60 years ago

june 9, 1949

Final, revised architect plans for the new Marion High School gymnasium and vocational agriculture building are here and being carefully gone over, according to school board chairman, Leslie Powell. The site has not been definitely decided upon, but in all probability will be located south of the high school or between the two buildings, the high school and the hill grade school building.

Main Street is closed for several days at the Third Street intersection to permit replacement of a water main.

When Mrs. Bill Reid took her final check ride from CAA inspector Babe Turner of Newton recently, she became the first woman pilot who started and finished her course for a private license from Marion’s Municipal Airport.

Mrs. Arnold Schwemmer entertained the following guests at a party Monday afternoon in celebration of her son, Jerry’s, sixth birthday: Patty Jo and Michael Ireland, Gailen Broadstreet, James Melton, Johnnie Christensen, Patty Longhofer, Rose Mary Ollenberger, Gerald Kelsey, Sharon Bartel, and Michael Schwemmer.

The Marion County Sheep Association this week sent a six-car shipment of lambs into the Kansas City market, according to Carl Elling. The lot brought 31 cents, a good one cent over all the rest of the market that day. There were 656 head in all.

For outstanding work in the community as well as her own home, Kansas Farmer magazine honored Mrs. Karl Seifert as one of five Master Farmer Homemakers chosen for the state this year.