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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1935
Page
3
Advice from Mrs. Jessie Morgan urges early planning for canning season with proper kitchen height tables, expandable work surfaces, storage on rollers, and handy tools. Emphasizes towels, newspapers, knives, and racks. recommends space saving and efficiency tips. Also notes public notices about parking and traffic law enforcement.
Mayor J. D. Willoughby warned that fines will be doubled if drivers ignore police traffic notices. Red Tags on unattended cars trigger penalties with officer copies kept and stubs filed with the mayor. He pledged full enforcement to curb downtown two hour parking abuses and double parking.
Bruno Hauptmann's lawyers accuse Col. Lindbergh of unduly influencing the jury by appearing at the Flemington trial and seek review by the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals. They argue trial venue, media coverage, and evidence rulings violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, with possible US Supreme Court appeal.
Oklahoma City April 29 legislature passed four revenue measures and the school finance bill amid a deadlock. Governor Marland said the next biennium budget remains unbalanced at 7 259 000 and warned a special session may be needed.
Farmers must file all hog purchase and sale records for 1932 1933 and 1934 at the county AAA office by Saturday April 20. County chairman Phil McLachlan says about half of 1935 contracts have been checked and the rest will be tabulated soon. The data will form a base for future hog production adjustment programs and protect farmers against possible changes. An estimated 900 to 1 000 signers expected for 1935, with total payments near 70 000 dollars.
County Agent J. B. Hill coordinates a county wide cattle and pasture survey with federal livestock feed aid to match cattle needing pasture with available grain or native pastures for lease. Farmers with cattle to move or with surplus pasture should list details. the program does not lease pastures itself. A hearing in Kansas City will address low freight rates for cattle moves and forage shipments into Oklahoma counties runs through April 30.
Fifty Oklahoma educators hosted a surprise banquet for C E Fair honors long service from teacher to state board member. Speakers praised his leadership loyalty and lasting impact on education in Oklahoma while former pupils and colleagues attended across the state.
Stillwater April census shows 4-H enrollment at 42 461 farm youths with 56 050 projects. Okmulgee county leads with 2 171 white projects, Bryan 1 590, Grady 1 532. white members total 37 535 with 49 877 projects. Colored group totals 4 926 with 6 173 projects. Grady County heads white enrollment with 619 boys and 639 girls in 31 clubs.
Eighteen new Soil Erosion service camps approved for Oklahoma will each house 225 to 250 men under regional director Dr. N. E. Winters. Five CCC forestry camps will transfer to the Soil Erosion service, bringing the state total to 26 camps employing about 6,000 men. Winters explains strip cropping as a practical method to control erosion and water runoff, detailing terrace layout and crop-strip widths for various slopes.
Gerald Buck Gamill already serving five years for firearm robbery was bound over for trial on a second armed robbery charge after victim Jeff R. Laird identified him. The case stems from an alley search and a February robbery of Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Weir on East Main. The Weir verdict carried a five year sentence. an appeal was noted while the new case proceeds.
Dr Bustib Egloff of Chicago told the American Chemical Society that American Indians were the first oil men selling petroleum to early whites at $20 a quart or $3400 a barrel. He said they valued petroleum for medicinal use long before Europeans arrived. Whites bought it as a mild substitute for castor oil and for rheumatism.
Dr and Mrs A D Cody of Centraloma transacted business and visited friends in Ada Saturday.
Lee Morgan 55, hunger demonstrator leader, arrested after the fatal shooting of Tom Faulkner 65 at Hartshorne. W. J. Counts says a murder charge will be filed. Morgan claims the shooting resulted from family trouble and declined to elaborate. Faulkner unemployed, roomed at the Burch home with Morgan's former wife present.
Palestine Texas April 19 The Gulf Production companys No 1 Maddox blew in today in the Camp Hill area nine miles southeast of Palestine The well is the third producer in the new Camp Hill oil field and taps the sub Clarksville strata of the Eagle Ford near a mile southwest of here.
Fort Worth Texas April 22 a federal indictment charges Lamb County Sheriff J L Irvin and 25 others with dealing in untaxed liquor Chief Deputy Lawrence Walraven Driscoll son of the sheriff Vernon Herman and his mother Mrs Bill Herman are named in the case alleging protection of bootleggers and sale of liquor privileges in Lamb County from 1926 to 1935 Sheriff Irvin traveled from Littlefield to defend his actions calling it a political move and saying he came to straighten out the business.
Wallace B. Davis former president of the Central Bank and Trust company in Asheville was paroled by Governor Ehringhaus. Convicted in 1931 of publishing a false bank report and conspiring with Luke Lea to defraud the institution of about 800000 dollars, his concurrent sentences would have expired next October.
More than 6 000 farm women enrolled in the 1935 state garden contest with 6 099 current enrollments expected to rise. The extension service and county agents run the contest by districts and clubs with prizes from Farmer Stockman.
Three Chicago jurists endorse four minute kisses. Judge Joseph Sabath says longer kisses reduce divorces. Judge Joseph B. David agrees four minutes is fine if you are in a hurry. Judge Rudolph Desart adds a calm charming-pleasant note to the stance.
W Ewok_a April 19 CP w Lester Scott Spaulding farmer convicted of clubbing his wife to death and arranging her body on a railroad crossing to collect insurance. Jury recommended life imprisonment. The verdict was read by District Judge H H Edwards.
Magnolia Petroleum increases East Texas gasoline at its stations from 12 to 16 cents. The Times-Herald anticipates other major firms to follow. The move signals a stronger market as nine refineries operate on legal crude. Dallas dealers plan a Friday meeting to seek a four cent margin.
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