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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1966
Page
4
A 1901 founding note outlines Ada Oklahoma publications and consolidations from 1910 to 1953, detailing the Ada Evening News and Ada Weekly News lineage. The essay humorously laments summertime’s difficulty, comparing yard care and grass growth to seasonal toil and mischief. It also jokes about OSU’s grass innovation challenge and prefers winter’s ease.
A devotional study on Israel’s split under Rehoboam following Solomon. It contrasts wise ancient counsel with foolish youth advice, highlighting tax burdens and public discontent that led to secession and doom for the united polity.
Preston Moore spoke to the Ada Lions Club outlining four key issues for the 1966 governor race roads schools judicial reform and industrial growth. He criticized a 35 percent appraisal proposal and urged balanced taxation while backing higher education funding and teacher salaries within current tax structure. He condemned the Missouri Plan and pressed for an elected judiciary and a modern court system to handle rising legal workloads and industrial expansion. Moore cited 1600 unfilled jobs at Tinker Field as evidence of skills gaps.
Police report a parked 22 ton sand truck owned by Hershel Edward Allen rolled down Stadium Drive crashing into a line of parked cars near an under construction dormitory. Four vehicles were damaged. Allen faced charges for improper parking and $10 bond forfeiture.
Peaceful uses of nuclear explosions could save costs in blasting. A one megaton device would carve a crater 3,200 feet wide and 690 feet deep, moving 50 million cubic yards of earth at four cents per cubic yard, versus an estimated $2 per cubic yard by conventional methods.
A charge of allowing an unauthorized juvenile to drive against Jack Walton Sanders was dismissed in County Court and re filed in Justice of the Peace Bert Ratliff's court. Also in Ratliff's court Herbert Simmons faced assault and battery charges.
Classified line lists buy sell and trade options for reptile related ads with contact telephone Fi 2 4433 for placement and inquiries.
Maj J C Nabors 39 of Ada Oklahoma is a section chief in the fighter weapons school at Nellis Air Force Base Nevada. The 13 week course trains top jet pilots from across the Air Force and only one graduate per squadron is allowed. Nabors, an F 100 section chief, is a Tulsa University graduate and Ada High School alumnus who long sought admission to the program.
Cleveland D Tibbs 81 a retired farmer of Coalgate Oklahoma will have funeral services at 2 p m Friday at the First Baptist Church in Coalgate conducted by Rev Vernal West burial will be in Coalgate Cemetery Slater's Funeral Home in charge He was born January 3 1885 in Polk County Texas and moved to Oklahoma Surviving are three sons Odis Coy and Tommy Grant four daughters Rosa Belle Williams Joy Tibbs Maggie Marabella and Muriel Bay a sister Mary Durham and 11 grandchildren
Preliminary hearing for Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Byrd on child beating charges was moved from Friday to May 20, the second postponement after an original March 11 date. The delay stems from Duard C. Willoughby’s illness and heart condition, with the state insisting a hearing proceed on May 20.
Lehigh and Northampton counties host over 225 apparel manufacturing plants with more than 22,000 industry workers. The sector’s annual payroll surpasses $70 million, according to local business listings in News Classified Ads.
Donald Wayne James, 21, of Ada narrowly escaped serious injury when his pickup was struck by a Frisco freight train southwest of Ada. Thrown from the truck on impact, he was listed in fair condition at Valley View with multiple abrasions. The crossing on SH 12 saw James approach a mile away, despite engineer Fred Miller blowing the whistle. the train could not stop in time at about 45 mph.
A special Pontotoc County Blue Cross council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday evening April 19 in Ada. Joe Bryan says health prepayment plan representatives will explain Medicare and the new Blue Cross Blue Shield Plan 65. The dinner gathering at Aldridge Hotel starts at 6 30 p m with all council members urged to attend or delegate a substitute.
The piece muses on spring provoking the urge to beautify yards with flowers hedges and vines. It contrasts rational views of gardening with inner conflict urged by spouses and the allure of reading and hobbies. It ends noting rising May primary interest and political visits in Ada Oklahoma.
3rd century Chinese inkman Wei Tan reportedly beat the ink mixture 30 000 times. His recipe included an ounce of pearls and a half ounce of musk among other ingredients. The musk was used to mask odors and the pearls may have been for show.
A collection of humorous exchanges and quips about work raises debt and finances. Jokes involve a carpenter named MacSweeny facing a high wage with no days off, a Texas population question answered by friendship, a creditor's sting, a motorist needing gas, and the limits of public speaking.
The author reflects on a late admiral and explorer famed for Antarctic discovery. He states that at the end only two things matter a man a his family affection and understanding, while all else is insubstantial ships tossed by prejudice. The family is the quiet harbor for pride and loyalty.
Puritan leaders in Massachusetts banned Christmas celebrations from 1659 to 1681, shaping a generation of New England children who grew up without the holiday.
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