An innovation which will be greeted with pleasure by the patrons is the removing of the gray paper covers from the books. Almost any one prefers to read a book with an attractive cover rather than one without. Some may say, “But they will get so dirty within a few weeks!” Perhaps so, but these covers can be washed, if the dirt does stick, and it can’t cling much, for the covers have been varnished with a coat of thin white shellac. This gives a smooth glossy surface and makes the covers even prettier than without the coating. If this proves successful, as it promises to be, no more gray coats will be seen on the books at the Lewiston Public Library.

50 Years Ago, 1956

Location of a tire retreading plant at Lincoln and Locust streets was strongly protested by more than 30 area residents at a meeting of the Lewiston Zoning Board. Ward Six Alderman Paul A. Couture and other residents said location of the recapping factory of Snow’s Inc. of Auburn in the Roy Bros. warehouse would create a fire hazard. Couture objected that the fire department overlooked the fact that the warehouse has windows within 20 feet of the storage tanks of the gas company.

25 Years Ago, 1981

Walter Cronkite’s dream becomes reality when public television stations broadcast the first edition of “Why in the World,” a new current events program aimed at high school students. “I’ve been impressed for some time with the fact that high school students often seem so grossly separated from the world outside,” says the veteran CBS News correspondent. “I was convinced of that, when my children were in school. They didn’t seem to do much at all in the way of current events.” The object of the weekly series is to use educators and guest experts to relate events in the news to classroom work.