The contract for building the new University of Maine library, for which Andrew Carnegie, the philanthropist, gave $50,000 was awarded Saturday to the Horace Puritan Co. of Waterville. The contract price is $34,914, but this does not include the granite, which is to be furnished the contractors by the trustees from outside sources. The foundation for the building will be completed this fall and securely housed over and in the early spring work will be resumed with the expectation that the structure will be ready for the occupancy at the time of the opening of the fall term of next year. – Portland Press.

Livermore Falls – The fifty-third county fair began today and had an auspicious opening. Fast horses, sleek cattle, and a good hall exhibit – all these things are to be seen at the fair.

50 Years Ago, 1955

New York – Frank Sinatra was served with a summons today on a one million dollar damage suit brought against him by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. An attorney for the company said the singer-actor is accused of breaking his contract to make a movie of the Rodgers-Hammerstein musical of “Carousel” and of having “abandoned” a company of 125 performers who started shooting the picture last week in Boothbay, Me.

25 Years ago, 1980

Washington – An elderly woman is being sued by her next-door neighbor here for $30,000 in damages because she feeds birds at her home.

Emma Pedersen, 79, says she feeds dozens of birds in honor of the role carrier pigeons played when her native Belgium was attacked during the two world wars.

But her neighbors, Nathan and Esther Finkelstein, claim that Mrs. Pedersen’s three-daily feedings and between-meal snacks are causing their home to be a target for droppings.

In the suit, filed recently in District of Columbia Superior Court, the Finkelsteins ask that Mrs. Pedersen be banned from feeding the birds at her home and pay for the damage the droppings have done to their home, car and yards.