WELFARE ADMINISTRATION (HEW). Created by Secretary's reorganization of Jan. 28, 1963. Components consisted of Bureau of Family Services, Children's Bureau, Office of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Development, and the Cuban Refugee Staff. These functions reassigned to the Social and Rehabilitation Service (see text) by Department reorganization on Aug. 15, 1967.

WOMEN'S

ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS (WAAC).-Authorized by act approved May 14, 1942 (56 Stat. 278, repealed in part and superseded by act of July 1, 1943), to enlist and train women volunteers for military service with the Army, to replace and release for combat service enlisted men performing noncombatant duties. Succeeded by Women's Army Corps (WAC) created by act approved July 1, 1943 (57 Stat. 371; 50 U.S.C. 1551 note), as a component of the Army of the United States.

WOMEN'S RESERVE (U.S. COAST Guard).— Act approved Nov. 23, 1942 (56 Stat. 1020; 14 U.S.C. 762), authorized the creation of Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve, popularly known as SPARS, as a wartime organization to release male officers and enlisted men for duty at sea.

WOODROW WILSON MEMORIAL COMMISSION. Established by act of Oct. 4, 1961 (75 Stat. 783), to consider and formulate plans

for the design, construction, and location of a permanent memorial to Woodrow Wilson in the District of Columbia or its immediate environs. Ceased to function upon submittal of final report to the President and Congress on Sept. 29, 1966. (See Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, text.)

WOOL TEXTILE WORK ASSIGNMENT Board.Created by EO 6877 of Oct. 16, 1934, to administer paragraph 2 of section 3 of Code of Fair Competition for Wool Industry. Expired June 15, 1935, having completed its work.

WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION (FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY).-See Works Progress Administration, below.

WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION.-Established by EO 7034 of May 6, 1935, under authority of Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, and continued by subsequent yearly Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts, to operate a program of useful public works projects, and to aid employable needy persons by providing work on such projects. Name changed to Work Projects Administration on July 1, 1939, by Reorg. Plan I, which provided for consolidation of Works Progress Administration into Federal Works Agency. Letter of the President to Federal Works Administrator, Dec. 4, 1942, authorized its liquidation.