40 years ago

december 5, 1979

The age-old question about moving US-56 to a location approximately one mile north of its present route between Marion and Hillsboro will be discussed again at a public hearing with the Kansas Department of Transportation Jan. 8 in Marion Municipal Auditorium

This week’s Personality Profile tells how the great-grandmother of sisters Agnes Hackler Bolton and Irene Hackler Busch, a widow from Virginia, migrated to Kansas and settled near what now is Tampa, Kansas.

Junior guard Greg Boyle canned 23 points Friday night and three of his Warriors teammates Brian Allen, Doug Webb, and Kevin Jirak each scored in double figures to defeat Moundridge by 70-65

Associate District Judge Edwin C. Westerhaus has been nominated as District Judge for the Eighth Judicial District. Gov. John Carlin soon will announce his choice of Judge Westerhaus or John Christner, an Abilene attorney.

This week Chamber of Commerce ambassadors have presented first dollar of profit certificates to Don Rogers, Kansas Drilling and Well Service, Inc. general manager; Jack Richmond of Marion Manufacturing; and Lavern Kerbs, manager of HRK.