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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1954
Page
2
Local discussion centers on a long running dispute over Byrds Mill Creek water rights. Questions focus on who filed the petition and why outside parties should determine city water use after water enters the system. Attorneys for litigants drafted a new petition this week.
A Siberian village on the Yana River named Verkhoyansk records an extreme climate range with summers up to 93 degrees Fahrenheit and winters down to 94 degrees below zero, a spread of 187 degrees. The remark contrasts Oklahoma’s milder seasons with this remote location noted by Buzz in his climate research.
Ada residents report Rev Kenneth G McCollough of First Presbyterian and Rev Billy Keen of Assembly of God still receive mail from across the United States. News wires once buzzed about a church robber capture, and the steady mail influx continues with admiring curious and humorous notes and miscellaneous items.
Spring sports heat up as Herefords return to the trail in the Sooner State League. Opening night winners dropped on night two, signaling a tight race. Ada, linked with the Baltimore Orioles organization in the American League, shows strong promise for 1954.
A prominent jurist faced swift reproach after a public speech opposing all women juries. Critics say his remarks sparked a female backlash and broader debate about gender in the courtroom.
A Chicago woman hears a young boy recite a string of vile oaths with practiced fluency. Astonished, she asks where he learned them. the boy replies that such words are not learned but a gift.
A Good Friday tale from Ada ends well as a woman finds a flat tire after church. Brother Logan Cornelius arrives with two jacks and two spares and even a spare car to assist, restoring faith in humanity and churchgoing. Dora Price recalls early Tennessee settlers in Ada including the Prices, Allens, Goodpastures, and Olivers. Her family preserves a 1813 Bible with apocrypha, heirloom linens, and a clipping for ergophone, all treasured through generations.
A review board considers demerit points from five to ten trigger another review and possible driver interview, examination, and probation. Ten points mandate license revocation for offenses such as manslaughter with vehicle use, DUI, vehicle felonies, hit and run causing injury or death, perjury on vehicle records, or three reckless driving convictions in a year. Other schedules assign points for reckless driving five, reporting accidents with over $50 damage five, negligent driving causing death five, driving under suspension five, leaving the scene five, passing a school bus four, speeding in a school zone four, over twenty mph or over fifteen mph four or three, and nonconviction or no drinking two.
Raymond Calvert backed the new ordinance praising its studied approach while questioning the proposed fee. debate focused on barriers to milk movement between regions with fluctuating supply from surplus to shortage.
Examination in Oklahoma History will be given on Saturday April 24 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in County Superintendent Norman C Mitchells office. A fee of 2 dollars is required of each person wishing to take the test.
The Cedar Grove Home Demonstration Club met Monday April 19 with Mrs Coy Chandler as hostess. Eight members and two visitors attended. President Mrs John Baker led the meeting. Mrs Ted Scroggins gave the devotional. Members named their favorite accessory during roll call. Plans for a dress revue and school hot lunch canning were discussed. Demonstrations covered Swedish embroidery costume jewelry and textile painting. May meeting host will be Mrs John Baker. Refreshments followed with an auction led by auctioneer Mrs Liddie Canada.
Judge John Boyce McKeel set May 5 as the sentence date after a trial in which the jury rejected the second offense clause and assault with intent to kill. In a separate civil case, T. A. Starrtt v A L Frederick, the defendant won $1,250 on cross petition, with $385 for the value of an undivided hay baler ownership and $865 for use damages. The term, already behind schedule, may not finish by Friday April 23 due to many civil cases remaining.
Five year old George Andrews pretended a cardboard box was a palace and crawled inside it on a Harrisburg street. A passing motorist struck the box, thinking it was a box, and George received treatment at Harrisburg Hospital for minor injuries.
Bernice Morrison notes 23 youths attended the senior and young peoples Sunday School class with visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown of Hobbs New Mexico Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin and Mrs. Leonard Kime of Shawnee and Mr. and Mrs. Cleamon Stone of Ft Cobb Oklahoma Mrs Roy Briggs of Rebee joined as a visitor Mrs Clifford Fuller with Bob by Carol and Doyle returned to services after a bout with mumps chicken pox strep throat and ear infection among the children.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown of Hobbs New Mexico arrived Friday morning for a three day visit with relatives in this area. Mrs. Brown is the former Patsy Briggs and much of their time was spent at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Marvin Briggs here at Wilson.
Mr and Mrs Cleamon Stone Susie and Dannie who teaches agriculture at Broxton High School near Ft Cobb Mr and Mrs James Briggs and Gary Don Miss Joan Tilley and Mrs Eva Stone spent a pleasant day in the home of the latter The children enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in the afternoon Sunday.
Brothers Billy Joe and A. L. Melton report their niece Mrs Linnie Creacy a 19 year old Borger Texas mother of two with polio in shoulders and spine and feared in critical condition
Local visit includes Richard Hardy and son Rickie 6 from Palm City California. Also Alvie Kifer and Lillian Kifer of Ada mother of Mrs. Hardy. Kifers are former Wilson residents. Hardy, born in Arizona, spent 1940 in the 45th Division National Guard at Ft. Sill.
The Morrisons, Kifers, and Hardys visited for 11 years and six year-old Rickie Hardy blocked a water well drawing. Bill Bus and Jimmy Lee Morrison cleared debris hoping to restore flow, but 12 to 18 hours later the well yielded only partial water, suggesting a ruined casing or missed repair and the family must still borrow water.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Melton and their sons Jimmy Jerry and Lonnie spent Easter weekend with Mrs. Melton’s parents Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hicks in Butler.
