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10 Years Ago
February 20 1992

    Mark A. Blue and Dan L. Blue will be included in the next edition of "Who's Who for American High School Students."

Mark is a junior at Warsaw Community High School, and Dan is a WCHS senior. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Merl Blue, Warsaw.

25 Years Ago
February 20 1977

    A roaring fire destroyed the old Playtime Products building, a landmark city industrial facility.

Richard Katte, owner of the long, narrow North Detroit Street structure that had most recently been used for storage, was in the process of having the building demolished and salvaged.

50 Years Ago
February 20 1952

    Freshman Danny Anglin, one of the outstanding basketball players in the history of Atwood High School, had his greatest night in college by scoring 29 points as Manchester defeated Huntington College, 85 to 72, at the Huntington gym.

Anglin, still bothered occasionally by a bad knee, hit 55 per cent of his efforts from the field.

75 Years Ago
February 20 1927

    Explosions of dynamite which resounded throughout the city today came from dynamiters who were breaking apart heavy machinery castings from the old dismantled Winona Interurban Railway power house at Winona Lake and which had been purchased by Levin & Levin, Warsaw junk dealers.

The big castings were too heavy and large to be removed to a foundry for melting so the explosives were used to shatter them to smaller pieces.