The new Isle au Haut lighthouse, the only one being built on the Maine coast this year, is to be a fourth order fixed light, and will probably be in operation about the first of the year, according to information given out by the lighthouse department. Work is progressing finely on the new station. The tower is to be out of wood, with a granite base and a brick top, and will be about 40 feet high. The keeper’s dwelling is to be of cement and wood, and the entire station is to be a very substantial one. The lamp has been shipped from Kenton, Ohio. It weighs in the neighborhood of 5,000 to 6,000 pounds.

50 years ago, 1957

• Busy Boston hardly paused today to note the 200th anniversary of what apparently was the first flight by a human being in America. And to this day, no researcher has fully established just how John Childs was able to fly successfully three times from the steeple of Boston’s historic North Church in 1767 – and land without injuring himself.

• The about 70 workers for H. P. Hood and Sons dairy firm will be among the 6,000 Hood employees to receive inoculations against Asian flu. The program is on a voluntary basis and is in line with the priority system giving shots first to workers in the positions important to public welfare. The shots will be given Sept. 23, if the vaccine is available in Maine at that time.

25 years ago, 1982

• Maine’s potato industry will send its first significant export of seed potatoes to South America this fall, according to Edwin Plissey, executive director of the Maine Potato Commission. The Maine Potato Export Board is to export a larger foreign market for the crop, he said.

• A lawsuit by 1,192 alleged victims of nuclear fallout and their heirs claims that people living in southern Nevada, Utah and northern Arizona contracted cancer and other illnesses because of the federal government’s above-ground tests.