25 years ag0

april 4, 1984

Marion Chamber of Commerce ambassador Sally Hannaford is pictured presenting the “first dollar of clear profit” to Dorothy Varenhorst and Dick Varenhorst of Van’s Man, a recently opened menswear shop.

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Bennett L. Holub, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Holub of Marion, recently returned from a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian oceans.

An unscrupulous operator who worked a scam in Marion is now a guest of the government for eight years, drawing free room and board. The perpetrator would sell special activity or birthday calendars. He’d get an organization to sponsor them, as a fund-raiser, then peddle advertising to local businesses. Advertisers would pay the costs and provide a surplus to go back into the club’s treasury. Checks would be cashed before the salesman left town and the organization never received calendars.

A number of relatives and friends gathered at Kingfisher’s Inn Saturday evening to help LeRoy Hoffman celebrate his retirement from Marion Hardware.

Nancy Schlehuber and Rose Vinduska, both of Marion and students in the College of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, were initiated Feb. 12 into Phi Kappa Phi, one of the most exclusive national honor societies.