SET 20 FOR NEXT MEETING 'TENTATIVE LIST OF PROJECTS . WOULD ADD 111 MILES OF r PAVED ROAD. o Raleigh. Twenty new highway projects which will add 111.05 miles of hard surface roads and 87.96 miles of improved dirt road to the State highway sys tem will be let to contractors at high way letting on October 13, according to tentative list of projects made pub lic. The twenty projects will cost ap proximately $3,500,000. The tentative list of projects fol lows: Project 164. Nash and Edgecombe counties, 16*9 miles of paving on Route 40 from the Tar River north to the Halifax county line. Project 1990. Wilson county, 10.18 miles >of grading and bridges from Wilson to the Nash county line on Route 91. Project 111-B and 117-B. Camden and Currituck counties, 11.S3 miles of paving between Camden and Sligo. Project 241. Johnston county, 12 miles, of grading and bridges from the Wilson county line toward Smith field. Project 242. Johnston county 13.24 miles of paving on Route 10 from Smithfield to the Wayne county line. Project 347. Cumberland county. 9.5 miles of p?ving from Fayetteville toward Dunn on Route 22. * Project 354. New Hanover county, 7.59 miles o fpaving from Wilmington to Wrightsville Sound on Route 2. Project 394. Robeson county, 12.38 miles of grading and bridges from Lumberton to Boardman on Route 20. Project 496. Warren county, 8.5 miles of grading and bridges between Macon and Littleton on Route 48. Project 487-B. Wake county, 9.9 miles of grading and bridges from the end of project 487-A to eastern corpor ate limits of Wendell on Route 90. Project 523. Davidson county, 14.5 miles of grading and bridges from th? end of project 523 extended to the Forsyth county line on Route 64. Project 642. Iredell county, bridge over Rocky Creek on Route 76. Project 6040. Anson county. 7.53 miles of paving between Lilesville and Pee Dee River on Route 20. Project 514. Caswell county, 12.08 miles of paving from Yonceyville to the Virginia line on Route 14. Project 583-B. Rockingham county, five miles of top soil between Liberty and Stanley on Route 60. v ,?'? - Project 1350. Halifax Gounty, 14.9 miles of paving from Halifax south to the Edgecombe county line on Route 40. Project 753J3. Stokes* county, 11 miles of grading and bridges from the end of project 753-A to Danbury on Route 89. (; > Project 809. Burke county, 7.35 miles of pavjng from the eastern city limits of Morganton to bridge east of Valdese. Project 825. Cleveland county, 10.13 miles of paving from Shelby to the Rutherford county line on Route 20. Project 948. Haywood county, 4.5 miles of grading and bridges from the Haywood county line to Canton on Route 10. .) $135,000 Buildings For State Prjson. The erection of a new group of brick and concrete buildings at a cost of ap proximately $135,000 at the Caledonia prison frm has been authorized by the state prison board, it was stated by Superintendent George Ross Pou of the central prison here. Plans for the Caledonia plant are now being drawn, to be submitted to the prison board at its next meeting, which will come on October 13. Bids for the contractions are then expected to be called for. , \ The prisoners on the Caledonia farm are now housed in three seperate stockade groups. Two of these, the superintendent said, are nearly 25 years old and "all are fire traps." The third was built last November as tem porary structures, Mr. Pou said. The new plant, which will house new prisoners only, will do away with the present stockades, and will house about 600 prisoners, the superintend ent said. It will contain sanitary dormintories. County Agents Meet Ja> uary 5. The next short course and confer ence of the county and home agents of the Agricultural Extension Service of State College will be held at the College during the ten days beginning January 5 and lasting through Janu ary 14 according to a decision reached at the regular monthly conference of extension workers held at State College. ' 'f - Summerville Heads Road Construction. 'W. D. Summerville, State Highway Commission engineer, has been pro moted to the position of State con struction engineer to succeed C. N. ?Cannor, who has been appointed chief engineer of the Mexican Federal High way Commission." Several highway engineers i-j. have gone to Mexico to form the engineer ing organization of the new Federal Highway Commission which , will build 2,000 miles of highways through out the country. State Perfect* Loan For Roads. The state of N(*th Carolina borrow ed $13,000,000 from New York bankers to finance highway construction and in stitutional improvements. The money was obtained on short term notes, dated September 15? ma turing January 15, and bearing an in terest rate of 4 l-8jper cent. Gover nor McLean and Treasurer Ben Lacy arranged for the big loan on a recent trip to New York. In addition to the $13,000,000 loan, the state has outstanding to mature January 15 ahort term notes amount ing to $10,000,000 so that the total obligation January 15 will amount to $23,000,000. At that time, if the mar ket is favorable, state bonds will prob ably be issued to fund the notes. If the market is unfavorable, the state will continue to finance construction and improvements on short term paper. The money borrowed will be used fo^ the following purposes, Governor McLean announced: I $5,000,000 to renew a ">note for the same amount given for money borrow ed on September 20, 1923, for highway bontls, authorized by the ^^legisla ture. ) $5,000,000 to provide temporarily for highway construction1 authorized by. the highway bond act of 1925. ^$3,000,000 to provide funds tempar arily for permanent improvements un der the institutional bond act of 1925. These notes, the governor said, "will be refunded by the issuance of bonds whenever the bond market is favor able." The $10,000,000 of notes previously include an item of $5,000,000 borrowed for highway construction purposes un der the bond act of 1925 and $5,000,000 in renewal of a note given for money borrowed on August 7, 1924, to provide funds for the special school building fund authorized by the 1923 general as sembly. , The t^n million dollars provided in the negotiations for highway construc tion represent the total amount for that purpose authorized by the last general assembly. Another issue of ten millions was authorized for next year. Send Libraries Free to Schools. With schools opening throughout the State, many demands are coming in to the North Carolina Library Com mission for free traveling libraries, and during the past few weeks 153 cases, each containing 40 selected volumes1 or a total of 6.123 volumes, have been sent to widely distributed points in the State, according to in formation from Miss Mary S. Yates, who is in charge of this branch of the Library Extension Service. < These traveling libraries are really little public libraries. Miss Yates ex plained, and contain books for children as well as grown people. In a typical library nearly one-half the books are novels, about one-third are children's books, and the remainder are popular and readable books of biography, trav el agriculture, household economics. The librray may be kept three month at a time wit hthe privilege of renewal for the same length of time. Thus any community, . however re mote. can always have a supply of books. V * This department also offers what are called "package libraries'' which is a general collection of books, phamph lets .clippings, etc., on a wide variety of subjects. Debate libraries come under this head, and are used exten sively in the spring when the annual debates are scheduled. Last year. Miss Yates stated, the Library com mission was unable to purchase ma terial on the triangular debate, but the service will be continued this year. "The debate is over and I won. I sure do like your stuff," one en|huslas. tic boy wrote after making use of some of the Library Commission material. These libraries also include study club collections, collections for recita tions, declamations, pageants, plays, and material for all school celebra tions. In addition there are special collections on agriculture, household arts, child welfare, the South, etc. As in the case with traveling libra ries, package libraries are sent abso lutely free to communities, schools, etci* The borrowers are required tp pay only the postage both ways. Mrs. Lillian B. Griggs, executive secretary of the commission, calls at tention to the new features of serv ice that have been recently added. "Our first picture collections were sent out this year," she said. "This was an experiment we had long wish ed to try, and their enthusiastic re ception and constant circulation prov ed the need of this service." A collection of music books have also beea added to the library, and plans are being made to send records with the music books. The commission is looking forward to a wide circulation this year. Last year ten libraries were sent to one county. ? To Save State Large Sum. Governor McLean hopes to save the state approximately $6,500 a year by removing all departments occuplng leased office space in Raleigh to the old state Institute for the blind. While no leases will be violated, the governor said, they will be can celled where agreeable with lessorfe, and no new leases will be made. Thousands of feet of floor space Is available In the old blind institute, a block from (the capital, which was vacated a little over a year aco by the blind Institute. i )? ' ? c Asheville.?While hundreds of peo ple were crowding the down town dis trict, a bold thief broke down the screen door at the box office of the Imperial theater, shoved the attrac tive cashier aside, grabbed several rolls of money amounting to $400, ran across the street apd/nade hi& escape. Gastonia/?Local officials of , th# Manville-Jenck8 Company, owners of the Luray here, deny that the plant has been sold to Henry Ford at a fig ure between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000, it being rumored here that the auto mobile king is using ft to make tire fabrics. ) . (Copy tor This Department fL. I American Le;lcm Vws ?2^ LITTLEFIELD GETS RESULTS FOR, Friends of Raymond jjji say lie once had Intentions o?, Ing (he profession of civil ?w as his life work. "Shonij have changed his :niiul," "lie would have been infinity, ful, for he is always engine^ thing or other to a succeatf^J liletion." ' The latest engineering fwt J ! him credit was tin* building 4 department of Rhode Islt-ad J j American Legion Into one J j strongest beams in the nation] ture of the Leirion. This *aj during his administration ? Legion work l^ts been a ly favorite objective for Mr field's engineering genius. M serving the legion as a chant] Raymond B. Littlefitld ber of James Stanton post t Legion, Central Falls. R. 1 served In post offices until tl*i| Job canie in 1928 when at is partment convention lie was a department adjutant, which , states and regions, '