100 Years Ago: 1924
Volunteers continued Monday to dredge the Androscoggin river at Lewiston-Auburn for the body of Henry Alexander Rich, Bates senior of Hyde Park, Mass., who was drowned Saturday afternoon when strength gave out and he was forced to give up his hold on an overturned canoe. He and Miss Vivian Chase Milliken, a Bates senior, were canoeing above Deer Rips. What caused the canoe to capsize was not known Monday morning.
50 Years Ago: 1974
One of the biggest things Maine has going for it may be a large chunk of nothing at all according to the state’s environmental chief. Dr. E. Donaldson Koons said “the Maine myth, the almost mystical draw of its vast undeveloped wildlands, is real and important to the Maine economy.”
On the strength of that myth in people’s minds, Koons said, “You can sell a shirt anywhere in the US if you call it a ‘Maine Guide Shirt’.”
In an interview Koons warned against the “fatal wound,” his term for significant economic development of the some 10 million acres of wildlands. He said the primitive almost foreboding
character of Maine’s wilderness is an immense drawing card in the minds of thousands who seek refuge in the state every year.
25 Years Ago: 1999
With some lawmakers expressing outrage over the use of teen-agers in sting operations to prevent tobacco sales to minors, the Maine House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to outlaw the practice.
Representatives used words like “horrible” and “terrible” to describe the practice, suggesting that it invites retribution and teaches minors to break the law themselves.
“This is a terrible idea to ask children to snitch on a store owner or anyone else,” said Rep. Glenys Lovett, R-Scarborough, who was among the majority on the Health and Human Services Committee that recommended a halt to the practice.
A bill receiving initial passage after a 115-30 vote would stop police from hiring teen-agers as young as 15 to go into Maine stores and try to buy cigarettes in sting operations.
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