• Charged with furnishing Lena Nichols with an abortive, Fred A. Marsh, drug clerk and having an office at 122 Lisbon street, Lewiston, was arrested on complaint of Miss Rose Auger at a room in Auburn by the Auburn police, at the request of the Lewiston police, yesterday afternoon. Marsh was taken to Lewiston and being unable to furnish bail which was fixed at $2,000 he was locked up.

• Andrew Carnegie has made Bates and Bowdoin Colleges conditional offers of gifts of $50,000 each. The Sun is informed on the best of authority that Mr. Carnegie is to make Colby College a similar offer.

50 years ago, 1958

President Eisenhower presented to Congress today the highest budget in peacetime history – $73,934,000,000 to embark the nation on “the drawing age of space conquest.” Two out of every three dollars in the spending program, for the 1959 fiscal year starting next July 1, are earmarked for national protection in what Eisenhower said is clearly “a time of growing danger.”

WASHINGTON – Two Army generals, peering into the future, foresee manned satellites battling in space while airborne men with nuclear weapons watch whole continents. Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, chief of the Army’s ballistic missile agency, said that “as sure as anything in the world” men will eventually be fighting in space.

25 years ago, 1983

• When writer Stephen King talks about horror, his eyes fill with glee. Horror is his business, and right now business is good. King’s latest accomplishment is the movie, “Creepshow,” in which he makes his acting and screenwriting debut. It is a box office success. In its first three weeks of release, it grossed over $20 million. Meanwhile King’s books continue to hit best seller lists as soon as they are published.

• Baseball’s “odd couple” is at it again. New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner is going to try a third time to see whether he and Billy Martin can get along. The love-hate relationship existing between these two frequently has made the headlines in recent baseball history.