Souvenir post cards are rapidly gaining in popularity in Lewiston, and as one of the dealers stated to a Sun reporter yesterday, the more indecent or suggestive the cards are, the greater the demand for them. “Now that card,” said the dealer, designating one of several that were lying on the show case, “should not be allowed. Yet there is no law against it so far as I am able to learn, and there is a demand for it, so I ordered a few dozen the other day.”

It is expected by those who are in a position to know whereof they speak, that orders will be issued from Washington to destroy all souvenir post cards of a suggestive of indecent character, that are sent through the mails.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Don’t expect big space platforms or space ships to the real moon for a long time. Hard facts of life are shrinking the imaginative dreams of interplanetary travel in great ships. But there’s nothing really in the way of carrying out the U.S. plan to shoot a basketball-sized satellite or moon out to circle the earth at an altitude of 200 miles within a couple of years. We have the fuels, engines, need mainly technical improvements.

A little moon 200 miles high would stay up for about 15 days, then air drag in the ulta-thin atmosphere would bring it down, said Dr. Homer W. Newell Jr., Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. but one placed 300 miles up would stay up for a year.

25 Years Ago, 1980

Lewiston police investigated several burglaries over the weekend, including a burglary and theft at Val’s Root Beer on Sabattus Street. According to police, the owner reported at 7:50 a.m. Sunday that his business had been broken into sometime during the night and the offender made off with over 80 pounds of meat, valued at over $140. Police said the entrance was apparently gained by cutting a screen door in the back of the building.