by Dave Kitchell
Local Columnist
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10 Years Ago
Tours of the old Miami County Jail are being planned.
A plan to add new area codes to northern Indiana will keep Logansport in the existing 219 area code.
Bill Planck wears a lot of hats in Star City.
Arnold Ernest has the Indiana Associated Press photo of the month.
“X-Men” is playing at the State.
Amy Marks of Logansport is on the dean’s list at Manchester College.
The Logansport Parks and Recreation Board has voted to close one entrance to Spencer Park, which should eliminate some use of the park drive as a shortcut from High Street to the boulevard.
Use of the Cass Area Transit has rocketed from 29,400 in 1996 to 132,856 this year.
Two local girls softball teams, the Royal Center Devils and the Logansport Miracles, are competing in national softball tourneys.
Logansport’s carousel is the subject of a special exhibit at the Fort Wayne Historical Society. The carousel originally was located in a Fort Wayne park.
25 Years Ago
Greg Korreckt tripled in a 33-1 Logansport win over Shelbyville in Bambino League play.
The stock market has reached another new high, 1347.
John Davidson has performed at the Berry Bowl.
A Veedersburg man came within a foot of winning the $10,000 first prize in the balloon race at the Logansport Municipal Airport. The prize was a new Pontiac Fiero. He did win $200.
Sen. Dan Quayle, the grand marshal for the Iron Horse Festival Parade, walked the entire route in running shoes.
Chris Luhnow, 17, Kewanna, had the grand champion steer at the Fulton County 4-H Fair.
France Park has had more than 46,000 visitors this summer, but the Cass County Parks and Recreation Board reduced the gate fee to $1 a carload for Iron Horse Festival weekend in hopes of getting more people to use the park.
Among the people attending the festival were festival chairmen from throughout the state who gave a thumbs up to the efforts of local officials. The only female skywriter in the country also was on hand, but was unable to display her talents because of weather conditions.
Larry Costello is on the dean’s list at Anderson College.
Bruce Knepper is a featured trumpeter in performances at Kings Island.
William Hassett, 30, is the new Democratic appointee to the Logansport Fire Department. He replaces the retiring Bill Cox.
50 Years Ago
Fred Schwering gave it a gallant effort and escaped some jams thanks to some fancy fielding on the part of his Blue Cap teammates, but Logansport dropped an exhibition with the Kansas
City Monarchs, 9-2, at Riverside Park. Butch Jones and Bill Cuppy both went one for four. The game drew 4,500 fans to the park, and that was the largest crowd to see a baseball game in Logansport in 30 years.
The nation’s budget surplus is $1.1 billion.
A robber made away with an estimated $30,000 from the Wabash Valley Bank & Trust branch in Bunker Hill.
Tim Wagner, a Logansport High School basketball standout, will attend the University of New Mexico on a full-ride basketball scholarship. Wagner had several outstanding games during his high school career, but may be best remembered for making several key baskets near the end of a 1959 semistate game that catapulted the Berries into the Final Four for the first time in 25 years.
For one night only, the great trumpeter Louis Armstrong will be appearing at Indiana Beach.
“The Defiant Ones” starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis is playing at the Monticello Drive-In.
West of Logansport, postmen from Logansport and Lake Cicott recreated a run of the Pony Express on the 100th anniversary of its inception. This week also marks the 100th anniversary of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Logansport.
Peggy Murphy, 9, Brookston, and Diana Crouse, 10, Rochester, are among the best young twirlers in the state.
Lloyd Pusey has woodworking for a hobby.
The Cincinnati Reds may eventually be moving to New York, which currently has no National League team since the Giants left for San Francisco.
China has sent a delegation to Cuba.
100 Years Ago
Twins Herbert and Melvin Greensfelder are headed to Fort Wayne to visit their aunt and uncle.
Carl Fisher has begun construction on the new garage he is building at Sixth and Market.
John Dodt of Lucerne has opened a second hardware store in that community.
Lottie Turnpaugh is the Sunday school superintendent at the Anoka congregation meeting at the school there.
Rollie Granger of Logansport is unhappy because he claims he rode his motorcycle through Royal Center, only to have the town marshal throw a box in his path, and then fine him $4.
The young daughter of R.C. McCloskey suffered “hurts” when she fell out of a buggy.
County Clerk Ed Hankee is building a new two-story home on Eighth Street.
John Winn has harvested 1,500 bushels of wheat per acre on his farm.
Electric lights are being installed on the Third Street Bridge over the Eel River.
Two men claim to have caught more than 200 fish in Bruce Lake.
Jonathan Grable was able to produce more than 40 bushels of wheat an acre when threshing was completed.
Forrest Mays has bought a store in Onward.
James Smith of Tipton Township is selling peaches for $2.25 a bushel.
• Dave Kitchell is a columnist for the Pharos-Tribune. He can be reached through the newspaper at ptnews@pharostribune.com.
