Airplane on Grant City Square Caused Sensation

During the week of November 19th, 1969, an airplane owned by Wayne Kephart on display on the Grant City Square caused a sensation. Kephart, who was in charge of the construction crew that was building the World County Convalescent Center (now the Worth County Care & Rehab Center), bought the plane from a local person after it had been in storage. The plane had been damaged after high winds had damaged it. Kephart was repairing it in the old Coop service station on the southwest corner of the Square, across the street from where the Bear’s Lodge is currently located. 

Several people in the county owned airplanes in the 1950’s, believing that planes would replace cars like cars had previously replaced the horse and buggy.