Looking Back – January 26

Dan Oliver, 10, was one of many young pugilists who participated in the Columbus PAL boxing program in 1995. From The Republic archives

2010

An employee cleaning a machine at the Walesboro NTN plant was seriously burned when his leg slipped into a vat of hot organic soap that was between 180 and 185 degrees.

1995

A 200,000-square-foot Walmart Supercenter supermarket-retail complex opened in Seymour.

1970

Southwest Bartholomew Water Corp. took out a loan of $96,000 from the Farmers Home Loan Administration for the extension of a water system to the Grandview Lake area.