The Lincoln School, New Auburn, is crowded to its fullest capacity. Conditions are getting to be such that Supt. Payson Smith thought best to call the attention of the members of the Board of Education to it at a meeting held by them last evening. Supt. Smith said that in the first grade room there is an average of 70 pupils. The ventilation is poor. There are practically only two teachers in charge of all this number of pupils, an assistant, however, helping some. There are so many in the room that it is necessary to have some classes when reciting go out into the hallway.

50 Years Ago, 1954

• Brushed by only the hem of Hurricane Hazel’s skirt, the Twin Cities escaped Saturday with only minor damage from one of the worst storms ever to strike the Eastern States. Falling limbs caused some minor trouble with power lines and put 400 telephones out of order in the Lewiston-Auburn area, but this was nothing like the destruction that accompanied the last two hurricanes.

• Although Lewiston firemen were called at 1:25 a.m. Saturday to a rubbish fire on Birch Street near St. Dom’s arena, the called proved needless as dead trees were being burned to prevent the spread of a tree disease. Trees, stumps and limbs collected in Lewiston during the hurricanes Carol and Edna were deposited in a gully near the arena and were being burned to prevent the spread of Dutch elm disease.

25 Years Ago, 1979

Willie Stargell, the 38-year-old captain of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit a game-winning home run Wednesday night as the Pirates beat the Orioles, 4-1, in the seventh and deciding game of the 1979 World Series. Pittsburgh became the fourth team to come back from a three-games-to-one deficit and win the Series. Stargell was named the Most Valuable Player. His 25 total bases tied the Series record set by Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees in 1977.