Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, April 25, 1963

Conversion to a dial system of several telephone exchanges in Ringgold county will occur during the third quarter of 1964. This statement was made by Walter HAMILTON, state manager of the Iowa State Telephone Corporation, who presented a progress report Thursday evening during the regular meeting of the Mount Ayr Businessmen's Club. The exchanges scheduled for the change over include Beaconsfield, Kellerton, Mount Ayr, Delphos, Maloy and Benton, which were purchased in recent years by the Iowa State Telephone Corporation. Mr. HAMILTON stated that $1,400,000 will be spent in Ringgold county in construction and work incident to the conversion. Buildings will be constructed at Mount Ayr, Kellerton and Benton.

Mrs. John TAYLOR of Diagonal, vice chairman of the Ringgold County Extension Family Living Committee, will attend the rural Homemakers Leadership Recognition Program, sponsored by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce on May 2 in Omaha, NE. Mrs. TAYLOR will be accompanied by the chairmen of the Family Living Committees in Taylor and Union counties and Mrs. Helen STREEBIN, Ringgold county extension assistant in home economics.

En route to Mount Ayr from a five-weeks' trip through the southwest, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh BURCHETT were injured Thursday about 9 a.m. in a car-truck collision in Leavenworth, KS. The BURCHETTS had stopped at a red light in Leavenworth when their car was struck in the rear by a refrigeration truck. With the BURCHETTS in Leavenworth was their daughter, Mrs. Darrell POWERS of Kellerton.

Thieves entered two places of business in Kellerton early Thursday morning. At the Kellerton Lumber and Coal Company, operated by Harold HARVEY, the loot included a drill, several drill bits, two punches, two chisels and $5 in change from the cash register. The other break-in was at Drake's Grocery, owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Loren DRAKE, which the thieves entered by breaking a glass at the rear of the building. Only a 32-caliber pistol was taken.

Paul LAY of Kellerton, a senior of the Mount Ayr Community high school, has been awarded a Shell Merit Scholarship in nation-wide competition. The scholarship, established by the Shell Companies Foundation, Inc., provides for the recipient a total of $4,400 for a four-year course of study at Iowa State University in Ames.

Members of the Kellerton Volunteer Fire Department have launched a fund-raising campaign, the ultimate goal of which is to procure sufficient money to purchase an oxygen resuscitator for use in their community and, in case of an emergency, in other localities.

April 22, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Leroy McNEESE, Sheridan MO

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Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2013

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