Vandals Damage the Sixth Ward Honor-Roll Board

A veterans' honor-roll board at Third and Spruce Streets was damaged on the night of October 22, 1950. The next day's News-Dispatch reported the incident through a spokesperson for the Sixth Ward Honor Roll Committee.

Several fence posts had been broken and veneer torn from the front of the board. The committee said an investigation was under way. The brief account did not identify anyone responsible or report an arrest.

The board was a neighborhood form of commemoration, distinct from the city's better-known stone and bronze monuments. The report records its presence and the damage; it does not identify the veterans named on it, the war it commemorated, or what happened to it afterward.