Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, October 03, 1963

Paus EASON of Washington township was re-elected chairman of the county ASC committee during the annual convention of community delegats held Saturday morning in Mount Ayr. Also elected were Lawrence SWANK of Athens township, vice chairman, and Marshall BARKER of Poe township, third member of the county committee.

Marie EURITT has been chosen as the Mount Ayr Community high school band's candidate for queen at the eighth annual southwest Iowa Band Jamboree to be held Saturday in Clarinda. Miss EURITT, daughter of postmaster and Mrs. Marion EURITT of Mount Ayr, is a junior and a member of the flute section of the high school band.

Mrs. Stella HALE WINGET, 2025 22nd Street, Des Moines, a former resident of Mount Ayr, was recently elected and installed international second vice president, Ladies' Auxiliary Patriarchs Militant of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the World. Mrs. WINGET, the daughter of Mrs. Dattie HALE of Des Moines, and the late Sylvester HALE, graduated from the Mount Ayr high school with the class of 1925.

Neighbors went Monday afternoon to the KELLEY farm in Middle Fork township to put hay in the barn for Billie KELLEY, who was injured Thursday evening in a power saw accident. Men who performed the good neighbor deed for Mr. Kelley were Leslie RAUCH, Howard JOHNSTON, C. L. NICHOLS, Claud RINEHART, Hollis RINEHART, Wayne HENSLEY, Phil DRAKE, Ora MILLER and John THOMAS.

A car-truck collision, which happened Friday morning about 7:30 o'clock, one mile north of the Benton corner, claimed the life of a teenager of the Benton vicinity and injured a Mount Ayr youth. Dead at the scene was Eugene David BANNER, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Vilas BANNER of Waubonsie township, and driver and sole occupant of the car. Driver of the truck was Dick STEPHENS, son of Merle STEPHENSES of Mount Ayr, who was confined until yestrday in the Ringgold County Hospital while convalescing from ehad and facial lacerations and body contusions.

Twenty-two recipients of the prized National Merit Scholarships are enrolled at Iowa State University, Ames, this fall. Six freshman have joined 16 upperclassmen in the National Merit group, including among who is Paul G. LAY, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur LAY of Kellerton, whose cirricula area is mathematics.

October 01, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen COLE of Stanberry MO

OBITUARIES in October 03, 1963 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Eugene David BANNER

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2013

 

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