Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, July 31, 1986

One of the top livestock winners at the 1985 Ringgold County Fair was Kim WILLIS who showed the supreme champion heifer -- a purebred Simmental -- in the heifer show Tuesday morning. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis WILLIS of Mount Ayr. Scott WALTERS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale WALTERS of Mount Ayr, showed the grand champion individual market pig. WALTERS also showed the top pen of three. Grand Champion market lamb was shown by Justin AKERS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Monte AKERS of Kellerton. He also showed the top pen of three in the sheep competition.

Four Ringgold County 4-Hers were named as participants or alternates to the Iowa State Fair in the fashion revue and clothing selection competition at the Ringgold County Fair. Tracy FORD and Doug HICKMAN were named as the county's clothing selection finalists, with Terri STEPHENS named as alternate. STEPHENS was also named as the fashion revue participant with Racinda JACKSON named as the alternate. This was the first year that a male participant had entered and won in the clothing selection competition.

Taking the title as the top commercial heifer at the Ringgold County Fair was a heifer shown by Ringgold county fair queen Marcia STAMPER.

Winning the trophy for the grand champion horse shown at halter was John WALLING, who topped a number of the halter classes during the horse show Sunday.

Royal court for the Ringgold county Fair was named at the fair queen contest Sunday night. Marcia STAMPER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle STAMPER, was named fair queen. First runner-up was Jennifer HULLINGER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William HULLINGER of Kellerton, and second runner-up was Mary RYCHNOVSKY, daughter of John and Reba RYCNHOVSKY of Diagonal.

The news was bad on the future of the Miracle Recreation Co. plant in Mount Ayr this week, when an official announcement was given from company headquarters in Grinnell. Miracle Recreation Equipment Co. announced today that it plans to sell its interior seating business. The seating products, sold primarily to fast food restaurants, were added to the company's product line two years ago. They are manufactured at the company's plant in Mount Ayr and a sales office is located in Glendale, CA. The sales office in California will be closed and the Mount Ayr plant will be sold, Miracle announced. The steps by the company will eliminate approximately 65 jobs in Mount Ayr and 15 in Glendale, CA, according to company officials. Ringgold County Development Corp. has offered its help to the Miracle Recreation Company in seeking a buyer for the Mount Ayr facility.

One truckload of hay, collected from the Maloy area last week, went to Des Moines to be sent to the southeastern United States. The drought has caused that area to badly need hay for their cattle and Iowans are attempting to help. The Ringgold County Ministerial Association has allied itself with the "Prairie Fire" organization to collect this and additional hay to be sent. Father John ZEITLER of the Maloy and Mount Ayr Catholic churches, is coordinating the local project, assisted by Rev. Doris KINTON, president of the Ringgold County Ministerial Association.

Dr. Hema PATEL, M.D., had begun her practice in Mount Ayr, she has announced this week. Dr. Bhal PATEL, her husband, started as an associate with Dr. Roy FELL last fall. He is a surgeon and urologist trained in England and Scotland. With the retirement of Dr. FELL, Dr. Hema PATEL and Dr. Bhal PATEL are working together in the same office -- the PATEL Medical Clinic.

July 26, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh WHITSON, Ellston

OBITUARIES in Thursday, July 31, 1986 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Hugh Kenneth BURTON   Margaret Rose CAMPBELL HAYS

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2011

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