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The national Child Safety Council recently presented a plaque of recognition to the Warsaw Police Department for its 15 years of using educational materials in classrooms to promote safety. The information includes safety booklets on drug abuse, child molesting, bicycle safety and general home safety. The award was given to Warsaw Police Chief Craig Allebach and Det. Jerry Laurien by Steve Cook of the National Child Safety Council.
It's always a wonderful experience for a boy to go fishing with his father, and when Larry Groves, 10 Sycamore St., Warsaw, took his 12-year-old son Jon recently, it was rather profitable, too. The two caught four lake trout recently while fishing in Lake Michigan, near Benton Harbor. The fish totaled 30 pounds and were caught with spinning gear, using eight-pound test line and salmon egg sacks and spoons for bait.
Fifty acres of corn, belonging to Gene Weaver, Silver Lake, was picked in three hours by the veterans' agricultural school of Silver Lake, assisted by friends and neighbors. An army of 16 corn pickers, several tractors and wagons and scoop shovels bore down upon the field at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The work was completed at 11 a.m.
A very fine sample of apples of the Winter Transparent or Western Creening was brought to The Times by John Nighswander, residing at 1220 E. Fort Wayne St. Nighswander says from a single tree he picked eight bushels of the large, choice apples.
