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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
3
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Oklahoma Safety Council urges reduced night driving and pedestrian caution after 482 highway deaths in 1939. To cut fatalities to 382 or fewer in 1940, it promotes slower night speeds, safe driving, and avoiding late trips, citing 10 460 day and 6 401 night accidents with 188 and 242 fatalities respectively. Hosea and Amos lessons are cited to stress mercy and social responsibility.
The News lists candidates for county offices subject to the Democratic primary on July 9 1940. Sheriff candidate Mose Henry and County Commissioner District 1 Grady Miller are named. In Antlers a mercantile firm’s store sale occurred 48 hours before a liquidation sale.
An editorial digest considers British wartime propaganda, the Graf Spee mutiny claim, and American skepticism. It discusses Garner, Hull, Roosevelt, and party fortunes in Wisconsin and New York primaries, noting potential nomination scenarios and the impact of senate tilts on Cordell Hull.
Governor Phillips denounces unjustifiable waste and padded school system spending in an address to the Farmers Cooperative Grain Dealers Association of Oklahoma. He cites Oklahoma City’s 216 excess teachers and 147 more than needed, urges a balanced sober budget, and discusses funding disputes over Grand River dam damages affecting state roads and bridges.
Oklahoma City April 5 Oil men gathered for an interstate compact meeting to oppose federal control of the industry either via the Cole bill or a modified form President Roosevelt suggested toning down the bill by applying federal control only to states without conservation action W J Armstrong Oklahoma conservation officer called it the same old Cole bill and blamed bureaucrats for plans to take over the industry Harold B Fell of the Independent Petroleum Association signaled a proposal for substantial production cuts for the next three months Governors Phillips compact chairman opened the session and Col E O Thompson Texas railroad commission prepared a report on production standards Pending was news of gasoline stocks at a high 103 000 900 barrels due to weather and weak war demand
The state board of agriculture reports a 37 percent normal condition for wheat as of April 1 and notes widespread abandonment and uneven germination. Weather has been dry with high winds causing evaporation, while fruit damage from the March freeze is confined to some apricots and peaches in northeastern counties.
Noah Still, 21, and Ramona Porter, 19, were held without bail in Muskogee on federal charges of armed robbery of the Webbers Falls State Bank. Prosecutors may seek the death penalty. the couple, married March 5 in Fort Smith Arkansas, were captured after a $250 cash theft was recovered.
Horace Mann High School earned invitations to state tourney events in A and B class debate, men's and women's extemp, one act play, and poetry interpretation. Wanda Jean Graham won state gold in women’s extemp, Lillard Hill placed second in men’s extemp, Dorothy McCleary took fifth in poetry. The team, led by Hill and Graham, advances to Norman Wednesday for the state debate.
Horace Mann second graders toured a Frisco rail route from Ada to Holdenville on Friday. Miss Rosine Fick led the trip with teachers and student teachers providing demonstrations of telegraph, signal blocks, and Pullman berths while students bought tickets and earned funds by running errands. The voyage featured a two engine diesel vessel with wireless gear, ship to shore telephone, crew of 21, and 30 passenger capacity.
James M. Vernon 83 died quietly Wednesday after a long life that spanned Texas cattle trails, Indian Territory trips, and farming and preaching in Ada Stonewall Ardmore and Morris communities. Funeral held Friday at Keith's Chapel with burial in Memorial Park. Surviving are daughter Mrs E E Walker Wetumka and three sons E E, J O of Ada and A B of Morris. J O Vernon is superintendent of schools at Vanoss.
Effective Sunday April 14 the Black Gold trains on the Frisco line will be discontinued and replaced by an Ada Turn-around train from Tulsa. The Tulsa to Ada schedule is 7 10 a m to 11 05 a m with Ada to Tulsa at 3 p m to 7 p m a local service. The turn-around links with Pullman service from St Louis and Kansas City and offers quicker corridors for Tulsa area travelers. Mail and express service are improved, with the change prompted by the Black Gold loss after about 26 months of operation between Tulsa and Dallas.
P C R Anthony, head of chain clothing stores, disclosed the sale of his yacht for use by the British government as a patrol boat. The palatial vessel, owned with L H Prichard, oil man, had been bought by a brokerage for Col Sidney Oland of Halifax who is acquiring boats in the U S for Britain. He voiced mild provocation at the situation.
Federal agents say Lucia Russell, 37, a former Missouri convict, will be arraigned on armed robbery charges for two eastern Oklahoma bank robberies. Russell surrendered at the Muskogee police station after authorities identified him with the Webbers Falls and Boynton bank raids. Still and Ramona Porter Still were captured after the latest Webbers Falls robbery and are held without bail.
Pi J. G. Dyer of Continental Oil announces a new field near Lake Arthur Louisiana. The Nibletts Farms No. 1 well produced 88 barrels daily of 41.6 gravity crude through a 1 16 inch choke. Drilled to 11 748 feet, plugged back to 11 639 and perforated from 11 604. Production from the Oligocene.
Atoka voters elected four city commissioners with only one new member, J. O. Stewart, while incumbents J. H. Lambert Claud Collier and A. A. Sarks were re elected. The April election saw little excitement and set two year terms.
In Atoka on April 6 Harden Baldwin owner of Baldwin's Up-Town Store sold the business outright to Wood in a surprise transaction.
Fillmore in class A and Frisco in class B were judged as the county's outstanding 4-H clubs at the end of the annual one day rally held at Murray junior college Wednesday. About 1,000 people attended, the largest crowd ever recorded by the county agent's office.
County Agent Eddie Whitehead pressed farmers to vaccinate hogs. He urged quick treatment and isolation for infected animals and burning and burying of carcasses to curb a new cholera type seen in hog herds across the county.
In Coalgate on March 31 a singing convention attracted over 1,000 attendees. Local and neighboring ladies provided a generous dinner enjoyed by all, marking a successful event.
E. P. Kennedy leads a Geotechnical Corporation team in Coalgate to site a six month project with about a dozen crewmen and five Dallas based trucks hauling men and supplies for the operation.
The new Rocky Point school building in district 35 Coal county six miles north of Centrahoma was dedicated Monday night March 25. A large crowd attended the ceremony.
Miss Louise Marrs county health nurse announced free typhoid immunizations for adults and children at the Antlers health office on the second floor of the Odd Fellows building on Tuesday.
Lawrence Kansas reports the Kansas University track team elected co captains to break a five year jinx of injuries and absences. Co captain Bob Stoland was ruled ineligible and Ray Harris sprained an ankle, leaving the duo without a functioning leadership pair.
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