Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 21, 1963

The Grand Valley chapter of Future Farmers of America was complimented at a dinner served Wednesday night of last week in the Kellerton gymnasium in recognition of having been the Iowa high challenger last year with 191.46 bushels per acre in a test plot contest, sponsored by the Funk Bros. Seed Co., host for the occasion. The courtesy honored Harold FOLAND and members of the chapter for the record set in a new adventure in corn raising, Funk's G-Hybrid "304 Bushel Challenge," part of a nationwide project to challenge Future Farmers of America to greater achievement in growing America's foremost crop -- corn. Through the efforts of the entire chapter membership, the 91.46 bushels of corn were produced on a one-acre plot on land owned by Dalton McCUTCHAN, eight miles north of Grand River, and farmed in partnership with Roy FOLAND, father of Harold FOLAND.

Members of the Grand Valley Chapter, Future Farmers of America, Iowa high challenger were James ETHINGTON, reporter; Monte BAKER, secretary; Evert HUNSICKER, advisor; Harold FOLAND; Conrad WOODARD, president; Monte AKERS, parliamentarian, and Jerry HOWES, sentinel.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald (Jake) DAILEY went last evening to Des Moines, from where they left this (Thursday) morning at 7 a.m. for Mexico. The DAILEYS won the one-week, expense-paid trip to Mexico in a drawing held during a meeting of the Life Investors Insurance Company of Iowa last November in Cedar Rapids.

Earl MERRITT and Bert GROSE, winners of the 1962 Iowa Master Corn Growers Contest, were honored guests at the last regular meeting of the Kellerton Lions Club. Other guests were Mrs. GROSE and Maude MERRITT. Mr. MERRITT was awarded a bronze medal and a certificate for having produce 131.62 bushels per acre, and Mr. GROSE, with a production record of 112.29 bushels per acre, received a bronze medal.

Jerry WAUGH, outstanding member of the Mount Ayr Raiders basketball team and the highest scorer in the history of the school, has been named scoring champion of the Tall Corn Conference. In 10 conference games played this year, WAUGH scored 291 points, for a game average of 29.1.

The Ringgold Mutual Insurance Association is joining in the sponsorship of the telecast of the Iowa boys state high school basketball tournament on March 22-23.

Nancy BLUNCK, outstanding guard of the Raiderettes basketball team, has been named to two all-state teams and an All-Southwest Iowa team. Miss BLUNCK was selected on the Omaha World's first All-Southwest Iowa team; to the second all-state team of the Iowa Daily Press Association, and as a member of the Des Moines Register's third all-state team. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy BLUNCK of Benton, Nancy is a junior in the Mount Ayr Community high school.

March 19, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald YOUNG, Mount Ayr

OBITUARIES in March 21, 1963 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Homer Arlington FOSTER

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

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