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. For more history of Kosciusko County in the news visit yesteryear.clunette.com

Feb. 12, 1986 — Warsaw resident Ruth Dalton took an Extra-Strength Tylenol Tuesday night only to later sit down to watch the late night news and learn she had ingested medication with the same lot number as the one in a New York murder.

Dalton became at least the third Hoosier to report having Tylenol bearing the same lot number identified in the New York case that has left one person dead from cyanide poisoning.

“I took one at nine o’clock and then I heard of the warning at 11,” she said. “I wondered if I was playing Russian Roulette —  I’m not going to take anymore.”

Feb. 13, 1962 — Fred Olds, Warsaw artist and student of Indian lore, is building a reputation and becoming well known throughout the U.S. as a painter of western scenes featuring Indians and Appaloosa horses.

Olds, who is also art supervisor of the Warsaw Community grade schools, has received and accepted a special invitation to show six paintings and his Appaloosa horse El Dorado at the Fifth International Appaloosa Horse Show and Rodeo, Feb. 14-18, in San Antonio, Texas, one of the largest shows of this type in the United States.

Feb. 15, 1961 — Winona Lake honeymooners Capt. and Mrs. Richard C. Robinson, were among 73 persons killed today when a Sabena Belgian jet airliner from New York crashed just north of the Brussels, Belgium, airport. There were no survivors.

Capt. Robinson, 38, an Army career man, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Robinson of 103 11th St., Winona Lake. They operate a grocery store on South McClellan Street.

His wife, Jacqueline “Jackie,” was 28. She was a native of Brussels and they were married there last Jan. 28.

The crash of the jet airliner wiped out the entire U.S. figure skating team.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels