• Norway schoolchildren and teachers are enjoying an enforced vacation. The schools have been closed for four weeks on account of the great number of cases of measles. One doctor alone has 57 cases under his care and 106 are reported.

• “And this is just the kind of a day when the new fangled way of attending opera would be appreciated. All one would have to do would be to sit down by the open fire, light your pipe and take in the opera over the telephone – yes, telephone is what they call it.”

50 Years Ago, 1957

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A Texas oil man planned to take off for the Belgian Congo, seeking to bag an elephant with a bow and arrow and win a $10,000 bet.

• An ordinance prohibiting children under 14 from playing pinball machines in Lewiston goes into effect. Law enforcement officials will check business establishments where pinball machines are operating, and violators could be fined up to $20.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. – Worried by Israel’s firm refusal to get out of Egypt without guarantees, U.N. delegates looked to the United Nations to take the lead in a new Assembly debate, perhaps Thursday, on the deteriorating Middle East crisis.

25 Years Ago, 1982

AUGUSTA – A state official says he believes there are “large quantities of DDT and other environmentally hazardous pesticides stored in Maine’s barns and back sheds,” but that the state has few resources to safely dispose of them.

• Item! The airport hotel division is now the fastest growing sector in the entire hotel industry. Occupancy rates for airport hotels are 15 percent higher than rates for all other hotels in major cities.

• In its efforts to slash federal spending, the Reagan administration has proposed curtailing a program responsible for about $32 million in Twin City low-income housing developments.