Rett Beller hosts a mixed group including Mrs Roundtree and Vicki and Stevie of Fitzhugh for an Easter egg hunt after noon. Attendees include Norman Vandergriff and Karen of Ada, Norrell and Mrs Vandegriff, Clifford Fullen family, Bus Morrison, Moss Lee, Eldon, Janie, Gerald, Wanda, Tommie and Alice Marie. Some players then played a backyard softball game as a new season kicks off.
Rev. Gilbert Pixley, a popular figure in the region, conducts a revival at the Free Will Baptist Church in Stratford this week and next. He is part of the Pixley twins from Ft. Smith Arkansas.
Mrs Raymon Jackson wife of S C Raymon Jackson stationed at Camp Lucas Michigan arrives at her parents Vernon Vanschuyver home on April 9 for a 45 weeks stay. Sgt Johnson will attend light to school at Fort Bliss El Paso Texas in a 45 weeks intensive program to prepare for a new post studying an advanced heavy antiaircraft gun. He expects weekend passes to visit family here and has relatives including an aunt Mrs Norrell Vandegriff in Wilson and grandfather T C Reed in Ahloso.
Mr and Mrs E W Deatherage Jr and family of Oklahoma City spent Easter weekend with Mr and Mrs Jess Martin parents of Mrs Deatherage the former Margueriette Martin. Mr and Mrs Maxie Smith and children of Stonewall visited Mr and Mrs Herbert Price and Janie and joined an Easter egg hunt. Leonard Jackson County Agent and Mrs Solomon and her children of Altus visited Mrs Solomon's aunt the Marvin Briggs family Friday night.
Latta FFA with Billy Hooser Wilford Lee and Jimmy Morrison of Wilson helped the Latta team place second in district livestock judging at Wilburton. Charles Price Latta was seventh high, and he joins Billy Hooser and Donnie Williams for the state judging in Stillwater. Freshman poultry judges included Bill Levin Meredith Potts and Jim Morrison who led Wilson to ninth in their class. Milton Biggs led Latta to ninth in horticulture with Steve Bray and Billy Jack Cummings.
Mr and Mrs Roy Bacus of Ada revisited their former hometown on a Sunday drive. Bacus attended Wilson School years ago and residents welcomed them back inviting others to visit.
Wilson Sunday School plans a picnic in Platt National Park at Sulphur on Sunday April 25. Attendees will depart Wilson after Sunday School. Come join Wilsonites and enjoy a day together.
The Center Associational Free Will Baptist Youth Rally will be held at Wilson church Sunday week May 2 with visiting churches presenting programs throughout the day. Wilson will present a short dramatization of the story of the Barren Fig Tree from St Mark II 12 20. Bring your lunch and join us at either or both occasions.
The report notes 81 boys in the boys’ field crop judging entries with Elmer Cochran taking 15th and Wilford Lee Wilson placing 18th individually. The team could not enter field crops as a squad because Wayne Biggs was absent due to illness.
Mexican crews traverse the southwest to shear sheep using electric clippers. After each sheep is released, a crew tends to injuries while a liquid parasite treatment is administered. At Orville Maxey farm two hundred sheep produced 800 pounds of wool with help from Theo Glover Joe Lovelace Bill Morrison Wilford Lee Choc and Maxey. Some clothing was burned after work. Wilford Lee, Latta FFA member, plans another shearing around May 1.
A Latta high school baseball player hit a forceful home run during practice last week that damaged the bell atop the Latta Morris Memorial Baptist Church north of the diamond. The player, a congregant, is not named. Nearby screens in the belfry are suggested, per humor.
Barbara and Jear Lee Blankenship stayed home over the weekend. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Bib Miller and their boys of Tulsa, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Miller, J. W. and Mr. and Mrs. Hillard Oliver. The group traveled to Vaness to visit Clifford Miller and family.
Sunday visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Barbee were Mrs. Eugene Barbee and Frankie, and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Eberhardt and David, all of Seminole.
Jimmie Gantt of Gainesville Texas is staying with his parents Mr and Mrs Jessie Gantt for several days after undergoing an emergency appendectomy which prevents his return to work.
Sunday visitors at the Carl Watts home were Mr. and Mrs. Everett Shea of Purcell. They accompanied Mrs. Claud McLaughlin, Watts's mother, who had just returned from California.
Weekend visitors included Billy Joe Baker and his Wichita Falls family and Barney Baker from Turner Ranch. Curtiss Ross of Lovelady spent Sunday with the Bakers.
The contract for the Byrds Mill water project has been signed and pipe ordered. Construction to lay the line is set to begin soon, bringing the long awaited H20 supply closer to reality.
Sunday visitors in the Leon Flowers home were Mr. and Mrs. Barney Sparks from Chickasha.
Mrs C L Blankenship suffered a fall while unloading laundry from a pickup. Her left arm above the wrist was broken though initially thought to be a dislocation. An X ray confirmed the fracture and she reports it feeling a bit better now.
James Flowers Ollie Medcalf and Carmen Murray serving in Japan report they are getting along well and hint they might be just a bit homesick or unsettled while on duty with the unit abroad.
Mr and Mrs Edd Brashier attended the funeral of Mrs Aver Converce held Sunday in Milburn Oklahoma.
The boys and girls of Ahloso joined preschoolers for an Easter egg hunt Friday afternoon at the school. The event drew most of the community’s younger children.
Sunday School attendance hit 125 at Ahloso First Baptist Church. Revival ended with 11 by letter and five by baptism. Baptisms included James Strickland Franklin Strickland Abe Dew Barbara Looney and Anita Baker at Trinity Baptist Church Ada Sunday afternoon.
A humorous note compares a human baby’s rapid growth to a bee’s speed, claiming the infant would require a five ton truck as a carriage by one week old. It plays on exaggeration to showcase the absurdity of extreme growth rates.
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