50 years ago
FEBRUARY 25, 1954
Marion Kiwanis Club has started a new program of selecting a "Junior Kiwanian" each month from boys in the senior class at Marion High School. Ronnie Post, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Post, has been chosen as the first such boy to be honored under this program.
The regular Gangbusters radio broadcast Saturday evening dealt with the southwest Kansas murder of the two Morgan brothers at the farm home near Liberal in February 1953. The two murdered men were brothers of H.O. Morgan, Marion. The murder story was narrated by L.P. Richter, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, from the New York studio of the broadcasting company.
On a special Santa Fe train which will serve Lehigh, Hillsboro, Marion and Florence stations, elementary school children of the county will embark March 23 on an educational tour of the state capitol of Topeka.
The annual Kiwanis-sponsored banquet for Marion High School athletes will be held March 22 at the Marion City Building. Head football coach Bill Meeks of Kansas State College will be the speaker.
Michael Schwemmer celebrated his ninth birthday after school Tuesday by asking a number of his friends to his home for games and refreshments. Those present included Galen and Randy Broadstreet, Stephen Seaton, Monte Gleason Lowell Ensey, Gary Grentz, and Jerry Schwemmer.
Peabody's fine new gymnasium and vocational agriculture building was dedicated with appropriate and colorful ceremonies Sunday afternoon. The climax came toward the end of the program when Mrs. John DeForest unveiled a plaque to be placed on the cornerstone of the building naming it "Brown Gymnasium" in honor of Harry H. Brown, former superintendent and still a member of the high school faculty.
Mrs. Alex Case Jr. and baby arrived Monday from Mountain View, Calif., and will visit at the Alex H. and Rosse Case homes here and with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hagans, Manhattan, while her husband is on a two weeks practice bombing mission in the Pacific.
