Looking Back – November 12

2006

About 85 Cummins Inc. pensioners were overpaid by about $2 million through an error made by a former plan record keeper, and most of the former employees were asked to return a portion of the windfall, which in some cases, exceeded $40,000.

1991

Bartholomew Consolidated School Board voted to give students a three-day fall recess during the 1992 Farm Progress show in Columbus, but stipulated the days would have to be made up by shortening some other school vacation.

1966

The Columbus Police Department pistol team returned from the Regional Police Pistol contests in Texas with a second-place team title in the municipal division.