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painted In 10 years or more. Cowan, it Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Boodo vers Bemoan f-t Cupid's Short Philadelphia, Nov. 30 (U.R). It'a a bad season for Dan Cupid in the City of Brotherly Love. Records show that in the first nine months of the year 418 more divorces have been granted than during all of 1945.

State of Borough Libraries trustee, and Leo X. JWcUuire, tne system's of buildings, confirmed a dour outlook for hundreds of thousands of library clients. Ceiling Falling. At Prospect Branch, Sixth Ave. and Ninth the ceiling started falling in chunks three years ago.

"It didn't hit anybody, fortunately," a librarian there said. "After that the janitor and I would poke off loose pieces from time to time with a pole." A year ago the plaster of the New Utrecht isranch, in a rented store at 18th Ave. and 84th has peeling paint, also too many customers. This little branch opened in 1939. It is unchanged today, although population has skyrocketed in the area it serves Bay Parkway, Uyker Heights and Bensonhrust.

Books Need Binding Two thousand chewed-up books, stacked in the white-washed brick cellar, await rebinding. But the system's bindery is a year behind, a librarian said, and cellar leaks aren't helping the books. luiiiiniiniiiMiiHinui'i'i'iiiHiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiuimuiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiii'iiiiiniiimta ME MYSELF DOLL A cherished How about a New Voik City Mayor gointf down in history a a friend of book remlinir Voter, Hrooklyn Public Library official. inquired ycxtci clay. And a (iover-nor or two.

Tha opportunity nomn to have fucappd a lontf xtiinvr of New Yolk Mayor, they Mated, when it rame to Allotting dollars for adequate lihiarien, Ktif iticrit stall. at fair pay, and enniijfh book. Taint IVelinif Off. whole ceilng was taken off in both wings. It was still off yesterday with large cracks in the under coat nrimmas gilt lor your little rirl.

A doll will play wrth and re- member for years 1 1, come. Cuddle- wime 18" baby doll ha a fare that matches baby's. i All you do It i send in a clear 1 East New York, Brooklyn, with 150,000 population, hasn't any library troubles, so to speak, not having any library. Many branches ha basement the unrepaired buildings and call for more books. The state was invited to help five year ago.

The Brooklyn Public Library asked $170,000 of state aid to repair 21 run-down buildings given by Andrew Carnegie. Help From State. But the state, with a surplus accumulated since, and $100,000,000 of surplus taxes rolling in this year, never came through. The same repairs today are estimated to cost The unrepaired buildings are also five years older. Top library executives are still polite about these perennial conditions in contrast to battling teacher organizations and leftist Mike Quill' Transport Workers' Union.

to 2 8 Kilfht now thin opportunity wan fievrr better in" Hrooklyn, they nig-Kelil, paint i. peelinif oir library wnllx, xoiiih ceilintr have fallen, roof leak, book-binding is a year behind and a third of the ''minimum" ntnfi in Hrooklyn branches have quit because of library pay. At th name time, increasing rrowd of dder and ntudent jam spreading here and there. "The roof leaks and we can't fix the ceilings until that is repaired," McGuire said. "Some of the brick wall leaks, too.

The main skylight is about rusted out and several windows leak. So the heating system doesn't work very well here." At South Brooklyn Branch, 51st St. and Fourth paint peels from walls and ceilings and one gallery was declared unusable for want of an adequate stairway for readers. "WPA painted five or six of the 35 buildings in 1940," McGuire said. "None of the others "has been halls which cannot be used as neighborhood centers because the libraries haven't enough custodians to work two shifts, McGuire said.

A lone sub-branch was opened this year at Linden Blvd, and Utica said Dr. Milton James Ferguson, chief librarian. But short staffs cut its operation to two days a week. Brooklyn population, he contends, warrants 20 additional branches, and an added floor on the Brooklyn Central Library at Grand Army Plaza. (Picture on page 1) full face photo I that will be reproduced on a tap- estry type material and realistic- 1 I ally hand colored.

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