Roosevelt landslide - President Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected to a fourth term Tuesday by a large margin of popular and electoral votes. With all but a few places still to report, he netted 23,071,640 to Dewey’s 20,277,006. Roosevelt leads in 35 states with an electoral vote ...

Steamboat pilot - First to own and operate a steamboat on Lake Placid, Theodore White, 81, was buried at Lewis on Oct. 27. He died on the previous Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leon Cutting, in Elizabethtown. The “Lake Lily,” an old wood burner, was built in the 1880s ...

Pratt at ORDA - Ray Pratt, former sports director for the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, will act as interim president and CEO of the state Olympic Regional Development Authority. Pratt replaced Bob Fries, who is resigning effective Nov. 2. Pratt was a teacher and athletic director at Lake ...

School addition - Pouring of cement has been started for the foundation of the addition to the Lake Placid High School and is progressing rapidly. The pit for the boilers has been completed and is ready for the installation. Seventy-six men were employed during the last completed work ...

Olympic hockey - To win a hockey medal in the Olympic Games takes the practice to develop solid teamwork and the confidence to believe that you can execute the right plays, according to United States Olympic Hockey Team Coach Herb Brooks. For the U.S. Olympic hockey squad, Sunday ...

Chamber meeting - Forty members attended the seventh Chamber of Commerce meeting of the present year at the Lakeside Inn, and President Swift suggested that the meeting be as informal as possible. The matter of providing a suitable public toboggan slide was first considered and the ...