The CCC was also part of the WPA. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JbarL@aol.com> To: <worldwar2@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [WORLDWAR2] WORLDWAR2 Digest, Vol 1, Issue 10 | | In a message dated 8/30/2006 5:49:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, | ewh@adelphia.net writes: | | Malisa, I just received a private e-mail from a rootsweb friend reminding me | the WPA. It was Work Progress Administration and was the brain child of | Franklin D. Roosevelt in the late 1930's along with WPA which, if I remember | correctly, was Public Work Administration. Both were the beginning of the | make work program financed by the Government. Unemployed men were put to | work repairing roads, bridges, parks etc. and building retaining walls etc. | for public benefit. They were boondoggle projects. My father had a new | 1936 International Dump Truck and was hired to transport the men to the job | sites. The joke at the time was that most of the workers stood around | leaning on their shovels. | Ellis Hosbach | Bethel Park, PA | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to | WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and | the body of the message | | | | Ellis: | | The PWA (Public Works Administration) was responsible for building federal | buildings all across the United States. If you have a 1930s era post office | in your town it probably was built under the Public Works Administration. | Now the WPA is another matter entirely...have you ever heard the wonderful | song ( by the Mills Brothers I think) called the WPA? | Many of the projects were boondoggles as you say but if you can find the WPA | writer's projects which include wonderful local histories you will feel | differently. At 92 I have had a first hand experience with the WPA. I worked | for the State of California in the Bureau of Vital Statistics...We had a WPA | project there during the war which made photostatic copies of all the original | Birth , marriage and death certificates. Those copies were coded with the | soundex system by the WPA crew and were filed by the soundex coding....I was | responsible for searching for birth certificates for the men and women eager to | serve their country ....as I recall the birth certificates were required for | enlistment in some parts of the service other than the army. On December 8th | ,1941 we had a triple line of men over two blocks long waiting for our doors | to open. We worked a lot of overtime finding the correct records and blessed | those WPA workers for the work that they had done as we could search in file | drawers for photo copies instead of hauling heavy books of original records | | Forgive an old lady for this bout of recall...You pushed a buried memory | button. | | Jessie | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message