Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 03, 1987

Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis talks about the Maloy centennial railroad spike presented to him by Regina LYNCH Friday, asking the people attending the campaign stop in Maloy if it wouldn't look nice on his desk in the White House. Accompanying Gov. Dukakis on his visit to Ringgold county were his wife, Kittie, and one of the Dukakises' daughters. Dukakis was the first presidential hopeful to visit Maloy since Adlai Stevenson stopped in 1956.

Shirley HICKMAN is taking lessons on a braille machine as part of a volunteer effort to provide material for the blind. She also has been reading books and magazines onto tape for use by the blind as part of a project she began after seeing a television program on how people could help.

Santa Claus made his first visit to Mount Ayr Friday a little ahead of the almost four inches of snow which turned the landscape wintery as well. Marvin MAIN brought Santa to town in a one-horse open sleigh so the reindeer could rest up for their big night in a few weeks.

Mount Ayr student, Peter HAYSE, spent his summer earning college credits -- on a silkworm farm in Japan, among rice fields, water buffaloes and tea plantations in China, and on sugar cane and pineapple plantations in Hawaii. HAYSE and 13 other Iowa State University students were enrolled in the course, which took them on a 34-day tour of the Far East. The tour took the students and two agriculture professors to Japan, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong.

A Ringgold county student was among nine SWCC students who received $100 scholarships from the 1986 SWCC Education Foundation Christmas dinner and concert. Rodney MUNYON of Kellerton, who is studying electronics technology, was among those receiving a scholarship.

Two Iowa Southern Utilities Company employees from Mount Ayr were recognized for their service with the company during a dinner held in their honor recently in the Elks Lodge in Creston. Honored for 20 years of service was Charles JACKSON, district lineman, Mount Ayr. Judy DREDGE, an accounting clerk at Mount Ayr, was presented a five-year service award.

Capt. Chris NICHOLS, USAF, and his crew were credited with rescuing an A-7 Navy attack aircraft in the Caribbean and preventing it from having to "punch out or ditch." When a radio message was heard by Capt. NICHOLS that fuel was draining out of the A-7 and that it couldn't make it back to Roosevelt base or to the carrier, NICHOLS coordinated the rescue and the navigator ran the rendezvous. NICHOLS is stationed at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, KS and was recently involved in the mission to Puerto Rico. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle NICHOLS of Mount Ayr.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2012

 

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