50 years ago

June 22, 1961

Some lucky girl and her escort will go to Nassau, in the beautiful Bahama Islands, as a result of being selected as Marion’s Old Settlers’ Centennial Queen. The runners-up, or Princesses, will win several attractive prizes.

Construction is progressing on the Rounds and Stewart gasoline and natural gas processing plant northwest of Marion.

Laura Jane Bredemeier of Boston, Mass., left Thursday for Brown Ledge Camp for Girls in Maullett Bay, Vermont. She will spend the next eight weeks instructing skiing and swimming at the camp.

The Marion Babe Ruth Warriors team is made of the following players: Jon Schimpf, Dick Hamlin, Tom Tucker, Jim Keazer, Charles Evans, Gene Schimpf, Bob Holub, Steve Richardson, Brian Alexander, Norman Alexander, John Bailey, David Goertz, Blair Post, Chris Hauser, and Jimmie Ottensmeier.

Julia Wooldridge will be the certified instructor in charge of the Red Cross swimming program at the Marion Municipal Pool. Water safety aides are Pat Longhofer, Donna Jost, Karen Schroeder, Jean Morse, John Hoover, Dick Morse, and Dick Varenhorst. An estimated 500 to 600 boys and girls will be taking lessons at the pool the next several weeks.

Members of M Company, 139th Infantry, 35th Division of World War I are bivouacking Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the Wight cabin at Marion County Lake. There are 24 veterans getting together to relive memories of “the big war..