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.

March 12, 1970 — Sgt. Danny J. Boggs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boggs of Warsaw, and husband of the former Linda Swonger, Rt. 1, Larwill, was the recent recipient of two Bronze Star Medals with “V” device and the Air Medal.

Information for this retrospective series is courtesy of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

Boggs distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous action Dec. 7, 1969, while serving as machine gunner in the Republic of Vietnam. When the company came under an intense ground attack, Boggs immediately began placing a heavy volume of supressive fire on the enemy positions. When his machine gun malfunctioned, leaving the safety of his bunker and using a flashlight to see, he dislodged the rounds and continued to fire at the enemy.

Also, in another valorous action Dec. 17, 1969, Boggs was awarded the second Bronze Star for heroism while serving as a machine gunner during a ground reconnaissance mission in Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam.

March 17, 1967 — A 1920 graduate of Warsaw High School, John Longfellow Sr. is one of five new members in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame today.

Longfellow, former athletic director at Indiana State, won 302 games and 24 different championships while coaching high school basketball at Elkhart. His coaching career began at Leesburg in 1924.

March 12, 1964 —  C.W. Lake Jr., president of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., announced to a group of Warsaw industrialists and businessmen Wednesday that the Donnelley firm is working on a contract with J.C. Penney Co., which would result in an 80 percent expansion of the Warsaw plant.

Lake said that J.C. Penney Co. was entering the mail order business in addition to its 1,800 retail outlets in the United States, and if the contract to print its catalogs was successfully completed, it would require an expansion of the Warsaw plant of nearly 80 percent.

Lake said that both Donnelley and the J.C. Penney Co. agreed that the new plant should be in Warsaw.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels