Looking Back – March 22

2007

Max Andress, football coach at Columbus High School for 21 years and two-term Columbus mayor, died.

1992

After five years and using $2 million of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund money, the hazardous waste cleanup at Tri-State Plating entered its final stage.

1967

Brig. Gen. John Hoff, base and wing commander, announced that plans to close Bakalar Air Force Base and deactivate the 434th Troop Carrier Reserve Wing had been called off.