children Approximately 1,500,000 toys and families having no Christmas funds for other children of relief for gifts have been made "by shopping project » workers of the Works tion, Aubrey Williams, Acting In an effort to Administrator of and bedridden cards Williams one toy hospitals, Practically Christmas gladness of toys-of almost never every warm received that for crippled garments, Christmas before, Braille one description. all divisions of the WPA underprivileged children. are contributing WPA sewing shops are•producing hundreds of thousands of toys and to so of remembrance at producing dolls are thousands of "reconditioned" for those who have cards for the blind and announced today. other evidence ana said, these workers children in WPA, supplement the gifts of other agencies every child may receive at least Christmas, Mr. and the National Youth Administra- Progress Administration warm rooms to the and carpenter garments, according Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, Assistant Administrator in charge of women's and professional projects. for little rooms girls throughout Jackets, caps, gloves, rompers for little folk, dresses and pants for little boys the Scraps are country. are being made in some used to make durable 5,000 sewing toys. National Youth Administration workers have repaired discarded toys in thousands of communities in cooperation with l«cal welfare agencies. In 4—1627 -2- some States young pay for their and Federal pleasure to men on NYA rolls "built toys education and young Art, Music women are to the entire past year The Education Division dressed dolls. and Drama units of WPA underprivileged children during likewise engaged in giving of relief families through various Christmas activities. Isolated children in the mountainous regions of Kentucky, whom have never seen "by WPA in packs a women There horseback. on carriers in the United States and all but six used Christmas cards and taking from its beginning in riers small travelling them to The women. custom of underprivileged children such and may Kentucky, are seventy-three WPA are soon be is book restoring growing practiced by all book are being made in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, cities for distribution to crippled and other bedridden children in small, soft dolls and toy animals These are bed. In Milwaukee and vicinity the names that'are of 12,000 light and and in other hospitals. easily handled by the manager of county institutions and superintendent. WPA is cooperating in supplying toys and clothing to them. list WPA toy repair new saw and shops hammer, toys from scraps of old who of in 17 States employ workers, skillful with the and Recreation been donated and make ones. a special occasion the half millionth toy by WPA and NYA. workers for ground Such sponsoring agencies. repair toys which have Last week Philadelphia made of county relief Christmas preparation activities county by county and county stress the cooperation paint brush, the agencies and the WPA is contained in reports from the various of local directors, who in each in children of relief families have been listed State car- into remote areas. Counterpane toys cooperation of will receive reconditioned cards transported Christmas card, workers some Association. of the distribution reconditioning by the Play- 4-1637 -3< Ton disabled war veterans Mass., have renovated 7,000 toys at an American Legion Christmas Another instance of on a WPA toy repair project which will he distributed free in Brockton, to needy children party. eve cooperation between WPA and other the nation-wide agencies is the Toy Exchange in New Orleans, where the city provided the build- ing to house change slips toys. Social to as use shopping which their children have In Los currency in the expressed a the the two Connecticut Public Welfare Council the NYA operates Exchange to purchase toys ox- for desire. a Angeles, California, In Connecticut lending centers. the service workers gave mothers in relief families County Toy Loan has forty branch toy lending institutions sponsored are called Toyeries. In Denver, *by Colorado, similar project. Children's furniture donated by stores in Tupelo, Mississippi, is being reconditioned by toys. who are WPA workers and the A Christmas tree will be fed on the hot trimmed and the repaired by WPA workers of doll heads from which in Florida. paper-mache ' towels and newspaper In Christmas pieces stockings school lunch projects in Cohoma It is estimated that between and leftover 150,000 are filled for small- children County, Mississippi. be made 200,000 toys'will Tampa workers heads ' and used to make are constructed, making clay using bits models of paper ' scraps. Toledo, Ohio, some 15,000 toys will be ready for distribution on eve. Reports continue to be nation-wide Christmas preparations that workers have devoted spare received by the WPA being made for Washington needy children, office of the many time and part of their lunch hours to ooOoo observing such work.
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