WARSAW — From the files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

Nov. 12, 1963 — For the second time within a year, the Whitley-Kosciusko county areas were startled with the revelation that a young person committed murder.

A Whitley County woman confessed to officers that she murdered her mother in the family’s farm home four miles southeast of South Whitley last Thursday.

Linda Ann Miller, 20, who resided in Fort Wayne, told officers she shot her mother, Florence Miller, 45, because of a long built-up resentment.

Nov. 13, 1954 — Every town in Kosciusko County switched to Central Daylight Time.

The towns making the changeover were Burket, Atwood, Beaver Dam and Mentone.

North Webster, Sidney and Syracuse made the change the previous Sunday. On Nov. 13, Warsaw, Winona Lake, Pierceton, Leesburg, Etna Green, Silver Lake, Claypool, Burket, Atwood, Beaver Dam and Mentone switched. Milford changed the following Sunday night.

Nov. 15, 1961 — The State Highway Commission in Indianapolis announced a $235,292,600 highway construction program for 1963-65, including 13.70 miles of U.S. 30 bypass from the Kosciusko-Marshall county line west of Etna Green to a point one-half mile east of the east city limits of Warsaw.

This was the first official notification regarding the construction of the bypass.

Nov. 17, 1961 — The formation of a nonprofit Kosciusko County YMCA Corp. for the purpose of establishing a county-wide YMCA in Warsaw, was announced by Dr. Carl Shrader, a Warsaw physician, president of the then-new organization.