Local milk dealers are interested in paper milk bottles, the latest invention designed to make the handling and distribution of milk more sanitary. There has been talk of pasteurization and that sort of thing until it is almost a slang word like “brain storm.” The paper milk bottle, however, seems to have hit the mark. The bottle is inexpensive. It is designed to hold the milk until it is delivered, thus doing away with the washing of bottles and the chance of infection of typhoid or other disease.

50 years ago, 1957

STRONG – Thursday started like any other day for Carroll Thompson, when he reported for work at his carpenter’s bench at the Forster Manufacturing Co., where he makes some 900 chopper blocks a week, furnishing both the Strong and East Wilton plant with this important production item. But the day was to show that “Tommy,” as he is known to his many friends, is very different from an average person – for it was his 89th birthday.

WASHINGTON – Israel was reported today to have told the United States that Middle East fighting may flare up again if any Suez settlement fails to lift the ban on Israeli shipping through the canal.

25 years ago, 1982

A storm considered to be one of the worst to hit Maine in April in this century struck with blinding speed Tuesday afternoon, paralyzing southwestern and central Maine with snow falling at a rate of nearly 3 inches an hour and winds gusting to 40 miles an hour.

Interstate 95 and the Maine Turnpike were closed by 7:45 p.m., while some state and local roads, airports and most businesses in the region closed as the storm set late in the afternoon.

A record 17 inches had fallen in the Lewiston-Auburn area by 10:30 p.m., with snow beating down at a rate of almost 3 inches an hour during parts of the storm.

At least 19 inches of snow was on the ground at 1 a.m. today.