Ada Weekly News, The (Newspaper) - July 29, 1965, Ada, Oklahoma Willy Weakly ran across a new term passed on from a friend from North Dakota The term is snirt What is Dirty Snow By Mail in Pontotoc And Adjoining Counties Single Copy 10 Cents Only Per Year Combined With The Ada YEAR ADA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JULY 29 1965 8 PAGES NO 12 Old Couple Were True Pioneers Martha and William Ross pioneers WEEKLY Photo To Spank Or Not To Spank That Is The Question By ERNEST THOMPSON The Teacher of a child attending a public school shall have the same right as the parent to control and dis- such child during the time the child is in ance or in transit to the school or classroom presided over by the teacher homa Statutes 1949 That's the law But what's the In this age of psychological soul-searching is the school paddle wielded with such authority not many years ago In some areas of the tion it is Teachers and cation authorities look upon it as a symbol of scarred young psyches brute force punishment for the sake of punishment a cal answer to a psychological problem Oklahoma has not gone quite that far yet In fact if this area of the state is typical corporal ment may be on the verge of a comeback No school in the county absolutely forbids ment by spanking A few use it with dexterity others reluctantly The Ada public school tem is in the latter category There is no hard-and-fast rule about paddling school children here but it is a rare thing and practically nonexistent above the grade school level In fact Elton Stewart principal at Ada High not remember a high school paddling since he's been in the Ada system We don't believe in dling the older students Stewart said last week We feel that the parents of the older kids can handle it better than we can If an of- fense is serious enough we simply send the student home or place him on tion What about the smaller Finis Morrison who has principal at Washington Grade School since 1941 says his school resorts to ing in exceptional cases and when everything else has failed I am not philosophically opposed to paddling kids who deserve Morrison says But I believe in using it as a last resort A bit different view is ex- pressed by the dents of two of the area's largest high schools ers Sybil Stokes of Stonewall and Marvin Stokes of Byng We still use the the Stonewall Stokes says We don't do it unless we think it will help the sters but there are times when nothing else will work In grade school ly I don't see how a teacher can maintain discipline out using the paddle Of course it depends on what the offense is Continued on Page Two By DON COOK In his younger days William M Ross 92 Lovelady managed a farm with a team of mules that today would keep modern machinery busy Ross who recently celebrated his wedding was born in Fannin County Texas came to Oklahoma in the early and has lived and farmed here for 60 years My father was a rancher in Texas so it was natural for me to said Ross During most of his farming career Ross has kept 200 acres in oats wheat corn or cotton Back in those days wheat was my big money crop One year I grossed 1000 bushels and sold them for a each although this was he added The oldtimer and his wife Martha reared five boys and two girls Of course they helped with the farming operations I used to keep a lot full of mules and keep em all busy I've never owned a tractor in my life Droughts and hot winds were common in those days and Ross had his share of bad luck because of them One year 1907 his whole corn crop was lost because of a drought Ross sold most of his wheat and cotton to markets in Ada Some of it was bought at a train stop at The also raised plenty of cattle and hogs in his career I used to sell bacon for ten cents a said Ross That price is gone forever Ross said some years he held back as much as 15 or 20 bails of cotton from the market hoping for better prices the following year Most of the cotton harvest was done by Negro labor We had one old Negro preacher named Hightower who looked after the younger workers He was a very religious man and would make the others pray before going to bed Sometimes he would take a long leather strap to the ones We sure got a kick out of that old said Mrs Ross While Ross was raising his wheat and cotton his wife Martha was raising her chickens One year she raised 300 and that year turned out to be her downfall She checked her chickens every and going about the task one day discovered someone had stolen every chicken down to the last feather Shortly after this someone borrowed all her coops for the transporting of chickens to market she learned later the person who had stolen her chickens also borrowed her coops People had their gall in those said Ross Although she is blind in one eye and Mrs Ross still pieces together beautiful quilts She recently j finished one after three weeks of work that has different pieces all by hand needlework She has made hundreds in her lifetime and given away many i This is typical of the true pioneer spirit LAMPSHADE left to right Mn Thurston Bishop Mrs Harold Deathridge and Mrs Hugh Cooper Mrs Bishop and Mrs Cooper watch Mrs Deathridge sewing a fabric on a lamp skeleton The workshop open to everyone interested with Martha Mote in It held at the People's Electric WEEKLY Photo Lance Rodeo Show Lance says Harris Collierville Tenm one of the best bullfighters and clowns in the business is booked for the show Clyde Crenshaw Fore- man Ark will provide stock for the show and Doug Williams Smithville is announcer The Prison Band Oklahoma State County Hay Is Analyzed By C H HAILEY County Agent The Bermuda grass fertility demonstrations at Allen are indicating the importance of adequate fertilizer to maintain high levels of crude protein and the other food nutrients in roughage We have received an j sis of the crude protein content from the first