Mishawaka, Indiana · 20th century
1940s
65 dated events in 1940s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 65 dated mentions
1940s
- 1940The Green Book test: Mishawaka is not in the book
Three editions were read first-hand for this entry: 1940 and 1949 in their full texts, and 1947 in the Smithsonian's transcription of the National Museum of African American History and Culture's copy.
- 1940–1941Twin Branch — the “world's first” that rides on a company publication
Of the plant's third unit, added in 1940–41, the city's history writes that it was, “according to a company publication, ‘the world's first generating unit to utilize steam pressure as high as 2,400 pounds per square inch in the commercial production of electric power.’”
- 1940–1949The high-pressure frontier — Twin Branch's steam claims, tested
On the trade record, then, this much stands without any company's advertising: in 1940–41 Mishawaka's steam plant was designed, built and written up by its own engineers as the system's high-pressure proving ground, at pressures the profession itself treated as the frontier of commercial practice.
- 1940–1949The frontier of steam, and the "world's first" that rode on it
Of the plant's third unit, added in 1940–41, the city's history writes: "according to a company publication, 'the world's first generating unit to utilize steam pressure as high as 2,400 pounds per square inch in the commercial production of electric power'"…
- 1940–1968Buses under the railway's heirs: Northern Indiana Transit and the private years, 1940-1968
The Northern Indiana Railway, Inc. had sold its surviving rail property — the South Bend and Mishawaka city lines, the only rails it had left — to Northern Indiana Transit, Inc. in January 1940, months before the last cars ran, and the new company worked the conversion of 15 June 1940 and ran the buses of both cities from 16 June.
- 1940–2020Donald Heirman: standardization is not invention, printed exactly
Donald Nestor Heirman, born in Mishawaka on 16 August 1940, a Uniroyal foreman's son, spent more than thirty years at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and became the world's standards authority in electromagnetic compatibility…
- 1940–2020Donald N. Heirman: Mr. EMC Standards
The tie, exactly: Donald Nestor Heirman was born August 16, 1940, in Mishawaka and raised here — a quiet recovery the general compilations miss entirely.
- 1940–2020The Census Volumes
What it is: the Population leg built the town's census spine from the census volumes themselves, not from any gazetteer's relay: the 1940 Census, vol.
- 1941–1945The war plant: Doolittle's tanks and the whole second war
The fuel cells: The plant joined the war effort in 1941 fabricating self-sealing fuel containers, in the marker's account — rubber bladders that sealed themselves around a bullet hole, made by the thousand for the bombers and fighters of two air forces.
- 1941–1945The war flow: tanks to Tokyo, fuel cells to four air forces' bombers
From 1941 the Ball Band works fabricated self-sealing fuel cells, and in February 1942, working around the clock, its people designed and built three fuel tanks for each of the Army's B-25 bombers…
- 1941–1945The sea services: ten names
The summary's own rule: The Navy Department's State Summary of War Casualties for Indiana (compiled February 1946) states its scope on its face, and the scope is printed here with the roll it bounds: inclusion is determined solely by the residence of the next of kin at the time of notification…
- 1941–1949The home front of the Second World War, and the veterans' answer
The war plant: The core of Mishawaka's second home front was industrial, and it is told whole in the Ball Band leg: the works that began fabricating self-sealing fuel cells in 1941, built the bomb-bay and crawlway tanks that stretched the Doolittle raiders' range in February 1942 and received Doolittle's own visit and…
- 1942Mills Bros. Came Three Times: 1942, 1943, 1960
It played Mishawaka on 20 July 1942, in a week that ran Nappanee, Syracuse, Mishawaka, Elkhart; again on 24 July 1943, coming in from Bremen; and again on 17 May 1960, between Niles and Hobart.
- 1942The war years: the trade with nothing new to sell
The national frame: In February 1942 the American automobile industry stopped building civilian cars altogether, by federal order, and did not resume until the autumn of 1945; the factories that had supplied Mishawaka's showrooms — Studebaker across the river among them — built war material instead.
- 1942–1953The sponge-rubber war program, 1942–1953: two paper channels at once
The lists now add the missing middle term: from 1942 the Mishawaka works' own men patented the making of sponge and foam rubber continuously, in volume, through two channels at once…
- 1942–2001Two airmen of the county record: Richard Brenneman and William J. Kelly
Richard Charles Brenneman (born March 25, 1942): the Military Times Hall of Valor gives Brenneman's birth and his home of record both as Mishawaka.
