Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 17, 1959

On December 1 Earl PICKENS assumed the duties of manager of the Hy-Vee Food Store in Beford. Mr. PICKENS, son of Mrs. Audrey PICKENS of this city, had served for the past two years as assistant manager of the Hy-Vee Store in Ford Madison, prior to which he was employed in Ames. He was joined Tuesday in Bedford by Mrs. PICKENS, the former Donna LILES of Mount Ayr, and their three daughters, Candy, Barbara and Ann.

On the event of his retirement from 30 years of continous service with the Iowa Southern Utilities Company in Mount Ayr, Charles R. TRIMBLE was honored at a party held November 30 in the home of manager and Mrs. Darrell REED and sons.

Sixty-three Ringgold county boys and girls became new 4-H members during the enrollment month of November. The list included 26 boys and 37 girls.

Petitions for the establishment of a new Mount Ayr Community school district in Ringgold and Taylor counties are on file in the office of Vera F. DICKENS, county superintendent of schools. The proposed new district would embrace the present district of 308 square miles and the Tingley Independent and Tingley Township districts of 21 square miles.

Glen HUTCHINSON, who owns an operates a grocery store in Diagonal, suffered cuts and bruises Saturday night about 11 o'clock when his pickup went out of control in the dense fog and overturned at the junction of Highways 66 and 2, five miles west of Mount Ayr.

Three young people were injured, one seriously, in a one-car accident which happened Sunday morning at 2:15 o'clock, two miles east of the west county line on Highway 2. Most seriously injured was Dennis POWELL, 21, of Mount Ayr who suffered broken ribs and severe scalp wounds. Other occupants of the car were Patricia WALTER, 18, of Lenox, who suffered a bruised ankle; Nancy WESTLAKE, 15, of Lenox, whose back was injured; and Dennis WARD, 22, of Mount Ayr, who escaped injury.

Neighbors and friends gathered December 7 at the home of Mrs. Annis WARDEN of Blockton and picked her corn.

December 16, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert KIBBE, Mount Ayr

OBITUARIES in December 17, 1959 Mount Ayr Record-News:

George Hubert FERGUSON   Benjamin Franklin SEATON

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012

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