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10 Years Ago
April 16 1988

    Claypool Elementary School has earned a AAA-Chicago Motor Club Safety Patrol Award for maintaining accident-free crossings during 1987. Claypool School has had more than 20 accident-free years.


25 Years Ago
April 16 1973

    Miss Denise Nestel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nestel, of South Whitley, left today for a two- week trip to Israel earned by top honors in an essay contest sponsored by the 20th Century Reformation Hour. The Whitko High School senior triumphed in a record entry with her essay, "How the Communists Plan to Take Over the United States."


50 Years Ago
April 16 1948

    Phyllis Anne Weiss, of this city, journalism student at Indiana University, has been appointed night editor of the Indiana Daily Student, campus newspaper, for the second half of the current semester. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weiss, East Center Street.


75 Years Ago
April 16 1923

    The spectacle of a seven-passenger auto being hauled through Warsaw hitched to a lone farm horse, the driver holding the lines which came through the open windshield of the car and occupying the front seat, one hand on the steering wheel and a buggy towed behind the auto, created much attention here last evening. "What horsepower?" yelled a local wag at the driver. "One, you fool. Count 'em," replied the irate driver whose car was out of commission. "She's in high gear, too."