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Curb Service In

Lexington, .Ky., Nov. 4 (KP)—
Rural people of today are getting
literary curb service—and liking

it.

Exhibits at the National Rural
Home Conference here show how
“bookmobiles” and trailers are
penetrating the hinterlands and
pack animals are carrying “book
larnin’” to homes otherw1se 1n—
accessible.

The “bookmobile,” which looks
like an ambulance with well-
stocked book shelves and serves
Ohio’s rural areas, was sent here
by the Public Library of Cmcm-
nati and Hamilton County.

A trailer, prepared by the Fay.—
ette County Community Councrl
of Lexington, operates as a W.P.A.
project. Pack riders mounted pn
mules as well as horses—they re
in W.P.A. service, too—carry
books along mountain trails.

Like Fiction.

‘Bookmobrles’ Give Rural Folk *

"Literary Field

charge of the trailer,_ said this
land—going library carries a cargo
of. more than 500 books as it visits
churches and schools comprising
its eight book centers or rolls up
to doors of invalids and aged per-
sons. Most of the books acquired
in the project’s two months of
existence are fiction.

“Children’s books and Western
are most in demand,” said Mrs.
Dugan. “Detective stories and
mysteries? Why, they Simply love
mysteries—especially the murder
kind.” .

A number of illiterate elderly
country women go to the centers .
to have books read to them. Some
puff corncob pipes as they listen.
For many, said Mrs. Dugan, the
idea of reading during leisure
hours is new and, she added, “they
really like it.” . _

Twenty workers assrst enthusr—
astic Mrs. Dugan. They loaned
1,141 books the first month and
2,430 the second. Their hardest

 

 

 

‘* Head 0r Mobile
library ls Speaker

Mrs. Frances Smith Dugan, super-
visor of the recently formedvFa-
yette County circulating library unit,
told members of the Lexington Al-
trusa Club of the work of the unit
at the club’s weekly meeting at
noon yesterday at the Lafayette
hotel. . w

Mrs. Dugan told the Altrusa Club
that “people need books; books
need-people,” and it was upon this
premise the library unit already is
catching on in its efforts to get
reading matter, books, magazines
and pamphlets to rural men, women
and children within the county’s
boundaries.

The speaker was introduced by
Mrs. Helen Hifner Fortune, program
chairman. Miss Anna Lehan, Vice
president, presided in the absence
of the president, Mrs. George Edwin
Smith, who yesterday delivered a
talk at Covington. ‘

With a trailer filled with books
from the Lexington public library
shelves, Mrs. Dugan regularly visits
the eight reading centers in rural
sections of the county where the
reading material is distributed.

Mrs. Dugan said 20 men and

women were engaged in the project, '

which has WPA support.

Plans for a birthday party at the
home (if ~Mrs. Mary Cloud Warley
thenight of Saturday, Nov. 26 were

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job was filling a request for a‘
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announced at the meeting.

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school offers a free circulating col-
lection of books for the community.
This is the Negro branch of the Fa—
yette county new free circulating
library sponsored by WPA, Com-
munity Council, county school board
and Lexington Public Library. Books
and magazines may be taken be-
tween the hours of 9 a. m. and 3:3

p. m. Mrs. P. E. Stephens is in
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meet Monday at 10 a. m. with Mrs.
I John R. McVeigh, 105 Cochran road.
. Mrs. Hammond Dugan 0f the Fay-
\s ette County circulating library will
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CLUB IS INifiMED

OF RURAL LIBRARY

“People need books; books need;
people.” f

Upon this premise, the recently
formed Fayette county circulating
library unit already is catching on
in its efforts to get reading matter,
books, magazines and pjamphlets to

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within the county’s boundaries, Mrs.
lrances Smith Dugan, supervisor,
informed members of the Lexington
Altrusa Club at their weekly lunch-
eon-meeting today at the"-Lafayette
hotel.

The speaker was introduced by

" Mrs. Helen Hifner Fortune, program

chairman. Miss Anna Lehan, vice
president, presided in the absence
of the president, Mrs. George Ed-
wm Smith, who today delivered aE

‘ talk at Covington.

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With a trailer filled with booksj
from the Lexington public library
shelves, Mrs. Dugan regularly visits;
the eight reading centers in rural;
sections of the county where the
reading material is distributed.
Mrs. Dugan said 20 men and

. women were engaged in the project,

which has WPI. support. Through
library hopes

22,000 rural
men, women and children. The
library also eventually will reach
shut—ins, she said.

Plans for a birthday party at the
home of Mrs. Mary Cloud Warley

a the night of Saturday, Nov. 26 also

was announced.

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Lemme-row LEADER

LEXINGTON HERALD.

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