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Seven Kansas communities, including Newton and Herington, are control points on a new skyway, the first to reach from border to border. Stretching from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, the new skyway will be known as Skyway Eleven. Kansas communities include Manhattan, Junction City, Frankfort, Herington, Newton, Wichita, and Wellington. Skyways are being established to provide routes over which contact fliers in small personal planes can orient their course on flights over unfamiliar areas.
Two Marion County producers of livestock, Irwin Geis if Durham and Floyd Good of Peabody, accompanied their stock to the Kansas City livestock market this week and appeared on the new radio program, The Man from the Stockyards.
The famous Globe Trotters, world's colored champions, will be seen in action Dec. 31 at the Peabody High School gym against the Peabody Legion team.
A large neon sign is in place outside the building on Main Street which will house Coon's restaurant. The interior is painted and the linoleum laid. Fixtures are expected Monday and the whole place will be ready for opening about Jan. 1, Jess Coons says.
Marion grade school students were divided into three age groups for games Dec. 18 during a Christmas party hosted by the Y-Teen Club. Norma Sly and Loretta Conyers supervised games for the kindergarten group The first and second grade group was led by Loretta Bartel, Darlene Zeller, Donna Miesse, Vera Mae Soyez and Elizabeth Ford. Games for the third, fourth and fifth grades were directed by Patsy Hett, Vicki Barrett, Joyce Keazer, June Avery, Mary Ann Bartel, Dorothy Richmond and Virginia Wright.
Mrs. Elmer Scott entertained members of her Sunday school class of young folks of the Evangelical U.B. Church at a Christmas party at her home last Tuesday evening. Members present were Nancy Burkholder, Marilyn Reh, Diana Herbert, Carol Ann Hett, Peggy Hayward, Marvin Wunsch, Marvin Klein, Larry Hoover, Wayne Hett, Don Burkholder and Jimmy Richmond.
