Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 21, 1962

Mount Ayr Assembly No. 160, Order of the Rainbow For Girls, was honored at the Grand Assembly of the group held in Mason City, by having Worthy Advisor Carole CHICKEN appointed as Grand Representative from Iowa to Washington and Idaho. Miss CHICKEN will be Iowa's contact between these two states.

Joe CUNNING, graduate student in chemical engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, has been granted a National Science Foundation summer teaching fellowship in the amount of $900. He was one of 868 students in the United States to receive a like fellowship

Tingley - Wayne RICHARDS, an instructor in the Zelker School, Austin, Texas, for the last five years, has been appointed head teacher in the Winn School in Austin, with an increase in salary.

Crown Point - Loren ELLIOTT of Sioux City, has accepted the position of area engineer in thirteen northeastern counties of Kansas, and he and his family will move to Topeka, the home office.

Mrs. Bill MONAGHAN, who began work recently in the Security State Bank, fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Mrs. Dennis DRAKE.

Wishard Chapel - Newly elected officers of the M.Y.F. are Paul LAY, president; Sherry COOPER, vice-president; Linda LAY, secretary, and Mary MARTIN, treasurer.

Installed as officers of the Mount Ayr Lions Club are Royce DAVIS, president; Arch DUNFEE, Dale HERRINGTON and Don HARVEY, first, second and third vice-presidents, respectively; Merrill PERRY, Tail Twister; Walter PRITCHARD, Lion Tamer, and Chas. J. LESAN, secretary-treasurer.

The first Model Car Show was held at the Mount Ayr Roller Rink, with 66 entries exhibted by boys between the age of 10 and 21 years. Judges were Max BOND, Bob EVANS and Kenneth OXLEY and trophies were presented the winners by Mary Lou MULLENAX. First place winners in the eight divisions were Jim FRIDAY (2), Gary MAIN (3), Allen HUDSON, Dan SICKELS and Chuck McGEHEE. Tropies were awarded by Max's Body Shop, McNeiley Drug, Lucky Lanes, Bob's Barbershop, Irving's, Ben Franklin Store, Horne Hardware, Main Motor and Lester SICKELS.

Members of the MACHS graduating class, who received scholarship awards during the Class Day program, were Bonnie MILLER, P.T.A.; Jinny THOMAS, Floy BLISS; Betty SACKETT, Methodist Men's; Jim DENHART, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben; Jim BOWEN, Ruth Anne Place and American Citizenship award; Paul RUCKMAN and John ALLEN, Charles J. LEWIS, and Gary KEPLINGER, Mount Ayr Businessmen's Club.

Arlen BROWN, general science instructor in the Mount Ayr Community High School for the last four years, has signed a contract to teach biology in the Indianola High School during the 1962-63 term.

Mr. and Mrs. John EVANS of Des Moines, are the parents of a daughter, June Marie, born June 13, in the Iowa Methodist Hospital. The parental grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Roland EVANS of Mount Ayr.

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 21, 1962

The Blue Grass bowling title was won by the Irving Clothing team. The sponsor was Dave IRVING and members of the team were Darlene IRVING, Mary Lee DRAKE, Helen SCARDEIN, Marilyn MONAGHAN and Athena STRANGE. The Record-News, in a play-off with the West End Market quintet, won the Matinee League bowling title. Members of the winning team were Betty BRADLEY, Colleen REYNOLDS, Florence LAWHEAD, Roberta MORGAN, Pearl DAVIS and Frankie MEACHAM. The losing team in the roll-off was composed of Hazel ANDERSON, captain; Irene CUNNING, Mildred ELLIOTT, Evelyn RICKER, Joy MITCHELL and Mary NEWTON. Joy MITCHELL, a member of the losing team, received a special award patch for picking up the Big 4 Split.

Neighbors went Friday afternoon to the farm of Wayne EMIG and picked up bales of hay and cultivated corn for Mr. EMIG, who recently was hospitalized. Those who assisted with the act of kindness were Richard and Roger O'DELL, Jimmie PAYTON, Porter HAVELY, Dick MYERS, LeRoy and Harry TRIMBLE, Steve and Burbin PADGITT, Frank PIERSON, Raymond ELLIOTT and Lawrence COMBS.

"Signs" are in evidence through-out the city that better things are to come in Mount Ayr. Erect pieces of gas pipe, which will eventually support four-way metal street signs, have been placed on every corner. They will supplant the nearly 30-year-old wooden signs, erected as a NYA (National Youth Administration) project during the New Deal era. The work of digging holes, pouring concrete and setting the 10-foot gas pipes was recently completed by the street department.

A fire, Tuesday afternoon, which is believed to have started in an outlet box, did considerable damage to the northwest classroom of the vocational agriculture building in Mount Ayr. The building was unoccupied when the fire was discovered by two passersby, Jim WARD and Kenny MARKLEY. The youths noticed smoke emitting from the building and informed Merrill PERRY, who called the fire department.

The swimming pool committee has been active since its last report. Pools at Hamburg and Rockport, Grant City and Albany, MO have been visited and the committee received a favorable report from each. All of the towns gave the impression that a swimming pool is a must for a progressive, forward-moving community. Last weekend, a check in the amount of $50 was received in the Record-News office from Dr. Fay O. NORRIS of Houston, TX, a former resident of Mount Ayr and Ringgoldcounty, who maintains an interest in both, as his contribution.

Two new signs of special significance to the residents of Mount Ayr are now located along Highway Nos.2 and 169. The signs, which read, "Public Water Supply Approved by Iowa Department of Health," were installed by employees of the maintenance department of the Iowa State Highway Commission.

Two modern, chrome, adjustable and collapsible wheelchairs have been presented to the Ringgold County Hospital as gifts of the late Mrs. Sue M. LESAN of Mount Ayr.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2012

 

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