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Area banker V. Edgar Stanley is one of 16 people to be recognized nationally for his heroics last May when he saved a 1-year-old baby in a Rochester house fire. Stanley, board chairman at Counting House Bank, Warsaw, was notified he is being recognized with a Carnegie Medal for heroism.
Rochester High School captured its second consecutive sectional cage crown with a 60-58 triumph over Warsaw at the Warsaw Sectional, but it was the Zebras' Bruce Grimm that did all the work. The 6-0 junior cager powered Rochester into the Elkhart regional with a 44-point effort in the title bout.
Harold Lowery, the son of Arthur Lowery, is the first local man to get his private pilot's license from the Civil Aeronautics Authority under the government-sponsored flight training program provided by the G.I. Bill of rights.
The industrial class of the Leesburg high school has installed a wireless station at the school building. The class plans to install a complete wireless telephone equipment.
