What was making news in our area during this week in years past? The History Museum offers these South Bend Tribune newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.
June 22, 1907: “Mail service in South Bend is poor and business men are constantly making serious complaint that the postoffice is not treating them right. The truth of this, is acknowledged at the postoffice and the excuse offered is very cramped quarters and lack of sufficient employes to give good service. The postoffice says it is doing the best possible under the conditions and cannot do better unless the government will allow it all it needs in help and working space.”
June 23, 1915: “Fire, in a newly constructed foundry building at the Studebaker corporation, caused a damage of $100 to the roof at 5:19 o’clock this morning. The blaze started from a core oven and was extinguished by central, No. 2 and No. 4 companies.”
June 24, 1929: “Plans for the development of the Benjamin Harrison school playground on West Division street, a project involving 14 acres, will be presented to the board of education at its regular meeting this evening in the school administration building by Ed Smith, superintendent of school buildings and Elmer H. Burnham, athletic director of the school city.”
June 25, 1933: “Indication that South Bend industry has caught the fever of business betterment now sweeping the nation was given Saturday by a survey showing improvement that ranged from a 59.5 percent gain in sales of the Studebaker corporation from last year to a gain of 600 percent in May glove sales of Wilson Bros.”
June 26, 1949: “Many who were unable to fall asleep early during recent humid nights saw an extremely bright object in the southeastern sky after midnight. The star is the brightest of any in the firmament and shines with a steady bluish-white light. It is the planet Jupiter, the monarch of the solar system, which has a diameter 1,308 times that of the earth.”
June 27, 1956: “The South Bend-Mishawaka area escaped unscathed from its first tornado in several years Tuesday, but a fierce Lake Michigan squall line which followed brought high winds, drenching rains and minor damage.”
June 28, 1968: “Kaiser Jeep Corp. today received contracts totaling $92.3 million for the production of military vehicles in South Bend, the second set of sizable awards in three months.”
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Headlines in History 1949: JUPITOR GLOWS IN NIGHT SKY
Reporting by Cheryl Morey, South Bend Tribune / South Bend Tribune
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