(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

10 years ago – May 3, 1997

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Healthcare’s plans to construct a two-story addition to a proposed medical facility in the Westgate Mall would increase its space by about one-third. The two-story addition planned for 915 Union St., with about 42,000 square feet of space for medical offices, would be placed in front of the former IGA supermarket. Two hundred sixty-five parking spaces would be removed, and the number of entrances to the lot reduced from three to two.

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ORONO – It’s going to take Wes Jordan a long time to clean out his office.

The University of Maine trainer, who is retiring this spring, has memorabilia that would do a professional collector proud.

Autographed baseball cards and pictures are everywhere. Here’s one featuring Colorado Rockies right-hander Billy Swift, there’s another with Pittsburgh Steelers offensive guard-tackle Justin Strzelczyk.

Jordan has touched thousands of lives during his 32-year tenure. He has launched dozens of athletic training careers through the program he has offered at the University of Maine.

25 years ago – May 3, 1982

BANGOR – The Meals for Me program, congregate meals for the elderly at reduced prices, hasn’t fared too well lately. Eastern Maine lost $100,000 in funding last year and it appears that more cuts are in store.

“We received a letter from the Bureau of Maine’s Elderly advising us to prepare for a $50,391 budget cut next year,” said Nancy Duetzmann, contract planner for the Hancock, Penobscot, Piscatquis and Washington counties Meals for Me.

Duetzmann explained that for many elderly attending, the congregate meals are the only time they get out of the house and meet others of their age.

At present, participants in Meals for Me are asked to contribute $1 for each meal.

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BANGOR – Jane Crowell Morse, a Bangor native, retreats to her native city as often as she can. Now a resident of Milton, Mass., she teaches in the Division of Foreign Students at Boston University. During a short break from her academic duties, she was in town for a reception at the Bangor Public Library.

Throughout her years of teaching literature at high schools, private academies and universities, Morse has become fascinated by children’s literature. As a result, she became associated with Horn magazine, founded in 1924 by Bertha Mahoney Miller.

A woman who was interested in publishing articles and sketches on children’s writers, Miller had been in touch with the leading authors of the genre, including Beatrix Potter and Walter De La Mare. Thus Morse ultimately came to edit Miller’s correspondence with Potter, this finally taking shape in an attractive book published last month.

50 years ago – May 3, 1957

BANGOR – More than 70 attended the showing of the new Helene Curtis permanent wave at the Bangor House. The Maine Beauty Supply Co. of Portland was the sponsor.

Attending were hair stylists Miss Lorraine Clark, Belfast; and Miss Serene Mosca, Millinocket; and Helene Curtis technician, Miss Cuba Mack.

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BANGOR – The Bangor industrial development advisory committee voted in favor of an industrial park which would start on city farm property as a nucleus with the hope that swift expansion would come through cooperative participation of adjacent property owners.

It was the first concrete step toward realization of the long-felt need in Bangor, providing as it will an expanse of utilities near the by-pass highway, the railroad and with other advantages in location.

In the course of the meeting it became known that the development department is negotiating with a large existing Bangor manufacturer to interest him in 8 acres for construction of a $250,000 factory.

Present at the committee meeting were Robert H. Patten, William C. Viner, Erwin S. Anderson, John J. Dunn, John E. Hess, John Brewer, Norbert X. Dowd, Clifford G. Eames, City Council Chairman Francis A. Finnegan and City Manager Joseph R. Coupal.

100 years ago – May 3, 1907

BREWER – After being shut down for two days for needed repairs, the plant of the Britton Leather Co. in Brewer will resume operations. The men, about 40 in all, who quit work Saturday night to enforce a demand for a reduction of time from 10 to nine hours a day, have nearly all decided to go back to work on the old basis. Their decision was largely influenced by the fact that there has been a rush of new men to the tannery looking for the places of the strikers in reply to advertisements in the Bangor papers. There were about 50 applicants for work.

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BUCKSPORT – The fishing schooners T.M. Nicholson, Capt. Lester N. Gilley, and the Hiram Lowell, Capt. Fred L. Dorr, both from Gloucester, arrived in port Tuesday forenoon within a few hours of each other, both having left Gloucester at the same time Sunday. They both have in a full supply of salt and part of their outfit for a trip to the Grand Banks. These two schooners are part of Capt. T.M. Nicholson’s fleet of fishing vessels.

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BUCKSPORT – Guy Smith and Manley Abbott left on the morning train for Chamberlain Lake, where they have accepted positions on the steam boat which runs there during the spring and summer months.

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ORONO – A break in the trolley wire in the vicinity of Veazie caused a suspension of the electric car service between Orono and Bangor for about an hour. The passengers rested in the cars at Veazie bridge until the linemen located and repaired the break.

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EAST CORINTH – The Baptist church and community have met with a great loss in the death of Mrs. E.K. Foster, who passed away Feb. 27. She was born in Dover, March 1829. In 1847 she went to Boston and in 1852 united with the Baldwin Place church.

At the close of the Civil War she came with her husband to Corinth and brought letters to the Baptist church. She was clear and decided in her views of religious doctrine and careful practice of them.

Her place in the sanctuary has been filled many a time, when to most of us circumstances would have prevented. Sickness and infirmity has for several years kept her at home. In 1898 she met with an accident which brought a long sickness and in 1904 she fell on the ice and broke her hip.

When many would have thought themselves helpless, she could even on crutches and with a cane attend to many household cares. She was a dear lover of home, loving the care and toil for it, and holding in rich appreciation its comforts and best ideals.

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BRADFORD – Miss Adelaide Osgood has rented rooms at the G.W. Wilson house and will soon put in a stock of millinery goods. Miss Osgood is a graduate of the Bangor Millinery School, is one of our highly esteemed young ladies and will no doubt meet with good success.

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BRADFORD – The Bradford brass band has engaged to furnish the music at Searsport next Memorial Day.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin

WEEKLY, PAGE 5

PICTURE FROM THE PAST

The Bombers, winners of the Atomic League, sponsored by the Bangor Industrial Development Club, received a plaque in March 1957 from Robert Clukey, club president (left) at a banquet at the YMCA in 1957. (Seated, from left) are Robert Weston, George Hall, Sidney Stather and Robert McLaughlin; (standing) Clukey, coach Billy McManus, Douglas Williams, Marvin Glazier and Stanley Michelson. (Bangor Daily News File Photo by Spike Webb) (Picture from the Past sponsored by Movie America)