50 years ago
MAY 21, 1953
The city requests the cooperation of downtown automobile owners to park elsewhere on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights as that is when the city street sweeper operates on Main and adjoining streets.
It was announced at the awards ceremony Friday afternoon in the Marion High School auditorium that two junior girls and two junior boys had been selected to attend Sunflower Girls' and Boys' State. Marilyn Reh and Patricia Kruse are the girls and Don Kline and John Childs are the boys.
Roger (Bud) Hannaford who has been spending a 30-day leave here with his mother, Mrs. Norma Hannaford, reported to Camp Carson, Colo., Sunday for reassignment after completing his service in Korea.
Several of Carol Miser's friends gave a picnic and line party in her honor Tuesday evening. The girls gathered at the home of Ann Davies at 5:30 and went to the lake for a picnic supper, then to the Kaw Theatre for a line party. Carol soon will leave with parents for residence in Emporia. Those at the party included Carol, Ann Davies, Judy Thatch, Nila Hoopes, Carolyn Merrill, Wanda Propp, Rosemary Holub, Pat DeWitt, Carol Jean Allen, and Etta Rempel.
Seniors of Marion High School left on a chartered bus Thursday for Rockaway Beach on Lake Tanneycomo, Mo., for several days outing. D.B. Jantz and Mrs. Ray Hayward accompanied the group.
The crew of Slusser Drilling Company were guests of the company this weekend at the World Oil Show in Tulsa. Those attending were Blaine, Billy, and Alden Slusser, Leland Chizek, Larry Robertson, Dee Martin, Ralph Richmond, John Scales, Charles Stinchcomb, Harry Weibert, Dave Weathers, Ferd Winter, Henry Holub, Walt Hayward, and Fred Domke.
