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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 24, 1972 Purchase of the LaVilla Inn in Parsons and plans for its early operation as the Canterbury Inn were announced by Richard Hoover, a Wichita oil man and motel operator. The motel was located at 400 Main on U.S. 160 at the east edge of the city. The new 60-unit motel had been in financial difficulty, which resulted in the foreclosure of the mortgage on it. It ha...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 22, 1972 Plans for an open house at Osage Hills Recreation Inc., a new family outdoor facility in St. Paul, were announced by its board. The event was scheduled for June 11 at the new facility two miles east and 1 1/2 miles south of St. Paul. Gene Jacquinot was president of Osage Hills Recreation. The Cherryvale Chargers breezed to the Kansas high school sand greens f...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 19-20, 1972 A brother and sister whose mother lived in Parsons both would receive doctorate degrees the following weekend from the University of Kansas. Michael Vance would receive a degree of medicine from the KU medical school. Sharon Vance would receive a doctorate of education. Both students were children of Mildred Vance, Parsons city clerk, and graduated from Pa...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 18, 1972 Graduates of McCune High School would get their commencement word from Gov. Robert Docking. The governor was scheduled to arrive by plane at the Pittsburg airport on the day of graduation and be met there by John Grasso, superintendent of school district 247; James Knox, high school principal; and Mayor Frankie Dunnick. It was hoped that treatment of an old o...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 16, 1972 J.J. Flynn Jr., a Parsons banker, was elected president of Mid-America Inc. at its annual meeting at The Parsonian. Flynn, president of the State Bank of Parsons, was immediate past secretary-treasurer of the Southeast Kansas economic development organization. Antone “Tony” Musgrave of Parsons, a Labette County sheriff’s deputy since 1968, announced his candi...
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Business
SI Precast earns certification SI Precast, a division of Suhor Industries Inc., Parsons, recently eared certification from the National Precast Concrete Association. The designation recognizes SI Precast as a precast concrete manufacturing plant operating at the highest standards of production and quality control. NPCA established its national plant certification program in 1987 to ensure a consistent industry benchmark and a high degree of ex...
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These items were taken from the Sun’s editions 20, 30 and 40 years ago. May 15, 1972 At a district convention in Fort Scott, Betty Tullis of rural Bartlett was elected one of six delegates to the Democratic Party’s 1972 presidential nominating convention in Miami Beach, Fla. The 1971-72 academic year at Labette Community Junior College ended with the last final examinations, a prelude to commencement for 105 graduating sophomores. E. Laurence...
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Mother’s Day and other good things happening
Sunday is Mother’s Day, and for those of you who are fortunate enough to have a mother who is alive on this earth, be sure you think about the positive things she has done for you. My mother taught me many things, among them faith, perseverance and persistence. She graduated from high school in the 1920s, learned Morse code and worked for Western Union before the telephone, overcame tuberculosis in the 1920s (before antibiotics), breast cancer...
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Couple to celebrate 60th anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Wade Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Wade will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at Parsons Senior Center, 1800 Belmont. Their daughters will host the event. Rolland Wade and Virginia Strickland were married May 18, 1952, in Pittsburg.
Rollie is retired from the former Peabody TecTank and Virginia is retired from the Labette County Chapter of the American Red Cross. They h...
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Flax, Crossland engagement
Leah Flax, Cody Crossland Kelli Flax and Roger Flax of WaKeeney announce the engagement of their daughter, Leah Flax, to Cody Crossland. He is the son of Craig and Linda Crossland of WaKeeney. Leah is the granddaughter of Kenneth L. Wyrick of Oswego and the late Dixie L. Wyrick. She is the great-granddaughter of Maxine Goodger of Parsons. The bride-elect is a 2012 graduate of Trego Community High School in WaKeeney. She will pursue a degree...
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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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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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