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WPA PROJECTSWILL EMPLOYForest Service/Third Term atmammum150 MEN NOWWithMmu **t Sfrom J1 federal dforestsin attendance, the second * ifirnriing of Athletic 1 i* Id F%-jin (lt;•lt;! to Cnnlimic during\\ inter Months.training school operated this year by the U. S. Forest service at V ir« g gin lake, near Three Lakes, is getting under way, gThe training school is available to selected members of the Forest \ Service personnel, and field problems relating to the various forestryFirst concrete unemployment relief from the new WPA program will become apparent here Monday morning when 150 men will start Work on the new Mary Didior Memorial park.This is the first WPA project to be started in Rhinelander, Installation of sewers and water mains, also approved as WPA w’ork. will b* started us soon us the pipe nndmaterials arrive here, City Manager T. M Wardwcll said to* day.Putting 150 men at work Monday on the park project will meanis to give a broader background tothe partpplication of gto the fieldHelmer Anders-n. George tun-that practically every able-bodiedman in th«he city now on the relief department's labor roll will be working. As other WPA projects start, some of the men will be taken off the park project and put on the new jobs.In Move i lt;H)0 Yards of DirtFilling of the athletic field, which will be in the southwest corner of the park purchase, south of the old Collins sawmill, will be started Monday, and it is expected that this kind of work can be continued at the park through the winter months. Approximately 20.-000 yards of dirt will have to be moved.A similar project of moving dirt was carried on near the Old Colony water pumping station two years ago under the CWA. and it wan continued through the winter months.The field, when completed, will provide space for football, baseball, softball and other games, A “natural** slope will be built up on one side of the field, where there now is a high bank, and this will serve j as a location for bleachers if the icity decides to install them at some j future date.Plan Com rote Tennis C ourt*.Ground already is filled and ready for construction of tennis!eourta in the park area. These are near the old potato warehouse. Concrete courts will be buslt under the WPA program. The plans approved for the park also include the improving of the new road off Thayer street into the park area with crushed rock, and the sowing of a large amount of grass seed in th park, tThe city has set up an appropria- jtion for shrubbery, flowers, treesand other park “necessities,'Manager Wardwell this me mini called in those who purchased the playground equipment here flvlt;years ago. and drew up a tentativi layout of playground eqi. pment for the new park The WPA approval includes the purchase of some playground equipment for Mary Didior park.It was decided this morning torecommend to the WPA purchasing division that equipment to befoot wave slide, similar to the one in Pioneer park; and a teeter-totter set including two teeter boards.If the $167 fund raised by Northside women some time ago is spentfor playground equipment, it probably will go toward purchasing a riding device, or additional swing pieces, if the North side group approves.In Improve v\imnuu l.wilith-A concrete and stone uath-house will be built at the new swimming beach in the park, and it is hoped to lay the foundation for it this fall.About three-fourths of a mile of lake frontage is to be improved under the WPA program for the park. This will have a sloping face, with rock and concrete, somewhatsimilar to the facing work doneordered for the park includ° fonbab cl ; • . i.t.e the tv - ■ -clunr m at P-oct pare. ;,.ue adult sv. mg-, hke th •* at the McCord M h-...|; C !!.11 ! at • g\ 'set to include trap* /• fly nr.,climbing pole, climb m i-i i .lt;•other exercise equipment; one 24-along Riverside drive north of Davenport street.A skating rink It under consideration by the city for the park site this winter. 1Work of installing sewers andwater mains, approved by the WPA for several streets in scatter- f ed sections of Rhinelander, will j start as soon as the materials ar- j rive, probably within 10 days.It is Manager Wardwell’s that the park “rough work” can be completed by tlje first of July, next j year, and that the bathhouse, swimming beach, drive, athletic field j tennis court and playground equip-1 ment will be ready for use by that time. The beautification program j will have to be carried on after the WPA program ends.Construction of the park w*il' give Rhinelander an attractive and useful recreational center on the * North side where little work of this kind had been carried on be- fore, and will be much more lasting benefit than were some prof- jects done under CWA, city officials i feel.Fproblems and projects are taught. ,The purpose of this training school *tJin' fprincipals of forestry as they apply .rk. according to oni-1«cials of the Nicolet forest headt ters here. JMen attending th - s« nd school sat Virgin lake, and the federal for- j est or purchase unit they represent, follow; jningham. Joseph Lozinski. and Ai- -bert Tofte. Superior national forest. M L. J. Ashbaugh, Elliott Brigham, st and Karl E Moessner. upper Miehi* L gan national forest. j yFarrell Creech and Lester D. Han- h sen. Manistee national forest. nM D. Sweitzer, Shawnee pur- Mchase unit.Walfred Mi isio. Gardner purchase g unit.William L. Hatch and _James. Clark purchase unit.J. Allen Jackson. Paul Von Kleist, Frederick B. Malcolm and Charles H. Raciv, Chequamegon national forest.Joseph Blake and Charles L.Richards. Ottawa national forest.L, N. Moore, John Porisch and Z.
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Rhinelander Daily News
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, US
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