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JANUARY 19, 1958
With the release of January’s issue of Clow news
came offi cial word regarding the retirement of vice
president J.A. “Jack” Byers. Byers retired on Dec. 31
after 38 years of service. Th e son-in-law of James M.
Johnson, who helped found the company in 1878,
came to Coshocton in 1919 after seven years in the
Navy. His engineering skills were crucial in the de-
velopment of centrifugal casting technique Clow is
famous for. In 1924, Byers became chief engineer and
by 1941 he was vice president and director.
JANUARY 17, 1968
After receiving some of the worst weather Coshoc-
ton County has ever had, some good had come of it.
Freezing rain and temperatures pelted the county
over the weekend with nearly four feet of snow in
some parts of the county. Charles and Larry Kobel of
the Kobel nursery in West Lafayette made the best of
it and built what was possibly the largest snowman
in the history of the county. Standing almost 13 feet
tall and 28 feet wide, they built