Eleven students of the Mount Ayr Community high school received Division I ratings in a state music contest held in Corning. Solo winners were Bill SULLIVAN, tuba; John PETERSON, clarinet, and Marie ANGUS, oboe.

Division I group winners were the brass sextet -- Carolyn DRAKE, Eugene RICKER, Bill SULLIVAN, Helen RAUCH, Jean BLACK and Becky JAMES -- and clarinet quartet -- John PETERSEN, Ruth PETERSEN, Camille LAWHEAD and Marilyn DAVIS.

Ed SULLIVAN was the instrumental music instructor.

Pat JOHNSON, Shirley BRAND and LaVonne SPENCER won doubles and singles honors, respectively, in the women's city bowling tournament completed recently in Mount Ayr.

Republicans from all over Iowa will meet May 6 in Des Moines to hear an address by Richard M. NIXON. In one of his first major speeches since the 1960 election, the former vice-president will be the featured speaker at a $25-a-plate dinner to beserved in the KRNT Theatre.

Clifford Dean TEALE, a graduate of the Mount Ayr high school in 1951, will serve the Diagonal Community high school next term as girls' basketball coach, teacher and driver training instructor. Mr.and Mrs. TEALE and daughter Mickey visited Sunday in Mount Ayr with his father, Thomas TEALE.

Dr. Leonard C. MURRAY of Des Moines, educator, philosopher and humorist, will deliver the commencement address for the 1961 seniors of the Mount Ayr Community high school on May 23.

Approximately 100 persons inspected the newly decorate postoffice building Friday in Mount Ayr on the occasion of its open house.

Dale BICKEL of Mount Ayr and Mary Ann HERREN of Kellerton have been nominated by the county 4-H committees for consideration as candidates for state 4-H offices. BICKEL,a member of the Liberty Boys 4-H Club and county 4-H president, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill BICKEL. Mary Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John HERREN, is a member of the Liberty Belles 4-H Club and is year is serving as county reporter-historian.

The Delphos-Maloy boys took a 12-5 baseball win from Tingley Thursday at Delphos. The batteries were Gary SCHUSTER, Bob HALEY, John JOHNSON and Bob SEFRIT for Delphos-Maloy and Allan KINNE, Dennis MILLER, Roger TRULLINGER and Craig RIGGS for Tingley.

May 03, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn HUGHES, Denver MO

OBITUARIES in May 04, 1961 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Gladys Ruth BAGLEY WOOD  : Jessie E. STRONG FIERCE
Helen Agnes CARR   Nellie THARP COWELL   Ola Fern FRY

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