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Remember When July 8

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10 Years Ago
July 8 1990

    Grace College announces that Troy Burns has been named a recipient of the Leadership Merit Award for the 1990-91 school year.

This award is given annually to new students who have developed strong leadership skills and demonstrated Christian character and spiritual maturity. Burns is the son of Ron and Neva Burns, Warsaw.

25 Years Ago
July 8 1975

    Navy Gunner's Mate Seaman Apprentice Douglas M. Vanness, son of James Hown, Pierceton, recently completed an eight-month deployment aboard the nuclear-powered attack aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, home-ported at Alameda, Calif.

He and his shipmates participated in various training exercises while deployed to the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They also took part in the evacuation of South Vietnamese refugees and helped provide disaster relief assistance to the people of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean which had been struck by a cyclone.

50 Years Ago
July 8 1950

    Russ Brown, North Manchester, took another 0.3 seconds off his track record during the stock car races at the Warsaw Speedway and walked away with top honors by winning the feature event, a 25-lap race. Dick Heater, North Manchester, was second. Brown got his chance to win when Rusty Hartman, who was leading, threw a wheel in front of the grandstand and had to come into the infield. Francis Ruff finished third.


75 Years Ago
July 8 1925

    E.F. Moser, of this city, was awarded $20 prize money by the Ohio Garment Co. for the sale of 700 dozen shirts in six days. He competed with 14 other salesmen in the race to see who would sell that number in the shortest time.