• The first snow storm of consequence for the winter visited Portland today. Between 7 and 8 inches of snow fell. The trains and electric cars moved nearly on time but shipping was somewhat bothered by the high winds that prevailed.

• Her strength overtaxed as a result of her efforts to obtain an education while at Radcliffe College and her later earnest endeavors in behalf of the deaf and blind, Miss Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind girl has been forced to give up all her work and take a complete rest. Miss Keller’s collapse was brought on by the fatigue of a visit to Portland, Me., recently.

50 Years Ago, 1956

America has become a nation of tourists, a vast collection of travelers who seem grimly determined to go too far and too fast while toting too much.

That’s the verdict handed down today by a couple of professional tourists named Evan V. Johnston and Norman Miller.

They’re at a meeting of American Automobile Assn. Jockeys, a group of young men who pile up a million miles a year checking on roads, accommodations and attractions for us amateur wanderers.

Johnston and Miller are shocked at what the average vacationist attempts.

“Maybe he’s got only two weeks,” Miller said. “So he sets a goal on how many miles he’s going to make each day, no matter what. Then he loads his car with twice as much junk as he needs.”

25 Years Ago, 1981

Lewiston and Auburn both prohibit petitioning near the polls on election day, but the cities may be violating the First Amendment constitutional rights of individuals to petition.

While no one has yet challenged the ordinances, the organizers of the tax indexing petition were reportedly upset last Nov. 4, when Lewiston poll wardens kept them away from soliciting citizens who had lined up to vote.

Both cities passed ordinances in 1979 prohibiting anyone from soliciting or taking signatures for initiatives or referendums within 250 feet of a voting place or the city building on election day.