Prof. A.T. Allen, State Superintendent of colored normal schools, and J.A. Salter, state architect, were in Elizabeth City yesterday checking up on the estimates and building program for the colored state normal school here for the next two years. The next session of the General Assembly will be asked to appropriate more than $250,000 for new buildings for the school, which is a modest request compared to the estimates of more than $19 million for all state schools, including nearly $5 million for the University of North Carolina alone. Mr. Salter brought with him plans for the practical school building to be erected on the state normal gournds at an early date, the contract to be let and work started before January 1. The plans call for an ideal one story school building with eight large class rooms, executive office, library and an auditorium seating more than 400. Work is also to begin on a model stable and item on the building program of this school is a girls’ dormitory to cost, including dining room, kitchen, refrigeration plant, etc., $150,000. The present girls’ dormitory would be made nto a dormitory for the boys when the new girls’ dormitory is completed. (From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, December 3, 1920)