• The new Singer building in lower New York will be the tallest building in the world – 47 stories in height, rising 612 feet above the street.

• At 8 o’clock Sunday morning as employees of Great Northern Paper Co. at its mills at Millinocket, East Millinocket and Madison were finishing work for the weekly 24-hour shutdown, they were notified that the mills would be closed indefinitely. The reason? Demands made by machine tenders, through J.T. Carey of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, for an increase of 25 cents a day, which the company cannot grant.

50 years ago, 1957

HARTFORD, Conn. – A top newspaper executive said today that the time will come when every American court will allow its proceedings to be photographed and broadcast.

The comment came from Herbert Bruker, chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He took issue with a report made in Chicago by a special committee recommending that the American Bar Association continue its ban on photographing, televising or broadcasting trials.

• The truck is gone but the motor lives again. This is the story of some work by the Auburn Highway Department mechanics. They have taken the motor salvaged from Engine 3 of the Auburn Fire Department, and it now has been installed in the heavy Oshkosh truck of the highway department.

25 years ago, 1982

George J. Mitchell won a landslide victory in Maine’s U.S. Senate race Tuesday, while fellow Democrat Joseph E. Brennan handily claimed a second term as Maine governor. With unofficial returns from 519 of Maine’s 662 precincts, Mitchell claimed 61 percent of the vote. Brennan had 62 percent of the vote.

Meanwhile, Republican U.S. Rep. Olympia J. Snowe trounced Democrat James P. Dunleavy to win a third term in northern Maine’s 2nd District. Unofficial returns from 338 of 404 precincts showed Mrs. Snowe amassing 66 percent of the vote.