- 1942–todayThe exhibition institutions: no league of its own — the region's, in Mishawaka rooms
The region's league, exhibiting here: What Mishawaka has had, since 1942, is the region's league working in Mishawaka rooms.
- 1943The Franciscan sisters at anchor: a motherhouse whose works stand elsewhere
The Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration have kept their motherhouse on Dragoon Trail since 1943, and the religion record of this history owns that house whole — the perpetual adoration, the Marian High School staffing across the road, the health system's headquarters that rose on the same ground in 1986.
- 1943The Franciscan headquarters: a health system seated here, a hospital never
The Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration — founded at Olpe, Germany, in 1863 by Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel, landed at Lafayette in December 1875, where they founded St. Elizabeth Hospital — bought the 400-acre Carlisle estate on Dragoon Trail in June 1943 and made it their Mishawaka motherhouse…
- 1943Perpetual Adoration at Mount Alverno: Easter 1943 to the Present
What changed at Mishawaka was the form: in 1943, through the Franciscan Father Columban Kramer, O.F.M., the house received the grant of Perpetual Exposition — the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar continuously, not reserved only — with Bishop Noll's grant behind it.
- 1943Sarah Evans Barker: the first woman on Indiana's federal bench
The tie, exactly: Sarah Evans Barker was born June 10, 1943, in Mishawaka — the Federal Judicial Center's record gives the year and the place together, "Born 1943 in Mishawaka, IN" — and she is a graduate of Mishawaka High School, per Indiana University's honors biography.
- 1943–1954The parent channel's bench: chemists, tank men, and the testing laboratory
Walter R. Hoover — Clayton's sponge partner of 1943 — with R. M. Paulsen of Mishawaka and S. V. Landgraf of Elkhart, No. 2,429,060, on controlling the polymerization of dihydric-alcohol esters, of 14 October 1947.
- 1943–1954The women's-league stars, tested: no Mishawaka daughter in the league's register
A search of the league's own site for "Mishawaka" returns exactly one profile: Edward Burke, hometown Mishawaka — a bat boy for the 1943 Kenosha Comets, not a player.
- 1943–1954The women's-league club of this valley — the South Bend Blue Sox, printed as South Bend's
The founding: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was founded by Philip K. Wrigley in 1943, to keep professional baseball before the public while the men's game was thinned by the war.
- 1943–1968Local 65: the documented labor course
March 1943 — the wartime strike: On 8–9 March 1943 Local 65 struck the plant in protest at the War Labor Board's "unreasonable delay" in ruling on a wage appeal — the union had asked twelve and a half cents an hour.
- 1943–1971Fairview Cemetery — the grave of Charles Kuhl, the soldier Patton slapped
Charles H. Kuhl of Mishawaka was the sick soldier whom General George S. Patton struck and reviled in an evacuation hospital in Sicily in August 1943 — the first and more famous of the two slapping incidents that nearly ended Patton's career.
- 1943–1982The working women of Ball Band: a majority of the wartime plant, and the case of 526 women
The majority of 1943: the documented female share of Mishawaka's industrial workforce stands at its fullest in one figure.
- 1944The Convent Buildings and Grounds
The Lourdes Grotto, funded by Anton Solbach, was built in 1944 and blessed within two years of the purchase; a cemetery was completed and the Stations of the Cross erected in 1944, consecrated in the same first period; a Sacred Heart statue was set on the hillside; and a temporary chapel's cornerstone was laid in April 1944.
- 1944Bethel — a church's founding, and nine presidents
The church's formal approval came in 1944, and land was purchased in Mishawaka in 1946, under Q. J. Everest, Seth Rohrer, and Warren Manges.
- 1945Morris Dean LaVine: a Silver Star, missing in action
The award: The Hall of Valor carries his Silver Star at synopsis strength — the citation itself is marked "(Citation Needed)" in that register, and this section prints the synopsis as a synopsis, the same discipline the South Bend file applies to its own synopsis-grade entries: "The President of the United States of…
- 1945Thair W. Best: shot down on his forty-fifth mission
This pass verified it against the award record as the Hall of Valor carries it: "The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to First Lieutenant (Air Corps) Thair W. Best (ASN: 0-769681), United States Army Air Forces, for…
- 1945–1951The two men the wars did not give back
Checked for this section against the agency's WWII Report for Indiana (Unaccounted For) of 11 February 2022, he stands on that list too: FELABOM, JOHN C, MOMM3C, Navy, service number 08752139, unit SNOOK, United States Naval Reserve, date of loss 5/5/1945, China Seas.
