YESTERDAY …
10 years ago — July 2, 2005
(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)
ORONO — Thomas Jefferson probably would have struck up a great conversation with David Maynes. Like the third president, Maynes has a passion for landscaping, horticulture and architecture. Maynes has no immediate plans for a Monticello-like estate, but he is actively planning and ambitious career path. The recent graduate of the University of Maine studied landscape horticulture with a concentration in design. His next academic stop will be at the Boston Architectural Center, where he will attend graduate school.
But Maynes, 31, isn’t waiting for a graduate degree to start a business. He already is designing landscapes and pleasing clients with the results. His designs seek plants, shrubs and trees that complement one another and cause observers to take notice.
HUDSON — Teenagers from all over new England will spend the next month investigating every aspect of Pushaw Lake to answer a question that’s older than they are: Where is the phosphorus pollution coming from?
Pushaw Lake has struggled with high phosphorus levels for more than three decades. And despite efforts by local residents to fix leaky septic systems and discourage broad, treeless lawns, the levels have only been rising over the past five years.
The 5,000-acre lake’s natural amber hue, caused by its high mineral content, could be the lake’s salvation since it filters sunlight and limits the out of control algae growth that clogged the lake in 1970.
25 years ago — July 2, 1990
BANGOR — Barbara Roach took a leave of absence from Eastern Maine General Hospital in Bangor 22 years ago to head the practical nursing department at Central Maine Technical College and Auburn.
She never returned to her Bangor nursing practice. Roach retired June 29 after serving under three directors in one president.
Arnold McKenney, the first director, presented her with a handmade rug at a farewell party of present and former colleagues. The party was sponsored by a faculty member, Betty Campbell.
Roach spent five years at the University of Maine, half of her time on campus and the other at what was then Eastern Maine General Hospital.
She taught nursing at the hospital for 15 years before leaving. In Auburn, her courses have included cooperative student clinical training at places such as Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Hospital.
OLD TOWN— Tabitha Spruce King was born and raised in this mill town, attending St. Mary’s School and frequenting the public library. Now, years later, part of her husband’s movie will be filmed here.
The crew for “Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift” is scheduled to roll into Old Town sometime this month. It will spend a couple of days filming at the Riverside Mobile Home Park, although that date might change as production schedules often do.
The park will be the home of the lead female character, Jane Wisconky, who lives in a trailer.
Most of the $10.5 million movie, based on Stephen King’s short story, “Night Shift,” will be shot in the Bangor area. During the six-week production schedule, which began June 14, filming will take place at about a half a dozen sites including Brewer, Harmony and Old Town.
50 years ago — July 2, 1965
ORONO — Perhaps even at close examination, 23 may sound slightly exaggerated. But at the University of Maine a record was set: 23 summer students were stuffed into a foreign-made sedan. The largest youth was 6 feet 2 inches tall, tipping the scales at 175 pounds, and the smallest, 5 feet 4 inches, 130 pounds. The previous record was believed held by California students who succeeded in squeezing 22 into the same type auto.
BANGOR — Sharon Vaughn, a brewery beauty queen, stopped briefly in Bangor on a public relations tour of the Eastern United States. Miss Vaughn, 26, was runner-up to Miss America in 1959.
In 1959, Miss Vaughn was Miss Washington State and received a $5,000 scholarship. She used it for study at Juilliard School of Music in New York. Graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in music, she has studied singing extensively. She has a voice teacher in New York and is enrolled in an acting class.
From Bangor she flew to New York where she will remain for two weeks in connection with fashion events. After this she will visit 50 cities for radio and television work.
100 years ago — July 2, 1915
BANGOR — One of the best bouts yet held in Bangor will be staged at the Nickel Theater on July 5, when Belgium Eddie Brown of Boston meets Ernie McIntyre, the undefeated Maine welterweight in the main bout of the all-star show. Both men have good ring records and will go in the ring prepared to give their best at the show.
Out at his training quarters in Hammond Street, McIntyre is going through a rigorous system of training. He has secured the services of a husky sparring partner and the bouts between the two are forming a very interesting entertainment to such of the fans us have seen them in action.
McIntyre usually starts the day’s work with a run out into the country and with his pacemaker tears off from eight to 10 miles, coming in fresh as a daisy. Then there is work with the weights, sparring with his assistant, and shadowboxing. Punching the bag and working with the medicine ball also are included in his system and the result is that McIntyre is always in the best condition.
Red Ames, who fought McIntyre here several months ago, was of the opinion that he could throw McIntyre around in the clinches. He started something and before he realized it was flat on his back where McIntyre had thrown him with a slight twist of his arm. This was the beginning of the end. Ames, who went down and out in the next round, was defeated in a very decisive manner.
BANGOR — A strange human interest episode, showing how fate sometimes plays weird freaks in real life, came to light when four young people of good character and family, who it is believed had intended no harm, were caught by the police in a raid upon an alleged notorious resort. The police, who made an investigation and were convinced of the good faith of the four, tell the story in this way:
The daughter of a state official came from western Maine to visit a girlfriend who lives in an upriver town. They met in Bangor and were about to leave for upriver when they encountered two college men with whom one of them was acquainted.
It was suggested that they find someplace where there was a piano and they ended by going to the farm in Stillwater Avenue formerly owned by William Townsend, but now conducted, it is alleged, by a Mrs. Fanny Maxwell.
It is entirely reasonable to suppose, the police say, that the young women had never heard of the history of this resort, although on the other hand it seems almost incredible that the college men hadn’t. Anyhow, the party went, but on learning the true character of the place, police officials state, the young women refused to remain and insisted upon telephoning for an automobile to bring them to the city.
Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin