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Work on restoring Marion County Courthouse got off to a fast start this week with Center City Development, Inc., Wichita, the contracting company, setting up steel scaffolding around the building and bringing in heavy equipment along with crews of workmen. Stones, loosened in the tornado of March 2, were removed and the roof structure was rebuilt into place, using temporary covering.

Charles Phillips, owner of Marion Manufacturing Company, which will produce camper-trailers and pickup toppers, started production of units this week in his factory in the former Seymour building in Marion.

Pat Jackson's girls' volleyball team saw action Tuesday in a tournament at Council Grove with six other teams. Members of the Marion team are Sandra Turner, captain; Deborah Bell, Linda Bernhardt, Janice Bowers, Rita Oller, Kathleen Weigart, Paula Edmunds, and Fifi Baczkowski.

Sgt. E/5 Neil Osgood is an instructor in cold weather indoctrination. He has been attending cold weather survival training with the 10th Special Forces and has just returned from Norway where he was squad leader and adviser for his company. Men from Norway, Italy, Britain, Canada, and U.S. armies participated. Neil is stationed at Firth, Germany with the 24th Engineers.

Mrs. Verona Mullikin, foreign language teacher at Centre High School, has been nominated as a candidate for the Master Teacher Award, according to Ronald D. Druse, president of the Centre Teachers Association, the group offering Mrs. Mullikin's name in nomination.

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