On Friday, June 23, the Lewiston High School graduation will take place. Fifty-three students will receive diplomas this year. This year’s class is the largest that ever graduated from the high school in this city.

Lisbon Falls – This evening the graduation exercises of the Lisbon and Lisbon Falls High Schools were held in Columbia Hall, in this village. There were 19 members graduated from this high school and one from Lisbon High School.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Vaccinated with the Salk anti-polio serum, several Auburn youngsters have discovered their neighborhood friends are no longer allowed to associate with them. According to reports received by Miss Shirley J. Davis, R. N., Auburn health officer, at least one youngster is without friends for the time simply because he attended school last Monday, when the vaccine was administered, although he didn’t receive the serum. Miss Davis said she received a telephone call from the child’s mother who related that parents of other children in the neighborhood have instructed their youngsters to keep away from her child simply because he attended school last Monday. He no longer has any friends, said the mother. Several parents kept their children out of school the last two days of the school year which ended Wednesday as they feared the youngsters might contact polio from their vaccinated classmates.

25 Years Ago, 1980

New forms of life created in a scientist’s laboratory by “genetic engineering” can be patented, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. Although the decision concerned only an interpretation of federal patent law, it immediately drew condemnation as “a fundamental assault on the sanctity of life itself” from the Washington-based People’s Business Commission.

By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled that test-tube life may be included in the federal law allowing patents for someone who “invents or discovers any new or useful process, machine, manufacturer or composition of matter.”