25 years ago
JUNE 21, 1978
Two Marion County men were seriously injured and one died Tuesday following the crash of a single-engine Beech Bonanza taking off from the Hillsboro Airport. The men are Blaine Briggs of Marion, Dennis Klassen of the Canada community, and Paul Rundstrom, Hillsboro insurance executive who died that afternoon at the KU Medical Center.
Gov. Robert Bennett has announced the appointment of Edwin G. Westerhaus of Marion as associate district judge in Marion County, effective immediately. Westerhaus succeeds Magistrate Judge Henry F. Loveless, who retired.
The temperatures of 100, or nearly that, and the extremely high winds that blow day after day, are doing much to ripen the grain. Several area farmers expect to be cutting at the end of the week. Rain is needed badly for the row crops. Thousands of tiny grasshoppers also are beginning to show themselves in yards and meadows.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Kreutziger, Jennifer and Kimberly and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bernhardt and Diane hosted a grocery shower June 9 at the Kreutziger home honoring Jo Marie Mueller and Michael O'Dell.
The 180-foot tower for Marion Cable TV service was being erected Wednesday on top of a rocky knoll on the Abe Mohn farm just north of the Marion Sports Complex baseball diamond. A headhouse at the base of the tower will house equipment to convey signals picked up by the tower. It will receive commercial station and FM radio signals. The six-meter microwave dish will receive satellite transmissions and the Home Box Office signals.
