Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 02, 1963

Special services with a three-fold purpose -- the dedication of the new parsonage of the First Baptist Church and a new communion table and in honor of the Rev. Orville C. RINEHART, pastor of the church for the past seven years, and Mrs. RINEHART -- will be events of Sunday, May 5.

Camille LAWHEAD of Mount Ayr has been selected by Ringgold Unit 172 to attend Hawkeye Girls State June 16-22 at the State College of Iowa in Cedar Falls. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. LAWHEAD of this city, Miss LAWHEAD is a junior in the Mount Ayr Community high school.

Earnest RICHARDS, 64, retired April 30, as custodian of the Mount Ayr post office after 20 years of continuous service. He began his tenure with the local post office on May 1, 1943, under the late Peter J. McGRATH, postmaster, when the building was only three years old.

Supt. and Mrs. C. Arthur HANSEN, Norman KLEJCH of Diagonal and Emeral WHEELEN of Maloy, members of the board of education of the Mount Ayr Community school district, and their wives, returned Tuesday from Denver, CO, where the men attended the 23rd annual convention of the National School Boards Association.

Eleven men with nine tractors gathered Thursday morning at the Ralph LONG farm and spread fertilizer and plowed and harrowed 24 acres of ground for Mr. LONG, who had been hospitalized for the past three weeks. Those who helped were George STILL, George FLEMING, Clarence MORRISON, Harvey WRIGHT, Rex SICKELS, John SICKELS, Junior DREDGE, Tom NICHOLS, Lyndon NICHOLS, Emeral WHEELEN and Chuck BRABY. Mrs. FLEMING and Mrs. WHEELEN assisted Mrs. LONG in serving a lunch at the noon hour.

Heavy rains, driven by strong winds, swept through Ringgold county during the weekend and a tornado funnel touched down at the Orville WEETER place, known as the Robert ARMSTRONG farm, seven miles south of Mount Ayr, causing damage estimated at $1,500. The storm struck the ARMSTRONG farm Sunday night at 9 p.m., while Mr. and Mrs. WEETER and children were home. One side of the barn was blown away, a shed was destroyed, the haymow door was blown out and trees were uprooted. A sow and 10 pigs in the shed and 80 hogs in the barn were unharmed.

The observance of National Library Week, April 21-27, afforded an occasion for the Mount Ayr Public Library to honor a charter member of its board of trustees. Mrs. Howard TEDFORD, a member of the library board since its organization in 1913, and its president since 1940, was the guest of honor at an open house held Tuesday afternoon of last week in the library.

The Mount Ayr Community junior high Rebel Raiders won their second consecutive Tall Corn Conference track crown in Villisca on Tuesday afternoon, April 23. The Rebel Raiders broke five conference records.

May 01, a son to Tadd and April BAINUM, Urbandale

OBITUARIES in May 02, 1963 Mount Ayr Record-News:

John William PADGITT   Minnie Blanche MINNICK RICE

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2013

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