25 years ago
january 23, 1980
Authorization of the purchase of a Canon AE-1 camera by Roger Hannaford of the noxious weeds department highlighted the Marion County Commission meeting Monday. The camera will be used to photograph noxious weeds and their treatment.
Prosecution witnesses in the Timothy Newfield trial which began this week have included the father of the murder victim and a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent. The trial is being held in Fort Scott after Associate District Judge George Scott ruled a change of venue because of pre-trial publicity in Marion County.
Ruby Patton, local artist, was a guest teacher for the Kansas Wheathearts Chapter, National Society of Tole and Decorative Painters, at their Jan. 20 meeting in McPherson. Mrs. Patton taught an all-day session of an oil painting on canvas entitles "Ozark Barn in Winter."
Lonnie Funk and Lynn Isaac were crowned Hillsboro High School Basketball Homecoming King and Queen.
John Schmidt and June Unruh were crowned king and queen of Goessel Homecoming ceremonies.
Katie Funk Wiebe, assistant professor of English at Tabor College has spent about half of January in Pennsylvania participating in conferences.
During the month of January, Donna Thiessen, sophomore at Hesston College, from Hillsboro, is getting nursing experience in Carville, La. The hospital there treats patients with Hansen's disease (leprosy). Other sophomore nursing students are working with Hopi, Navajo, and Chicano patients in Tuba City Ariz., and La Junta, Colo.
