50 years ago
may 17, 1956
National Hospital Week was observed in Marion May 6 through 9. Members of the Hospital Guild donated time and prepared about 22,000 sponges. Lunch was served to them at noon. On the same day, mothers and babies born during the past year were invited to a party. Forty-nine mothers with their babies returned to St. Luke.
"Plans are progressing, the money has been appropriated, and the new state highway shops for the Marion District will definitely be constructed there this year," State Highway Director Frank Harwi Jr. told this newspaper's editor in a conversation at Topeka this week.
Clarence L. Matthews, well-known and respected local postal employee, will retire officially on May 31 after 33 years of dispatching mail in the Marion post office.
Harry Byram, 54, widely known and well liked local distributor for the Continental Oil Company, was killed instantly Tuesday afternoon when his tank wagon truck was rammed from the side by an automobile coming off the Aulne road. The driver of the car, Claude Depew, 63, prominent Wichita attorney also died instantly in the crash.
Mary Christensen asked a number of friends to her home Monday evening after school for a party celebrating her seventh birthday. Ice cream and cake were served to Patsy and Jerry Nelson, Elaine Rogers, Janet Varenhorst, Linda Sutherland, Kathy Westerhaus, Susan Lentz, Barbara Christensen, Bill and Ruby Winkley, and Marian Kay Lawrence.
Members of the high school graduating class of 1916 are planning a reunion to be held at the Country Club on May 30. They will hold an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. for all alumni who would like to come out for a visit. A box supper will follow for class members and their families.
