UFO, Train Derailment – InkFreeNews.com

From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society

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April 27, 1978 — Warsaw Community Education Association’s 200 teacher members Tuesday cast a unanimous vote of “no confidence” in the three top administrators of Warsaw Community Schools, association spokesmen announced at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

According to the news release, which was read by William Koos, a Middle School social studies teacher and former WCEA president, the basis of the “no confidence” vote was the “unethical, arbitrary and capricious use of the evaluation system in the recent dismissal of three teachers.”

Superintendent Dr. Charles Bragg and Assistant Superintendents William Goshert and George Gilbert were the target of the “no confidence” vote. Koos and WCEA contraction negotiations spokesman Jack Musgrave, a high school English teacher, said what the administrators did wrong was permit the three dismissals without giving sufficient reasons, previous warning or time to allow the teachers to correct their actions.

April 21, 1966 — A huge aluminum-looking “flying saucer” standing on four “legs” about 8 feet high, spread about 12 feet apart, with the saucer itself about 12 feet across and 10 feet tall, was reportedly seen by 19-year-old Dennie Baker, about 2 miles northwest of Etna Green.

Baker, who lives on County Line Road, said he saw the huge, frightening object which looked like two large saucers inverted, with a 2-foot space between the “saucers” Tuesday afternoon after spotting a huge light in the sky at 1:20 a.m. Monday.

April 23, 1956 — Forty-one cars of a westbound Nickel Plate freight train were derailed, most of them piled up, overturned and badly wrecked, a half mile west of Mentone shortly after 10 p.m. yesterday.

No one was injured, but communication lines were knocked down and wreckage was strewn extensively along the north side of tracks on the Manwaring No. 2 chicken farm.

Cause of the derailment was not known.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels