Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 19, 1963

The vocational agriculture department and chapter of Future Farmers of America of the Mount Ayr Community high school were recently selected to represent Iowa in the preparation of an educational TV taped program. The program, entitled "Abundant Future," and characterized by youth organization, will be prepared tonight (Thursday) at 8 p.m. WHO-TV will carry the program at a date to be announced later. Chet Randolph, farm newscaster for WHO, will narrate the program. Representing the two local organizations on the program will be R. E. HAUPTMANN, advisor; Ronnie ____, chapter president; Dale BICKEL, an F.F.A. member who is presently engaged in farming; and Dan CUNNING, former chapter member and a businessman of the community. They will go to Des Moines at 1 p.m. this afternoon and report directly to Station KDPS-TV at Tech high school.

The theft of personal property estimated at several thousand dollars from the Wayne JOHNSON home, eight miles southeast of Mount Ayr, is being investigated by county peace officers.

Two youths of the Ellston vicinity, Mike GILES, 16, and Bob GILES, 14, were injured Friday night about 11:15 p.m. in a one-car accident. The brothers were en route to the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren GILES, after attending the East Union-Raiders basketball game in Mount Ayr. Just east of the schoolhouse on the main street of Tingley, the station wagon dirven by Mike skidded on an icy stretch of the road and caused it to go into a ditch and strike a cement culvert.

Joe McNEILL, head football coach of the Mount Ayr Community high school, who was recently selected by the Des Moines Register as "Prep Coach of the Year," will be honored by the community during a program to be presented Monday night, Dec. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gymnasium.

Cecil DAVENPORT of Omaha, NE, is a patient in the Ringgold County Hospital, convalescing from back and chest injuries suffered Saturday afternoon about 3:30 p.m. when he was run over by a car. DAVENPORT, who was hunting about three miles east of Caledonia in company with several local men, was riding on the fender of a 1959 Pontiac driven by Murray SHAHA, when he fell off and the car ran over him. DAVENPORT, an employee of the Gates Steel Company in Omaha, and Mrs. DAVENPORT were spending the weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. REYNOLDS, Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Roy DAVENPORT, all of the Kellerton vicinity at the time of the accident.

A man and his wife won the top money offered Tuesday in the holiday drawing for cash conducted by the retail committee of the Mount Ayr Businessmen's Club. They are Mr. and Mrs. Otto SALTZMAN of Poe township, each of whom won $50.00

December 17, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis POWELL, Mount Ayr

OBITUARIES in December 19, 1963 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Frederick James BIRD   Oveda Exene LAY
Frank L. McCREARY   Harold L. SMITH

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2014

 

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