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35 years ago

october 1, 1970

There was a 90-year span between the ages of players in Marion's Rube Band on Saturday. Johnny Koslowsky, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Koslowsky of Marion played his trumpet and was the youngest member. Nodie Baker, at 96, played the tuba as usual.

Speaker this year on Old Settlers' Day was Homer Socolofsky, a K-State history professor and a 1940 graduate of Marion High School. Socolofsky's talk narrated history of early day happenings in Marion as gleaned from newspapers on file at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka.

According to Gordon Wakefield, principal of Marion High School this term, Eric K. Meyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meyer, and Janet Hanson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hanson, have been named as "commended students" by the Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The two were among students in the United States who scored in the upper two percent of those who are expected to graduate from high school in 1971.

Georgia Ann Kline was guest of honor at a party Monday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Kline in celebration of her ninth birthday. Guests were Laurie Silhan, Donna Stovall, Laurie Laubhan, Gloria Pontious, Cindy Bernhardt, Patty Ann Bliss and June Bliss.

Warren D. Fike was elected chairman of the Marion County Committee of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Thursday night at the ASC convention held at the Owl Car Café in Marion. The two other county committee members are Larry Jost, vice chairman, and Edmund Steiner regular member.

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