50 years ago
DECEMBER 16, 1954
Mr. and Mrs. Harry House this week announce that they have rented the former Firestone store location and will install a new pool hall, opening within a week. The Houses were owners and proprietors of the M and H Recreation which was a complete loss in the C.B. Wheeler Building fire two weeks ago. The Houses have received many compliments from over a wide area on the high type of business they conducted and that theirs was a very definite asset to the community.
Plans are rapidly being made and put in action by the Chamber of Commerce highway committee and by a growing number of businessman, residents, and farmers in an attempt to block the plan of the State Highway Department to re-route Highway U.S.-50N in Marion County.
The dramatics club of Marion High School will present a two-act play, "Home for Christmas," December 23. Students who are cast in the production are Wanda Propp, Ann Davies, John Williams, Judy Thatch, Pat Heart, Bob Mehlinger, Carolyn Merrill, Janet Priddle, Carol Jean Allen, Laurence Griggs, Paul Roberts, Joy Burnett, LaVern Hoffman, Sam Jewett and Elsie Smith.
Mrs. Ralph Rogers entertained a group of the kindergarten crowd at her home Tuesday afternoon in celebration of her daughter, Elaine's fifth birthday. Those present included Edsel Schroeder, Cheryl Dean Holcom, Janice and Stevie Childs, Connie and Maurice Allen, Patty Sue Plenert, Janice Wygle, Jeanie and Mary Christensen, Larry Van Cleave, Sharon, Patsy, and Jerry Nelson.
W.J. Oborny of Durham, junior in the School of Education at the University of Kansas, has been promoted to Sergeant First Class in the cadet regiment of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps.
Miss Pauline Spohn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Spohn of Tampa, is pictured with triplets, the first born in many years at Henderson County Memorial Hospital, Abilene, where Miss Spohn is superintendent of nurses. The triplets are Judy, Jane, and Jeanette Shuntrine.
