Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 17, 1961

Candidates for queen of the Mormontown [Blockton] centennial observance to be held at Blockton, August 23 to 26 are Olive KING, Lynette KING, Jackie SCHOEMANN, Marcelene LOGHRY, Phyllis RUSCO, Judy HEYLE, Kay SEIFFERT, Jane ABERNATHY, Dixie MILLER, Ruth HILL, Pat HILLERS, Mary POORE, Lynda LARISON, Vetra GOFF, Sharon GROFF, Paulette CAMPBELL and Jillene MORRIS.

Construction of a new post office building at Kellerton was advanced with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward DAY that a contract has been awarded to Quentin V. ANDERSON of Ellston to build and lease the building to the post office department. The new post office at Kellerton will be constructed on a site containing approximately 4,125 square feet. The building will have an interior space of 1,025 square feet and ample paved areas for parking and moving of postal vehicles.

Nomination petitions qualifying two men as candidates for positions on the board of education of the Mount Ayr Community school district have been filed with Mrs. Pearl BEATH, district secretary. Papers have been filed for Emeral WHEELEN of Maloy who will be a candidate to succeed himself in district No. 3 and papers also have been filed for Barton ABARR of Redding who will be a candidate from district No. 4. Harold COMBS, a director from district No. 4, will not be a candidate to succeed himself.

Merchandise, including two rifles, two cartons of shotgun shells and two pairs of sneakers, and approximately $11 in cash were taken Wednesday night of last week in a break-in at the Wm. S. BRECKENRIDGE Store in Tingley. Two other break-ins occurred in the area the same night. At Shannon City, the RUCKMAN Implement Company was entered, but nothing was taken. From FOOTE'S Tavern in Arispe, merchandise in the amount of $15 and $25 in cash were taken.

The executive committee of the Mount Ayr Community Improvement Council held its meeting on August 8. President Ruth ANGUS opened the meeting with a summary of the swimming pool situation and reported that there were three possible methods by which a pool might be provided. One is the Legion committee, chairmaned by Lyle DULANY, which is still considering the circulation of petitions throughout the county. Another is the possibility of obtaining state permission to construct a pool at Loch Ayr, through the Ringgold County Sportsmen's Club and the third is the correction of existing problems at the site of the old reservoir.

Two neighbors in the Star Center area southeast of Diagonal came within inches of a head-on crash in their automobiles Tuesday forenoon and what might easily have been a fatal accident resulted only in heavy damage to the cars involved. Mrs. Norman KLEJCH, with her two daughters, Janelle and Sherri, were driving south on the dirt road justwest of the KLEJCH home, and Charles SOBOTKA was returning from Mount Ayr, when their cars sideswiped at the crest of a hill. Both cars slid along roadside banks after the crash and came to a stop without injury to any of the occupants of the cars.

Mary Jane CHINN, television personality, will feature a "Salute to Mount Ayr" on her afternoon program to be presented Thursday, August 24, at 1 p.m. on KRNT-TV, Channel 8, Des Moines. To be interviewed are C. Arthur HANSEN, superintendent of the Mount Ayr Community schools; Arch C. DUNFEE, co-owner of the Mount Ayr Furniture Store and the Prugh-Dunfee Funeral Home and president of the Mount Ayr businessmen's Club and two housewives -- Mrs. Vance GEIGER of Redding and Mrs. Charles W. LAWHEAD.

Neighbors and friends of the Marvis WILSON family of Redding went Monday and Tuesday of last week to their farm and mowed and baled 1,600 bales of hay. The WILSONS were injured in an auto accident on July 23, since which time Mr. WILSON has been unable to do his farm work and chores.

August 11, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin RICE, Mount Ayr

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