The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-18
REPORTS
10 PER CENT GAIN:
PWA WORK STARTS
900, 900 State Program
to Put Skilled Men
Into Jobs.
10000 MAY GET WORK
1854 Projects on List, Says
Logan; School Building
Predominant.

1ndiana's 100000 build
ing program, aided by Federal
funds and designed to give
employment to 10000 per-
sons, is under way today.
Majority of those employed will be
in the skilled workmen class where
prevailing union wage scales will be
paid, and in manufacturing End
fabrication in private industry.
Fifty-seven projects costing So
364,310 were announced as compris-
ing the program by Clarence Man
ion, Indiana director of the Ma
tional Emergency Council, with the
deadline on contract letting reached
today. Some projects have been
started and others must be complet-
ed in a year.
simultaneously with Mr.. Man
ions announcement, Forrest Logan,
state PWA director, reported that
practically all of the 1874 projects
allotted Indiana would be carried
out. He said technicalities had pre-
vented awarding of contracts before
the dea dime and that an extension
of time had been recommended. One
of these programs is the river front
improvement at Evansville.
Figures compiled by the National
Emergency Council show that So
008,028 of the total is to be in the
form of outright grants by the Fed
eral government.
School Buildings on List
Actual construction on most of
the prospects is expected to start
after Jan. /. Mr. Manion said these
will prove a strong stimulus to en-
ployment in the building trades and
materials industries throughout the
state
With school buildings predominant
ing, the PWA program when COM
pleted will mark the passing of
many little red schoolhouses" and
will end inadequate and portable
buildings in several Indiana locali-
ties.
Municipality owned water plants
are to be constructed at CASTOR,
Patoka, Lyons, Pennville. East Gary,
Lawrence, Carthage, West College
Corner, and Dublin.
Sewage disposal plants and sewers
will be constructed at Fowler,
Franklin, Lafayette, Bluffton and
Hagerstown.
Shelbyville will have new Court
house costing $269,216, and Terre
Haute will have a new City Hall at
a cost of 1922, APO
New Hospital for City
The state, exclusive of Indiana
and Purdue Universities, has five
projects under contract with PWA,
having a total estimated cost of
$632 500. BY taking advantage of
the governments As per cent grant
offer, Mr.. Manion pointed out, the
state will save $276, 1879, leaving the
actual cost to taxpayers 1886, 301.
The state projects include mems
hospital at the Central State Hospi-
tai, Indianapolis, $175.000; a testing
laboratory for the State Highway
Commission, $4,000; a dormitory at
the Fort Wayne State School, Sat-
600; physical culture building at
the Fort Wayne State School, S70,-
500 and an addition to the nigh
school and a grade school at the
Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Chill
dren's Home, $4,000.
!. U. Project Under Way
Five projects, two of which have
been started, are on the program for
Indiana University, with a total cost
of $1,066,419. Of this amount, how
ever, $480,587 will be an outright
grant.
At Purdue an addition to the Me-
mortal Building will be constructed
at a cost of S140 500 and a new Ad-
ministration Building will be erect
ed at a cost of 1887 800. The gov
ernment's grant on these projects
totals s208,078
Two projects, a school building
at GAINESVILLE, and the street light
ing at Goshen, already have been
completed.