50 years ago
november 7, 1958
Marion County voters went to the polls Tuesday in unusually large number and generally followed the country-wide upsurge toward the Democratic Party’s candidates. Governor Docking was re-elected, carrying four state offices with him. Congressman Ed Rees, State Representative Lawrence Slocombe, and County Commissioner George Jost won by narrow margins.
Quite an amount of valuable stock and equipment was stolen from the Murphy Lumber Company, Tampa, in a break-in sometime Wednesday night. Owner Francis Murphy discovered the burglary Thursday morning and reported to Sheriff Ezra Bernhardt.
Ed Goentzel, well-known Marion farmer, sustained a broken collarbone and painful bruises Tuesday in an accident, which occurred at his farm four miles west, and three-quarters south of Marion.
Mrs. Rendel Newsom went to Kansas City Saturday where she attended a school of design for florists.
The two Halloween masked faces of Marion men, carried in a recent Broadstreet advertisement in the Record, have caused a lot of speculation and guessing. It was several days, and several hundred phone calls after the paper came out, that the two men were finally identified. The two men were James F. Meisner, county engineer, and Bill Lucas, employee at Cook Motor Company. The first person to call in the correct identification was Neva Kelsey.