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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1929
Page
4
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The obituary reflects on Senator Joseph Bailey and Texas political figures Coke Reagan Hogg Mills Culberson Lanham, noting Bailey's brilliance, states rights stance, oil controversy, and near-presidential speculations. It also mentions Capper warning on Wall Street speculation and Oklahoma figure Charles Carter, ending with satirical take on seating at state dinners.
Carter county farm club women pursue a permanent summer camp to give farm wives a respite from chores. The piece praises wives as partners who support families, raise children, and contribute to farm life while seeking time for relaxation and renewed energy. Ardmorelle suggests including town women.
The Star editor praises Ada Oklahoma for rapid growth in homes downtown buildings and a new grand hotel. He notes the state leading teachers college under President Linscheid and plans for a park and boulevard system led by Harry Morris with public donations. He also cites a student council feud at the University of Oklahoma and U.S. policy toward Mexico, plus local bridge talk benefiting Wewoka and Holdenville traffic.
The piece urges keeping vacant lots and street parkings trimmed to improve Weleetka's wartime highway impression. It notes tourists travel via Highway 75 and praises business efforts planting flowers while warning against untidy lots. It also contrasts southern educational progress with tariff debates and political commentary on figures like Senator Elmer Thomas.
A twelve day diet of wild beans and mud snails left Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and three companions so weak they may take seven days to prepare a runway for a return flight to Sydney. The Heath Airways pilot reported his lieutenant Keith Anderson and Robert Hitchcock, in a plane to Kookooburra, were still missing.
Governor Holloway vetoed the $500,000 weak school aid bill citing state revenue shortfalls from declining crude oil prices and tax collections. He aims to submit the issue to a special session and seeks a permanent solution to fund schools, warning of a potential $2,360,000 deficit and impaired state credit if warrants circulate.
Near Chewelah Washington five Boy Scouts and two men clung to Quartzite Mountain for eight hours after the edge collapsed. Harold Stiffenson fell to his death while rescuers saved Paul Hutchinson and five scouts. Don Hutchinson remained stranded on a narrow ledge as rescuers worked in freezing weather.
Mrs. Effie Bishop a 25 year old former city clerk in Pawnee pleaded guilty before District Judge McNeil to embezzling city funds. The audit showed a shortage of 5700 during her tenure and bondsmen had covered 900. Sentence to be announced Friday. She is wife of A D Bishop, a former local businessman.
J. J. Warmack aged 31 died at City hospital after a short illness. Funeral services were held at the Goodman funeral home officiated by Rev. John W. Salters. Born July 12, 1897 in Cumby Texas, he came to Altus in 1927 and married Thelma Scroggins. He leaves a widow, his mother Mrs. W. M. Warmack of Durant, brother Dudley Warmack of Davis and sister Mrs. Hettie Elliott of Seminole.
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