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Brenda Lea Stika was "Little Miss New Year" at St. Luke Hospital. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Stika, rural Marion, she was born Thursday, January 6. As the Miss New Year at St. Luke, she won many attractive and useful prizes from Marion business houses.
Delbert Matz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Matz, Marion, was recently promoted to the rank of captain in the United States Air Force. Captain Matz is a Minuteman III missile project engineer and currently is stationed at Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, Calif.
Principal Martin Tice of Florence Junior High School announces the election of class officers. Elected as freshman class officers were Eldon Hett, president; Cindy Friesen, vice president; Scott O'Dell, secretary; Alfred Kohls, treasurer. New eighth grade administrators are Brook Beaston, president; Gail Brunner, vice president; Roxann Edmisson, secretary; Joni Wiens treasurer. Officers for the seventh grade will be Craig Smith, president; Marc Smith, vice president; Rhonda Williams, secretary; Gary Boyle, treasurer.
Thomas G. Nelson, Burdick, is one of 15 students from Bethany College of Lindsborg who are traveling this month on a study tour of literary sites in Southern England and Ireland. Tom is a 1971 graduate of Centre High School and a freshman at Bethany. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Nelson of Burdick.
There is still no official answer to the mystery of the dead fish at Marion Lake. Although news of the "fish kill" was blown all out of proportion by area television, newspapers, and radio stations, there have been many dead fish at the lake. The Kansas Fish and Game commission biologist has been working to find the answer to the problem.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Darrow called on Edna and Virginia Chapman in Wichita Sunday afternoon to begin plans for the Aulne School reunion to be held the second Sunday in June in the Aulne church basement. Plans call for a basket dinner at noon on June 11.
At the Jan. 10 Cub Scout Pack meeting, Cub Doug Webb, in behalf of the Webb family, present a jigsaw to Cubmaster Gene Winkler, to be kept at the Cub Scout meeting room for use in their handicrafts.
