Looking Back – May 2

2008

Janet Tedder, a bus monitor for Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp., used the Heimlich maneuver to save a choking first-grader at Southside Elementary School.

1993

Three Illinois women suspected of cashing at least $10,000 in bogus traveler’s checks in seven states were apprehended after a quick-thinking clerk at Manufacturer’s Marketplace alerted police and provided a description.

1968

Set out after dark to avoid difficulties with traffic, 15 hawthorne and maple trees were planted in a “test block” between Fourth and Fifth streets in downtown Columbus, a project sponsored by the Central Business Association.