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10 Years Ago
August 7 1992

    Two cosmonauts from the former Soviet Union toured Zimmer Inc. in Warsaw recently.

The tour was an effort to give the visitors a first-hand understanding of the technology involved in producing prosthetic implant and fracture management products.

25 Years Ago
August 7 1977

    Decade-old history repeated itself Saturday night when Miss Pierceton, Joni English, succeeded another Miss Pierceton, Jody Conley, in the Kosciusko County Fair Queen contest.

In 1966 Karen Ringgenberg, competing as Miss Pierceton, won the penny-a-vote queen title, and was followed in 1967 by Cheryl Lensell, who also represented Pierceton in the contest.

50 Years Ago
August 7 1952

    Charles Plummer, 11-year-old Warsaw Soap Box Derby champion, will leave Thursday for Akron, Ohio, where he will be a guest of The Times-Union during the next five days. Charles, a Pierceton boy, will compete Sunday with other local champions throughout the nation in the All-American Soap Box Derby at Akron. The national champion will receive a $5,000 college scholarship.

Plummer, a seventh-grader in the Pierceton school, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Plummer, of near Pierceton.

75 Years Ago
August 7 1927

    In a beauty contest staged recently by the News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne in which a number of photographs of blondes and brunettes were submitted from 12 district around Fort Wayne, Christine Widaman, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Widaman, Warsaw, has been announced winner of this district.

Widaman is a candidate for the queen, who will be chosen from among the district winners.