• William H. Hyde of Rockland, the oldest newsboy in the State of Maine, is 79 years old. He was born in Rockland, but has lived for most of his life in Rockland, and has been delivering newspapers to customers continually since 1887. During that time he estimates that he has handled upwards of three quarters of a million newspapers.

• “Bill” Carrigan will leave this morning for Boston to join the Boston American players who leave New York Friday for Little Rock, Ark., for the spring practice. Carrigan received a telegram from Manager Chick Stahl yesterday, telling him to report and the Lewiston boy immediately made plans to leave.

50 years ago, 1957

• The hand signal method provided for motorists by Maine law is due for a change.

The new method is: Left turn – right arm extended horizontally; Right turn – hand and arm extended upward; Stop or slow – hand and arm extended downward.

The present method to indicate a left turn is to point the arm horizontally, index finger extended; right turn, a rotary motion of the arm and hand; stop or slow, arm extended with palm of hand to the rear.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Prison Bureau today reported that 65 executions were carried out by civil authorities in the United States during 1956 – 11 fewer than in 1955 and only 3 more than the record low of 62 in 1953.

25 years ago, 1982

The lowly clothespin gets little attention, except when someone wants to hang out a laundry.

This week, however, the clothespin became a matter of national, even international importance.

President Reagan decided to extend for two years the quota on how many clothespins may be sold in the American market by foreign producers.

The presidential action is especially important for Maine and Vermont.

Lowly as an individual clothespin is, in the aggregate clothespins provide 500 jobs in our states.

Cheap foreign imports have been threatening those jobs for a long time.