50 years ago
OCTOBER 29, 1953
A special Kiwanis committee organized this week to start the ball rolling toward establishing a historical museum for Marion County. Members of the committee are Leslie Powell, Rosse Case, Max Jackson, John Riddle, David Wheeler, SW. Gound, Ed Navrat Leslie Broadstreet, L.L. Hadsell, and Wharton Hoch.
One of the highlights of the year for local Boy Scouts is the annual fall trip. This year's trip will be next weekend during teachers' meeting. The trip will include two nights at Roaring River State Park in Missouri, two nights at the Lake of the Ozarks, attending the Missouri-Oklahoma football game in Columbia on Saturday and returning to Marion on Sunday. Boys going are Lane Broadstreet, Eugene Hedrick, Bill Good, Gregory Henry, Bill Meredith, Dennis Navrat, Duane Reed, Dickey Rittel, Mickey Seaton, Paul Schmersey, Laurence Priddle, Wayne Thies, Junior Wiebe, Earl Winter, Edward Davies, David Montgomery, and Bruce Wingerd.
Roscoe King, Kansas City, and his daughter Mrs. Keith Gimson and son Jack, Atlanta, Ga., were in Marion Saturday visiting with friends. Mrs. Gimson was the luncheon guest of Mr. and Mrs. Braden Johnston and Mrs. H.M. Seed.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bredemeier are the happy parents of a baby son to whom they have given the name Michael Ray born Oct. 27 at St. Luke Hospital.
Leslie A. Powell Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Powell, Marion, qualified for pilot training in the Air Force Cadet Training program recently, having successfully completed the Aircrew Classification Test Battery at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado. He has returned to Marion and is now awaiting an aviation cadet class assignment.
Those from Marion who attended the bankers' meeting in Newton Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kreuter, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Tidwell, Barbara Jirak, and Shirley Tiemeier of Marion National Bank and Mr. and Mrs. L.L. Hadsell, Bob Brooks, Agnes Price, Marjorie Blankley, and Donna Miesse from Farmers and Drovers.
