25 years ago
NOVEMBER 30, 1977
Teresa Costello, a Kansas State University student from Marion, served the 19,000-member student body and the Manhattan community as a disc jockey on the university's KSDB-FM radio station. Costello, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Costello of Marion, may be heard from 6 to 9 a.m. each Thursday.
The first Christmas trees of the season came to Marion Friday. Steve Greenemeyer, part-time worker at Gilham's Gardens, is pictured as he unloads freshly-cut scotch pines at Gilham's nursery. The trees, cut east of Manhattan, ranged in height from three to seven feet.
Fifteen students from Marion High School were among the 400 from 28 high schools in attendance at the annual Kansas State High School Model United Nations meeting Nov. 16 at Emporia State University. Those participating from Marion were Carol Ehrlich, David Bryant, Cindy Moody, Sandy Bridges, Barbara Costello, Bev Bezdek, Lori Harris, Kay Blackman, Paula Vinduska, Karen Stevens, Gary Ewert, Molly Ferrell, Jeff Griffith, Mary Kay Waner, and Paula Deines.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Friesen are the grandparents of twin grandsons born on Thanksgiving Day at the Goessel hospital to their son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Friesen of Hutchinson. The twins have been named Kim Allen and Kelly David. They have a sister, Kerri.
A parade of tractors driven by supporters of the American Agriculture movement will pass through Marion on U.S.-56 Dec. 8, according to Dennis Klenda of Lincolnville, an active worker with the movement. The tractors will be on their way to Topeka to take part in a rally at the Capitol building on Dec. 10. Klenda said the tractors taking U.S.-56 make up only one of six or eight groups traveling different routes across the state.
