Volume 11 , Issue 6

1935 Rebuilding of Castle On the Hill

According to The Oklahoman, dated September 16, 1935, Front page, the headlines stated, "State;s Work Plan Speeded" - "Alva College Buildings To Be Replaced at Once."

"Sufficient funds to put more than 10,000 men to work at once on Oklahoma works progress administration (WPA) projects was assured Sunday when notification was received by W. S. Key, state administrator, that $5,271,707 was on the way.

"With this augmenting the original $5,307,878, key showed much optimism for the program and held the funds would roll in fast enough now to increase the number of men at work daily until the entire 112,000 persons on the relief rolls are employed.

"At the same time Key was notified of approval of the $265,000 building fund for the Northwestern State Teachers college, Alva. The fund will be used to replace the buildings destroyed by the fire during the early summer.

"Tabulation of Oklahoma projects approved by the state office showed the projects would cost nearly $112,500,000."

Alva Before Washington Board

On August 21, 1935 there was an article in The Oklahoman, Front page with the headlines: "Alva Plea Before Washington Board."

"Washington, Aug. 20 (1935) -- (AP) -- The works progress administration said Tuesday an application by the Northwestern (Oklahoma) Teachers college at Alva for a grant of $244,995 for new buildings had gone to the allotment board.

"Harry Hopkins, works progress administrator, disapproved the project tentatively because the per-man-year cost exceeded his limitation of $1,140 but the application was not discarded because the rest of the $500,000 project will be in the form of a loan and that fact, WPA officials said, would counteract Hopkins's objections."
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