A movement is on foot among local merchants to cut out the trading stamps in their business. A paper is now being circulated among some of the dealers to the effect that they will agree not to use the stamps and it is said that those circulating the papers are finding ready signers.

Bowling continues to be popular in Lewiston although of course on the hot summer nights the crowds have not been so large at the alleys as they are when the weather is cooler.

50 Years Ago, 1955

A total of 3,342,599 babies were born in U.S. hospitals last year, a gain of 233,529 over 1953. The American Hospital Assn. also announced today that the nation’s hospitals cared for 20,345,431 patients in 1954, a record high. It marked an increase of 161,604 over the 1953 total and continued the annual rise which has taken place since the AHA began its statistical records on admissions in 1946. The average cost per patient stay was $171 compared to $160 in 1953.

25 Years Ago, 1980

The entire city of Lewiston should become interested in the outcome of a zoning appeal that will be heard Wednesday night by the Board of Appeals, according to one Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) agency official.

The zoning request involves Maine Coastal Services (MCS), a company seeking permission to recycle industrial oils and discharge a contaminated water by-product at its property at 6 Enterprise St.

If the board OKs the request, and if approval to discharge the water into the sewage treatment plant is granted by the Lewiston-Auburn Water Pollution Control Authority, then Lewiston could contain the state’s first approved site for the disposal of contaminated wastewater.