Americans who dote on Scotch marmalade and find delight in eating luscious oranges and tangerines from California and Florida have further feasts in store for them in Uncle Sam’s great cornucopia of new fruits developed by the scientists in the government employ, says the New York Post’s Washington correspondent. The bother and cost of importing marmalade from Europe were among the causes which induced the prosecution of scientific inquiries to determine whether a new type of fruit suitable for marmalade could not be grown in the United States, and such a plant has now been obtained by hybridization.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Purchase of a site for a new seashore state park in Cape Elizabeth was voted today by Gov. Muskie and the Executive Council. They granted $28,000 from their contingent fund to the State Park Commission to buy from the federal government the former Army fire control station near Two Lights. Park Director Harold J. Dyer said private interests were prepared to pay more than twice that amount to acquire the land for real estate development. An estimated $100,000 will be needed to develop the site for park purposes, Dyer said, but that will have to come, if at all, from the Legislature.

25 Years Ago, 1980

AUGUSTA – Nearly one-third of Maine’s rental apartments are off-limits to families with children – much more than the national average, according to Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc.

Pine Tree, the legal agency for Maine’s poor, Tuesday joined the Maine Human Rights Commission in urging the Brennan administration to lend its support to legislation that would outlaw such restrictions.

“We have found such discrimination to be far more widespread than we anticipated and have therefore concluded that statutory changes are our only answer.” Pine Tree staff attorney Neil Shankman wrote in a letter to Gov. Joseph E. Brennan.