From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society
Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews.
Information for this retrospective series is courtesy of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.
Oct. 6, 1971 — A state biologist said today a band of pollution that has killed thousands upon thousands of fish in the Tippecanoe River along a stretch from Warsaw to beyond Rochester is no longer a threat.
John Winters of the State Health Department said the polluted strip has decreased enough in strength that it is no longer killing any fish.
The pollution was first noticed last Thursday and a state conservation officer, Richard Eurit, said it resulted when 127,000 gallons of chicken droppings were pumped from a damaged holding tank onto a field near Warsaw 500 feet from the river. The poultry farm was not identified.
Winters said the fishkill extended about 50 miles downstream from Warsaw. The slug of effluent cut off the supply of oxygen for fish.
Oct. 2, 1956 — Nineteen Warsaw High School football players were under two weeks suspension today for what Coach Bill Goshert termed infraction of training rules.
It was believed to be one of the largest, if not the largest, number of players ever suspended from a Warsaw athletic squad at one time. Goshert, in his first year here as head coach, declined to name the boys suspended. However, it is known that the list includes a large share of varsity regulars.
Oct. 5, 1954 — The Kosciusko County Jail was listed as one of the best in Indiana by Charles G. Griffo in one of a series of articles appearing in the Indianapolis Star about sordid conditions of Indiana’s county jail system.
In the small jail category, Griffo said jails at Warsaw, Goshen, Huntington and Lebanon were singled out as among the few with high ratings.
– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels