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.

Aug. 16, 1977 — Regular business was overshadowed Monday night as the Warsaw Common Council voted in last minute business to annex two sections of U.S. 30 Bypass: one, a small portion east of the Lucky Steer Restaurant and the other the high accident area from Parker Street Extension to east of the Lakeview Shopping Center intersection.

Aug. 29, 1975 — A Warsaw man and two employees were arrested Thursday by Fort Wayne police in the first test of Fort Wayne’s 1975 anti-obscenity statute.

Charged with exhibiting obscene material were Roger Vore, 33, of 43 Little Eagle Drive, Warsaw, identified by police as owner of the Theatre A, 3441 Broadway, Fort Wayne, and two employees Robert Durkin, 23, and Edward Kelwaski, 22, both of 1419 E. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne.

Vore is owner of Vore Cinema Corp., based in Warsaw, and operates three theaters in Kosciusko County and several others around the state.

The charges stemmed from the Aug. 18 showing of the film “Fly Me” at Theatre A and were aimed at determing whether the movie is obscene.

Aug. 29, 1975 — Warsaw School Board members had no comment for concerned taxpayers who have asked them to change from an appointed to an elected group.

Last night, representatives of the newly formed Concerned Taxpayers Association asked the school trustees to consider their 200-member unanimous vote of Aug. 12 to initiate school elections and presented a tentative resolution to affect that change.

Eight taxpayers discussed the pros and cons of electing school board members as opposed to appointing them, but school board members refused to state their feelings on the hot issue.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels