• A heavy rain and new storm, which came into existence somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico and then headed diagonally across the United States on a beeline for New England, winged its way across North Atlantic States today, bringing torrents of rain and a gale of wind that knocked down telegraph and telephone poles and generally upset all lines of communication. Another storm is moving eastward across the Great Lakes to join the visitor from Mexico.

• Adelor Aubie of Sabattus was in Lewiston yesterday leading a red fox about the streets by a chain. Mr. Aubie captured him when he was very young and has been taming him in the woods where he has been working.

50 years ago, 1958

• The disclosure by the New York Times that President Eisenhower has received more than $2,000 in the past two years from the Agriculture Department, for not growing wheat and corn on his Gettysburg farm, is likely to amuse some people and anger a great many more. What makes this disclosure so embarrassing to the president is the fact that he is not a farmer.

• The winter’s worse storm, and the first of any magnitude in the southern part of the state, left four dead and up to 27 inches of snow in Maine tonight. Much colder weather was due behind the nor’easter. The U.S. Weather Bureau here predicted a 5 above minimum in southern Maine tonight and 5 to 15 below in northern counties.

25 years ago, 1983

PORTLAND – Maine’s highest court broke new legal ground Friday in upholding state financing for the Bath Iron Works expansion to Portland. In its long-awaited opinion, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that indirect economic benefits such as job creation and commercial revival may be taken into account in deciding whether the spending of public funds is justified.

CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire likely would be the eventual host of a small dump for low-level radioactive waste under a plan favored Friday by members of a task force considering how to handle the contaminated material.