25 years ago
april 9, 1980
Mayor Peggy Blackman started her second three-year term of office Monday afternoon by making routine appointments. The appointments effective Monday were as follows: D.W. Wheeler, city attorney; Wayne Thies, treasurer; Junior Bredemeier, fire chief; Kenneth Hoffman, police chief; and Robert Hoffman and Robert Soyez, city marshals. The appointments were for two years each.
Bob Brookens, Marion attorney, filed this week on the Republican ticket for the office of county attorney.
Linda Loney, M.D., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Loney of Marion, has accepted a faculty position in ambulatory pediatrics at St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.
The program at the April meeting of Dawn Study Club was presented by Mrs. Craig Roebke, who gave an interesting talk on foster parents and children. The Roebkes have had 29 children in the past 12 years and now have four.
Jo Ann Kristek, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Kristek of Tampa, has been selected for the Moffitt-Crandall Unit 372 of the American Legion as a delegate to Sunflower Girls State on the campus at the University of Kansas in Lawrence June 15 through 22.
Ed Hett of Marion will be one of the junior and senior students from the University of Kansas School of Medicine participating in the second of the two Rural Healthy Weekends this week. He and his wife will spend from Thursday through Sunday at the Council Grove hospital as guests of Ron Thompson, administrator.
