This week’s article is taken from the pages of the Center Daily News, Wednesday, August 31, 1938. The newspaper was in the boxes of papers from the Mattie Dellinger collection.  There will be an Open House Thursday, July 10th from 1-4 for the new exhibit “Art” at the Shelby County Museum. Please come by and check out this awesome new exhibit.

Headlines: New Enrollment for WPA Work Make Call Necessary

The Shelby County Welfare Board issues a statement calling for a meeting of delegates from the various communities of the county to choose officers and members of the committee for another year.  It is explained that since the new ruling permitting low-income farmers to register for WPA work (note: The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6, 1935, by presidential order, as a key part of the Second New Deal.)

“The organization of the Shelby County Welfare Board in December, 1936, was made necessary by the county refusing to cooperate with the Texas Relief commission and WPA on employing a caseworker paying transportation on commodities (food) for direct relief clients, paying for thread, buttons and rent on machine. Without a case worker, no boys could have been sent to the CCC camps, no person could have been certified to the sewing rooms, or any other project, no food or clothing could have been disbursed to the needy. Remember, al clothing made in the sewing rooms in this county is disbursed by the case worker to the needy of Shelby County.

To Lateral Road Jobs Announced

Work on the Third road is now in progress. Included in 66 WPA projects involving expenditure of $1,907,868 in federal funds and $950,416 supplied local agencies, announced today by Harold J. Stafford, administrative assistant of WPA, are two lateral road projects for Shelby County. These projects will employ 197 men and projects will involve the expenditure of $32,106 by the government and $11,341 by the sponsors.

One provides for clearing, grubbing, fencing and draining 2.9 miles of farm-to-market road from the city of Tenaha to the Oliver Crossing on Flatfork. Included will be the construction of a dump across Flatfork bottom. This project is located in Commissioner Joe Smotherman’s precinct. Federal funds to be expended is $17,417; sponsor’s fund, $7,471. Workers to be employed total 93.

The second project provides for clearing, grubbing, fencing, draining and draining 10.4 miles of farm-to-market road near Center. This is said to be several small projects originating near Huana Creek and extending principally in the direction of Neuville. It is sponsored by Commissioner Bob Irish and will employ 104 persons at a cost to the government and sponsors of $24,888.

In Precinct No. 2 Coleman Jacobs commissioner, work has already begun on a project of 20 miles of lateral roads between Shelbyville and Neuville. $37,700 will be spent and 150 men employed.”

Shelby men Admit Burglary

Sheriff J.B. Sample and Constable Eddie DeFriend of Joaquin, left this afternoon for Orange to return J.D. Richardson and A.L. Easom to Shelby County on the charges of burglary in connection with the robbing of the Hokus-Pokus (note: if any of the readers knows the location of this store in Joaquin and a brief history, please let us know.) store in Joaquin Monday night.

The two men arrested in the act of robbing a filling station in Orange Tuesday night. Officers making the arrest found a quantity of tobacco, gum and cigarettes in the car they were driving. They admitted taking the merchandise from the Hokus-Pokus store, officers in Orange said. Sheriff Sample was notified early this morning and left just after noon to return the prisoners to Center for arraignment.

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