- 1945–2021Roger Hawkins: the heartbeat of Muscle Shoals
The tie, exactly: Roger Gail Hawkins was born October 16, 1945, in Mishawaka — the date per his New York Times obituary, the Encyclopedia of Alabama and AllMusic; one drum-magazine biography gives October 15 and one birthday compilation October 22, noted at that weight.
- 1946Hannah Lindahl: the supervisor the children kept
Carol (Samuel) Eberhart Hillier — of the Eberhart family the Schools section carries — brought the idea of a children's museum to the school administration, and she and Lindahl together persuaded the School City of its value; the museum committee first met on January 30, 1946.
- 1946A Museum Behind the School: The Founding, 1946
The first meeting of a museum committee was held on January 30, 1946. The museum that resulted opened in 1946 behind Emmons School at 1402 South Main Street, and was named the Hannah Lindahl Children's Museum in Lindahl's honor.
- 1946–1949Cross country — co-champions of the first state meet ever held
1946: The first IHSAA boys cross country state meet, in 1946–47, drew far more runners than the association expected and was run as two races with co-champions and duplicate awards.
- 1946–1951The posts as builders: Veterans' Homes of Mishawaka, Inc.
In January 1946 the city appointed a housing coordinator, J. A. Riggs.
- 1946–1951Normain Heights as built: 315 houses, seven designs
The builder was Mishawaka Vets' Homes, Inc., the nonprofit the American Legion Post 161, VFW Post 360 and URWA Local 65 committees formed and chartered in August 1946; the social record of the subdivision…
- 1946–todayNormain Heights: the veterans' subdivision, whole
The subdivision began as a housing emergency: Mishawaka came out of the Second World War so short of housing that in January 1946 the city appointed a housing coordinator, J. A. Riggs.
- 1946–todayLatino Mishawaka: the stream that worked here and settled across the river, then a community of its own
As early as 1946, migrants from the Southwest came off the migrant stream to work the farms of South Bend's west side — the Lopez and Frank Martinez families among the first…
- 1947The 1948 wing: surgery and maternity, and two hundred beds
In 1947 the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ approved plans for a new wing, to the east of the 1918 structure; the cornerstone was laid in November 1947, and the building opened the following year.
- 1947The Mishawaka Pilots Club: the institution that stayed
The Mishawaka Pilots Club was founded in 1947, on the club's own history, and for its first decade it was a tenant of other people's ground: the South Bend Tribune 's account of 25 November 2012 records that the club "settled on the land in 1957 after having to leave three earlier sites," that its members decided…
- 1947Normain Heights: the covenant in the deeds
The building: Normain Heights was built for the city's returning veterans by one of their own organizations: Veterans' Homes of Mishawaka, Inc., founded by veterans in 1946, which bought farmland on the city's north side — annexed in 1947 — broke ground on 13 November 1947 and dedicated the subdivision in October 1948.
- 1947The planning line whole: first zoning ordinance to current comprehensive plan
No. 2988, 12-15-1986)" at its head sections, and its preamble recites that the ordinance is enacted under the authority "conferred by Acts 1947, Chapter 174 of the State of Indiana" — the 1947 Indiana planning and zoning enabling act…
- 1947The national frame: 1947 and the Air Force investigations
The frame: Mishawaka's one line sits inside a national record that begins, by the usual reckoning, on 24 June 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine bright objects in a chain near Mount Rainier, Washington, moving, in his phrase, like a saucer skipped across water…
- 1947The Blue Book ledger, at county frame
In the work behind this history's South Bend file — repeated here because the ledger is the county's, not one city's — the Air Force's published yearly indexes for every year of the project, 1947 through 1969, in both digitized copies of each, were searched for South Bend, Mishawaka, Notre Dame and the witness names…
- 1947The niche-filling generation
The gap, stated plainly: The founding program stands — Raymond Weaver's fine-arts teaching runs from Bethel's opening in 1947 (his entry above).
- 1947–1958The postwar frame: 1947, 1954, and 1958 at one remove
From 1947 the city tables drop value of products for places, and report all employees alongside production workers, with value added carrying the story.
- 1947–1986The founding academic artist: Raymond Weaver, professor of music and fine arts, 1947–1986
The test, and what it found: Bethel is the city's college, opened on 15 September 1947, and the founding-artist pattern was tested against Bethel's own record — its university magazine, its student newspaper the Beacon, its catalogues, and the obituary record of the founding families.
