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The light of the International Special Olympics torch will be seen in Warsaw as law enforcement officers complete the final leg of a 2,700-mile trip to the summer international games in South Bend. Police officers from at least three different states will arrive in Warsaw Friday night and will leave Saturday morning.
Students of the fifth grade at Warsaw McKinley Elementary School, recently picked up 881 pieces of debris along Winona Avenue from Scott Street to the east edge of the city limits. They kept a record and learned that they had picked up 725 pieces of paper, 73 metal pieces, 43 glass bottles and 40 pieces of miscellaneous items. After their hard work, each one was given a large root beer at the B & K Root Beer stand.
"You got any rhubarb seed?" the 10-year-old asked at Robinsons' store. "Let's take a look," said the lady clerk. A search of the seed racks failed to disclose a single packet of rhubarb seed, for some reason or other (possibly the same one that slows up sales of sky hooks and left-handed monkey wrenches).
A radio amplifier, designed to increase the sound of wireless messages, music, etc., to such a volume that it may be heard a distance of several blocks and said to be one of three in the entire state of Indiana, has been purchased by C.R. Phoebus, local radio expert. He plans to make a public demonstration soon.
