45 years ago

feb. 1, 1978

Instruction on the Jaws of Life was Thursday afternoon at Marion city shop. Attending were ambulance and fire department personnel, city and county commissioners and officials, law enforcement officers, and others from throughout the county and from Newton and McPherson.

Tickets for Marion Community Arts Council’s dinner-theatre Feb. 18 will go on sale Saturday. The dinner will be catered by Kingfisher Inn at Marion County Lake hall. Mud Creek Company will present two comedies.

Marion Community Arts Council will sponsor a concert by Emporia State University’s a cappella choir Sunday afternoon at Marion Municipal Auditorium. The concert is to benefit the choir’s tour of Europe this summer. Three Marion students, Mrs. Norman Plenert, Steve Smith, and Van Kerns, are members.

Gene Winkler, manager of Marion’s Goodyear Farm Tire Center, is the featured person in this week’s “Personality Profile” by staff writer Ruth Meyer.

Marion federated clubs will sponsor an art display Feb. 6 through 10 at the Marion Sears store. Marion High School students displaying their work will include Jeff Griffith, Becky Vinduska, Miriam Priest, William Kroupa, Doug McElhiney, Doug Heerey, Kelly Bartlett, Troy Bridges, John Slifer, and Theresa Kroupa.