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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1949
Page
6
A wartime portrait of the French army adapting to postwar alliance plans. It outlines Pierre’s training possibilities, pay scales, and the mix of conscription, modernization, and surveillance within a France building toward broader Atlantic defense commitments. It highlights the shift from prewar routines to a mechanized, professionalized force under the Atlantic pact.
New York Aneil 5 reports Russia’s Anlael A. Gromyko will meet the Atlantic pact signers at the United Nations assembly opening in New York. The session is expected to set the agenda with debates on the Atlantic Pact and possible proposals from Gromyko.
Kansas lawmakers adjourn after a heated session approving a sweeping blueprint for highways, sites, hospitals, welfare and other programs. Governor Carlson hailed the session as bold and farsighted, noting lawmakers wrote into law the measures he outlined at the opening.
A brief item notes that 38 states are served today with nat rat gaz. the line reads as a clipped dispatch likely from a telegraphic item. The terse phrasing hints at a distribution update or notice of service across multiple states.
Norman April 4 The American Institute of Graphic Arts named two University of Oklahoma Press volumes as among the fifty best of the year The selected title Moria The Pol eve of Sam Vdefarso by Alice Marriott appeared in April 1948 It was praised for design and manufacture with designer Will Ransom and art editor Rice Underwood contributing to the project.
A terse remark notes that a poor man can enjoy decent moments just as well as a rich man, arguing that happiness does not depend on wealth and that affordable joys offer real value.
Scoutdem’s Highest Honor bestowed on two Ada troop 4 members Billy Dudfer and Byron Bailey at a First Christian Church ceremony. The event featured the Star Spangled Banner, prayers, and a symbolic light display as the troop honored the new Eagle Scouts with pins for fathers and corsages for mothers.
Wartime shortages spur research as American scientists successfully grow Turkish type tobaccos high in aroma. The new American Turkish tobaccos are low in nicotine.
In Springfield on May 5 a federal court trial opened over the dispute between Mickey Owen, former Major League catcher, and Jorge Pasquel, ex-promoter of baseball in Mexico. Owen sues for breach of contract seeking 227300. Pasquel counters with 93009. Owen testified he was fired and unable to meet Pasquel after leaving the navy in 1946. Curtis said Owen could show Pasquel wrote a five year contract to attract him as manager and failed to provide living conditions and taxes details.
Atoka county 4 H and Future Farmers of America groups will receive registered pigs from the Chamber of Commerce under a contract. Fifteen pigs per group, two from each litter to be returned to the Chamber. Projects supervised by Wilson MacDonald and Cecil Dowell to teach proper care and feeding as part of the Chamber’s livestock program.
Belpeul helicopters can be towed long distances for disaster rescue by international forces led to preserve world peace but their use has been blocked by a major power, limiting deployment and response reach in remote areas.
CHICAGO April 4 The NCAA aims to crack down on schools paying athletes. A sanctions code will bar violators from schedules and strip membership. Hearings begin 1950 annual NCAA meeting with two year enforcement. Offenders cited last January were given two months to comply.
In early April Detroit reports widespread price cuts in the auto industry. Nash Kelvinator cuts range from 50 to 120 dollars, following earlier reductions by Willys Overland and General Motors. Ford of Canada also trims prices on passenger cars and trucks citing lower materials costs and higher production.
Oklahoma House approves motorists financial responsibility shift 66 to 23. Measure sponsored by Rep Edwin Langley of Muskogee would suspend diving license after an accident causing injury death or 3200 property damage or traffic violation. Reinstatement requires proof of financial responsibility of 1100 to 1300.
In Los Angeles April 5 7 customer Bob Kimbrough argued with barber George Hodges about paying $1 for two haircuts. Hodges cut Kimbrough's hair for 75 cents after the dispute. A horse was ridden into the shop yesterday, and a 1949 model roadster is mentioned alongside a Dickens visit to the United States in 1842.
In Flanders Fields Production, the United States backs France with Marshall Plan assistance to raise coal, coke, electricity, steel, textiles, chemicals, and food output. Articles quote officials and manufacturers in Douai Roubaix and northern coal regions noting improved machinery, rebuilt houses, and resumed materials flow, while stressing the broader wartime recovery challenge and the essential aid’s impact on France’s industrial resurgence.
Leland D. Smith of Consolidated Chemical Industries testified before an interstate commerce commissioner in Oklahoma City urging no further freight rate increases. He warned higher rates would threaten the nation’s economy and that domestic shipments could not compete with Argentine imports. The hearing began on a proposal for a general 10 percent rise, with interim increases already in effect. More than 180 Southwestern industry representatives awaited testimony.
Washington April 4 President Truman faces a critical test as Congress enters its fourth month with showdown looming on major issues. The Senate debates 15 months more European recovery aid at a cost of 95.55 billion, while the House tackles tax repeal, social security expansion, and education funding. Committees advance reciprocal trade, housing, and grain storage measures, and the Taft-Hartley substitute awaits action. The administration lags on some fronts as party leaders push for progress amid tight votes.
Fragmentary lines reference singing porters and unnamed figures in a cryptic, era style text. Likely notes or poetry sketches mention competition or alliance among creative figures. Readable names or concrete events are not present in the legible portion.
The government reports a budget surplus of 1.046 billion dollars at the three quarter mark of the current fiscal year. Receipts since July total 30.398 billion, exceeding three quarters of the 39.581 billion forecast, while outlays reach 25.24 billion from the Marshall plan fund. The administration still projects a deficit for the year, with tax receipts boosted by March 15 deadline filings and expenditures rising in the year’s final months.
The Park Service asks Army Engineers to resume control of certain recreational activities at Lake Texoma under review by the chief of acting engineers. A spokesman said a decision date is not known. The reservoir was completed by engineers in 1940 with the park service gaining some oversight two years later. The United States has about 60,000 new cadets.
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