Ada Weekly News, The (Newspaper) - June 9, 1966, Ada, Oklahoma THE PAPER WITH BIGGEST READING BUY IN OKLAHOMA And Adjoining Counties Single Copy 10 Cents Only Per Year Combined With The Ada YEAR ADA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JUNE 9 1966 8 PAGES NO 5 Vietnam Battles By DON COOK We were chasing retreating Viet Cong when my buddy son hit the-deck for cover I lit for cover too but when I looked at Wilson he had a hole in his head This sobering account of tle in Vietnam was told by Marine Corporal Donald L Northcutt Adan who recently returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam Northcutt 22 Is on a leave visiting with his parents Mr and Mrs Delbert cutt 813 West 2nd Ada ners poured in fire but by the time we got to the hut it was empty Blood was everywhere We finally spotted a trail of blood leading off into the jungle We followed it into a clearing where the only cover was a clump of dead bushes with a dike around it Before advancing we poured major air strip on the beach Northcutt said the Marines maintained a camp perimeter about 10 miles around the strip K Com- pany Third Battalion 7th rine Regiment Northcutt said during his duty at Chu Lai his company was in- in 11 major operations CUll wesL inu nua young Marine has seven more my nose and hand wm e the a lot of fire into the cover against the Viet Cong He was We walked on and the only directly involved in the breakup thing I saw was a leg and the Quang Ngai province closed hand sticking out I saw which been controlled by the hand opening and Viet Cong for 20 years it might be a grenade yelled and ducked The shrapnel hit months of duty but will spend that time at a base in South Carolina His action days are over dike protected the rest of my body It was an made weapon he said et Northcutt said the steel was He was awarded the Purple pulled out of his hand and he Heart after being wounded by stayed in the field for the re- grenade shrapnel that nicked mainder of the mission Other his nose and pierced his hand members of the patrol also He tells the One of shrapnel injuries Don Northcutt is pictured at his home here last weak He holds a South Vietnamese national flag NEWS Staff Photo our helicopters spotted six Viet Cong going into a hut We were signaled while the copter main of duty in Vietnam was at Chu Lai for 11 months Chu Lai has a new Audit Procedure Holds City Council Spotlight Auditing practices for the City of Ada came under discussion at Monday night's City Council meeting When the lengthy discussion its course the council had voted to retain the Ada counting firm of Griffin and Home certified public tain Griffin and Home to tants to the city's an- audit This has been done in recent years by the homa City firm of Prigmore vide a continuous audit for the city This additional service will cost per month During the course of the dis- and Baker The de- service is per year The council then voted to re- Oklahoma Working Toward Hog Cholera Eradication took place Francis Project Grant Approved A grant of for a sewer system at Francis was ed Friday by the Department of the Interior according to a m telegram received by the Ada the civilian farmers tote rifles maHo In one operation four of his company were killed and 40 wounded His group earned the title Purple Heart Company In a typical encounter a rine company was advancing across an open rice field to a section where Viet Cong known to have a base cutt said he and his company flanked right around another smaller rice field and caught the enemy staging an ambush for another group in the open There were about 250 of them and we started to mow down Many retreated but they left about 10 machine gunners for cover Many in our company were wounded or said cutt The young soldier said the Viet Cong are just one of many dangers in Vietnam He said Evening News Russian or Chinese made and Photo Ned Biffle and Dr Welborn study the effect of herbicide on weeds at the airport WEEKLY The grant will be made to the fire at U S soldiers but rarely i Francis Public Works much damage for construction of an outfall j The natives are 0 sewer and oxidation pond j ia water is another source mated to cost The authority n 1965 purpose of providing such a sewage dis- OKLAHOMA CITY homa is officially in Phase II of the hog cholera eradication program to become the state to progress beyond the first or preparatory phase of the four-phase cooperative program Hog cholera a virus disease ing of mistrust and some doubt and a great deal of dissatisfaction in relation to certain city affairs He said a lot of people had discussed it with him He referred cally to meter reading and accounting for from parking meters Hougas said official status in regard to Jus thought a audit v One Hougas posal system Members stated there was a general Harry Chambers chairman v i Carlo's Harrison Eugene Petty and Bob Hooser Ralph Delaney Ada is con- engineer for the project program has been received from the U Department of Animal Health sion of the Agricultural Re- search Service Lew Meibergen Oklahoma State Board of culture president announced A total of 49 states and Puerto which affects swine only are now enrolled in the U S hog producers about cooperative campaign to wipe million a year in death losses and necessary vaccination costs The cooperative eradication gram is designed to wipe out the disease eliminate the need for vaccination and thus do away with this continuing cost Notice of Oklahoma's present out hog cholera a costly swine disease Three states are in of malaria and sometimes we have to drink and use a pill for purification Still many soldiers get the dis- ease Intestinal parasites are another problem A NEWS reporter asked cutt what he thought about U.S demonstrations for getting out of At first we ot The authority planned to lh ht it was all a big jokt nance the remainder of the one Marine got a letter cost of construction by issuance from his parents saying tney of revenue bonds threatened something he thought was a way to dispense with these doubts He said he thought