Price wrote he was: 'Too young to receive an old-age pension and too old to find work'
On July 25, 1938, Archie Price, who had been on and off state relief rolls since 1933, ended his life in Balboa Park. He had previously informed the editor of a local newspaper that he would kill himself when his savings were depleted, because he was
Archie Price, 64, 7621 Eads ave, La Jolla, a relief client for more than four years, yesterday carried out a threat he had mad in a letter to a local newspaper several years ago and committed suicide by swallowing poison in Balboa park.In his letter to the newspaper, not The San Diego Union or Evening Tribune, Price bitterly criticized the administration of relief funds and warned that when the money he then possessed was gone he would take his life.
“The reason for this act is the rotten political graft in SRA and WPA...the exploitation of the needy is the biggest graft we have ever had in this country.” Welfare records show that Price first received county relief in 1933, Julius Rainwater, welfare department head, reported. Since then Price had been on the relief rolls. In 1936 he was transferred to SRA, later to WPA and finally back to SRAAlong with other single SRA male clients, Price had an opportunity to go to one of the mountain workcamps set up by the administration, Rainwater said.“These matters concern questions of eligibility.
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