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. Excerpts are typed as they appeared in print.
June 21, 1900: “The commencement exercises of the High school class of 1900 were held at the Oliver opera house last evening. This theater never held a more magnificent audience than greeted the class when the curtain was rung up at 8 o’clock. Every seat on the lower floor of the house was occupied and the balcony and gallery were well filled.”
June 22, 1911: “Without announcement or display and quite unknown to all but a very few, who have been associated in the work, there has been erected in South Bend a monoplane and trial flights are now being made on Cartier field at Notre Dame university. The initial experiments at flying have not proven entirely successful, but they have done what was expected, namely, shown where the faults lie. Means of correcting these mistakes are now being devised.”
June 23, 1920: “The big celebration is due to the fact that the Studebaker corporation desires to observe the opening of its new $20,000,000 automobile plant which has been rushed to completion on West Sample street and is now ready to begin production. Saturday has been set aside as the day of celebration and every employe and his family will be urged to join in the jollification which is scheduled to begin at 10 o’clock in the morning with a mammoth parade and end in the evening with an elaborate dinner to officials and prominent business associates of the corporation in the Studebaker dining room. The plants will be closed all day.”
June 24, 1935: “Alf Buysee’s bird won the homing pigeon race sponsored Sunday by the South Bend Homing Pigeon club from Shelby, Ind., a distance of 65 air-line miles. The winning bird averaged 48 miles an hour in wining home first.”
June 25, 1946: “Patrolmen Don Brown and John Crawford while cruising in their squad car Monday night proved helpful to eight-year-old Linda Forney. They found she had caught her left foot in the spokes in the rear wheel of her bicycle near Lafayette boulevard and Park lane. The patrolmen took her to Memorial (Epworth) hospital where her foot was treated for bruises. Linda resides with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Forney, of 601 North Lafayette boulevard.”
June 26, 1950: “For one stretch of seven innings and for another eight, the Blue Sox had complete mastery over the Grand Rapids Chicks at Playland Sunday night. In the one inning in between, however, the Chicks scored three runs and thus gained a split in a twin bill. The Blue Sox won the first, 5-4, and the Chicks took the second, 3-1.”
June 27, 1968: “Educational benefits accruing to a merged Mishawaka-Penn-Harris-Madison School system would not be significantly greater than they are now in each of the presently separated districts. Both districts offer “sound and good, but not exceptional” curricula, the merger study team notes, and both districts can expect improvements leading to a more balanced educational program, whether or not a merger takes place.”
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Headlines in History 1950: Chicks Down Sox, 3-1, After Losing First
Reporting by Cheryl Morey, South Bend Tribune / South Bend Tribune
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By Cheryl Morey, South Bend Tribune | USA TODAY Network
