• Tax collector Wiggin is prepared for what he believes will be one of the busiest days he has ever experienced during his two years as tax collector of Lewiston. Today is the last day when discounts will be allowed on taxes. While the deadline is Aug. 25, as that day falls on Sunday, Saturday the 24th is the time when the big taxpayers will settle their accounts with the city.

• MONMOUTH – The annual parade of launches at Lake Cobbosseecontee held yesterday afternoon furnished one of the most beautiful spectacles of its kind ever seen on these waters, and that is saying a good deal.

50 years ago, 1957

MIAMI, Fla. – Federal authorities moved today to retrieve a stamp collector’s item valued at $3,500 and allegedly owned by a Poland Spring, Maine, man.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard B. Booth said the curio is a printer’s proof of a 1918 air mail stamp depicting an airplane upside down. Booth said he has learned that one sheet of the red, white and blue “mistake” stamps was printed, and the stamps were cataloged at $3,500 each as legendary prizes of the philatelic world.

Booth brought suit for recovery after the Secret Service heard rumors that efforts would be made to market the proof in Miami. U.S. District Judge George Whitehurst ordered marshals to pick the curio up until its status is settled.

25 years ago, 1982

• Bath Iron Works, which is planning a major expansion in Maine, now has its largest peacetime payroll in the company’s 98-year history, according to a BIW spokesman. The latest employment figures show BIW with more than 8,000 employees – the most since World War II, when the shipyard had more than 10,000 workers.

• The Navy’s Blue Angels made their only 1982 New England appearance over the weekend at the “Wings Over the Sea” air show at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Brunswick. The two-day show was free and open to the public.