25 years ago

november 7, 1984

Mayor Peggy Blackman says that police officers reported little damage on Halloween. Compared with destruction reported in other towns in the county, she said, “I’m proud of our kids.”

Former Marionite, U.S. Air Force Colonel Michael B. Seaton, is deputy director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Strategic Technology and Nuclear Affairs. Seaton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Seaton who at one time were in the appliance and heating business in Marion.

There was a hard freeze the past week when the temperature dropped to 24 degrees. Farmers are anxious to get back to fieldwork, as there is still wheat to be sowed.

Laura Jane Bredemeier is now a full colonel in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bredemeier of Marion, she was promoted Oct. 1. Presently enroute to Monterey, Calif., her new assignment will be Chief of the Department of Nursing at Silas B. Hayes Army Community Hospital at Fort Ord., Calif.