60 years ago
June 21, 1945
Perhaps the highest ranking native of Marion in World War II is Major General Arthur W. Carter, son of pioneer parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Carter, who are buried in Highland Cemetery I Marion. General Carter is fiscal director of the War Department. The general's father, Al Carter, was in the hardware business in Marion in the '80s and '90s.
W.W. Monypeny, popular athletic coach in Marion High School in 1920-1924 was named by Governor Schoeppel Monday as director of the new state Bureau of Veterans' Affairs.
The popular Mario Recreation, owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Harry House, now is occupying fine new quarters in the Campbell building across Main Street from their former location. Plans are under to install bowling alleys in the near future.
Marion people who generously volunteered to take 55 members of the band as passengers to Abilene Friday, where the Marion band will appear in the parade honoring General Dwight D. Eisenhower are: Mrs. Ed Burkholder, Frank Hagans, Ira Newcomer, Mrs. Wm. Christensen, Roger Hannaford, Leslie Powell, Miss Jewell Amick, Bert Campbell, John Gardner, Alex H. Case, Al Richardson, Klassen Second Hand Store, Jake Hein, Mrs. Ralph Vohs, Mrs. Jay Beaston, Ed Popp, and Leo Brose.
Sgt. Louis Vinduska, a prisoner of the Germans for six months is home again, and his fervent one word description of the United States and home is "paradise." Arriving in the United States June 11, he came back to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Vinduska, near Pilsen, Sunday morning.