- 1947–todayThe airfield test: the Mishawaka Pilots Club, and no airport in the city
Positive: Mishawaka has had its own flying institution since 1947, the Mishawaka Pilots Club, founded that year on the club's own history.
- 1947–todayBethel University: the Missionary Church's school, 1947 to the university
Bethel College began classes in the fall of 1947 with a first class the college's own history gives as ninety-three students; secondary accounts give ninety-four.
- 1947–todayBethel University's Bowen Library
The university opened in the fall of 1947, and its first permanent building — the Administration Building, completed in 1952 on the university's own catalog account and later renamed for Jasper Huffman…
- 1948–1959Walton and Doyle: the long Democratic hold
What the sources read do not settle is Walton's elections: whether he first won the office in November 1947 — which De Kever's sixteen-year Democratic hold, running from January 1948, would make him — or not until November 1951, with another Democrat in the chair for the first of those terms.
- 1948–2012The modern-founding set — firms founded in living memory that outgrew the city
Cressy Commercial Real Estate (founded 1948) — at regional size, honestly. Founders: George Cressy Sr. and Ed Everett Jr., who founded the firm in 1948 as a local residential real-estate company in Mishawaka, on the company's own 75th-anniversary account.
- 19491930 to 1949
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- 1949The succession: Sportsman's Airport, Day Road, 1949
The dedication: In September 1949 a flying field on Day Road, on the city's far east side, was dedicated as the "new Mishawaka airport" — the Tribune 's phrase of 25 September 1949, a Sunday, and independently corroborated by a record of a different kind: the Aerodacious catalog of airport dedication covers lists…
- 1949Madison Center: the county's center, across the river, and its end
For sixty years Mishawaka's public psychiatry was a South Bend corporation: Madison Center, founded in 1949 and seated from 1977 at 403 East Madison Street in South Bend, was the state-designated community mental health center for St. Joseph County, and Mishawaka stood inside its charge the whole of that time…
- 1949The 1949 field: eight sellers in the first postwar canvass
The census: The 1949 canvass is the first that shows Mishawaka's trade at full postwar size, and its classified section lists eight automobile sellers.
- 1949The Jordan house: from Ramblers to a group, on one Jefferson Boulevard corner
The founder: Jordan H. Kapson, born in 1926, started in the car business in 1946 selling Nash Ramblers, by the trade press's memorial account of him, and founded his own house in 1949, by the industry report of its sale — the year the 1949 canvass first lists a dealer corporation at 609 East Jefferson Boulevard.
- 1949Miller & Anderson, and D. L. Miller after: the Chrysler point's thin trail
The firm: The 1949 canvass lists Miller & Anderson — D. L. Miller and D. C. Anderson — at 2102 Lincoln Way West, selling Chrysler and Plymouth cars and Reo trucks: the city's Chrysler point, and the only truck franchise of the postwar field that the classified list names besides the car lines.
- 1949The Mercury point: Dillon-Fry, Paul Dillon, and Nye-Fulton at 201 South Main
The Dillon course: The Dillon name enters the Mishawaka record in the 1949 canvass as Dillon-Fry Motors Inc, selling from Lincoln Way West with a service-led advertisement and a second store at 520 South Main in South Bend.
- 1949The companion points of 1956: Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac downtown — and gone by 1963
Grady Motor Co Inc, at 115 West 4th, holds Buick by 1956: F. C. Yeager president-treasurer, M. L. Yeager — the Martin L. Yeager who had managed the store in 1949 — vice-president, and M. R. Mullin secretary; a Yeager family house.
- 1949The second tier: the used-car trade and the small names
City Auto Sales, Charles W. Hamann's used-only house at 1609 Lincoln Way East in 1949, stands at 224 South Main in 1956, back downtown: a seven-year course for a one-line listing.
- 1949–1971Dean Bolerjack: the chief who became sheriff
The chief of three directories: The Mishawaka government page of the 1949 directory names the chief of police: Howard Dean Bolerjack , headquarters at City Hall, with Edw.
- 1949–todayPenn Township and the county desks: the servants across the line
The classified pages of 1949 give the office a Lincolnway address and a man: "Penn Township Poor Relief, E. F. Aldrich, Trustee, 221 Lincolnway W," and the alphabetical pages give him whole: Earl P. Aldrich , township trustee, office at 221½ Lincolnway West, with the township assessor…