Sweaters and declamations are a combination that does not appeal to the mind of Principal Robert J. Sisk of the Edward Little High School, judging from remarks he has made to the school and to certainboys. One student, it is reported, was not allowed to deliver his declamation as he was wearing a sweater.

That students when delivering their annual declarations before the school wear shirts and collars instead of sweaters or jerseys is the desire of Principal Sisk. It is reported that he does not only disapprove of sweaters and similar clothing but does not take kindly to corduroy trousers, either.

50 years ago, 1957

• Auburn municipal employees are to ask the City Council to close offices all day Saturday. This was decided at a meeting of employees last night in the council room. At present, city offices are kept open on Saturday forenoons with reduced crews. Auditor Albert M. Eustis, who presided at the employee session, said little business is transacted during the Saturday forenoon hours.

• Gerard Construction Co. Inc. will build new facilities for the Pine Street Shell Station in Lewiston, it was learned last night. Cost of the rebuilding project is expected to be in excess of $30,000, it was reported. It will include a new station, lights, pumps and island. The station is located at Pine and Bartlett streets.

25 years ago, 1982

Citing a 10 percent rise in shoe industry unemployment since the Reagan administration lifted import controls on shoes entering the United States in June 1981, U.S. Congresswoman Olympia J. Snowe told a meeting of the Association of Shoe Executives of Maine Friday that “continued erosion in the shoe industry cannot be tolerated.”

“We must make the administration understand that its free-trade policies have caused the dislocation of 22,000 jobs in the shoe industry nationally, 2,000 of them in Maine,” she said.