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IndyStar corrects its mistakes. If you spot something you believe is an error, call (317) 444-6000. CORRECTIONS Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 84. Actor Ian McShane is 77. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 71.

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Singer Halsey is 25. Sept. 29 Metz IndyStar Sunday Start The Works Progress Administration pro- gram, part of President Franklin Roose- ambitious New Deal, put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work building parks, government and public buildings, roads, schools, airports and hospitals. The WPA also sponsored thousands of actors, musicians and artists, which led to the creation of the National Foundation of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The program was created to lift the country out of the darkest days of the Great Depression by providing jobs and a steady, yet meager, income for Americans.

The av- erage monthly WPA wage was about $52. In comparison, an employee in private indus- try earned about $114 a month at that time. While many attacked the program, re- cipients said the steady work gave them a sense of self-worth and work experience that lasted a lifetime. As America entered World War II, work- force needs shifted from construction to the defense industry and armed services. In 1942, the WPA was shut down.

Some 80 years later, the fruits of thou- sands of labors are still in good use. WPA projects around Indiana included the archaeological excavation of Angel Mounds in Evansville, several Indiana state parks, Indiana University campus build- ings and the Hoosier Gym in Knightstown. Projects in Indianapolis The original U.S. Courthouse and Post was built in 1905 with only two wings. The east and west wings were ex- panded and connected by the north corri- dor in 1938.

Limestone friezes, titled of the were created in 1939 by Herron School of Art instructor David Rubins. The Grant Christian murals, Transporta- tion and and Present Day Indianapolis were installed in 1937. The facility was renamed the Birch Bayh Federal Building in 2003. The Broad Ripple Station Post at 6255 Carrollton Ave. was constructed in 1940 with WPA funds and features the mu- ral, by Alan Tompkins.

The Heslar Naval Armory at 30th Street and White River Park was dedicated in 1938 for the use of Navy and Marine Corps re- serves. The Art Moderne building was de- signed by Ben H. Bacon. The building be- came Riverside High School in 2018, preserv- ing much of the historical features, including artist Charles four murals depict- ing historic naval events and famous words of naval heroes, including Commodore Oli- ver Hazard message: have met the enemy and they are The Indiana State Fairgrounds greatly from the WPA the art deco Colise- um as its centerpiece. Designed by Merritt Harrison as a livestock pavilion, the building was built in 1938 and hosted the Beatles and the American Basketball Indi- ana Pacers.

The Model Farmhouse at the fairgrounds was just what it sounds like: the ideal home with all the modern conveniences for the farm wife. The home was used as an club during WWII. Merritt Harrison also designed the exhibi- tion hall that is now the Senior Building. Several barns were built around the racetrack as well as a barn for show horses adjoining the Coliseum. A pedestrian tunnel under the track also was built by the WPA.

Construction of the Indiana World War Memorial began in 1927, but funding short- ages either delayed or stopped the work alto- gether. WPA funding allowed for further con- struction of the building, but the building fully completed until 1965. The Indianapolis Municipal Airport began operating in 1931 in the current, albeit larger, location of Indianapolis International Air- port. The airport received WPA in 1938 for three new runways and hangers. The James E.

Roberts Special School, or IPS School 97, at 1401 E. 10th is a distinc- tive Art Moderne school built in 1936 that educated students with disabilities. When the building was slated to be demolished by Indianapolis Public Schools, Indiana Land- marks added it to its 10 Most Endangered List in 2006. Core Redevelopment is in the process of transforming the landmark school into apartments. Gardens was a Public Works Administration project, which was much less controversial than the WPA in that pro- jects were built by private construction com- panies, which hired employees to perform the work at normal wages.

Gar- dens, which was completed in 1938, replaced dilapidated buildings and shacks for the low- rent housing complex. It was the federally funded housing development in the country, but it was aban- doned in the mid-1970s, until it was redevel- oped in the 1980s with new apartment build- ings and rehabilitated units. More than 600 WPA workers also pre- pared Stout Field for entry into World War II by upgrading the facility that had originally opened in 1927. The control tower and hangar were designed by John Parish with WPA funds. WPA grants were also allotted for several high school projects across Indiana.

Indian- apolis by construction projects: Arsenal Tech High School stadium, South- port High School stadium and the George Washington High School gymnasium. Follow IndyStar Visuals Manager and RetroIndy writer Dawn Mitchell on Twitter: RETROINDY WPA put Hoosiers to work in dark days, built landmarks that remain Dawn Mitchell Indianapolis Star USA TODAY NETWORK The Heslar Naval Armory is shown during construction by the Works Progress Administration in 1937. INDIANAPOLIS STAR Parents might want to have a few words with their children before send- ing them to school. But ideally, they should have millions of words with them before the day of class. The number of words a child is ex- posed to in the four years of life can have big impact on their brain develop- ment, language skills and school readi- ness, researchers say.

Just how many words? A minimum of 15,000 a day for strong language de- velopment, researchers said. Children from low-income households often get a fraction of that, leaving them less pre- pared when they get to school. So how can parents know whether their child is hearing enough words? By counting them. A new program launching in cit- ies across the country equips children with special recording devices known as talk pedometers. They work like regular pedometers, but instead of counting steps, they count how many words a child hears and speaks during the day.

thought I was speaking enough to my baby, but I learned that I really and that I could speak said Sandra Huerta, 34, of Detroit. She enrolled her son in a similar program when he was just a few months old. Now, Emiliano is 14 months old. Huerta, who immigrated to Detroit from Mexico three years ago, said that when cooking or cleaning dishes, she will tell Emiliano what doing, describing it using words so that he con- nects the words to her actions. like, trying to get something I tell him, you are trying to get the she said.

started doing that when he was, like, 3 months, and now I can see he really understands every- thing. If I tell him, your he goes to his Now, a larger word-pedometer and coaching program will roll out in Detroit the largest city involved in the and perhaps the neediest. In public schools, just 11.9% of third-grad- ers were considered at read- ing, according to state test results. The other cities are Birmingham, Ala- bama; Hartford, Connecticut; Louis- ville, Kentucky, and Virginia Beach, Vir- ginia. The piloted in Providence, Rhode Island, where it was dubbed Providence Talks.

Early results show helping kids do better in school. are focused on helping cities test new ideas and then helping the best of them said James Anderson, head of the government Innovation pro- grams at Bloomberg Philanthropies, which is pouring $12 million into the ef- fort across the new cities. 30 million words Beginning more than 20 years ago, researchers started counting words in environments and extrapolat- ing the results to measure how many words disadvantaged children were missing out on. gap is about 30 million words during the course of four to years, when the child is in said Kenneth Wong, a professor and director of the Urban Education Institute at Brown University, which has been studying the results of the Providence Talks program. an enormous gap.

The question is, what can we do about that challenge so that they can come to school The program uses the word pedom- eters, typically clipped to a cloth- ing, to capture audio during the day. It logs the number of words a child hears and speaks and how many turns the child takes entering a conver- sation. In Providence, low-income families were asked to volunteer. They agreed to use the devices and then meet with pro- gram workers to review the data. The program started with the workers visit- ing parents at home, but it has evolved into a playgroup model, where groups of parents bring their children to a local li- brary or community center.

The program tries to instill habit of reading, the habit of talking, turning electronics, playing with their chil- dren, getting that dedicated time and being a little bit deliberate about the back and forth, asking them more cer- tain kinds of questions, just having that said Kimberly Fernandez, executive director of Federal Hill House in Providence, which has administered the Providence Talks home and play- group models since 2015. Talk pedometers target word gap for kids Literacy program counts how much parents speak John Wisely Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK.