MEMORIES: 50 years ago
The Marion Babe Ruth baseball team hosted Florence Tuesday night, and defeated their guests 11-2, with every member of the host team seeing action. The Marion victory was sparked by the inspired pitching of young sandy-haired Ora Hett, who allowed but three hits and gave up both runs in the last inning. The team is managed by Lynn Christensen and capably coached by Arnold Schwemmer.
Margie Bernhardt, the 1957 Marion County Fair Queen, is in Pratt, Kansas, this week in the statewide competition for the title of Miss Kansas. Margie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bernhardt of Marion.
The Hayen families gathered at the Marion Country Club Sunday with well filled baskets for dinner and an afternoon of visiting. Connie Smith, who is Junior Twirling Champion of Oklahoma, gave an exhibition and Carmen Hayen played a piano number.
Gaila Jost, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. June Jost, is the new 1958 Marion County Dairy Princess. She was awarded the title Monday night after winning the county contest at Hillsboro.
Another ingenious creation of Marion's resourceful blacksmith-welder, Ed Winter, is a "flower tree." Made largely from scrap material, they come in regular and deluxe models, and have found a ready market among more than a few residents of the area. The large, plate steel base is sunk in the ground to provide stability. The arms, holding flower buckets or pots, are made from the fingers of tines of old-time dump rakes, and the vertical section from used steel pipe. Some models are equipped with a common hose nozzle welded at the center on top, connected at ground level with a pipe and hose connection. Thus man-made rainfall can be furnished at will to the plants.
There were three winners in this week's Cash Day drawing on Wednesday. Pete Smith of Florence received $20; Mrs. A.S. Burkholder, Marion, received $5; and Mrs. Donald Richmond, Marion, received $10. Mrs. Fred Greenemeyer, Marion, was not present and missed $50 and Fred F. Just, Hillsboro, was not p
