A Look Back in Time

July 1950

Around Town

July 9, 2020 - 10:22 AM

70 years ago

John M. (Bud) Powell has joined his father’s J.M. Powell & Co. Insurance and Real Estate Agency. John graduated in June from Kansas University where he majored in insurance and business. The present agency was started by J.E. Powell in 1892 and has operated continuously since that time.

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A $250,000 bond issue to provide funds for a new school building was approved yesterday by the voters of the Moran rural high school districts 348 to 284. The building will provide for a vocational agriculture department, a science department and better facilities for the study of music. The plan also calls for a large auditorium-gymnasium. 

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