By TED SYLVESTER
(Some excerpts from
Ted’s column for March 10, 1972)
In
Annual Report
Five members of the
Rockland Fire Department are pictured in the 1971 Maytag annual report with
their 1929 Maytag washing machine. A copy of the report was sent to the
Rockland station this week.
The color picture shows
the firemen surrounding the machine in front of the fire station. In the
picture are assistant Chief Fred Beal, Leroy Morey, Dick Ellingwood, Monty
Davis and Albert Hutchins.
Firemen use the machine
to wash rags. According to the caption in the annual report it was given to the
Rockland Department by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bell, who had used it themselves for
31 years.
A photographer came to
Rockland from Chicago to take the picture, and was here last summer when the
weather was a little nicer.
Yankee
Ingenuity
Never let it be said
that a Downeast Yankee will not take advantage of a bargain if he can save a
buck or two.
Our friend Lewis Johnson
recently went into the seafood trucking and vending business. He takes a pick
up load of fresh seafood to a stand he maintains in Vermont every week.
It seems that Lewis had
just purchased himself a new truck for his business and was in need of a sign.
Now as we hear it there
was a sea foods dealer who went out of business and who had just had some signs
painted denoting “Eddie’s Fresh Seafood.”
Well, Lewis knew a
bargain when he saw it and he bought the signs for his new business and they
are displayed on his truck when he sets up business down country. Of course he
is now affectionately referred to as “Eddie” by his regular customers.
Go
Tigers
We would like to offer
our congratulations to the 1972 Rockland Tiger basketball team on their opening
round victory over Stearns Saturday night and for continued success the rest of
the tourney.
Wonder if maybe George
Wentworth, former long-time Stearns coach might be having some second thoughts
over the remark he made on a pre-game television show Saturday. He stated that
he was glad that Stearns had drawn Rockland as an opponent in the tourney
because in his opinion “Rockland was one of the weakest teams in the
tournament.”
Rockland fans are
optimistic that that “weakness” will result in another trip to Bangor Saturday
night.
By the way, the Rockland
Booster Club drive to install lights in South Field for night football next
season is in the home stretch. Letters have been sent out to Rockland alumni
for donations. If you didn’t receive a letter and wish to contribute to the
drive, you may send them to David Ramsdell at 62 Warren Street.
The cost of the booster
lighting project is estimated at $8,000.
Resolution
Included on the agenda
of the Rockland city council meeting Monday night will be two resolutions.
One commends Central
Maine Power Co., and its related crews in the manner in which they handled the
power failure crisis caused by the severe ice storm last weekend. Virtually all
of its 8,000 customers in the mid-coastal area were affected by the storm.
The second resolution
commends the Telephone Company on its efforts in handling the situation during
and after the storm.
