From the Aug. 30, 1962, Advertiser:

A pickup truck ended up in Mill Pond last Friday night when its driver, Joe Miller (and that’s no joke), slid out of the cab as the vehicle made the turn from East Avenue into Millport Avenue, and the truck careened into the pond, turned turtle and lay there wheels up. A nearby resident called the police and Patrolmen Dominick Cerretani, Anthony Lapolla and Michael Angelastro responded and were frantically searching the upside-down vehicle and water for the driver, when someone pointed him out standing on the shore watching. Miller was given a ticket for an “improper turn.”

There was more than flickering candles at the Candlelight Restaurant when fireman were called to the Park Street restaurant Friday morning following reports of smoke called in by employees at the next door dry cleaners. The cause was smoldering soiled linens in a large, paperboard container. The fire was extinguished with water and very little damage reported.

New Canaan High School headmaster Harold S. Kenney was finally given a full-time assistant this week with the hiring of Edward P. Yaglou to replace part-time assistant James O. St. Clair, head of the classical languages department at the school. Yaglou had a B.A. and M.A. from Harvard and was working on a Ph.D. in education from the same school. [Yaglou did not last long and, ironically, when Kenney retired a few years later St. Clair was named principal.]

The guest speaker for that week’s Rotary Club meeting at the Silvermine Tavern was Mrs. Horace Lamb, of Oenoke Ridge, who discussed her recent trip to India and showed a series of slides she took in the sub-continent. Club president, police sergeant Chester R. Lewis Jr., announced this was the last meeting of the year at the Tavern and next week they would return to the Melba Inn. [Mrs. Lamb wrote several books on India and later gained a different sort of fame as the grandmother of the late Christopher (Superman) Reeve.]

Former New Canaan High School and University of Colorado track star, Bill Toomey, set a new world’s record as he captured the national pentathlon title in Palo Alto, Calif. with 3,486 points. In the five-event test, Toomey leapt 23-3 in the long jump, threw the javelin 186-2, ran the 200 meters dash in 21.8, tossed the discus 113-2, and was clocked in at 4:24.3 for the 1,500-meter run. [Toomey would capture the Olympic decathlon gold in 1968 in Mexico City.]

Silliman’s hardware and house wares store on Forest Street advertised an end-of-summer sale, offering such items as a GE Stereo FM Radio, providing “truly high fidelity,” at $131.88. All beach chairs were 50% off, while a Belco 16-inch portable fan was priced at $15.05 and a 20-inch model at $18.80. Finally, a self-propelled, 22-inch rotary mower with a 3 h.p. Briggs and Stratton self-starter engine was on sale at $62.88.