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Remember When Aug. 18

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10 Years Ago
Aug. 18 1987

    Kosciusko County conservation officer John Sullivan was one of the many special guests to visit the students of Kiddie Kollege Preschool classroom during the school year. He brought some abandoned wild baby rabbits for the children to see and touch and told of the duties of a conservation officer.


25 Years Ago
Aug. 18 1972

    Did you see "Bye, Bye Birdie" at the Wagon Wheel Playhouse during the summer of 1962? If you did, you might find a familiar face on your TV screen this fall. Actor McLean Stevenson, star of all the 1962 summer musicals, will be featured in the new CBS series, "MASH." From Warsaw Stevenson moved to New York City, where he continued his acting career by making TV commercials for Crest, Libby Foods and Shell Oil.


50 Years Ago
Aug. 18 1947

    Bob Breading, local cigar-store operator, having new tubes put in radio so that daily baseball games can be heard better by the young and old who park beneath the loudspeaker in the cigar store to hear descriptions of the Cubs and White Sox games.


75 Years Ago
Aug. 18 1922

    Warsaw's coal situation is acute. The local gas plant has been operating for the past several days upon coal borrowed from the Winona Interurban Railroad. Today manager Keith Hankins procured 30 tons from the interurban supplies, enough to last until Monday. Fourteen cars en route to the Warsaw Gas Company from Virginia mines may have been confiscated by railroads or the federal government authorities who have taken over the control from the state boards.