40 years ago

july 23, 1986

Marion city commissioners’ proposed budget for 1987 calls for a lowering of the mill levy.

Finance commissioner Larry Loomis said every city fund was is in the black with a good cash balance.

“We’ll use this balance to offset expenses next year,” he said.

A Japanese historian, Ryo Yokoyama, was in Marion Thursday doing research on Sir William Scully and his tenant farmers.

Ground was broken Thursday on a 20-unit moderate-income housing complex on Main St. west of the stadium road intersection.

April Ogden, a recent graduate of Marion High School, is scheduled to play in the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association all-star game Aug. 8 at Washburn University Gymnasium in Topeka.

The Marion County American Legion baseball team defeated Chapman 19-2 Monday in its first game of a district tournament. Mike Kelsey was the winning pitcher. He allowed four hits, struck out seven, and walked only one.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kristek of Lincolnville announce the engagement of their daughter, Jodi, to DuWayne Suffield. A Sept. 20 wedding is planned.