30 Years Ago
March-April 1988
30 COLONY Florence Fursman of Colony will retire as Postmaster here April 1. She began her career at the Colony Post Office in September of 1956 as a part-time flexible clerk. During her career at the post office she also kept books for her father, the late George Hiser, owner of Hiser Implement Co., and then for her brother, Wayne Hiser, the present owner. Fursman became Colonys 21st postmaster on Nov. 22, 1975.
31 Three area high school students, Steve Campanini of Iola High School, David Thomlinson of Marmaton Valley High School and Kevin Comcowich of Humboldt High School, will travel in the Soviet Union this summer as part of a program called Initiative for Understanding: American-Soviet Youth Exchange. Its roots are from the People to People program founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.
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2 One hundred years ago today, Gerhard Christopher Kuestersteffen was born on the farm at Piqua that was to be his home for the next 95 years. Kuestersteffen and his wife, Margaret, raised nine children on the farm his parents homesteaded when they arrived from Germany. Kuestersteffen now lives at Arkhaven where he will be honored at a birthday party this afternoon.
5 LAWRENCE (AP) Thousands of basketball fans turned the University of Kansas campus into a party zone Monday night after the Jayhawks beat Oklahoma 83-79 for the national NCAA championship.
6 Annette Womack scored heavily among voters in Iolas Fourth Ward and rode that advantage to a 644 to 600 victory over Tince Little in the race for Commissioner of Streets and Utilities. Womack became the first woman elected to the City Commission.
