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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1952
Page
4
Texas Higher Ed Needs Quality Over Growth
The Dallas Morning News argues Texas must grade up junior and four year colleges rather than expand. It urges heads of junior colleges to focus on becoming the best possible schools and four year colleges on strong undergraduate arts and sciences programs. It warns against converting to universities and stresses achievement over size.
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Texas
Dallas Morning News
California
Voter Apathy Toll Is Seen In Heavener Levy Defeat
The McAlester News-Capital notes a 61 to 52 defeat of Heavener’s 15 mill school levy, risking $108 900 45 in state aid and leaving only about one month of school funded locally. It urges McAlester residents to vote next Tuesday to push forward community progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAlester
Oklahoma
Heavener
Heavens
George
Nature's Escapades and Worldview Echoes From Ada
An Ada column muses on a region earthquake, then laments over national policy debates. It questions college expertise in industry matters, cites Oklahoma federal payrolls, discusses government checks, and ponders broad knowledge versus specialization. It ends with a jab at tax reporting burdens.
New Jersey Voters Ballot in Confused Primary Battle
New Jersey heads into a hectic primary with a Taft Eisenhower Stassen showdown in the presidential ballot. About 750000 to one million voters will choose presidential preferences delegates and congressional nominees while Democratic rank and file run largely quiet behind Sen. Kefauver. The GOP scene features Eisenhower Taft and Stassen with Taft having withdrawn yet still on the ballot. Delegates and internal races add to the drama as organization and unpledged slates contend for influence leading to the July convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N.J
New Jersey
U. S. Senate
Sen
Kefauver
Gen. Eisenhower
Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Alfred E. Driscoll
Eisenhower
Ohio
Driscoll
Associated Press
Chicago
GOP
Malcolm S. Forbes
Ike
Jersey
Organization
Gen MacArthur
Red trade deals grow rapidly from Soviet sponsored talks
Moscow reports show East West trade prospects expanding after the International Economic Conference. British delegates estimate up to 50 million pounds in new business with Russia and China and other communist nations. Red China alone reportedly struck 80 million dollars in deals with Western nations. An American businessman claimed a Soviet offer to spend a billion dollars in the United States over three years, though he said he could not commit on behalf of authorities. Western delegates attended the gathering independently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Britain
Russia
China
Red China
Moscow Ag
Lowon
Oliver Vickery
San Francisco
Ferrobed Corporation of America
United States
Vickery
USA
Wheeler Lashes Deserting Fathers at Oklahoma Hearing
Oklahoma City April 12 J W Dub Wheeler superintendent of the State Training School for White Boys at Stringtown called deserting fathers the biggest villains in Oklahoma and urged laws to require parental support for boys admitted to the school. He compared a deserting father unfavorably with a burglar and noted many parents fail to provide clothing. Wheeler formerly led Norman police and the state highway patrol and played football at the University of Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
J. W
Dub) Wheeler
Stringtown
Legislative Council
Wheeler
Wheels
Norman
University of Oklahoma
Bethany College awards scholarships at Midwest music auditions
Thirteen students won scholarships in Bethany College music department during the annual Midwest Music Auditions in Lindsborg Kansas. First prize went to Jack Ratteree of Tonkawa Oklahoma for woodwinds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsborg
Kan
Bethany College
Jack Ratteree
Tonkawa
Okla
Frightened chimp escapes cage and terrifies Easter crowd in L A
A Griffith Park Zoo chimp named Dick escaped his enclosure during Easter events and roamed the Los Angeles area for hours. He knocked down bystanders, threatened golfers with a putter, and injured a policeman before being lured back to his cage after authorities found a defective padlock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Griffith Park Zoo
Ellis Klein
Humane Society
Strangles Self With Stocking At State Hospital
Etta Mae Dickinson fifty strangled herself with a stocking at Dewitt State Hospital after three days of killing her father James Peter Dickinson seventy eight and setting their 326 acre cattle ranch home on fire. Authorities said she used a shotgun to kill her father and then burned the house with kerosene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Calif
Etta Mae Dickinson
Dewitt State Hospital
James Peter Dickinson
Army Seeks More Funds for Apprehending Deserters
The Army asked for 1.957 million to cover costs of pursuing and returning deserters for the next fiscal year, an increase of 300000, while officials declined to disclose current deserter counts. Historical totals show 21282 desertions in World War I, with World War II figures incomplete and classified data cited for current rates.
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Washington
Congressional
House Appropriations
Army
Sikes
D-Fla
W. M. Budge
Purgees Build Railroad in Chungking Dispatch
A Chungking dispatch says 30,000 civilian workers, drawn largely from purge courts, were employed on the Chengtu to Chungking railway, slated to open on Army Day August 1, 1952, with the Chinese Communists announcing the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Chungking
Chengtu-Chungking
Political announcements for Pontotoc county offices
The list shows candidates for sheriff and court clerk, with D Gaar and Ray Goodwin for sheriff and Holloway for court clerk. State offices include Corporation Commissioner Ray C. Jones. Voters face the Democratic primary on July 1 1952.
Ray C Jones Seeks Re-Election To Oklahoma Post
Ray C Jones former state senator and current Oklahoma Corporation Commission member seeks another term. Born 1899 in Payne county he rose from farmer’s family to army veteran and banker before serving twelve years in the senate and chairing oil and gas work. He holds national rail and utilities committee roles and local fraternal memberships.
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Ray C. Jones
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Payne County
Harry Jones
State Senate
Stillwater
Jones
Oklahoma A. & M. College
U S States Army
American Legion
Legion
Stillwater Legion
First National Bank of
State
Payne
Creek Counties
Senate
Corporation
Oil and Gas Committee
Commission
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Oklahoma
The
Compact Commission
National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners
Consistory
Shrine
Knights Templar
Lions International
Sigma Chi
Ray Jones
Lone Star Coal Mines to Reopen
Two Southeastern Oklahoma coal mines will resume operations Monday after a labor dispute at Lone Star Steel Co. Daingerfield mill. A spokesman said Carbon Mine near Lone Star and the McCurtain Mine will restart after union steelworkers settled the contract dispute that idled more than 400 miners. Each mine ships 20,000 tons monthly to the Daingerfield mill, which halted April 4 in anticipation of the strike.
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Mcalester
Okla
Southeastern Oklahoma
Lone Star Steel Co
Daingerfield, Tex
The
Steel Company
Carbon
McCurtain
Union
Daingerfield
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Ada
Oxichoma
News Publishing and Printing Co
Ada Weekly Democrat
Pontotoc
ADA Evening News
the Ada Weekly
Telephones Business Office
Tuditorial Department
Marki
Murray
Nature
Southwest
Mississippi Valley
Columbia University
Atlantic
Truman
Coal Counties
Congress
Hubert
Sooner
L. A
Self
Pontotoc County
D. D. Gaar
Ray Goodwin
Commission Post
Lone Star Coal Mines
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