LOOKING BACK in the Early Files by Lora Stull

The jury which heard the evidence in the trial of “Big George” Gibson at Creston returned a verdict of “guilty” this morning at 8:30 o’clock and recommended life imprisonment.

Fredrick Newton Olliver, highly respected resident of Redding vicinity, dies suddenly. Redding Herald: “The community was saddened on Friday when word was passed about of the sudden death of F. N. Olliver at his home east of town.

He came to Iowa in his boyhood days with his parents, settling at Allendale, Missouri, where they resided for about three years, then removing to a farm south of Redding, near Honey Grove, where he remained until he enlisted at the age of eighteen years in Company I, of the seventh Iowa Infantry, where he served his country until the close of the Civil War. His enlistment was voluntary. He was with General Sherman on his historical March To The Sea, and still vividly recalled the stirring incidents of that memorable journey.

Marriage: May 23, Valere Fierce and Leland Dalbey.

Birth: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Sanders and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Crawford.

Obituaries in this edition were: Fredrick Newton Olliver, Almeda McCurdy, Marshall Verle Leeper, Clara Ella Canfield Russell, Leone Munyon Ross, Charles O. Morse, and Mary Dorff Hopson.

Miss Opal Oveda Hall is now vacationing in Colorado, after concluding a successful season as forward on the basketball team sponsored by Quick magazine.

Miss Hall was chosen as a forward on the first all-tournament team in the 1951 Gold Medal Tournament. During the tournament she was also awarded three gold medals, the first for being high scorer; the second for having been a member of the first all-state tournament team, and the third for qualifying for first place as an outstanding player and winning the U. S. Federation Honor Medal, making her eligible for an All-American team.

Miss Hall, 17 years of age, and daughter of Mrs. Cora Hall, of Benton, graduated from the Benton high school with the class of 1950. The day following her graduation she began working for the Look, Quick and Flare Magazine Company in Des Moines.

News of Our Men in the Armed Services

Pvt. Roger Morrison, of Fort Hood, Texas, arrived Saturday on 72-hour leave, and was met in Kanas City, Mo., by his parents, Mr. nd Mrs. H. J. Morrison. On Monday he was flown back to the army air base by Carl F. Petersen and two children, of Mount Ayr, who are vacationing for a few days in Texas.

Lieut. and Mrs. Kenneth Fouser left Thursday for Marietta, Ga., where he is assigned to “Special Air Missions,” at the Dobbins Air Force Base, concluding a visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Cole and Bonnie, of Mount Ayr, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emnett Fouser and Gloria, of Beaconsield.

Robert L. Maloy, AL3, left May 28th from San Diego, Calif., for Iwaeuni, Japan. He is an aviation radioman on a navy seaplane, PBM, doing anti-submarine patrol work.

Marriage: May 29, Erma Vandervelde and Thomas McKeown and May 26, Leota Lovitt and Gerald Halloran.

Births: June 5, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yashack.

Obituaries in this edition were: Oral Glenn Miller, Mrs. Luke E. O’Connor Hart, Harriett Minerva Meadows Allen, Edna Reynard Hardy and Lura J. Patterson Clayton.

Walk-a-thon winners get US bonds.

Five winners of a $25 savings bond each for their participation in the May 8 Ringgold County Heart association walk-a-thon have been announced. A final total of money collected in this event which saw 70 youth walk the 12 mile route from Mount Ayr to Wishard Chapel and back was $1,553.54, according to co-chairmen Larry Giles and Clyde Summers.

The bonds were prizes offered to the youth from each grade fourth through eighth who collected the most money paid on pledges of so much per mile. Winners, the grades they represented and amounts collected include: Peter Hayse, fourth grade, $113.60; Eric Dredge, fifth grade, $44; Susan Hughes, sixth grade, $183.70; Karen Andrews, seventh grade, $62.80, and Sheldon Comer, eighth grade,

$26.

Stolen car at Blockton  recovered same day.  At 4:10 a.m. Sunday, May 30,

Mrs. Arlo Stewart of Blockton reported a car stolen that morning and was found about 5:30 the same day.

A subject was apprehended by Ringgold County deputy sheriff, Lyle Minnick and Larry King of the Ringgold sheriff’s posse.

The 1971 Plymouth was missing from the farm home of the Arlo Stewarts located 13 miles west and three miles south of Mount Ayr. .

Charged by Ringgold County sheriff’s department personnel with operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent was Frances Ann Baird, 25, of Newton. She was released on $5,000 bond.

When Lonnie Horne graduated Tuesday, May 25, 1976 from Mount Ayr Community high school, he ended a chain of Horne family members’ continuous attendance in Mount Ayr schools since the late 1870s. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Horne, who own and operate Horne Hardware here, he was the last Horne in this community of school age. There have been youth from the families of two brothers, Dr. William Horne and John Horne, in school here almost since there were schools in session in Mount Ayr. There were three in Dr. Williams’ family – Minnie Horne Sheldon, Otto Horne and Charlie Horne.

Marriage: March 6, Roni Shields and Charles Waske..March 26, Chris Sharp and Dwight Herr.

Obituary in this edition was Will Butterfield.

A Mount Ayr community high school student will depart in July to live with a volunteer host family and attend school in Germany.

Clara Terrell of Maloy is a resipient of the prestigious Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange Program scholarship through Youth for Understanding International Exchange which pays for her costs for the exchange year.

Students at the South Central Alternative Learning Center have recently completed construction of a set of fitness stations next to the existing walking trail at Judge Lewis Park.

Obituaries in this edition were: Curtis Dale Bagley, Melissa Kaye Clymer, Rev. Frank Mueller Sr., Thomas Michael Seiffert, Lyle Raymond Todd, Pearl June Warin, Hazel Waive Cole Wehrle.

The Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office has a new K-9 team: Ringgold County deputy Landon White and his K-9 Heky. Because of White’s extensive experience in law enforcement and in working with canines, Sheriff Mike Sobotka chose him to be the Sheriff’s office new canine handler.

Faith Lodge #179 A.F. & A.M. in Mount Ayr will celebrate their 150th birthday on Saturday, June11.

Obituaries in this edition were: Twilla Ruth Hall Lininger and Marlene Joan Giles Zarr.