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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 10, 1955
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr
Franklin MOSER, of Mount Ayr, a graduate student at the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, has been awarded a
$50 U. S. savings bond by the Thomas Paine Foundation of New York City for his essay, "The Importance of Thomas
Paine's 'Crisis Papers' to the Success of the American Revolution." The son of Joe MOSER, Franklin is studying
toward his master of fine arts degree at the university with a major in dramatic arts.
Richard McWILLIAMS, animal husbandry specialist from Iowa State College, Ames, will be a featured speaker at the
Livestock and Forage Clinic to be held Friday, Feb. 18 in the courthouse assembly room in Mount Ayr. D. H. ALLEN, of
Tingley, will serve as chairman of the day's program. Mr. McWILLIAMS will discuss the use of the new drug, Stilbestrol, in
livestock feeding and livestock rations with silage as the major ingredient. Ralph KRENZIN, extension specialist in
agronomy, another guest speaker, will discuss the processing, harvesting and storing of various kinds of silage, such
as corn, grass and sorghum.
Rev. Weldon A. WHITENACK, pastor of the Diagonal Methodist church, joined the faculty of the Mount Ayr schools Monday
to teach morning classes until the close of the present school year. He was hired by the school board to teach the
overflow classes in English and general science and he also conducts a study hall period. Rev. WHITENACK is a graduate of
Iowa State College [present-day Iowa State University], Ames, and served as pastor of the Redding Methodist church
several years before he was recently assigned to the Diagonal church.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
February 05, a son, Richard Allen, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard BRINER, Diagonal
February 05, a daughter, Barbara Lynn, to Mr. and Mrs. Phillip WAKE, Sheridan MO
February 07, a son, Jonny Ray, to Mr. and Mrs. John GARITY, Mount Ayr
OBITUARIES in February 10, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Thos. W. FORD Kenneth William FOUSER
Bernice Beryl LAIRD EURRIT Grace Nellie JOHNSON MURRAY
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012
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