For 18-year-old Francisco Garcia RUBIO, the lack of activing in the streets is one of the first differences he noticed between Tingley and his home city of Granada, Spain. Francisco is an exchange student on the National Cultural Exchange Program who arrived August 5 in the home of Rev. Merlin and Margaret WILKINS of Tingley to be here one month.

A two-and-one-half-pound potato measuring seven inches long, representative of the good potato crop many are having, was grown in the garden of Cecil and Maxine KENDIG of Mount Ayr.

A tea was held recenlty to honor the Gray Ladies, a group organized in Mount Ayr in April of 1954. Gray Lady volunteers have helped to check eyes and ears and have also done work at the hospital as part of the Red Cross organization as Red Cross volunteers.

Fire badly damaged a tractor Friday, August 16, about 6:30 p.m. but did not spread to the gas transport it was pulling. The semi-tractor belonged to John WARIN of Maloy and was being driven by Merle DRAKE of Mount Ayr. Mount Ayr volunteer firemen were called to the scene. Fire was thought to have started around the motor.

Jenny and Jody SHIELDS, 13-year-old identical twin daughters of Jerry and Norma SHIELDS of rural Mount Ayr, placed third in the Iowa State Fair "Twins, Triplets, and More" contest held August 15 at the Iowa State Fair, sponsored by the Des Moines Mothers of Twins Club. The SHIELDS girls were entered in the most alike divison in an age class of eight to 17 years. There were 16 pairs in this competition.

An accident which totalled ($20,000) a cement truck loaded with seven cubic yards of cement, saw the driver, Wayne WARD of Mount Ayr, able to walk away unhurt. This happened to a 1975 Ford cement truck belonging to Midwest Ready Mix, Inc. of Mount Ayr about 8:30 a.m. August 13, two miles north of Kellerton on county road P68. A report to the sheriff's office indicated that as WARD came up to a stop sign, the brakes failed and as the truck was being turned out of the intersection, it upset.

The Beaconsfield United Methodist Church has weathered the burning to the ground November 18, 1949 of the second of three buildings used to house the congregation, a declining population and different organizational arrangements. After 100 years it still is serving Beaconsfield and the surrounding rural community.

August 17, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald CREVELING, Ellston

OBITUARIES in August 22, 1985 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Burl Elvin BRINER   Merrel Leano DeHART JAMES   Clyde F. DeBOLT

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2010

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