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.

Nov. 18, 1986 — Jomac Products Inc. is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. The company has 14 locations in the United States and Canada employing more than 700 persons. Jomac has operated a facility in Warsaw for 34 years. Warsaw Mayor Jeff Plank presented a resolution to company officials at a dinner last week and thanked the organization for its tenure here and for its support of the community.

Nov. 19, 1974 — The hotly protested 16-book series, titled “Man,” has been immediately discontinued in the Whitko School system this semester, superintendent James O. Smith announced today.

All books of the “Man” series are being withdrawn from all school classes because, Smith said, “We are trying to calm the troubled waters.”

Nov. 15, 1974 — No official action was taken following a head-on confrontation Thursday night between approximately 170 parents and teachers at a Whitko School Board meeting over the use of the controversial textbook series “Man” in the Whitko schools. Use of the book series also is being contested in Charleston, W. Va., where violence has erupted.

In a statement read by Claude Stahl, spokesman for the parents, it was asserted that “the series is not what we would like to have used in this system.”

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels