Mayfield NewsLocal news for Mayfield, KS continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Volunteer fire chief marks 50 years on job- November 1, 2007 "I think I'll try to get somebody ready to take my place" There wasn't a whole lot to do in Mayfield while Dick Goodrum was growing up, so he would just hang around town a lot -- especially around the fire trucks.He was too young to drive then in the tiny Sumner County town about 40 miles from Wichita -- or even be a firefighter.Instead, he would clean the trucks. Finally at 14, he became a volunteer firefighter.'I guess I didn't know any better,' Goodrum said with a chuckle.Fifty years later,.http://www.topix.net/city/mayfield-ks/2007/11/volunteer-fire-chief-marks-50-years-on-job?f... |