30 years ago

june 26, 1996

Marion County may escape dreadful predictions of a poor wheat harvest if preliminary cuttings are any indication.

A winter of dismal expectations has turned into a pleasant surprise with preliminary cuttings producing high yields.

Harvest will be in full swing this week, and experts say high wheat prices should make this a profitable year for farmers.

Voters in the Marion-Florence Unified School District approved a local option budget increase 430-388, but their vote on to acquire a new junior high building through lease-purchase tied 411-411.

Two provisional ballots not counted because of a residency question will be opened after advice is received from Kansas secretary of state.

Marion Kiwanis Club members have selected the theme, “175 Years on the Santa Fe Trail,” for this year’s Old Settlers Day.

Aulne United Methodist Church’s annual Independence Day celebration July 3 will feature a barbecue supper, ice cream social, music by the “Anything Goes” band, and fireworks at dusk.

Andrea Wegerer, daughter of Judy and Lou Wegerer of Marion, has returned from Level II of the Future Astronaut Training Program at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson.

The program included a trip to Johnson Space Center, Houston, where campers met astronaut Joe Engle, trained on simulators, and visited mission control.