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• <br />plants, high schools. and hospital additions. Three of Indiana's <br />courthouses (Shelbyville, Covington, and Kokomo) were constructed <br />with PWA funding. The federal government would provide up to 45 <br />percent of the construction costs; the money could be used for <br />planning, materials, equipment, or labor --PWA was not a relief <br />agency. Headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the <br />concept behind PWA was a sort of "trickle—down" theory: providing <br />funds for large building projects would stimulate other <br />industries that produced the necessary materials, and thus <br />provide work in manufacturing as well as a myriad of construction <br />jobs. Several schools in St. Joseph County were constructed or <br />gained large additions through PWA projects, and both South Bend <br />• and Mishawaka made great improvements in their water and sewer <br />systems with PWA funds. When the federal government created the <br />Works Progress Administration in 1935, the two agencies were much <br />confused by the public and, not infrequently. local government <br />officials and newspaper reporters, mostly because of the overlap <br />in funding public works and the similarity of initials. <br />In the same election that. ushered Roosevelt into the <br />presidency, the people of Indiana in 1932 elected Democrat Paul <br />V. McNutt to the governorship. Taking office in January 1933, <br />more than two months before his national counterpart, McNutt <br />immediately set out to restructure the state ctovernment. Among <br />other things, he established, under director Wayne Coy, the <br />• Governor's Commission on Unemployment Relief (GCUR), which <br />created a framework for receiving, administering, and <br />