10 Years Ago Erik Fussle, Winona Lake, has been hired as a new FAA certified flight instructor at the Warsaw Flying Club. In order to achieve the CFI rating, he went through nearly three years of training and more than 300 hours of flight training, mostly at the Warsaw Municipal Airport, working closely with the club’s senior flight instructor, his cousin Jon Fussle. Lewis Jones, Fort Wayne, has joined Cardinal Center as director of development. According to community relations manager, Sheena Whittaker, Cardinal Center served 2,700 individuals last year. Clay Jenkinson will portray Thomas Jefferson at the American Lyceum Lecture Nov. 7 at Rodeheaver Auditorium, Winona Lake. He has lectured about and portrayed Jefferson in 49 states over 15 years. 25 Years Ago Robert Beck, Rochester, retired from NIPSCO after 36 years of service. He joined the company in 1953 as a mechanic welder in the construction department. Ralph Montel, Warsaw, marked 20 years of employment with United Telephone Co., beginning Oct. 6, 1969, as assistant purchasing agent. Walmart owner Sam Walton, 71, toured the new store here wearing his Walmart hat and tweed sports coat. Employees Debbie and Joyce Pering shook hands with him. Matilda Hasse, 81, Lakeland Loving Care Center, Milford, was runner-up in the Tiffany queen pageant Oct. 15 in Indianapolis. 50 Years Ago North Webster Principal Wendell Bryant presented Leesburg High School’s Norm Dukes the championship award after clicking off a quick 10:07 pace to win the Kosciusko County cross country championship at Warsaw. Eldon Ummel, Syracuse, was judge. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Smith, Warsaw, received word that their son, Specialist Fifth Class Harry Kinzie, and his wife are safe at home now. The Kinzies had been evacuated from their New Orleans home in the wake of Hurricane Hilda. The 1917 German aerial fire truck owned by Ted Heaton and John Rupe, Winona Lake, is being restored by Winona Lake firemen for parades. The truck has survived two wars and is equipped with an 85-foot ladder, which could reach the top of any building in Warsaw and Winona Lake, except the courthouse. 75 Years Ago The Times issued more than 12,000 papers in its war edition Sept. 1. Every one of its 33 carriers in Warsaw and every town in the county had been called by telephone and were waiting. At 12:34 a.m. the entire news staff was summoned by phone when it was almost certain that war was on. A large group hovered around the two United Press teletypes all night watching war bulletins being typed out at 72 words per minute. It was announced that German troops had invaded Poland and that German airplanes were bombing Polish cities. The city of Danzig was annexed to Germany.
