50 years ago
JANUARY 14, 1954
Members of the Kansas State Society of Long Beach, California, will have their Kansas Day picnic on Sunday, Jan. 24, at Bixby Park. A food and coffee concession will be available, and there will be a register for all 105 counties.
Wharton Hoch, Record-Review editor, was elected president of the Kansas Press Association at that organization's annual meeting in Topeka this past weekend.
Wingerd's IGA store will celebrate its first anniversary on the hill this weekend with a special sale for the occasion. Kenneth Wingerd has announce that special treats are in store for persons who visit the store Friday and Saturday.
A musical variety stage show and square dance will be held at the city building Jan. 30 as a benefit for the month's March of Dimes Drive. A group know as the Melody Ranch Boys will put on a full hour and a half stage show. There will be western, popular and old-style music, comedy, jokes, and short skits. Max Dunn will be MC and vocalist with Harold Taylor on banjo, Bob Delk and Archie Leppke on guitars, Elmer Hanneman on the bass fiddle and Ronald Kieferle on the accordion.
Mrs. Albert Hart entertained seven boys at a party January 7 in honor of Sherman Ray's seventh birthday. Those present included Sherman Ray, Barry Avery, Warren Hart, Tony Hume, Tommy Tucker, Jerry Groening, Gary Grentz, and Larry Ensey,
Mrs. Vernon Regier was honored at a cradle shower Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. Dale Jirik. Co-hostesses were Mrs. John Sloup, Mrs. Ralph Popp, and Mrs. Robert Hoover.
Miss Sally DeForest, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John DeForest of Peabody, was chosen Kansas Broiler Queen this week at the big annual meeting of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture in Topeka.
The "South of Town" correspondent writes "We've had the ox in the pit, the cow in the silo, and now Linzie Stafford comes up with a calf in the cistern. Clarence Conyers helped Linzie fish it out, a trifle banged up from his plunge into a dry cistern."
