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50 years ago, 1957

When the American Medical Association adopted a resolution at its New York convention last week saying that “there is reason to believe that stimulants, such as amphetamine and its derivatives, are widely used to improve the performance of athletes,” and instructing its board of trustees to investigate the extent of “indiscriminate” use of such stimulants, it touched off a fight we shall be hearing about for some time.

Terming the use of “goof pills” by athletes as “shocking” and “vicious,” the association’s committee on hygiene and public health cited warnings from a number of physicians that the practice was widespread among school and college athletes, as well as some professionals.

25 years ago, 1982

• Lewiston water officials said there is no asbestos cement pipe used in the city’s water system. Auburn officials said that except for one small section of asbestos cement water pipe now in use on Gracelawn Road and Mount Auburn Avenue, the pipes carrying water underground in Auburn contain no asbestos.

• Many retailers see a growing trend toward increased frozen food purchases. In a recent survey by a leading frozen food trade publication, 63 percent of respondents said they expected to open larger frozen food departments in the next couple of years.

About 52 percent plan to install “somewhat larger” departments and 11 percent plan “substantially larger” ones.