Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 26, 1981

Cost cutting programs that will reduce costs in the Grand Valley Community School District by nearly $10,000 for next year have been announced by William HULLINGER, superintendent of schools for the district. The cuts, which may have to go deeper yet depending upon clarification of finances at the state and federal levels, deal with programs for the summer of 1981 and the 1981-81 school year.

Cost cutting measures include dropping Title I aid from the program, shortening most field trips to within 15 miles, discontinuing employement of a part-time cook in the lunchroom program, dropping fall baseball and softball from extracurricular activities, dropping scheduling of a practice bus for the regular year as well as summer, eliminating the summer swimming bus, instituting a charge of $20 per night for utilization of either the Grand River or Kellerton buildings and elimination of buses for the junior high program and the little league baseball program, though the programs will be kept.

Maurice CARR, a Ringgold county retired basketball coach, Administrator and teacher and Maloy high school and University of Northern Iowa player, was the honoree at a reception held at the Howard Johnson Motel in Des Moines Saturday night.

Seven students from Mount Ayr Community high school's Office Education Association will be representing the state of Iowa and the local school at the national OEA conference held in San Antonio, TX, May 9-22.

Dedication and open house for the new Mount Ayr Community junior high-senior high school complex has been scheduled for Sunday, April 5. A program and tours of the new facility are planned for that afternoon.

The mother of a Mount Ayr man was killed in an accident when a pickup collided with a semi-trailer truck at the intersection of the Macksburg Road and U.S. Highway 169 shortly after 7 p.m. March 19. Vergie Bess MAPES, 67 of Winterset, mother of Gail MAPES of Mount Ayr, was killed, along with the driver of the pickup, Harold Everett SMITH, 71 of Macksburg. Charles Edward JACKSON, 35 of Azensville, IN, the driver of the semi, received leg injuries but refused any medical treatment, according to authorities.

According to Madison county sheriff's office, the semi was driving south on 169 and SMITH was driving the pickup eastbound on the Macksburg road.

March 22, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Mark CADOTTE, Clearfield

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