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Marion County Historical Museum, an organization started as a project of the Marion Kiwanis Club on Oct. 26, 1953, has made a report to the county commission outlining their progress in collecting and preserving items of historical interest and value. This growing collection is currently housed in the halls of the county courthouse.
Marion City Commission this week publishes its ordinance calling for an expression of the people on the proposal to proceed with plans to build a municipal swimming pool.
Quite a number of Marion County citizens are joining with others throughout the United States in celebrating President Eisenhower's birthday on Sunday, Oct. 14. "Ike's Favorite" birthday cake recipes are being distributed, as well as his now famous beef stew recipe. Cakes will be baked for hospitals and other institutions, as well as for private parties where the beef stew will be served.
Dwight Kruse was one of eight Kansas boys winning awards in a 1955-1956 arc welding award program for high school students living on farms and ranches. Dwight was fifth place winner in the annual competition and was awarded a prize of $50 on his squeeze chute built during his junior year in Marion High School 's vocational agricultural department. Dwight is a freshman at McPherson College.
Six students from the eastern part of the county are among the 262 attending Tabor College this fall. They are Raymond Funk, James Gilbert, Karen Suderman and Rosalie Winter of Marion, Mrs. Beth Pagenkopf of Lincolnville and Eldon S. Wingerd of Ramona.
Airman Second Class Charles R. Druse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Druse, Marion, has arrived in Korea and has been assigned to the 58th Fighter Bomber Wing, the U.S. part of the United Nation's combat team in Korea.
Kansas Authors Club will honor Marion with a one-act play and song written by a former Marion resident, Irma Doster, at their annual dinner this Saturday in Topeka. In the play, Marion is named "Sunshine Center." The play relates in interesting detail the history of the community and especially the Hill school building where Miss Doster went to school, and around which the play is written.
