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e been :he Ot-v How-ermontliteraryI »ic, bymerick. sura of ient a» mationik.” bv or, who Balkans the Silt year, in and told inL. Rrepared•mationressureMusic, m. A major musicaltusaia,• tH. M.an and surviveek-longnrtherne Man Seaver,:hsi' John\t-Moinesat thep min oakr.StuartChari*uesds y e thev•cStuAmriOttumwa Library Sends ThousandsOf Books Under 'Missionary' PlanBecause of a “missionary book plan of the Ottumwa publiclibrary, seven Iowa communities, a number of veterans' hospitals, a southern industrial school, and a chain 4f small southern libraries arc receiving books which they otherwise might not have.The plan is a simple one. Thelota! library receives many dona-1 thatLions of books from individuals.When books are accepted, donorsare asked if the volumes may be%•redistributed to other reading centers in case of duplication in the local library's stacks. lt;MissMay Ditch, head librarian, stressesthe fact that the library does not give away new books or volumesalready on thearc not#Booht For Piney Wood»— \ n exam pit* «»f th«»nrx ho*»k plan of the Ottumwa public library i«* thi* cofi«*ijjnrm*nt of text book* being packed bv Xfi*% lie lore* Hiatt librarx *taff member, for shipment to I’inrx WihhK, Ngro industrial mIhmiI in Xli%siH*ippi. The book* will be iim*lt;| in the new librarx h»*tng built bx the m hook In a rocont letter to the Ottumwa librarx. Uurrnrf i . Juin s, principal lt;»f Pinex HimmIx, said that xuch costi*tbt#til book*become a part of the atiidentx’ lixe*.•i*•On Broad wa\Butt SnipingViler TrvingIs Made ArtFor 1(1 YearsFor Germansi | f r ci in M. fflYORK♦ ikfirlf-d ft ruck ^■% %■ '*■ 4 X-.. ' Mids whodreand was way. thestory ofRuthI he * inc■ 1 iJU i ***%t CX • I iawakT(slag*'of Broad kmos ma\mnR*s vaat It1At 58 years of and aftPIi T ;Cl.|i'VWorldh eroix500 play* com pan tea powerful . .1:n I ai Bnan*40w a vyear* In stocklt;■ad I shows* fig the tt ran at last ifplay, **8iraiRERUN.lional butt hunte;ican cifffret buttPu king up naround St h cat res wnation of|a few nl ror. * managed to beatn a pr* an A r Hu*IXer* man-f castbutts!'‘mlnja \ r*all op-shelves, i After referring to a list | of deserving persons and places.a shipment of carefully selectedbooks are then sent to those with the greatest need.The system is not a new one. Local librarians have been sending books to needy libraries, schools and organizations since before World War I.Kddyville Helped.Latest recipient of this literarygood neighbor policy is the Eddv-, ville library which recently received 125 books from here to add to shelves depleted by last year's ; flood.In addition to Eddyville, other ! low a communities including Age n c y, Hedrick, Birmingham, Martinsburg and Drakesville, have received books from the Ottumwa library. Hundreds of volumes have■rbeen sent to the Indian reservation at Tama where reading opportunities are limited due to thescarcity of available literature**The Sunnyslope sanatorium has ; been receiving a continuous supply of reading material through i the library book-gift system for the last 20 years} Other communities and institutions to benefit from the missionary plan are surprisingly far from Ottumwa.A decade ago Willie Lee Buffington. a young white millworker from Edgefield. S C., founded a log cabin library for Negro rural schools. He founded it largely on faith plus a capital of 10 cents which he invested in stamps for cards to be sent to prominent persons in an appeal for money or books, or both. With the results of this initial appeal he was able t. help the first Negro school Inthe co-operative building of a logcahm library to house tve books which began to come in from interested patrons One of these patrons was the Ottumwa library which, since that time, has sent regular contributions of used books to the “Faith Cabin Li brarV avstem which has grown in-to a chain institution consisting of24 branches, a!! integral parts of rural schools in the southTo Piney Woods.Another southern school benefiting from the city library’s liter-arv contributions is the PinevI Woods industrial school nearon. Miss A vocational ... hool for Negroes of all ages, Pinev Woods was founded bv its prpsent principal. l*aurenee C. Jones » graduate of Iowa university and the first Negro to graduate from the Marshalltown.Iowa high school The school hascom# a long way In the more thanlio years since its first classes were held out of doors because of the lalt;k ol building funds, but '*JW*11%■i:ivm€I(V I., cttrrh gori(.roiLong v N e w Ya itaryA nDr. Toiread 1lunchonttrvaLan out* during!stlThetea*ishfmnetiiafrom |boo k *citftri!inthemd the In theRrIf*i itoltr. who igpff-other#*it M #ndnpmAm,hr rlt;winfa fi mm to -todded from heard the world agency thatf *11hotelfatTobacco from the butts i* roiled into n and sold for *0lt; Weakly cost of th*Anicncan1x cigar etamarks each.highest Or-y t orepresentphsse of thethe Mstillississippiarlit 198■fc farvther workpdon ii theish km A s; a MGraecohandi-liml4 v*HIRoche*toaer1 ration IfI .or |L|hiin i X tt rtatt orwhatrvcr# nrobabl!#y %k mmand miman *Among Germans general hunting is on a free-fand is still one of thelar activities Rationone pat k of G- a a ca ay. butt or-all basisIjB it B# to andone by the local staff of book m’ams ’Veterans’ hospitals in Knoxvilleand Dcs Moines are ponular con-Durust, hooldoublediea*annovtaanth. 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Ottumwa Daily Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 12, 1948
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