40 years ago

march 3, 1986

Marion city commissioners voted Monday to approve sale of two power-generating engines from the city’s former electric plant. The city will net $25,000 from the two engines.

Students at Marion Elementary School spent last week without heat while a boiler at the school was shut down. Several tubes in the boiler were leaking and repaired.

Lauren and Orvell Brunner of Ramona are among six Kansas Master Farmer-Master Homemaking couples to be honored March 14 at a banquet at Kansas State University. The program honors outstanding farm couples for excellence in farming, farm living, and rural citizenship.

Librarian Norma Riggs is pictured on the front page demonstrating a microfilm viewer that contains titles of all books shelved in public libraries in the state.

Marion City Library recently received the viewer and microfilm catalog from North Central Kansas Library System. It will allow millions of book titles to be made available to local readers through interlibrary loans.