• Automobilists report the city streets and roads outside the city to be in the worst condition at the present that they have been at all this year. The continued rains are said to be the cause.

• “I should think that it was time the city of Lewiston looks after the planking of the North Bridge,” said an Auburn man yesterday. “In walking over the bridge, it seems on the Lewiston end as if every other plank is loose.”

• It was a mixed crowd of bowlers from Lewiston and Auburn that were entered in the Thursday night roll-off at the L. & A. Alleys. Old-timers, fast time this season, new bowlers and now greenhorns.

50 years ago, 1957

• The deputy chief of the Maine State Police said today that “our youth is craving, and in some instances demanding, more facts and more education about highway safety. A few years ago, Maj. Donald M. Herron said, the teenagers were the drivers of the future; today, they are also “a very important segment of today’s drivers.”

MOSCOW – The Soviet Union announced today it has the world’s first artificial moon streaking around the globe 560 miles out in space. A multiple-stage rocket launched the earth satellite yesterday, the Russians said, shooting it upward at about 5 miles per second.

25 years ago, 1982

Becoming a Lewiston firefighter won’t be as easy as it has been in the past, if the city adopts tighter physical agility tests proposed by Fire Chief Sherman Lahaie Jr.

The new firefighters test, Lahaie said, was taken from a standard test devised by the National Fire Prevention Association, as well as his own study of fire departments in Maine and New England.

For physical stamina and agility, the proposed test would require prospective firefighters to run 1½ miles within 12 minutes; to do 25 sit-ups in 90 seconds; to do five chin-ups and 10 pushups; and to carry a 125-pound weight 100 feet.