Remember When January 7

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 pm

10 Years Ago

January 7 1995

J. Kevin Zachary was recently installed as president of the Warsaw Kiwanis Club. Other officers are J.C. Paxton, president-elect; Tom Flora, first vice president; Bill Male, second vice president; Bob Gephart, secretary; and Burt Ramsey, treasurer.

25 Years Ago

January 7 1980

Some seven months after plans were made to move the nearly 100-year-old Conrad Home to make way for a drive-in bank, only a pile of rubble remains today.

Through the use of a wrecking ball and bulldozer, the two-story brick house at Center and High streets was leveled Monday. The cost to move the structure - as well as possible risks to the house itself - were just too much to justify the move.

50 Years Ago

January 7 1955

Mentone Principal Walter Kent presented the championship trophy to Bob Cumberland and Jack Jones, Akron High School co-captains, after Akron won the Mentone Holiday basketball tournament Saturday night.

75 Years Ago

January 7 1930

A two-foot garter snake captured while crawling around on the ground yesterday at Lakeside Park here, is exhibited in The Times office as a harbinger of an early spring.