cutting of da grass hay The Noble dation has furnished this mation From the George Bain plot south of Allen the hay lysis showed a crude protein content of per cent From the Bob Pegg acreage the lysis was 11.4 per cent crude protein In comparison with other hay crops produced in the county according to feeds and feeding reference the following ages arc Alfalfa all i lysis 15.3 per cent crude band will play for the first two tein average Bermuda grass up to 200 will day and added Ken Lance is going all out for the early August ance of the Ada Rodeo The show has been increased his year to a four-day stand August 4 through August 7 It will be staged as it was last year at the Ken Lance Sports Arena seven miles southeast of Ada on SH 3 at Union Valley The show this year will be greatly amplified over the 1964 production which was rodeo's first outing in Lance's new arena Parking Better Ken says he has made sub- stantial improvements in ing facilities He has boosted seating capacity to with should average more important in future all in the U-shaped arena i two hours and 20 minutes j stock operations literally on top of the action t breeders are to offer some 60 head of re- cattle and about 300 commercial heifers In a ing of the organization held July 20 some 15 breeders in- Continued on Pane Two Oklahoma Bird Hunting Seasons Are Announced performances Contestants compete for money Also up for grabs be trophy saddles and trophy buckles special hay not fertilized 6.5 per cent average prairie hay per cent crude protein Johnson grass hay 6.5 per cent and dan grass hay all 8.8 per cent The composition of roughages Lance's arena is designed to fed is an important item in insure a remarkably fast computing cattle rations We ing show and Ken says each j are predicting this factor to be OKLAHOMA CITY The De- of Wildlife tion announced the dove and other migratory bird seasons for Oklahoma's 1965 hunting The Wildlife Commission at its regular July meeting in ma City set the seasons within the period established by t h e Federal Government according to Wendell Sever Director of the Department Mourning dove hunters will have 60 again this year to hunt this favorite sporting bird from September 1 through Octo- ber 30 Hunters may lake 12 doves per day with a possession limit of 24 after opening day Shooting hours again this year will be one half hour before sunrise to sunset The hunting of teal during the j special September teal season I on Wister Fort Gibson and lah waterfowl refuges was also approved by the Commission The teal season September 22 through September 30 runs from sunrise to sunset with a daily bag limit of four and a possession limit of eight Charles Gilliam Department Waterfowl Supervisor sized that all hunters will be required to have a special free teal permit which may be quired by writing to the ment's offices Room 5 State Capitol Oklahoma City In addition to the free Gilliam said hunters must comply with all state and federal regulations They must have 3 resident hunting license excluding legal exemptions and if 16 or older a Federal Duck Stamp The deadline for acquiring a teal permit is August 23 According to the Wildlife the early teal season will not affect the length or regulations governing the mal fall duck season It's strictly an experimental Gilliam said on which other special seasons may be based If this one works out without damage to the other game species hunters may be Continued on Page Two RODEO QUEEN CANDIDATES From left to right are Lana Mayer Ada Debbie Col- lier Ada Wandi King Ada and Linda Bolen Stonewall These four girls are the Ken Lance Rodeo quien candidates will held Aug 4 5 6 and 7 WEEKLY Photo He says he will have the cream of the crop from the In- Rodeo Association for contestants Events this year include girls and wild cow riding racing calf roping bull riding bull dogging bareback bronc riding and the wild horse land wild cow races Hank Thompson There is something different i every evening The added j this year is something special Headlining this ment is Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys who will appear during the opening show and play for a big rodeo dance after the performance Wanda Jackson is featured for the of August 6 and her band will also play for a dance after the rodeo Mary Taylor is the featured performer during the show on August 7 and again will appear that evening at the dance after the rodeo George Taylor trick roper appears with his famous dog act Taylor also has a Brahma bull act that will delight rodeo i fans I Yep It Was Hot If you don't believe the official report on Saturday afternoon's heat take this for At p.m the fire de- a run to the Brockway Glass Co plant There was no fire Heat from sand being brought in from a boxcar set off one of the auto- matic sprinklers and ed in the alarm The department made two calls Friday At there was a smoke scare but no fire at the residence of Stanley Voss 122 North Mayfair At p.m a short in the wiring of one of the washing chine motors at the matic Laundry 421 S Mississippi caused an electrical fire Judge Aubrey Assigned Here Superior Court Judge Bob brey Seminole was in Ada Wednesday to preside over a motion docket in District Court Judge Aubrey has been signed by the chief justice of the State Supreme Court to fill in the vacancy here until the governor appoints a successor to fill out the term of the late Judge John Boyce McKeel Judge Aubrey has been on the superior court for 23 years Prior to that he served eight years as county judge of Semi- nole County in Wewoka He is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Oklahoma where he received his law degree in 1928 NEW PICKETT LUNCHROOM This is the new Pickett Grade School lunchroom now under construction The old lunchroom within tht school proper will be used for a room because of Center's annexation with WEEKLY Photo
