'Quoddy to NYA

What to do with 'Quoddy has been a prime question to New Dealers since Congress last spring quashed that ambitious project to harness the tidal waters of Maine's Passamaquoddy Bay for a giant New England power system (TIME, June 8). Last month the last of a $7,000,000 Works Progress Administration appropriation gave out, left the War Department holding a collection of trim homes, shops, warehouses built for the project's administrative workers on a sandy strand near Eastport. The skeleton staff decamped and 'Quoddy Village became a ghost town.

Having combed New Deal agencies for someone to take 'Quoddy off its hands, the War Department lighted last week on gaunt Director Aubrey Williams of the National Youth Administration. With some $71,000,000 to spend this year on the welfare of U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 25, Director Williams was glad to accept 'Quoddy as a present. He will use the buildings for schoolrooms and workshops on an NYA project, build furniture and equipment for other NYA units throughout the U. S. If & when the 'Quoddy Dam passes muster with Congress, NYA will have to move out, the Army back in.

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