60 Years Ago
November 1959
Glen O. McGuire of Iola has been promoted to manager of distribution and transmission of the Union Gas System by Harrison Johnson, president. McGuire is executive vice president and general manager of the Union LP Gas System, a wholly owned subsidiary. He will continue in that position and live in Iola until the school year is finished, upon which he and his family will move to Independence. He has been here with Union LP since 1948. He is president of Iola Industries, Inc., a director of the Security Savings and Loan and has been active in the Chamber of Commerce. He married Isabel Ashford in Iola in 1934 and they have a son, Pat, 17, a senior in Iola High School.
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Preservation of Allen Countys renowned courthouse clock has been assured by the contribution of an anonymous Iola businessman which brings the fund to its initial goal of $3,000. The clock will be renovated, electrified and placed in a brick and stone structure in the southeast corner of the courthouse lawn.
