North Liberty, Indiana · 20th century
1970s
13 dated events in 1970s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 13 dated mentions
1970s
- 1972–1984The Formation of John Glenn School Corporation: Three Carriers, Three Tellings
The first telling is an obituary, read first-hand: Harold "Hal" Muncie was principal of Tyner High School 1963–1965, then of Walkerton High School from spring 1965; "In June of 1972, Hal was named Superintendent of PLJ School Corporation.
- 1972–1984The loss of the high school: a contested decision the record dates three ways
The schools file prints the conflict unmerged: a superintendent's obituary dates the PLJ–North Liberty merger he oversaw only to sometime after June 1972 and before about 1984; a publisher's summary of the standard local pictorial history puts the consolidation in "the early 1980s"…
- 1972–todayThe Superintendents: Muncie, a Twenty-Six-Year Silence, Reese, and Winchell
Harold Rubert "Hal" Muncie heads the reached line: superintendent of PLJ from June 1972, then of the merged John Glenn corporation through the merger, serving twelve further years and leaving by April 1985 for Western Boone, where he served seven more and retired in 1992…
- 1974The J & H Tavern robbery and the death of John F. Britton, 1974–1977
On the night of 19–20 November 1974 — the information dates the acts to 19 November, the opinion's narrative to the night of 20 November, and both print here unmerged — Robert Eugene Candler and two companions robbed the J & H Tavern at 59400 Crumstown Highway, North Liberty, a house run by Helen Elliot.
- 1974–1977Candler: the tavern killing, the trial, and the opinion of 24 June 1977
The facts are stated in the crime leg and repeated here only as the murder file requires: during the armed robbery of the J & H Tavern at 59400 Crumstown Highway on the night of 19–20 November 1974…
- 1974–2026The modern database era: the reporting-center record for North Liberty
The modern era files differently: the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC, founded 1974) takes self-filed reports by telephone and web form and publishes them by place.
- 1975Whitmer v. Town of North Liberty: the strip on State Road 23
On 22 December 1975, at a regularly held year-end meeting, the Town Board of North Liberty unanimously adopted Annexation Ordinance No. 4-1975.
- 1977Candler: the tavern killing, the trial, and the opinion of 24 June 1977
State , 266 Ind. 440, 363 N.E.2d 1233 (Ind. 1977), the Supreme Court of Indiana affirmed the murder conviction and the life sentence, held that the felony-murder conviction absorbed the underlying armed-robbery conviction so that its separate sentence had to be vacated, and held a warrantless search of the defendant's…
- 1977The one dam: Worster Lake, 1977
In 1977 the state dammed the creek on township ground east of North Liberty to make Worster Lake, the 327-acre centre of the new Potato Creek Recreation Area, dedicated by Governor Otis R. Bowen on 6 June 1977 and named for Darcy Worster, the naturalist who had lobbied for the reservoir for decades.
- 1977Potato Creek State Park: the township's park, at its true frame
Its facts, from the Department of Natural Resources' and the park's own record: 3,840 acres at 25601 State Road 4, around the 327-acre Worster Lake made by damming Potato Creek in 1977; natural habitats of old fields, mature woodlands, restored prairies, and wetlands on ground that had been farmland…
- 1978The Blizzard of 1978 — the town's share at reached strength
Settler: the Independent-News (Walkerton) for January–February 1978.
- 1978The blizzard test, and the modern position
The snowmobile's documented moment in this region's life is the Blizzard of 1978 (26–27 January), when northern Indiana stopped entirely and snowmobiles became emergency transport across St. Joseph County — a county-frame fact carried in this build's South Bend and county record.
- 1978–2012The surveys: the county volume, under two datings (C121)
From 1978 to 2012, Indiana Landmarks partnered with the Indiana DHPA to conduct the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory, completing 85 of 92 counties with a printed report per county…