70 YEARS AGO

Oct. 11, 1956

Marion City commissioners this week published Ordinance No. 748 calling for expression of the people on a proposal to build a municipal swimming pool. The vote will be at the general election Nov. 6.

Five members of the Marion High School Class of 1905 — Fred Baker, Ruth Keller, Zoe Marner, Emma Fishburn Richards, and Ula Marner Riggs — had a wiener roast with their families Friday evening at the lake after the Old Settlers picnic.

Dwight Kruse was one of eight Kansas boys winning awards in a 1955-1956 welding program for high school students living on farms and ranches. Dwight placed fifth and received $50 in the nationwide contest with his squeeze chute, built during his junior year at Marion High School.

Drum majorettes performing with Kansas State Teachers College’s band this fall include freshman Nancy Carolyn Keazer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Keazer of Marion.

Kansas Authors Club will honor Marion with a one-act play and song written by a former Marion resident Irma Doster at its annual dinner Saturday in Topeka. In the play, Marion is named “Sunshine Center.” The story relates in detail the history of the community and especially the Hill School building, where the author went to school.