Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 12, 1955

The name of the Ringgold County Centennial Pageant will be "Backward Glances." This name was submitted by Walter L. HUDSON, of Mount Ayr, who wins the $10.00 first prize for naming the pageant.

Ronald Lee HENDERSON, 17 years of age, was fatally injured Saturday afternoon about 3:30 p.m. in a motorcycle-truck accident east of Kellerton. Young HENDERSON, who was spending the weekend with his parents, the Rev. and Mrs. D. J. HENDERSON, was killed when his motorcycle struck the rear of a truck on Highway 2. The youth attempted to pass to the right of a 1953 GMC truck, driven by Ray McFARLAND of Kellerton as it was making a left turn off the highway. The motorcycle hit the rear of the truck and the youth's body was found 78 feet from the point of impact. The motorcycle traveled a distance of 120 feet and went through a fence after the crash.

The Kellerton community is uniting in the provision of a memorial fund for Ronnie HENDERSON, who was instantly killeed in the Saturday evening crash. D. J. HENDERSON, father of the young man, is pastor of the Kellerton Assembly of God church, and a well-loved citizen in that community.

Elbert STRANGE, of Bellflower, CA, underwent surgery Wednesday of last week for the removal of his left hand, which was crushed and burned about two months ago in an accident at the Alco Aluminum Company plant, which is located near Los Angeles, CA. This information was received last week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. STRANGE of the Diagonal vicinity, in a telephone message from their son, Delbert, who also resides in California. The accident, which caused Elbert the loss of his hand, happened when he was changing the water in the pipes at the plant. An operator, who had not been informed of the procedure, closed the cylinder switch and caught Elbert's hand in a press with only five-eighths of an inch clearance, weighing 6,000 pounds and having a heat temperature of 800 degrees.

Two men escaped serious injury Saturday morning about 8 a.m. in an accident which involved three vehicles and which happened near the Lesanville corner, east of Mount Ayr on Highway 2. They were John HIGDON, of Leon, who was driving a gravel truck, and Jack LYTLE, of Nebraska City, NE, driver of an Otoe Food Co. semitrailer, loaded with groceries. Both were driving west on the highway.

Sheriff Homer P. TODD said that a 1955 Plymouth driven by Myron WILLARD, of Royal Oak, MI, a student at Graceland College in Lamoni, had stopped on the north side of the highway and he and a college classmate, Archie HILL of Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, were watching a veterinarian treat a sick cow in a field near the road. As HIGDON approached the parked car, he slowed his truck in order to pass and while attempting the pass, the rear of the truck was struck by the semi. Both trucks were extensively damaged whne they went into a ditch on the south side of the road and the trailer upset.

May 08, a daughter, Brenda Diane, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles PETERSEN, Lamoni

OBITUARIES in May 12, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:

No obituaries in this week's issue.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012

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