Winter Harbor has decided to live in peace with the automobile. Writes a correspondent: The large number of automobiles that have come into town this year together with those owned by residents, have educated the horses to such an extent that autos on the generally traveled highways, and under speed restrictions, are not objectionable either to residents or nonresidents. A number of the summer colony come from their homes and return in their touring cars, and are enthusiastic over the road conditions and scenery of eastern Maine.

50 years ago, 1957

• The calendar jumped back 100 years early last night when a stagecoach clattered up to the front entrance of the DeWitt Hotel and its occupants, all Auburn police officers except one, unloaded and partook of full course meals at 1857 prices ranging from 12 to 40 cents. The hotel made the 1857 price offer to anyone arriving by horseback during the DeWitts 100th anniversary this week, and manager Derek Bulger ruled the stagecoach group qualified.

• How does Prince Charles like Cheam? Smashing. And today the 8-year-old heir to the British throne sat down and wrote a letter home about his first week at the boarding school here. It’s a rule at Cheam that the boys must write home on Sunday. The prince is no exception.

25 years ago, 1982

WASHINGTON – The so-called “killer bees” slowly moving north to the United States are every bit as aggressive as they have been billed and could seriously hurt the American beekeeping industry, say U.S. Agriculture Department scientists.

An extensive study of the aggressive behavior of the bees shows that they are more prone to attack than normal bees and they do so in greater numbers, says a report to be published Friday in Science magazine.

• ATMs have mushroomed around the country. As of August 1982, there were 23,600 – an increase of 40 percent a year since 1975.