100 years ago, 1912
Already $40 has been pledged toward the fund that must be raised to maintain the Auburn Athletic Association park. Unless more contributions are forthcoming, it is proposed to tear down the grandstand and fence, and sell them for old lumber in order to pay the indebtedness of the association.

50 years ago, 1962
“I regret that at 9 a.m. today we were closer to a nuclear war than at 7 p.m. Monday,” John R. Walsh, national field director of the American Association for the United Nations, told Bates College students at Chapel this morning. Walsh called on the students to study the present situation (regarding the Cuban missile crisis) and other factors so that they would realize the need for the United Nations.

25 years ago, 1987
A simmering feud between two County Commissioners exploded into a finger-pointing shouting match Thursday afternoon during a commission meeting. The upshot of the confrontation was the tabling of a proposed funds transfer. Both participants of the debate, Commissioners James Dougherty and Emile Jacques, admitted their relationship has been strained since Jacques balked at Dougherty’s trip to Ithaca, N.Y., in August to buy shotguns for the Sheriff’s Department without a county-sanctioned purchase order. When Jacques took an opportunity to berate the Sheriff’s Department for overspending its uniform account by $3,000, Dougherty, who is chairman of the commission, told him to stick to the subject at hand. “You want to run a show?” Dougherty said to Jacques. “Step aside and let someone else talk,” Jacques said. “I can run it (the meeting) better than you.”