10 Years Ago Sewage customers in Warsaw won’t receive February billings at the regular time, according to sewage collection manager Jane Edmond. A NIPSCO transformer on the property “blew,” cutting power to the sewage collection office, the planning and building office, the wastewater treatment plant and the street department building. The surge destroyed information on the sewage collection’s 10 billing computers. While backup records are continuously kept, February billings will be delayed. 25 Years Ago When more than 20,000 representatives of the orthopedic industry converge in Atlanta, Ga., next week at the American Academy of Orthopedics Surgeons, little old Warsaw will be mentioned time and time again. “Most of the major surgeons in major institutions in the country have been to Warsaw one time or another,” said DePuy President James Lent. “It’s unusual if they haven’t.” “Most people in the industry say, ‘Why Warsaw?’” Lent said. “The answer, is Revra DePuy happened to live here when he started the business.” 50 Years Ago City Judge Allan Widaman, attorney son John, Warsaw, and son-in-law John Kelley, Warsaw, returned over the weekend from a planned golfing vacation at Biloxi, Miss. The trips’s two-week sojourn was cut short by below-freezing weather conditions. 75 Years Ago When Herbert Thompson, the new fire chief, refinished the old desk at the local fire station some names were found penciled on the bottom of the drawers. Many of the names were dated and had been there for 30 years or more. Thompson refinished both the desk and the radio for the firemen.
