• Unless there is an appropriation made by the city government at once, there will not be any more waste collected by the Public Works teams or any streets swept as the members of the commission say the money is exhausted. At the meeting of the board last night, it was voted to permanently discontinue the use of machine sweepers. The horses are to be put in the stable and the men discharged.

• Automobilists report the city streets and roads outside the city to be in the worst condition at the present that they have been at all this year. The continued rains are said to be the cause.

50 years ago, 1957

A request that a 46-year-old Lewiston man, dying of cancer, be given $3 worth of fuel weekly was turned down yesterday afternoon by the Lewiston Board of Health and Welfare because the family currently has securities in its possession worth about $300.

The family, consisting of mother, two children and the cancer-ridden father, also has insurance policies with a case value of an additional $800.

The board, sticking to past policies, decided that no aid would be given the ailing man’s family until the cash assets, insurance policies not included, are reduced to an extent that the family can be adjudged eligible.

25 years ago, 1982

• During those hazy, warm days last summer, while most area children had plenty of time on their hands, more than 200 boys and girls were spending many of their morning hours learning and playing America’s favorite summer sport – baseball, sandlot-style.

It wasn’t always that way. Since the Auburn Police Athletic League (PAL) was first organized around 1942 with the help of former Auburn Police Chief Alton Savage, thousands of youngsters in the area have learned and played a variety of sports, including hockey, basketball and swimming, through the local PAL.

RUMFORD – On a warm autumn Saturday, about 375 people cheered 65 bikers in the area’s first motorcross at Black Mountain. It was sponsored by the Greater Rumford Community Center and Black Mountain of Maine.