Staff Writer
• George O. Smith and Christopher Miller returned home Friday from a successful hunting tip to Harvey’s Siding; bringing back two fine deer, one being a very large buck.
• The new high school building on Park Street is clapboarded and the first coat of paint has been applied, the slate roof put on and now workmen are busy on the interior. It is a very large building and will take quite a while to complete.
• Potatoes are $1.50 a barrel.
• The Caribou High School football team defeated the second team from Ricker Classical Institute during a game at Teague Park, 15 to 0.
• Henry Soucia, Sidney Chandler, Beecher Currier and Joshua Maskell started Monday on a hunting trip in the vicinity of St. Froid Lake.
• George Ritchie of Scates and Company’s drug store in Fort Fairfield is currently clerking in the Caribou store for a period of time.
• The annual drive for inspection of motor vehicles conducted by motor vehicle inspection division of the state is on. All motor cars are expected to report for inspection at one of the many inspection stations in the various towns.
• Mr. Harry Trusty has to returned to his native town on Caribou to carry out a most spectacular project; using his life saving device to demonstrate for the first time in history, the dropping of freight from a moving plane. Caribou potatoes are to have this signal honor. The freight will be destined for the table of President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• Mrs. Phyllis Turner attended the teacher’s conference in Houlton.
• John McElwain and Amos Fletcher have been canvassing the area for Farm Bureau members.
• John Benson of New Sweden, was one of the lucky hunters who brought home a deer on the first day of hunting season.
• Miss Maxine Holts celebrated her 12th birthday with friends at her home in Perham.
• The stage has been set for one of the most significant events in Caribou’s history – the dedication of the General Carter State Armory, this weekend.
• Airman Richard Keefer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Deering of Caribou has completed his initial course of Air Force basic military training and has been selected to attend the technical training course for Guidance Systems, at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado.
• Maine’s 1958 potato crop, as of Oct. 1, was forecasted to be about the same size as in 1957.
• Mrs. Benjamin Hammond of St. Lambert, Que., is a guest at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Gregory.
• Shoppers in Fort Kent and Madawaska recently were Mesdames Gordon Johnson and Wilbert Holmquist of New Sweden. Mrs. Richard Johnson of Stockholm accompanied them.
• Classroom facilities at the new armory are being made available to the over-crowded Caribou schools.
• The chances of Potato Service reopening in the near future are “fairly remote,” unless a lot of things fit together.
• Outgoing Kiwanis Lt. Gov. of Division 26, Bertel Johnson from the Presque Isle club recently presented new Lt. Gov. Robert Mockler of the Caribou Kiwanis Club with the Lt. Gov. banner .
• Caribou’s winter snow accumulation has been predicted to bounce back over the 100-inch mark this winter.
• The Francis Malcolm Institute in Easton, is now open to the public.
• The Caribou City Council approved a $1,995 purchase of a radar gun, to be used by the police department.
• John Hede left recently for Alaska to join his brother Richard in his building project.
1958 — First Lt. Hugh Pierson, left, wishes his younger brother, Ensign Peter Pierson a good flight just before they board the supersonic F-100F for a ride faster than the speed of sound at George Air Force Base in California.
