In the summer some college men work as waiters in hotels, and incidentally read essays on taking tips, some become street car conductors, some go back to the farm and some loaf. But there are a few who go to the woods and work shoulder to shoulder with the brawny woodsmen. The men who do the last do so largely because they are taking a forestry course at college and intend to become scientific foresters. They not only see how lumbering is carried on, but they carry it on themselves, and when in the future they hear the word “skidding” pronounced they know precisely what it means, for they have piled up logs on a skidway themselves.

50 Years Ago, 1956

A group of more than 25 Lewiston-Auburn merchants, civic leaders and industrial representatives heard Denis A. Blais, Textile Workers Union of America area director ask them to refrain from purchasing Japanese textile imports for distribution in Twin City business.

PRINCETON, N.J. – The American public is more optimistic today about the outlook for world peace than at any time during the last 16 months.

In March, 1955, nearly three out of every four adults in this country, or 73 percent, questioned in an Institute survey, believed that America would likely be involved in another world war during their lifetime.

Today, just over half of the public, 51 per cent, expects a major conflict to occur within their lifetime.

25 Years Ago, 1981

There was good and bad economic news for Maine this week. The good news was the announcement of a prospective $47 million expansion of the Bath Iron Works, to be located in Portland, with 1,000 new jobs! The bad news was the decision of General Electric to close its South Portland plant, canceling 530 jobs.

The famous Bath shipyard is enjoying record prosperity built on a reputation for fine workmanship, schedule-beating performance, and no cost overruns.

The General Electric plant in South Portland has fallen victim to technological change.