YESTERDAY …
10 years ago — Nov. 6, 2004
(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)
BREWER — Inch by inch. That’s been the motto that the Brewer football team has lived by this week in preparing for Friday night’s Eastern Maine Class B semifinal against Leavitt of Turner.
And that’s just how the scrappy No. 1 Witches earned a 27-6 victory over the No. 4 Hornets at Doyle Field and their first berth in the championship game in what is believed to be at least 30 years.
BREWER — The Public Utilities Commission will be in town Nov. 19 to coordinate a technical conference between the city’s water department and opponents to a proposed 15 percent water rate increase.
When the city proposed raising its water rate in July, some residents became upset and successfully petitioned the PUC for review of the increase.
Residents pay $58.90 for 900 cubic feet, or 6,732 gallons, of city water. With the proposed increase customers would pay $67.74 for the same amount. Water rates for businesses also would increase.
25 years ago — Nov. 6, 1989
VEAZIE — Workers continue to toil on the Main Street bridge in Veazie, which is scheduled to be completed soon. The town recently replaced a century-old bridge with a new steel structure that is able to accommodate emergency vehicles.
BANGOR — If you had asked any of the Charleston, South Carolina, residents who lived through Hurricane Hugo whether they would like to spend a few days in Maine, they likely would say “Yes.” But what motivates a Mainer to take off to South Carolina and thrust himself in the middle of the disaster relief effort?
For David Giroux of Bangor it was all in a day’s work, albeit somewhat more exciting than usual. Giroux, 24, a public affairs officer for the Pine Tree Chapter of the American Red Cross, left Maine on Sept. 23 for St. Croix where he spent a couple of days working with with disaster relief teams there. Then he flew to South Carolina to work as assistant public affairs officer.
Arriving two days after the deadly hurricane devastated much of the area, Giroux said that he landed in a state paralyzed by chaos. There was no power, highway signs or streetlights, and many of the highways were obstructed with trees and other tree debris.
By the time he left, people were getting on with their lives.
50 years ago — Nov. 6, 1964
ORONO — Surrounded by woodcuts of artist Irving Amen, whose exhibition is one of six in the galleries of the University of Maine campus, 42 Patawa Club members heard professor Vincent A. Hartgen present “Aspects for the Judgment of Art.” He was introduced by Mrs. Robert Quinn.
Professor Hartgen defined art is any creation of man that satisfied the urge within him to effect a sense of rightness. This can be applied to areas outside of art as we normally consider it, paintings, sculpture, etc. There are four major factors in contemplating art: function, the need or purpose intended; symbol — its representative quality; design, and time context. These basic considerations enable one to evaluate art of all ages, ancient and modern.
The members were pleased to have professor Hartgen arrange to purchase the woodcut by Irving Amen titled “Prayer” and present it in the name of the Patawa Club to the University of Maine to add it to its permanent art collection.
BREWER — Felix P. Mallett of Brewer has been presented an official Army Commendation of his outstanding performance as an administrative supply technician for the 946th Transportation, U.S. Army Reserve Center, Bangor.
HAMPDEN — Fire of undetermined origin caused several hundred dollars damage to a gas engine at the John Seekins cedar mill on Kennebec Road, according to Hampden Fire Chief Clare Trask.
Trask said the fire was discovered by Seekins and a co-worker at 9 a.m. No damage resulted to the building, he reported.
BANGOR — Shortly after 9 p.m. a data processing system called Voter Profile Analysis announced that Lyndon B. Johnson had been re-elected president of the United States.
Better than 100 million Americans were informed instantly of this fact even though only an infinitesimal percentage of the returns had been counted. Most polling places throughout the country, in fact, were still open at that hour.
This performance was a far cry from earlier election eve reporting and probably a good deal less exciting. On Nov. 5, 1912, Bangorites learned of Gov. Woodrow Wilson’s sweep of the state by watching a giant projection screen at the Bangor Daily News office on Exchange Street.
The projection screen with which the paper reported the election returns was a huge one spread before the Penobscot Exchange. Slides were prepared by Lelynd Whipple, the commercial photographer. Reporters worked at tables beside the screen’s projector and handed Whipple election returns received from hundreds of special telegraph correspondents in the Eastern Maine area, rewriting them in terse bulletins.
Whipple then transcribed the returns on a special transparent slide, flashing election news to the crowd in a remarkably short amount of time.
100 years ago — Nov. 6, 1914
BUCKSPORT — The Mount Heagen quarries have been leased under new management to New York parties, who are to commence operation. W. C. Bowdoin, the well-known granite man, has been engaged as general manager of the quarries. Mr. Bowdoin has a crew of men at work in the woods, cutting and hauling wharf logs and railroad ties. There is to be a decided improvement in the quarry; the wharf and railroad are to be built, and the shops and sheds repaired. A new derrick is to be erected, the work for which will be done under the direction of the veteran wharf builder, John Cronon of Bucksport. The work on the wharf will commence on Nov. 9, the repair work is being done by W.B. Goodwin of Bangor, the owner of the quarries. The new company has secured some heavy contract work, of which building will be made a specialty.
BUCKSPORT — The many friends of Sam Patten, the popular carriage driver and proprietor of the Patten House, will be sorry to learn that he met with an accident, hurting his foot, a trunk coming down on it, breaking the bone of the large toe and crushing the foot.
BANGOR — Open night at the YWCA will include on its program the usual gymnasium frolic followed by health talk by Dr. Barbara Hunt on “Simple Ways of Caring for the Sick.”
A new feature on the program which it is hoped to make permanent on at least one night of each month, will be the health talk by Dr. Barbara Hunt. In her opening talk which will be supplemented later by other talks, she will take up all the first aid and other things that should be attended to when it is difficult to secure a doctor immediately.
All the games which are used in the gymnasium classes will be played by the girls under the direction of Miss Mathes, the physical director.
Compile by Ardeana Hamlin