One of Maine’s most fortunate youngsters is Lawrence Everett Ferguson of Sedgwick, aged 11 months, who is the proud possessor of 11 living grandparents, counting all the “greats” and “great-greats,” says an exchange.

In anticipation of another big coal strike, Maine’s peat bogs might be worked this summer.

50 Years Ago, 1956

The smoldering segregation situation in the South flamed into violence when a cursing out-of-control mob prevented the University of Alabama’s first Negro coed from attending afternoon classes. Autherine Lucy, 26, Birmingham, Ala., secretary, finally was spirited to safety after being spattered with eggs by an unruly crowd of students and outsiders. University authorities accompanying Miss Lucy were pelted with eggs, rocks and mudballs. In New York, Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Assn. for the advancement of Colored People sent a telegram to Gov. James E. Folsom of Alabama asking protection for Miss Lucy. Wilkins said “This development, the first of its kind on any Southern campus, disgraces the university, state and nation.”

25 Years Ago, 1981

Strong support emerged at a public hearing in Augusta for naming a reconstructed North Bridge, between Lewiston and Auburn, the James B. Longley Memorial Bridge, in memory of the late governor, a Lewiston native.

A highlight of the hearing was the appearance of James B. Longley Jr., who referred to the fact that his father “governed the only state in the country to witness net reductions in taxes in each of three of his four years in office.” He said the family agreed to the naming of the bridge for his father as an “appropriate” memorial.