10 Years Ago Warsaw Community High School swimmers Steven Lowrance and Nathan Taylor competed for the YMCA swim team at the 2005 Speedo Champions Series at Indiana University July 26-30. Taylor took first in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:05.54, first in the 200 IM and second in the 200 breaststroke. Lowrance's top performance came in the 50 freestyle with a qualifying time for the national championship. The team was coached by Katie Beehler. Steve Jungbauer, CEO of Warsaw YMCA, reported the current building,1401 E. Smith St., was not efficient in housing current membership. Plans are to construct a larger facility at the old racquetball club on Ind. 15 and adjacent 10.8 acres. 25 Years Ago A six-inch hole was discovered Thursday morning, Aug. 16, at the intersection of Center and Indiana streets by the Warsaw Public Works. It was discovered that a cavity about the size of a pick-up truck was under the street. “Asphalt and rails of the old Interurban rail line was holding the street up,” said acting superintendent Kim Leake. The Interurban rail lines are under much of Center Street, with sewer lines under the tracks. Some drainage tiles under the street had collapsed. The cavity was filled in after nearly hours of digging. After three weeks of settling, fresh concrete and asphalt will be put on. Warsaw Municipal Airport director Karen Sheetz says the added activity at the airport the last two weeks is due to General Motors aircraft picking up freight from United Technologies in Bourbon. There has been a steady stream of DC-3's and a Beecher 18. 50 Years Ago Rev. Lewis Deardorff of the West Manchester Church of the Brethren will address his congregation for the last time on August 22. His resignation was accepted April 8, to be effective September 1, 1965. He has been pastor since June 1, 1957. Rev. Deardorff has accepted a position with Manchester College as maintenance and receiving clerk in the new Student Union building. City Patrolman Robert Hoppus is investigating the theft of six tires and wheels from six new automobiles at the Herm Schaefer Ford Company, 527 East Winona Ave. A pry bar was apparently used to raise the vehicles so the wheels and tires could be taken off. 75 Years Ago Mrs. Clara Weaver is one of Kosciusko County's Gold Star mothers. Her son, Ralph, died of pneumonia in a Fort Thomas, Ky. hospital shortly after joining the army on April 30, 1917, and is buried in Washington Union cemetery north of Pierceton. He has two brothers in Pierceton and a sister in Columbia City.
