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10 Years Ago
March 8 1991

    Several employees of Royalite, Warsaw, recently received Jesup Group 25-year awards.

Clocks for 25 years of service were presented to Lew Wolfe, James Demske, James Frazier, Dick Hollar, Ted Heisler, Jack Price, Lanny Lane and Ortie Manns. A special clock commemorating 40 years of services was awarded to Leon Timmons, who transferred from the Chicago plant to help start the Warsaw plant.

25 Years Ago
March 8 1976

    It was a different cheer of sorts by the Tippecanoe Valley cheerblock during Friday's (March 5) sectional action when midway through their clash with Wawasee, they stopped to sing "Happy Birthday" to WRSW's Rita Price.

A red-faced Rita acknowledged the new cheer with a wave, then went back to work.

50 Years Ago
March 8 1951

    Bill Wagner was elected president of the Warsaw board of aviation commissioners at a meeting held Friday afternoon. Other members present were Earl Parker and Dave Gast. The fourth member, William Chinworth, is in Arizona.


75 Years Ago
March 8 1926

    LAFAYETTE - G.H. Tuttle, R.A. Teghtmeyer and Karolyn Kilmer, three Purdue students of Warsaw, played prominent parts in the latest production of the Little Theatre Players of the university, "The Whole Town's Talking." The show was presented for three nights recently, and was acclaimed by those who saw it as the most finished and successful presentation of any of the six staged by the organization.