• An uncommon sight in August Friday afternoon was a drove of about 40 hogs being driven along Court Street on their way to the abattoir.

• Blanks were sent out from the office of the board of state assessors some time ago to the assessors of cities, towns and plantations of the state, in accordance with Chapter 10 of the Public Laws of 1907, for the purpose of securing a correct census of the deaf, dumb, feeble-minded, idiotic and insane in the state. Responses are coming in well, and it is thought that a full report will be made upon the matter.

50 years ago, 1957

• An aspect of the debate over the progress, or lack of it, in the American missile-satellite programs concern the secrecy lid clamped on news of both the U.S. and Russian programs. The ban was reapplied four days after the Soviets announced Sputnik’s trip into space. And while it applies to classified information whose disclosure would injure national security, it also withholds from the American public knowledge of a nonsecurity nature they are entitled to have.

• Hundreds of Lewiston school students stayed away from classes again yesterday because of illness. Schools Superintendent J. Weldon Russell announced that about 400 boys and girls were out sick. He added that this was a “little more” than was absent the previous day.

25 years ago, 1982

Social Security’s old-age trust fund will have to borrow $1 to $2 billion shortly after Election Day to cover the Nov. 3 checks for nearly 32 million retirees and their families, a government official said Monday. That will be only the first installment. The old-age fund, under temporary authority granted by Congress last year, will have to borrow $7 to $11 billion from the disability and Medicare trust funds before the end of December to keep paying benefits through next June.