Fire Chief Zoral Buckner moved Friday to eliminate fire hazards at the West Side Hotel listed by a state deputy fire marshal in Jan. 1945. Buckner said he and Deputy Marshal H.W. Miley had made an inspection Thursday and found that conditions had not been corrected to comply with an order issued by Miley at the time of the inspection in 1945. The fire chief said he would serve a formal notice on Phillip Rick, owner of the building, and Mrs. Myrtle Otterson, operator of the hotel, to eliminate what her termed hazardous conditions. He said failure to comply with the order would be followed by prosecution. The state deputy fire marshal called for adequate fire escapes, removal of a padlock from a rear exit, removal of kerosene stoves from hotel rooms, inspection of electrical wiring and various repairs.

(Extracted  from local newspapers and compiled by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us )