Warsaw girls basketball coach Will Wienhorst removed his mustache in the locker room after his team won the sectional championship Saturday night in the Tiger Den. The girls at the beginning of the season asked their coach if he would shave if they won the sectional. He said he would. Wienhorst had a close shave, but his team didn't. They derailed No. 6-ranked Columbia City, 49-38 for the championship.
25 Years Ago February 13 1978
NORTH MANCHESTER - Three area students were among those added to the Dean's List of Honor Students for the fall term at Manchester College.
Students named were Jan Baker, senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Baker, Etna Green, an accounting major; Randall Wilcox, senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Garland L. Wilcox, North Manchester, an accounting major; and Edwin Cable, senior, son of Mr. and Mrs.. William H. Cable, senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cable, Syracuse, an accounting/business administration major.
50 Years Ago February 13 1953
Phil Benner, Columbia City, and formerly of South Whitley, was awarded the Golden Gloves Fraternity trophy for being the "fightingest fighter" in the boxing tournament concluded last night at Fort Wayne.
Benner was defeated in a welterweight semi-final match of the annual Golden Gloves classic. He went to school at South Whitley and is the grandson of Mrs. Aden Benner, South Whitley.
75 Years Ago February 13 1928
Recently, Gus DeFord, decorator at the E.W. Gresso store here, read the name of his wartime buddy in a Toledo dispatch in a newspaper and wrote him.
Today the buddy arrived here by auto with his family and spent the day renewing acquaintance and experiences with Gus. DeFord had last seen his buddy shot in the Argonne Woods in France and left for dead in the battlefield.