10 years ago – Oct. 9,1993

(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

HOLDEN – Selectmen reviewed revisions in the town’s dog ordinance that would meet the need of handling barking dog complaints.

The town office has been receiving increased complaints from residents about barking dogs, said Town Manager Larry Varisco, so changes in the ordinance have been proposed to give the animal control officer more authority to investigate the reports.

Owners of barking dogs would first be issued a warning to quiet their dog; if that warning were ignored, the officer could issue a summons.

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HOLDEN – Holden is planning a Recycling Day. New recycling bins will be distributed all day at the town park located between the municipal building and the elementary school.

Demonstrations on recycling and composting will show residents how to reduce the trash flow and therefore the tipping fees the town will ultimately have to pay the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co.

Townspeople are urged by the town manager and selectmen to attend the festivities. For the children there will be pony rides, hay rides and archery demonstrations.

25 years ago – Oct. 9,1978

ORONO – University of Maine alumni were greeted by two different groups of signs when they entered the Orono campus for the homecoming football game.

One group welcomed them to the campus and provided directions for the day’s activities.

But a second group of signs, carried by UMO employees, protested the university’s pay scale and the pace of contract negotiations which the employees’ union said has been too slow.

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BANGOR – Traffic was backed up in the break-down lane about a half-mile from the Hogan Road exit on the northbound lane of I-95 as curious shoppers with some free time and spare change lined up to experience Bangor’s newest shopping center.

They lined up to get off I-95 and they lined up to sample cheese and sausage at one mall shop, to buy ice cream at another, and underwear on sale at another.

There were lines at the book store cash register, lines in the record store, lines at the restaurant and even lines at the rest benches where line-weary window shoppers camped themselves when they got a chance. And to add to the misery, there was even a line to get back on I-95 and back to the real world.

50 years ago – Oct. 9, 1953

BANGOR – Dr. Carl W. Irwin, neurosurgeon at the Eastern Maine General Hospital, speaking at the 39th annual meeting of the Maine State Nurses’ Association Thursday night at the Bangor House, told his audience that too much emphasis has been placed on the anatomy of the nervous system, and too little on the actual work done by the system.

Dr. Irwin spoke at a banquet session which concluded the first day of the annual convention, held jointly this year with the first annual meeting of the Maine League of Nursing.

Mrs. Josephine Clough Philbrick of Bangor, president of the MSNA, presided at the sessions, attended by 200 nurses from all parts of the state. Maine has 9,000 registered nurses, but many were at their posts in hospitals and some are practicing outside the state.

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BANGOR – Lt. Alice J. Dow, newly assigned public information officer at Dow AFB, has the distinction of being one of two women PIOs in the USAF and the first ever to hold such a post at Dow. Lt. Dow, young, attractive and enthusiastic over her job, came to Dow from Williams AFB in Phoenix, Ariz.

A native of Spokane, Wash., Lt. Dow asked to be assigned to Dow, not because of Maine’s reputation as a vacation land, or because she thought she might like its rugged coastline – but because she met a jet pilot at Williams AFB, fell in love with him and came to Dow in June and married him.

After a two weeks’ wedding trip, she returned to her base and it seemed like a long way from Dow. She applied for a transfer, but by the time it came through and she arrived at Dow, her husband had been sent to Japan and won’t be back until mid-November.

In the meantime, she has found an apartment and during her off-hours is busy setting up her home for when her husband returns. Her husband is Lt. M. Lauren Dow of the 506th Strategic Fighter Wing.

Feeling that the Air Force offered an interesting career and that she could make a contribution to the defense of the country, Lt. Dow joined the service and received her basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas.

At Williams AFB she was assistant Wing Intelligence officer and War Room officer. She taught air cadets combat intelligence and was the only woman instructor at Williams.

Lieut. Dow paints and draws, loves horseback riding, swimming and skiing and she can cook and keep house. It looks as if she has a pretty well-rounded life. She has loads of personality and will bring to Dow that deep regard for detail which a woman takes to almost any job.

100 years ago – Oct. 9, 1903

BANGOR – Chief of Police Bowen informed the Bangor Daily News that, unless all forms of gambling shall cease immediately in connection with the slot machines of Bangor, the machines will be suppressed entirely, and within a very short space of time.

Numerous complaints have recently been received at police headquarters to the effect that the influence of these machines has been extremely bad, especially upon the young, the winner frequently being paid in actual money – not merchandise. This sort of thing must stop, and stop at once.

Chief Bowen made a tour of the various establishments in which the slot machines are kept, personally acquainting each proprietor with his decision on the matter.

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BANGOR – The big show window of the Bangor Gas Light Co., always attractive, seemed unusually so this week – for behind the massive plate glass appeared one of the Backus patent portable steam radiators, for which the Bangor Gas Light company has recently taken the agency, and which have already become widely and favorably known. Bending over the heater is a feminine figure, kindly loaned from the millinery establishment of R.M. Lewsen and Co.

These Backus heaters are made in the form of a complete open fireplace – logs, fenders, fireboard, hearth, andirons and all. The log, however, is in reality a large pipe covered with asbestos and partly filled with water, which when heated by a row of gas jets directly below, is immediately converted into steam.

In the upper part of the fireplace is a radiator where the steam is condensed and, by means of a return pipe, driven back to its original location in the gas log-pipe – there to be again heated and again circulated upward to the radiator.

These heaters have the beauty and comfort of an open fireplace with none of its inconveniences. They are made in all sizes and designs and must be seen to be appreciated.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin