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10 Years Ago
March 23 1992

    FORT WAYNE - After struggling all game to find his shooting eye, Warsaw senior Jason McKenzie found perfect 20/20 vision when he needed it most.

McKenzie rifled in a bullet from three-point range with two seconds left, giving the Tigers a heart-stopping 46-44 semistate championship win over Kokomo and propelling his team into the Final Four.

25 Years Ago
March 23 1977

    Joni Kurtz correctly spelled "martial" to win the 1977 Kosciusko County Spelling Bee from her 11-year-old sister, Julie, in the final round of competition. Lewis S. Immel, chairman of the spelling contest, presented the engraved plaque to Joni.


50 Years Ago
March 23 1952

    An English grandmother will meet her three little American grandsons, Eric, 5, David Jr., 3, and Alan Duncan, nearly 1 year old, for the first time soon. Mr. and Mrs. David Duncan Sr., of East Fort Wayne Street, and their boys left for New York City Tuesday. Audrey and the youngsters sail Friday aboard the Queen Mary for Southampton, England, to visit her mother, Mrs. Edward Hopkins, of Dumbleton, Worcestershire.


75 Years Ago
March 23 1927

    Ethel Anglin, manager of the telephone exchanges at Leesburg, went to Plymouth accompanied by Katie Errick and Gladys Estep, of Milford, and Mrs. Fred Anglin and Irene Plank, of Leesburg, all operators, to attend a convention of the Northern Indiana Operators' Association.