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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
6
Theบท article notes rising wartime activity may spur oil demand, with US gasoline stocks high and crude output dipping slightly. Oklahoma wildcat yields in Red River basin spark optimism for 2500 to 5000 barrel wells. other regions report test results and resumed work across Kansas Georgia Mississippi and Texas highlighting potential production gains.
Pi Frank Gree and John Paul Cheese, Guthrie fruit truckers, were tied with wire by two armed bandits near Ardmore Oklahoma as they slept in a truck cab. The robbers, using pliers to twist ends, escaped after taking $104. Bloodhounds failed to track them. a nearby car was left behind. Gree and Cheese were en route to south Texas when their truck broke down and dawn approached.
William L. Whitaker 72 longtime Ada resident died Tuesday night after a stroke at a local hospital. He helped plan Ada cement plants and city water projects and traveled widely in mining and civil work. Survived by wife and son Bill Whitaker. funeral Thursday at 2 30 from St Luke s Episcopal church with burial in Roselawn cemetery.
William L. Whitaker, 72, died at 7 30 p m Tuesday in a local hospital. Funeral at 2 30 p m Thursday at St. Luke s Episcopal Church with burial in Rosedale Cemetery Criswell Funeral Home in charge. Survived by widow and son Bill Whitaker. William B. Alexander, 74, of 530 North Oak died April 7 at 8 00 a m at home. Funeral at 10 00 a m Monday from Criswell Funeral Home chapel with burial in Rosedale Cemetery. Survived by wife two sons W and A B Alexander of Vinita and brothers Lee Shawnee James Oklahoma City John Ardmore.
Irene George infant daughter of Mr and Mrs T A George died April 6 at home Funeral services were held Sunday at Oakman cemetery with Keith Funeral Chapel in charge The couple reside on Route 4 Ada
Mrs Marvin C. Haile and her infant son Lynn Thomas are spending the week visiting Mrs Hazel Porter in McAlester, the mother of Mrs Haile.
A district court jury acquitted Glen Peck of drunken driving after about ten minutes of deliberation. It was the first drunken driving jury verdict this term and the first acquittal of the session, following three prior convictions by County Attorney Carloss Wadlington. Jay Isaacs was convicted of second degree burglary with a two year prison recommendation for the theft from an Ada home. A larceny of domestic fowls charge against Isaacs was reset for Monday.
Lawton residents report ample water from a well at 714 feet with water at 644 feet. A bailer test showed 100 gallons a minute. Mrs. Margaret Day plans to install a pressure pump for sprinkling. Also notes Mrs. T J Litman visiting in Norman.
Patsy Oil company No. 3 Richardson in the Byars pool drilled pig as operators expect the twelfth producer in the field. Pipe set at 3,508 feet in the 9-5-3 section with a total depth of 3,616 feet. In Marshall county Pure Oil reports its Red River basin wildcat No. 1 Quinto Little A flowed 2,410 barrels in 14 34 hours with gas at about 25,000 cubic feet. Oil from the Tulip Creek zone near 28-5s-7e is expected to yield 36 gravity or better.
Frank Hedges aged 45, a newspaperman who started at Miami Record-Herald and later worked for the Washington Herald, died in Tokyo from injuries after a fall likely following a stroke. He was a Missouri School of Journalism graduate and served as Tokyo correspondent for the London Telegraph Morning Post and North American Newspaper Alliance.
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