Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 14, 1980

Rollin B. NOBLE, Ringgold County clerk of court, has announced he will seek re-election for that office and announces his candidacy on the Republican ticket. NOBLE, active in the community organizations, is completing his second term as clerk of court.

A new state highway maintenance supervisor in Ringgold county has been selected by the Iowa Department of Transportation. Daryl HOLDEN, 49, was named by the DOT to oversee maintenance work on state highways in the county. Those highwasy include Iowa 2, U.S. 169, Iowa 66 between Diagonal and Iowa 2, Iowa 344, Iowa 25 between Clearfield and the southjunction of Iowa 2 on the Ringgold-Taylor county line, and Iowa 259 between Tingley and U.S. 169.

A collision six miles southeast of Kellerton resulted in $600 damages to a 1977 Chevrolet driven by Wayne Lenny REYNOLDS of rural Lamoni and $300 to a 1975 Chevrolet operated by Richard O'DELL of rural Kellerton. O'DELL was reported to be going north whenhe came into an intersection of county roads and ran into the REYNOLDS car which was going east. This accident happened at 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10.

Ringgold County Hospital staff is adding new dimensions to their diagnostic and patient care services. Ultrasound scans have now been established for the benefit of patients. Dr. Durward M. LANG, Director of the Laboratory of Clinical Medicine, recently presented a demonstration of ultrasound and its value in relations to other diagnostic methods to hospital staff members as well as other interested personnel. Dr. Duane E. MITCHELL, chief of staff, stated that with the addition of ultrasound not only will it be an excellent diagnostic investigative tool, it will be brought directly to the patients here in this community and not require the patient to be sent for an exhaustive trip to larger cities several hours away.

For the second time in a little over a month, fire struck the First Christian church of Mount Ayr early Tuesday morning. And this one was no minor affair, but a full-fledged disaster. Preliminary estimates Tuesday noon were running in the neighborhood of $150,000, according to one source. There is hardly an area of the church that was not affected by the fire, which was discovered about 5 a.m. Tuesday.

The Howard PIERSONS of rural Mount Ayr have a sturdy six-month-old cat called Skeeter as evidenced by the fact that it survived a 30-minute ride in the PIERSON'S clothes dryer. Mrs. PIERSON tells it like this: "I wanted to stop drying the clothes for a while so walked to the dryer, turned it off and left the door ajar. Later I shut the door and resumed drying the clothes." Can you imagine her horror when the drying period ended and she opened the door? The cat jumped out and collapsed on the floor. The dryer had been on a hot setting. Mrs. PIERSON said it took the family cat about 24 hours before it acted normal again. One plus they felt was that there were clothes in the dryer which perhaps cushioned the bumps as the dryer went around. However, the heat was bad, the cat's tongue, when it came out, was a bright red instead of the usual pink.

February 11, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas SMITH, Grant City MO

OBITUARIES in February 14, 1980 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Garland Elmina BACHMAN   Marjorie Lucille HIATT FOSTER
Glen Cletus ROUTH   Mary Frances "Mae" BURCHETT HAWK

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012

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