50 years ago
FEBRUARY 4, 1954
In the early morning hours last Friday, a 16-ton oil field truck and trailer blew a tire and raced into a modest farm home east of Marion. It ripped and twisted the house, the truck going through the living room and bedroom walls, then crashing through the floor into the basement. Darrell Weigart, 25-year-old mechanic, his wife Beulah, also 25, and their 3-year-old daughter, Pamela Joyce, were sleeping. Mrs. Weigart, an expectant mother, was rolled from the bed down the almost vertical bedroom floor onto a pile of rubble in the basement beside the truck. She was examined by her physician and apparently suffered only bruises and shock. The husband and daughter were uninjured, as were the truck driver and his helper.
Earl Pankratz, Florence, has accepted an appointment by the city commission as new marshal from Marion. He fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of A.L. Schambron.
The Kansas song, "Home on the Range," took on a literal meaning Sunday when August Lalouette returned from Yellowstone National Park with a truckload of 13 wild antelope, for now his ranch near Cedar Point is truly the place where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play. The LLL Ranch is the home of a herd of five buffalo and 19 white deer and antelope.
Mrs. Henry Loveless entertained with a dinner Thursday evening honoring her twin sons, Jerry and Gary, on their 11th birthday. The boys enjoyed a line party to Kaw Theatre following the dinner. Those present included Harold Soyez, Larry McKibbin, Larry and Jackie Fox, Tuck Tucker, Jerry Domke, Gerald Kelsey, and Larry McCarty.
John Crofoot of Cedar Point has been named Fourth District chairman of the Young Republican Farm Council by Robert M. King, El Dorado, chairman of the district young GOP. Crofoot, in turn, has named A.J. Hett, Route 1, Marion, to be head of the Marion County Young Republican Farm Council. G.F. Crofoot, Cottonwood Falls, is chairman of the group for Chase County.
