YESTERDAY …
10 years ago — March 5, 2005
(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)
WINTERPORT — Colby Blanchard was crowned Waldo County Spelling Bee champion at the Samuel L. Wagner School.
Blanchard, an 11-year-old who attends sixth grade at SAD 3’s Troy Central School, came out on top after he and runner-up Channing Murphy each missed words in the final rounds.
Blanchard, the son of Diane and Robert Blanchard, is an avid reader. Math is his favorite subject.
PENOBSCOT — New shingles for the roof on the town office building will be among the issues voters will decide at the annual town meeting next week.
The proposed municipal budget for 2005 is $382,070, an increase of $13,742 from the current budget, according to Selectman Bing Gross. The bulk of the increase comes from the proposal to put new shingles on the town hall roof, Gross said.
25 years ago — March 5, 1990
ORONO — A morale booster party for the staff of the Cutler Health Center at the University of Maine included presentation of an “I survived the measles crisis of 1990” T-shirt to center director Dr. Mark Jackson. Although there were still 50 reported cases of measles at the university, officials hoped the worst was over as students left for a two-week spring break. The impending reprieve was good news to Tim Rogers, lab technician; Judy West, immunization coordinator; and Marcha Eastman, clinical coordinator of nursing.
50 years ago — March 5, 1965
ORONO — A policy of negotiated settlement in Viet Nam was given strong support by faculty members at the University of Maine.
Approximately 300 persons crowded into the main lounge of the Memorial Union to hear the professors’ views on U.S. policy in that strife-torn country; and afterwards offered views of their own.
Dr. John J. Nolde, professor of history, gave a brief account of Viet Nam history, from 1940 when the Japanese were the aggressor, through the anti-French years of 1945 to 1954. [The present conflict in Viet Nam] is first, he said, a continuation of the anti-colonial movement; secondly, it is a civil war; and finally, it is part of the Cold War, involving American-Chinese confrontation.
BANGOR — Capt. Peter Chang of Seoul, Korea, a representative of 219 Korean Nationals serving as Salvation Army officers in his homeland, conducted public services in the local Salvation Army Center at York and French streets.
A skilled musician, Chang is business manager if the Salvation Army’s Seoul Boys’ Home, one of 112 such centers in South Korea.
Before becoming an officer, Chang played bass violin in the Korean Broadcasting Station Symphony Orchestra.
BANGOR — It was a great day for marbles, splashing in mud puddles and dreaming about summer fun in Bangor.
Temperatures again reached into the mid 50s and everyone was out walking in the sunshine.
These leisure, pre-spring moments will be all over today, however, as the weather forecasters say it will begin to rain by mid-morning and continue into Saturday. Then, the temperatures will drop.
100 years ago — March 5, 1915
BANGOR — Frederick G. Swett, formerly of Bangor, who had arrived in the city on governmental business as recently stated in the NEWS, has taken office room at custom house headquarters in Central Building, Central Street, and makes Bangor his headquarters for his work in Eastern Maine.
Mr. Swett is in charge of the United States government department in the territory east of the Kennebec River in the census of Maine manufactures.
The last census gave some surprising figures of the totals in Maine for those who have considered that Maine was not especially a manufacturing state. It was found that many millions were invested, that the output was a most important matter and the payroll in the aggregate represented an immense sum.
OLD TOWN — The long contest over the appointment of a Democratic postmaster to succeed postmaster F.L. Averill ended when James W. Sewall was appointed. The appointment is gratifying to all and he receiving the congratulations of his many friends.
He was born in this city and was educated in the public schools, after which he graduated from Bowdoin College. After his graduation, he entered the services of Pingree, remaining there three years when he associated himself with the late John Appleton of Bangor and the firm was known as the Appleton-Sewall Company. This partnership dissolved later and since then Mr. Sewall has conducted an office in this city.
BANGOR — An ancient photograph of Bangor in the olden days, which Caldwell Sweet has presented to the Bangor Historical Society, was mentioned recently in the NEWS. Owing to the faded condition of portions of the picture a good reproduction could not be made, but the NEWS has obtained from Charles H. Adams, clerk and treasurer of the Penobscot Log Driving Co., a similar photo, but in a better state of preservation. One of the businesses shown at Taylor Corner in the photograph was that of O.H. Ingalls. Mr. Ingalls, among other lines of business, shipped vast quantities of raspberries. One of the oldest residents of the city recalls that Mr. Ingalls once bought empty alcohol barrels of him to ship the berries to New York.
Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin