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Leadership Labette luncheon set
Leadership Labette Class of 2012 will have its year-end luncheon Thursday at the Commercial Bank meeting room in Parsons. The event is expected to highlight its year of activity and its community project of keeping with the spirit, effort and accomplishment of Leadership Labette in 2011 establishing Parsons as one of 151 Playful City USA Communities in the nation. The Leadership Labette Class of 2012 has taken on the project of expanding that...
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Johnson, Shiflett engagement
Cathy Johnson, Trustin Shiflett William Johnson of Satellite Beach, Fla., and Cindy Rocha of Austin, Texas, announce the engagement of their daughter, Cathy Johnson of Parsons, to Trustin Shiflett of Parsons. He is the son of Benny Shiflett of rural Parsons and the late Cristti Shiflett. The bride-elect is a 2007 graduate of Harver Heights High School in Harver Heights, Texas. She received a degree in secondary education/history from Labett...
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Our Past
These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 12-13, 1972 Purchase of all stock in the Home State Bank of Erie by Virgil Lair of Piqua was announced. Lair and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller of Erie, sole owners of the Home State stock, joined in announcement of the transaction, to become effective on June 30. Lair also was owner of Stark State Bank. Home State was the only bank in Erie, where it was established in the ...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 11, 1972 During the previous 20 years, milk cow herds had dwindled in Labette County while beef herds grew. It had come to the point where, the Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service estimated, the county had 83,000 beef cattle and only 6,000 dairy cattle. That was a drastic change from 1952, when the county had about 33,500 beef and 13,000 dairy cattle. Labette ...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 10, 1972 The board of the Parsons Urban Renewal Agency decided to ask that a new downtown street be given a specific name by the city. The request would be forwarded to city commissioners through Will Tschudy, city manager. The board pointed out that a new U-shaped connector street between Washington and Broadway not only would contain parts of those streets, but also...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 9, 1972 Perl Bass, an incumbent Labette County commissioner, announced he would seek re-election to his third term on the county board. Bass, vice president of Thomas & Bass Inc. of Parsons, was completing his second four-year term as a commissioner. Bass said some of the major problems confronting county government were revenue, road and bridge maintenance and solid ...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 8, 1972 C.G. Reitemeier, assistant Parsons school superintendent, would assume duties of the superintendent until a replacement could be found for Henry Norris, whose resignation would become effective May 31. Dr. Thomas Crispell, board president, said Reitemeier notified the board that he would not accept the superintendent’s position that had been offered to him. Re...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 8, 1972 C.G. Reitemeier, assistant Parsons school superintendent, would assume duties of the superintendent until a replacement could be found for Henry Norris, whose resignation would become effective May 31. Dr. Thomas Crispell, board president, said Reitemeier notified the board that he would not accept the superintendent’s position that had been offered to him. Re...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 5-6, 1972 Rees Hughes of Pittsburg, former Parsons public school superintendent, would be honored May 16 at commencement exercises for the Labette Community Junior College. Hughes would be presented the first Cardinal Citation to be awarded by the college alumni association for “outstanding achievement and service to the college.” The junior college was founded during...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 4, 1972 Richard Dearth, Labette County attorney, announced he would not seek re-election to the prosecutor’s office he had held since early 1971. Dearth planned to devote full time to practice of law as an associate of Glenn Jones, Parsons attorney. Dearth said the county attorney’s office required full-time attention and prevented him from giving the firm’s private c...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 1, 1972 A 23-year-old Labette County youth, Bill Daley of Parsons, was formally elected as an at-large delegate from Kansas to the 1972 Republican National Convention. He was the youngest of the 20-member Kansas delegation and well could have been the youngest Kansan ever to attend a Republican convention at the national level as a delegate. Party records on that poi...
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Business news
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center announces April graduates YODER — Two area patrol officers were among the 48 new law enforcement officers who graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center on April 13. The new officers are members of the 217th basic training class at the center located a mile west and a mile south of Yoder, near Hutchinson. The center is a division of University of Kansas Continuing Education. The officers, w...
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Clubs
Disciples Women Disciples Women of First Christian Church met April 24 with 19 members present. Rose Welch read “Christ Beside Me” and then turned the meeting over to Esther group for the program titled “Count Your Blessings.” Kathleen Seward, Sandy Nance, Shirley Degenhart and Barbara Mosier read entertaining accounts of joys and blessings. Linda Railsback will give a presentation in May on a retreat on prayer she attended in Great Bend.  Jea...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. April 28-29, 1972 Leo Frederick, Labette County sheriff for 10 years, announced at a Kansas Peace Officers Association meeting in Parsons that he would not seek re-election. A Republican, Frederick said he had no definite plans and that there were “a number of reasons” for his decision, although he declined to name them. It was reported he planned to enter private busines...
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Fuentez, Glendinning wedding
Melissa Fuentez and Andrew Glendinning were married in a Feb. 14 ceremony at the Palace Garden overlooking the Waiulua Bay at the Hilton Waidoloa Village in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The bride is the daughter of Buster and Teresia Fuentez of Parsons. The groom is the son of Iain and Micheline Glendinning of Trabuco Canyon, Calif. Bridesmaids were Carrie Hobart of Topeka; Allison Horton and Kylie Piva, both of Parsons; Katie Gravely, sister of the g...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. April 27, 1972 Dannie Johnston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Johnston of rural Edna, signed a Jayhawk Junior College Conference baseball letter of intent with Labette Community Junior College. The Labette County High School senior played American Legion baseball and for the Edna town team as an infielder. About 30 Candy Stripers from the Parsons area left by bus to visit th...
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Church Brief
Cole Family to perform Cole Family Bluegrass will perform in concert at 1 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 1700 Broadway. The public is invited to the 10:50 a.m. Sunday service at First Presbyterian and potluck lunch at noon in fellowship hall before the concert in the sanctuary. Donations will be welcomed at the potluck and concert to benefit the Pallikkathayil Charity Fund and Caring Bridge in the name of the church’s recent interim...
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Chetopa physics class studies comets
From Chetopa High School Occasionally comets strike the earth. In just the last few years, humans have used sophisticated instruments to watch comets crash into both the sun and Jupiter. In July 1994, astronomers used the Galileo Spacecraft to observe comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collide with Jupiter. The comet had broken up into 21 fragments, each crashing into Jupiter’s cloud deck at close to 40 miles per second. This event marked the first time i...
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These items were taken from the Sun's editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. April 26, 1972 Dale Eisenbrandt as commander headed a list of new officers elected by Brown-Bishop Post 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Parsons. Eisenbrandt would succeed Paul Good in the post's top office. Elected with Eisenbrandt were John Santos, senior vice commander; Dale Ham, junior vice commander; Elmer Hassel, post advocate; Myron Ellis, surgeon; William Owens, ...
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Market gains new vendor
 The Parsons Farmers Market kicked off last week with nine vendors bringing a variety of vegetables, grass-fed beef, flowers, baked goods and crafts. The market is open from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday and from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday at Forest Park, just south of the Parsons Municipal Swimming Pool along the Frisco Hiking and Biking Trail through the end of October. What’s new at the 2012 Market? Well, two vendors are now offering new ways to pay. Beca...
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