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The new $100,000 expansion program planned for St. Luke Hospital will be in the form of a wing to the present hospital to be used as "a facility for the accommodation of convalescents or other persons who are not acute ill and not in need of hospital care, but who require medical services which is operated in connection with a hospital, or in which such nursing care and medical services are prescribe by, or are performed under the general direction of, persons licensed to practice medicine of surgery in the State."

An estimated 450 hungry people were well and deliciously fed here Tuesday at the Cottonwood Valley Poultry Barbecue and Jamboree, sponsored jointly by the county extension service and the Marion Chamber of Commerce.

A new state highway patrol district office will be established in Marion by April 1, it was announced in Topeka Tuesday by Col Harvey Schmedemann, patrol superintendent. Burnace C. Powell of Pratt will be in charge of the district.

Several boys from Marion High School were guests on the Kansas Wesleyan campus at Salina Saturday for their annual visiting day. The boys who went from here included John Price, Larry Olsen, Bruce Coe and Frank Leutschaft.

Sue Ann Bratton invited friends for a slumber party at her home Saturday night. On Sunday morning the girls attended the Christian church and later were guests of Sue Ann at Kingfisher's Inn for dinner. Guests included Kathy May, Bess Haizlip, Ethel Brunner, and Bonnie Richmond.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Svoboda, Lincolnville, announce the engagement of their daughter JoAnn Elaine to Joseph G Nowak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Nowak, Muscoda, Wisconsin. The wedding is planned for the latter part of the summer.

Winners in this week's Cash Day drawing were Hannah Hein, Durham, who received $20, and Mrs. B.M. Bledsoe, Marion, who received $5. Not present were Ira Popp, Tampa, who missed $100; Mrs. Harry H. Helmer, Marion, $30; Mrs. Susan Wells, Marion, $5.

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