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10 Years Ago
November 8 1991

    Television actor Chris Burke, who plays "Corky" on the hit show "Life Goes On," is using his fame and ability to try and help others like him. Members of Cardinal Center wrote to him in August and received a personal reply including several photographs and a large poster inscribed "To my Cardinal Center friends."

Burke has Down Syndrome, but likes to refer to it as "Up Syndrome" instead.

25 Years Ago
November 8 1976

    Navy Aviation Boatswain's Mate Airman Apprentice Richard A. Abbott, son of Mrs. M. Mathys, Leesburg, is participating in Exercise "Kangaroo II," the largest peacetime training operation ever held in Australia.

He is a crew member aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, homeported in Alamenda, Calif.

50 Years Ago
November 8 1951

    Garrett Osborn, Warsaw, enjoys collecting old books, especially volumes of regional history. Sometimes tucked within the pages are personal mementos of the former owners. Two such items Garrett found recently are cream-colored satin bookmarks, fringed at either end. One is a keepsake from the golden wedding anniversary observance of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Bennett, Dec. 4, 1894. The second bookmark lists the menu for a dinner enjoyed by members of the Warsaw Reading Club at the home of Mrs. C.W. Burkett, Feb. 24, 1888.


75 Years Ago
November 8 1926

    G.H. Tuttle, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tuttle, east of Warsaw, has been pledged to the honorary mechanical engineering fraternity, Pi Tau Sigma, at Purdue University, where he is a senior.