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RETOLD OLD NEWS
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 19, 1955
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr
Bert A. STANLEY of Saint Louis, MO contracted last week to serve the Mount Ayr schools as instructor of instrumental
and high school vocal music.
Margareta SANDBERG, International Farm Youth Exchangee, from Sweden, will be the guest speaker on the program, "4-H
On the Air," which will be heard Saturday, May 21, at 12:45 p.m., over KSIB, Creston. Miss SANDBERG arrived May 4
in Ringgold county and is presently residing in the Clarence ECKLUND home in the Shannon City vicinity.
Lowell AUSTIN, of Mount Ayr, has been awarded a Forney Foundation Scholarship to attend Iowa State College, Ames,
this fall. The scholarship, which was presented to Lowell in recognition of his outstanding work in the Future Farmers
of American and 4-H, will pay him a sum of $250 during his freshman year at Iowa State, where he plans to enroll for
a course in agricultural engineering. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam AUSTIN, of Middle Fork township, Lowell is a graduate
this year from the Mount Ayr high school.
Jerry Lee GALBRAITH, 15 years of age, and a sophomore in the Mount Ayr high school, was fatally injured Sunday
afternoon about 3:30 p.m. in a tractor accident one-half mile southeast of Delphos. The accident happened as
the youth was returning on the tractor, an Oliver 88, to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde GALBRAITH, from
the Bob ROACH home, where he had taken a younger sister, Linda, to play. He was driving west on the county road and
as he turned north at the corner a rear wheel went off a bank and the tractor upset. John D. HERREN, of Kellerton,
who drove by a little later, saw the overturned tractor and upon investigation found the injured youth. He was
brought by Mr. HERREN to the Ringgold County Hospital, where he died a few minutes later.
Six boys will represent three Ringgold county high schools in the state high school class B and C track meet Saturday
in Ames. Corky INGRAM will compete for Mount Ayr in the discus and football throw. Charles BLACK will run the mile.
Dennis DRAKE will participate in the 220 and 330. Jim McINTOSH, of Tingley, will compete in the discus and shot. The
lone competitor from Diagonal will be Dick TEPLY, who won the broad jump and was second in the shot put at the
district meet.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
May 11, a daughter, Candace Sue, to Mr. and Mrs. Don HUFF, Kellerton
May 12, a daughter, Paul Jean, to Mr. and Mrs. Pren STEVENS, Allendale MO
May 13, a daughter, Linda Sue, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd GOINS, Diagonal
May 14, a son, Daniel Ross, to Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne RAY, Grant City MO
May 15, a son, Bert Earl, to Mr. and Mrs. Bert DRAKE, Blockton
OBITUARIES in May 19, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Ramon BARNHOUSE David Henry CALDWELL Glenn Rupert HALE
Maggie May HICKERSON THOMPSON : C. R. KEITH
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2012
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