35 years ago
april 10, 1974
Mayor Jack Regnier made appointments for the next two years Monday at the regular meeting of the city commission. Henry F. Loveless was appointed police judge; D.W. Wheeler, city attorney; Max Buck, city treasurer; Lyle Sanders, police chief; Ezra Bernhardt and Leonard Shaft, city marshals; Hazel Meierhoff, fire chief; and Lucille Britain, city clerk.
Leslie Broadstreet, who began his career in photography at Marion in 1936, has 27 creative photographs of still life hung in Farmers & Drovers National Bank.
Jeanette Gerritzen, popular social science teacher at Marion High School, has been selected as one of the 50 Outstanding Young Women from Kansas who will compete in Kansas City this week from Wednesday through Saturday.
Last week’s letter-to-the-editor contained an eloquent plea from Wallace Siebert about the deplorable condition of the little cemetery near the former location of Cedar Rest, the county home. Siebert and others are ashamed at how the cemetery has not been maintained, or at least kept free of weeds. With Memorial Day about a month away, perhaps some organization, club, or individual might want to do something about the condition of this and other abandoned graveyards around the county.