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Max Plaugher *

      Max came to WHKK as news director in 1948. He had previously worked as an announcer at WLOK, Lima and as a news reporter on the American Forces Network of the Armed Forces Radio Service Station in Frankfurt , Germany . He helped cover the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. He left WHKK in 1954 and went to work for a commercial and industrial photo studio in Akron , writing and voicing sound tracks for industrial films. In 1958, Max returned to radio in Fort Wayne , Indiana , on WKJG-TV and radio. He remained there until 1961, when he opened his own commercial and industrial photography studio in Medina . From 1974 to 1979, he acted as a Mobile New Reporter from WWST, Wooster . Max described himself as “semi-retired” since he continued to do free-lance writing and photography. Max died on September 7, 1996, at the age of 71.