Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, July 21, 1955

Mrs. Francis SMITH of Tingley was elected by the board of education to serve the Mount Ayr schools as teacher of one section of the second grade. She is a resident of Tingley where she lives with her husband and son who will be a freshman in high school this year. Mrs. SMITH'S educational credentials include two years at Creston Junior College and a summer at Drake Community College in Leon. She has had previous teaching experience in the fifth and sixth grade classes.

Joe OLNEY, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Eguene OLNEY of Redding, was injured Saturday afternoon about 2 p.m. on the Bill AUSTIN farm, four and one-half miles northeast of Redding. Joe and his father had returned after eating their noon meal to the farm, where they and Joe's two older brothers, Carroll, 20, and Evan, 16, were combining oats and loading them on a 2-T Chevrolet truck. Being tired and hot, the two lay down under the truck and went to sleep. After the truck had been loaded with approximately 300 bushels of oats, Carroll and Evan called to their father. He responded and after getting into the cab started the truck and backed up. Mr. OLNEY was unaware that Joe was still under the truck and in backing it, two wheels passed over the boys's body.

The injured youth was brought in the Prugh ambulance from Grant City, MO to the hospital where X-rays showed that he had suffered fractures of his right leg above the knee and left shoulder, an injured lung and bruises over his entire body.

A sample of Ringgold county corn, which gives promise of a bumper yield, is on display at the Record-News office. The tall, healthy, dark green stalk, containing two ears, is from the S. C. STANLEY nine-acre tract at the west edge of Mount Ayr. Mr. STANLEY said about seven out of nine stalks have two ears. The seed was planted the last day of April.

Dale POTTORFF of Riley township suffered the loss of about one-third of his foot Friday when it was caught in the cylinder of his combine. He was rushed to the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr where he received emergency treatment and later submitted to surgery.

Aerial spraying for grasshoppers got under way yesterday at the Cleo LYNCH and Jess STEPHENS farms, according to Verdon PAYNE, county extension director. Mr. PAYNE said many others will probably want to use this type of spraying when they learn the service is available. Those who want the service should contact his office.

July 18, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur MILLER, Diagonal

OBITUARIES in July 21, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:

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