60 years ago
Three proposals will be placed before the city voters at the regular election on April 3. The first one is to permit the city to issue bonds to assist in the construction of the proposed Community Hospital. The second one is for permission to issue bonds for the purchase of land and initial equipment for a municipal airport. And the third will be to authorize a mill levy for the purpose of promoting industrial expansion.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Powell received a telegram from the Navy Department last week stating that their grandson, Wm. T. Madison, Aviation Radioman 3/c, a tail gunner on a Navy PBY flying boat was reported missing in action in the South Pacific.
T/4 H.D. Hayward, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.D. Hayward, returned to the United States January 23 with three machine gun bullets through his right arm put there at Saarbruchen, Germany, on December 5. So far as is known, he is the first Marion boy to return from the German battlefield.
Margie Ann Bernhardt celebrated her fifth birthday February 17 with a party for her little friends. Guests included Carmen Siebert, Jeanette Russell, Billy Jean Herbert, Vicki Black. Zona Elaine Kelsey, Jackie Ford, Caroline Susdorf, Lenore Wheeler and Janet Lee Holub.
The Amicus Club met Sunday, Feb. 18, for a dinner with Ilene and Arlene Pierce. The dinner was in honor of the twins' 18th birthday. Those present were Dixie Bledsoe, Edith Fick, Vivian Klein, Bettie Lou Propp and Ilene and Arlene.
