Corn Fritters – This is pronounced excellent by one who always uses leftover canned corn in this way: One egg, one tablespoon milk, one mixing spoon cooked corn. Drop by spoonful on buttered spider and cook.

Popovers – Mrs. J. W. Whitehouse, Horton Street: Two eggs, beat, add 2 cups flour, beat, then add teaspoon of salt and 2 cups of milk. Bake in hot oven.

Parsnip stew – Mrs. Angie Phaneuf, Pine Street: Use equal parts potatoes and parsnips, cut fine. Cook in water to more than cover until soft. Strain if preferred. Add butter, pepper and salt to taste. Just before serving, add milk to thin as desired and just bring to a boil.

50 years ago, 1957

• AHEAD is the way you put the hands of the clock when you go to bed tonight. The actual changeover to Daylight Time takes place officially at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, but it won’t work a hardship on anyone because it’s the easiest day in the week to work in an hour’s loss of sleep.

• A Lewiston Gas Light Co. main under the North Bridge cracked last night, sending fumes over a large section of the Twin Cities and causing a temporary traffic snarl. The break in the 16-inch main occurred on the Lewiston side of the bridge at about 9 p.m. The main, going from Lewiston to Auburn, is under the sidewalk on the south side of the bridge.

25 years ago, 1982

• After eight years of negotiations, the Law of the Sea Conference of the United Nations has come up with a plan to divide the mineral wealth under the seas which could prove to be a breakthrough. At stake are trillions of dollars worth of metallic nodules lying in the Pacific, beyond any nation’s territorial waters.

• Legislation is before Congress to make a third armed burglary or robbery a federal offense punishable by at least 15 years in prison. The problem of the career criminal is a threat to property and life in every state. Maine would do well to enact a habitual criminal law to get such people off the streets.