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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1971
Page
5
Eighteen railroad cars derailed in western Oklahoma City early Sunday. A butane tanker among the cars did not leak, and no injuries were reported. Damages were estimated at about $125,000 as Rock Island crews cleared the wreckage with bull dozers and cranes. An axle hotbox at a switch caused the derailment, sending coal and ore from several cars spilling.
Tulsa AP reports St. John’s hospital will install a linear accelerator next month, the first in the state. The machine’s high energy beams speed up cancer treatment, with patient sessions under one minute, four times faster than cobalt therapy, per Dr Zia Vargha.
Seven new forest fires started Wednesday in southeastern Oklahoma as Al Engstrom said the area is not yet on fire. A blaze near Bengal in Latimer County consumed about 1,000 acres while other fires burned near Battiesit Bethel Hartshorne Smithville Pickens Antlers and Kiamiehi. The $900 reward for arson arrests comes from the Society of American Foresters Broken Bow Jaycees Lions Club and an Oklahoma City man.
A quarterly Pontotoc County Farm Bureau meeting is planned Saturday at 7 pm. All members are urged to attend and non members are welcome with stockmen especially urged to attend. An interesting panel of speakers includes John Netherton county extension director Frank Bates livestock specialist Bob Hatch Trader Mills and Jim O Neal from the Holdenville sales center. No invitations will be mailed for this meeting.
Albany action signs 44 bills reshaping aid to 1.6 million. Law includes work requirements, public works jobs, statewide payment standards, and monthly checks cut to about 208 for a four person family. City totals drop from 231 while upstate ranges fall from 203 to 207.
The article explains why buyers settle for a house that meets most needs rather than perfecting every criterion. It outlines how proximity to schools and services, plus individual family tastes, shape choices among ranch, two story, split level, raised ranch, and other designs.
Patty O'Brien, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. O'Brien, won Ada's annual Miss Ada pageant Saturday night at the EC Auditorium. The Ada High School graduate and East Central freshman business major will represent Ada at the Miss Oklahoma pageant June 10 to 12 in Tulsa.
The Francis homemaking banquet is set for April 10 at 7 30 p.m. in the school gym. Admission is 2 50 per plate. Alumni Association President Reubin Chandler urges reservations soon, with Grace Chambers, Francis, or Dellie Scroggins at 715 Susan, Ada handling contact. Attendees last year totaled 300 from nine states.
The committee members who worked on the project include Odessa Platt Martha Sweatt Barringer George Mann and Ruth Hunter. Spring semester conferences will be held April 13 14 and 13.
Sen. James O. Eastland introduces six internal security bills to strengthen laws and empower the Subversive Activities Control Board. The Mississippi Democrat aims to bar Communists from defense plants and prohibit Communist teaching in federally funded schools while seeking broader tax and deduction changes for subversive organizations.
Norman AP report says University of Oklahoma freshman Allan Floyd Adkinson, 18, of Lakeville Minnesota, leaped from a sealed dormitory window at 3:45 a.m. Sunday and fell eight floors to his death. Campus Police Chief Bill Jones cites possible self-inflicted action with witnesses being interviewed. no notes found and a partially filled wine bottle was found.
Beginning with 1971 models, U S new cars must include evaporative control systems to cut pollution from fuel vapors at rest and under power. Evap emissions from tanks and carburetors once vented will be captured or burned, reducing hydrocarbons previously released from crankcases and exhaust. California led with 1970 model requirements, and federal rollout marks the third major pollution-control era for automakers.
American drivers ignore the single key step to boost survival in a crash. NSC traffic safety director Harry Porter Jr. says as many as 8,000 to 10,000 lives yearly could be saved if every car occupant wore a safety belt every time.
Champion Spark Plug Company launches Cleaner Air Clinics in mobile training vans to service technicians nationwide.14 regional engineers travel in fully equipped vans to demonstrate tune ups that reduce emissions. The multifuel engine simulates driving conditions and measures exhaust output to show maintenance cuts pollutants substantially. George M. Galster says clinics can cut emissions by up to 300 percent and invites U S service groups to request information by writing to Galster at Box 919 Toledo Ohio 43601.
Industry executive Jack Shafer predicts plastics will shape American home furnishings as bold new designs showcase plastic for both structural and decorative uses. Demand growth could lift plastics furniture sales from about 100 million in 1965 to 500 million by 1980, with as much as 80 percent of items in offices, homes, appliances, and more incorporating plastic components.
A total of 1 828 head of cattle sold Tuesday at Ada Livestock Auction. Packer cows edged down one dollar while bulls held steady. Feeder cattle and stocker calves stayed even though plainer lots fell one dollar to one dollar. Cow and calf pairs dropped ten to fifteen dollars.
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