city employes were doing a fairly good job and a new WASHINGTON AP The auditing system was for their Agriculture Department USDA Says Beef Is Still Meat Favorite a ao AWI protection j beef is expected to continue in- City Manager J B Davidson definitely as the consumer's then suggested the possibility meat choice had been threatened something would happen to them if he I didn't get out of Vietnam It suddenly became a serious ter Northcutt said he agrees com- with the national policy The battle has to be fought of a grand jury to allay any suspicions Davidson said he was a little puzzled by gestions relative to the audit Phase I 23 states including He said he felt they placed Oklahoma are in Phase II who handle city funds under eight are in Phase III and Hi something of a cloud are in Phase IV i He felt a ground jury would Dr J H Brashear an excellent way to clear Continued on Page Four i Continued Two Beef has high consumer pre- said a report on term prospects of meat tion This preference is not likely to change in the able future The department said ment of vegetable protein substitutes for meat does they have to be stopped somewhere so might as well be there I think A strange pilot on a of the Ada Airport Commission the most overlooked practices a jet spray device that covered country flight might be Biffle and commission en a double as he go together They evolved a makes a final approach at long-term agricultural Ada Airport these days merit He is likely to notice The idea was to improve agricultural equipment at work at the airport and And while the installation perhaps let Biffle and the city enjoys a certain fame with the realize some returns flying fraternity it may en- hance its reputation one of these days as a demonstration area for agricultural practices Time modern science and the energetic Ned Biffle have wrought some sweeping changes Biffle entered into an Australia has troops in agreement with the City Continued on Page Two of Ada concerning the Sneaky Joe Is OC Horse Show Sneaky Joe red dun any direction lion owned by Leroy Wartchow Route 1 Fitzhugh picked up five top trophies at the Western Heights Quarter the airport site The Conservation Service is ing The airport has always been fine for landing planes and that sort of thing But it certainly I wasn't much for looks There a certain amount of debris j around The area is and sand that is what you saw when you looked in almost any direction red clay and sand with a few unhappy Horse Show in Oklahoma City last week The top stud 15 hands high with four white stockings and a bald face picked up Around honors the Aged Stud Champion the pleasure class the competition and the roping trophy The animal has an impressive background He was sired by Joe Must Go and is out of Lady Wells from the famous JA Horse Ranch in Texas The weighs in at about pounds Wartchow said His first show was last week's We thought he would doi weeds seeing if it was worth their while to grow some attempts had been made at securing bermuda cover and other more tive growth further the project in a hurry Biffle allowed as how he could herbicide agreed to participate in the cost of fertilizer sprigging muda seeds etc The program began last fall when approximately 50 acres of yellow hop seed were drilled in at the airport Early this spring a total of 100 acres was sprigged in com- mon bermuda and hit with a heavy lacing of fertilizer er 19 acres had a reasonable base of bermuda established from previous efforts and over- seeding with bermuda was plied there Results are already apparent The airport is literally a sea of green Biffle and countered a body had foreseen A fine crop of volunteer vetch appeared obviously a seed crop from an earlier planting The bermuda is doing and to insure the future even more Biffle attacked the inevitable influx of weed with you can imagine It be hard to estimate how much good a widespread spraying gram would do in this county Kenneth Yoakum work units conservationist for the SCS is in hearty agreement with views It's the Yoakum said Biffle said he used two quarts of four-pound herbicide to 100 gallons of water Biffle used a swatch throwing about 12 gallons psr acre covering the ground at a speed of six miles per hour He says one gallon of chemical is sufficient mix to adequately treat 14 acres for weeds he said that's pretty low cost for weed control way you look at it Biffle added that even contract Continued on Page Four the city also en- windfall that no- tell he says in v Dr Orange Welborn chairman spraying for weeds is one ot Sneaky fay Leroy Cotton Wartchow poses for his Staff Photo really Wartchow said He describes Sneaky Joe's dis- position as very good That's important for Wartchow since he uses the horse daily on a ranch 10 miles south of Ada Wartchow who raised Sneaky Joe from a colt is foreman of the ranch owned by Kermit Schafer Oklahoma City Sneaky Joe serviced 39 mares is a horse ridden often by Ronnie 10 He and his wife Charlene also have two daughters Carla and Connie Mike Golden And Marilyn Perkins Win Camp Honors Two Pontotoc County 4-H j films and held a marshmallow named the that night The second standing boy and girl junior day they went to Lake leaders at the annual 4-H Camp Lodge took excursion boat Thursday Marilyn rides and had a picnic lunch Ada and Mike Golden to camp the Hill received the honor proximately 190 4-H members from Murray McClain land and Pontotoc counties at- tended the three-day camp ship workshop was held by the National Citizenship winner from Norman and girls presented a lesson on equipment around the world were food LI 1C nil iiy The camp is held each night each of the eight at Biological Station near Indian tribes presented a skit Lake The group ar- rived at the camp on May 31 and stayed until Thursday The group checked into rooms the first day Indian Vent saw group i I Films were shown the Thursday morning before ming Those who attended from County include Gary Wall Continued on Page Two Shown here is a Bermuda runner at Ada Municipal port about long WEEKLY Photo
