60 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 1966

Leslie L. Saylor, prominent Topeka surgeon and a former coach and teacher at Marion High School, will headline the afternoon program Oct. 1 for Old Settlers Day.

Saylor’s father was the late J.H. Saylor, who for years was Marion County health officer.

A serious and costly case of destructive vandalism was discovered this week in a field of heavy hybrid forage sorghum belonging to John DeForest along US-77 and the Cottonwood River just northwest of Florence.

Six pieces of heavy steel and cast iron had purposely been placed in the field and caused damage to harvesting equipment.

Fred “Fritz” Koch, road supervisor for the Marion County highway department, has accepted a long-standing offer of a similar position with the Lyon County department in Emporia. Koch has been county supervisor with Marion County for 12 years.

Harry Linn, Marion, missed $150 at this week’s Cash Days drawing. There were no other winners.

Three Marion High School girls — Barbara Bailey, Jeanne Keazer, and Monica Klein — and their sponsor, Pat Jackson, attended a leadership training clinic for physical education for high school girls Sept. 9, 10, and 11 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Homer Stenzel of Schoneman Shoe Store has presented prizes to two local children in a Poll Parrot Sur-Prize contest. Chris Costello, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Costello, Marion, received a deluxe boys bicycle, and Dan Ludwig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ludwig, Florence, received a “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” gun.