60 years ago

may 12, 1949

Marion County rural schools will hold their annual graduation exercises in two sections as usual this spring. A total of 62 pupils will graduate at Marion City Auditorium this Friday, May 13, and then on May 27 at Goessel High School 26 more will take part in the end-of-school activities.

In a backbreaking, almost never-ending job, paid helpers and volunteers worked on an almost 24-hour-per day shift last week to spray Marion’s shade trees to protect them from the destructive cankerworms. An estimated 2,000 trees were sprayed, and in the wake the ground, sidewalks, streets and porches were black with the dead worms.

Marion city voters, 812 strong, went to the polls Tuesday and (1) voted to permit licensing of packaged liquor stores in the city, and (2) turned down a proposition to issue bonds in an amount necessary to build a modern swimming pool.

Marion Junior High School will present diplomas to 24 students May 19. Members of the class are Nancy Allen, Herbert Bartel, Floyd Baxter, Michael Brodhead, Jerry Brose, Donald Burkholder, Harold Byram, Janet Haney, John Hayen, Peggy Hayward, Frena Hedrick, Diana Herbert, Myron Jantz, Larry Johnson, Jackie Lais, Marvin Kline, Shirley Mayfield, Pauline Minear, Thomas Pinkley, Donald Seibel, John Summervill, Shirley Tiemeier, David Wheeler, and Marvin Wunsch.