Shepherd appointed to state highway board

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

The Pittsburg Sun shows the following enrollment and attendance figures of a number of Kansas towns:

Atchison -- enrollment 1,882; average daily attendance 1399; Coffeyville -- enrollment 3,078; average daily attendance, 2,197. Fort Scott -- enrollment 2,338; average daily attendance 1820. Leavenworth -- enrollment 2923; average daily attendance 2470. Parsons -- enrollment 2,300; average daily attendance 1,823. Pittsburg -- enrollment 3354; average daily attendance 2799. Iola -- enrollment 2619; average daily attendance 1809. Hutchinson -- enrollment 2,650; average daily attendance 2,031. Emporia -- enrollment 1,945; average daily attendance 1,503.

Warren Stayner wants to thank someone who stole his bicycle from his front porch and left it in a broken heap near the Buck Run hollow. It was found by a young Bryant boy who returned it to it to its owner. Warren had it repaired and is now able to ride it again.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

NEW YORK (AP) -- The death of Bruno Richard Hauptmann is the climax of a drama of human emotions which has stirred virtually the entire civilized world for nearly four years.

The chain events in which Hauptmann's electrocution is perhaps the last link, had its start on that black night of March 1, 1932, when baby Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was snatched from his crib as he lay sleeping in the nursery of the Lindbergh home at Hopeville, N.J.

His famed parents, Charles A. Lindbergh, trans-Atlantic flier, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, never saw their child again. Before their baby's body was found a few miles from his home, Col. Lindbergh had paid $50,000 in a Bronx cemetery in a futile effort to ransom his child. It was this ransom payment, for which Dr. John F. Condon, retired Bronx teacher, acted as intermediary, that finally led to the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Bronx carpenter, a year and a half after the kidnaping. A gasoline station attendant had taken down the license number of Hauptmann's car when he had bought gasoline with one of the ransom bills, a $10 gold note.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

Ray Shepherd, Fort Scott automobile dealer, was appointed today to the Kansas Highway Commission by Gov. John Anderson. Shepherd has operated the Ford agency here since April 1962 and has been active in civic affairs.

Shepherd replaces Jack Goodich, Parsons, as commissioner from Highway Division 4. The Shepherds have two children, David and Marilyn. Their home is at 1405 Horton.

The Fort Scott school district turned down the $785,000 bond issue for a new junior high school and gymnasium. At the same time, district voters named three new men to the school board. They were the same three who led the primary ticket two weeks ago. Kenneth Pollock, who became a candidate to oppose the bond issue, led the list of six candidates, followed by R.W. Cullor and Blonn Miller. Mayor William Rardin returned to office for the fifth term. A.W. Dickerson, the other city incumbent, commissioner of streets and utilities, also was returned with a strong vote of confidence.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

An observer calls attention to the tulips in bloom on the north side of the Fort Scott Public Library. The attraction is the result of a community project.

Bourbon County Sheriff Harold Coleman hired Don O'Dell as the new deputy sheriff, filling the vacancy ceated when Undersheriff Buzz Hawpe resigned to rejoin the Fort Scott Police Department.

Alec Beth, a former deputy sheriff, assumed the duties of undersheriff.

Bourbon County Retired Teachers met at the West Bourbon Elementary School, Uniontown. Ronda Bailey, music instructor in the Uniontown schools, showed pictures of the Uniontown High School Band performing in Washingon, D.C., and Orlando, Fla.