• An Auburn man asks why an effort shouldn’t be made to have Lewiston share the expense of maintaining a special police at Lake Auburn. “Auburn is now paying a man to do patrol there in order to prevent contamination of the water. Both cities get their drinking water from the lake and so Lewiston gets as much benefit from the work as does Auburn, and it doesn’t cost them anything.”
• It is probably unknown to many Auburn citizens that the city owns 12 twenty-fifths of the water rights at Taylor Pond. “I understand that parties are thinking of establishing public baths at the pond,” said an Auburn man yesterday.
50 years ago, 1957
AUGUSTA – Because the Senate and House can’t get together, there’ll be no more bounties paid on bears after Aug. 13.
AUGUSTA – A state minimum wage proposal endorsed in principal by both political parties was killed today in the Legislature when a conference committee failed to agree.
The bill, a redraft of measures introduced by Sen. Lord (R-Portland) and Rep. Smith (D-Portland), would have fixed 75 cents an hour as the minimum wage to be paid in Maine, with several exemptions. The federal minimum wage is $1.
25 years ago, 1982
• Tofu (pronounced toe-foo) is still a word to make fun of. People are sort of curious about it, but it is also the thing to try; and in the Lewiston and Auburn area, interest and demand for it is growing steadily.
• Thousands of would-be travelers are having to wait up to eight weeks for passports, and officials put much of the blame on a new computer and a stronger U.S. dollar, which has prompted an unprecedented flood of applications. The backlog of applications, also blamed in part on reduced staff, is estimated at more than 200,000 nationwide.
• Four educators and businessmen Thursday purchased Mid-State Business School, with campuses in Auburn and Augusta, and plan to add computer science and evening programs.
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