40 Years Ago
November 1978
Margot Weseloh, surgery supervisor at Allen County Hospital, was surprised this week with a party given by the hospital staff to recognize her 25th year as a nurse here. Weseloh, who has worked every shift and every floor at the hospital, remembers her first impressions of the hospital when she arrived from Germany in 1953. I thought it was great so new and so very clean. Of course, everything in Germany was destroyed then, she added.
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Nancy Landon Kassebaum, the first woman ever elected to the Senate from Kansas, grabbed the Senate seat that Sen. James B. Pearson is vacating with a strong victory over Dr. Bill Roy. Kassebaum won 54 percent of the votes to win a 85,469 margin over the Topekan. She will be the only woman serving in the Senate. John Carlin, who was given little chance of defeating Gov. Robert Bennett, won with a 15,827-vote margin. Rep. Bob Whittaker took the Fifth District Congressional seat as expected and, locally, Iolan Denise Apt was elected to the 9th district position on the state board of education. Rep. George Works of Humboldt was re-elected to the state House of Representatives and Keith Hobart won a second four-year term on the Allen County Commission.
