Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, January 18, 1962

Ernest BASTOW of Tingley was elected chairman of the board of supervisors. He had been serving as acting chairman since the death of D. L. SMITHSON on January 7. Mr. BASTOW is serving his second year of a third term in office. The oath of office was administered Monday morning to Dick BARNES, who was named Friday to fill the unexpired term of the late Mr. SMITHSON. The third member of the board is Maurice HANSON of Diagonal, who commenced his first term of office on January 2.

The Mount Ayr bowlers returned to the winning rail Sunday when they won four out of six games from Bedford in South Central Iowa Traveling League matches bowled on the Bedford lanes. Bob ROE paced the local team with 1,050 pins for the six games and had single games of 213 and 219. Jack HARTMAN was second high with 1,001. Keith COLE, Bill MONAGHAN and Lyle DULANY also bowled for Mount Ayr.

Officers and directors of the Security State Bank in Mount Ayr were re-elected at the annual meeting held Wednesday. Officers are H. M. ROSS, president; Royce DAVIS, vice president; Ray J. JAYNE, cashier, and Doris HANNON, assistant cashier. Directors are E. E. CARR, Royce DAVIS, Billie FINCH, H. M. ROSS and L. W. ROSS. Other employees of the bank are Mrs. Jim MARKLEY, Mrs. Kenneth ANDREWS, Mrs. Theron JOHNSON and Mrs. Dennis DRAKE.

Two men escaped serious injury in a two-car collision, which happened Thursday at approximately 5:45 p.m., four and one-half miles south and one mile west of Kellerton. David W. RAINEY of Kellerton, who was driving south in a 1951 Dodge pickup, and Shannon PERKINS of Rodman, driver of a 1961 Ford headed north, collided at the crest of a hill on a snow-plowed road.

Eighty-five 4-H members will receive achievement medals at the annual 4-H achievement program scheduled for Saturday afternoon, Jan. 20, in the schoolhouse auditorium in Mount Ayr. Lyle FARIS and Barbara SACKETT, county presidents, will preside at the meeting. Presentations will be made by Mrs. Frank HORNE and Maurice HANSON, chairman of the 4-H committees, who selected the members for recognition of their outstanding 4-H club work during the 1960-1961 club year.

In spite of snow, cold weather and drifted roads, 114 persons attended the Mount Ayr Community high school's second annual college, technical and trade school night held Monday of last week. The number included 41 students, 43 parents and 30 representatives of colleges, trade and technical schools, the armed services and Iowa Highway Patrol.

January 16, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen COLE, Stanberry MO

OBITUARIES in Thursday, January 18, 1962 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Constance Elinor JOHNSON BURDICK   Dallas L. SMITHSON
Joan KIMBERLIN BRADEN   Abner Lee LAY

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2012

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