The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
BELIEVE PAVING PLANS TO CARRY
Commission Thought Ready To
 Approve s150,0O0 Program z, For Street Work
{ENsLEY BUREAU)

EnSiey,s paving program, insoNlns about $150,000, will be approved by the city of Birmingham. Indications polnt- ed to. this Saturday when it was an- nounced that the city. .engineer's office was engaged in drafting blue. prints of the work, and that specifications and estimates would be furnished the local committee Monday or Tuesday.
 The contract contemplates the per manent surfacing of Twentieths street from Avenue c to Tuxedo Junction, or Ensley avenue, looping at that point on Ensley avenue. to Seventeenth street, thus coupling the new work with that connecting with the Eighth avenue road being completed, and also Eighteenth street and Avenue x construction. This loop will give ian additional entrance over paved streets te Ensley and will provide new, though route from Bif- fningham to Fairfield without the nei cessity of using Nineteenth street so much.iS,
 The rrogram also contemplates the permanent fsprfacing of Seventeenth street from StaJoseph church to Avenue c, thus providing an additional artery for heavy traffic through Ensley.
 Total cost of the construction will be paid by the property owners and in some instances by the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, while the city of Birmingham will not sbe required to do anything . except to let the contracts and supervise the con+ struction. It was stated in Ensiey Sat urday morning that the various com mittees from Ensley appointed to assist in getting this work done had been sad- vised that the preliminary sketches were being drafted and that called meeting would be held during the next few days to confer with the city commission and obtain official sanction for the work. It is stated that this work will be vastly more beneficial to this section than any project lately initiated. With this work completed and with Howard N. Bowdry, finishing up the Eighth avenue road, Ensley will be enabled ta go ahead with other civic matters. :, BUILDING COMMITTEE MEETS
 The building committee of the Ems ley Baptist church held an extended conference Saturday afternoon in the church, discussing the plans for the new church, which is to be constructed on Avenue B and Twenty-second street. It was stated at the conclusion that the church committee had received from the contractors and the architectl the plans and bids and that a general sur. vey of the latter was being made. The church will, it is understood, announce the successful bidder during the course of few days and it is thought, that actual construction will start during the early part of this month ' The church will involve a cost of $150, 900.
 TO ANNOUNCE WINNER
 The Ensley high school orchestra and members of the Glee club will at tend the meeting of the classes of the men and women of the Ensley Chris tian church Sunday morning, The music and the singing will be furnish ed by the two organizations and a. pro- gram of unusual merit isgexpected. The meeting is the finale of the contest between the two classes and it is be- lieved there will be large attendance The winner of the contest will Betan- nounced at the meeting Rev. William H. Mansfield, .pasttt the iEnsley Methodist church Wfih fSss 1esson.
 shrius Club nsas
 The Ensley Shrine club 4hembers ex- pect to entertain over 100 couples at the dance to be given Tuesday at 2014 Avenue E: The announcement that the seven Utopians would furnish the music and that the potentate and mem- bers of the official divan would attend has caused unusual interest in the forthcomin gaffair. The committGa of nobles and ladies who will compose the glad hand committee believe the dance will excel any given recently by the Ensley Shrine club. ..-
 Merchants To Meet
 The Ensley Associated Merchants will meet Tuesday at the Walters cafe for luncheon. The decision to meet at the luncheon hour every week rather than during business hour has been raceired uith unnualified interest hv