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10 Years Ago

April 2 1995

    Manchester Squires' basketball player Brian Carr was one of 40 high school players who made Hoosier Basketball Magazine's 1995 Top 40 Senior Boys.

The 40 are selected from approximately 1,600 senior players in the state.

25 Years Ago

April 2 1980

    After many months of planning, Biomet Inc. held formal groundbreaking for the new manufacturing and administrative facilities.

This new facility, in the Warsaw Airport Industrial Park north of Warsaw, will house all technical marketing, manufacturing and administrative functions of the corporation.

50 Years Ago

April 2 1955

    Hobart Creighton, of Warsaw, was awarded a Silver Bever, the highest honor which the council can bestow upon an adult scouter, at the annual appreciation banquet of the Pioneer Trials council of Boys Scouts.

The award is made on the basis of record of service in the Boy Scouts; record of exceptional service to boyhood in the community and record of standing in the community; including offices and positions held outside the Boys Scouts, including business and civic affiliations.

75 Years Ago

April 2 1930

    Rev. W.O. Powers, Mentone, and Rev. Julius Pfeiffer, Leesburg, were among those named as assistant statisticians at the annual meeting of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference, meeting at Hartford City.