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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1944
Page
3
County Agent C. H. Hailey advises farmers to cull non producing hens and focus on top layers, while maintaining rapid production. He urges buying a normal number of chicks based on brooders and feed, noting consistency beats frequent breed changes for steady profits.
A historical notice defines Selective Service classifications including 1-A available for military service and 1-A-O for non combatant service. It explains 2-A 2-B 2-C and 4-A to 4-F categories, noting wartime exemptions, agricultural worker deferrals, and obsolescence of 3-B and 3-C.
George Bain of Allen County and Truitt Young of Fitzhugh cooperate with the office to plant multiple cotton varieties. The trials aim to identify the best performing type for the county using Deltapine 14 Stoneville 2B Hi-Bred and Acala 892.
Farmers planning tree poisoning learn white arsenic can be bought in small quantities at drug stores with druggists allowed to purchase up to 50 pounds at a time. White arsenic is used in iron solutions to kill trees and formulas are available at our office.
Soil samples were sent to Stillwater this week from farms including W. D. Little Dr. C. A. Thomas Chris Pederson and W. E. McCullar. Analyses will indicate lime phosphate and legume needs for a soil building program and recommendations.
A leaflet on garden insect control explains crop damage and insect descriptions with remedies and an insecticide dilution chart for small spray mixes. Soil Conservation C T Sturdivant, Extension Service Engineer, will visit the county on April 25 for agricultural engineering work on farms and ranches.
Dr C A Thomas recently purchased a Flink lime and phosphate spreader for use on his farm southeast of Ada. The spreader will be attached to a dump bed truck.
J. W. Spear of Stonewall applied 60 tons of agricultural limestone on his land this week to improve soil. The delivery adds to ongoing farm improvements and reflects local farming activity.
Extension dairy man John Boehr will visit the county on April 24 to work with 4 H club boys on dairy projects. Plans will be made for the Central Dairy show in Ada on May 25 and Boehr will discuss dairy herd management at an evening meeting with local farmers in Vanoss.
Countians from Pontotoc and other areas attend the annual Feeders Day at Stillwater A&M College. County agent C. H. Hailey notes ranchers gain ideas to maximize livestock feed benefits. Previously only a few local ranchers attended. this year interest is high as feeder cattle feed optimization is emphasized. Feeders Day draws several hundred attendees.
Edward L. Clampitt 19, radar man aboard a Pacific destroyer, is promoted to petty officer third class on April 1. A Roff Oklahoma native and Ross high school graduate, he writes his mother after nine weeks with longing for a photo of home and his dog. He notes Oklahomans are natural sailors and reports no seasickness aboard a rough-riding ship.
Lt. J. Link Haws has been promoted from second to first lieutenant at the Alexandria Army Air Field. He previously served with the extension service office in Ada before entering the service.
Cpl. George R. Banks at Camp Kohler California qualified as expert with the .30 caliber rifle. He scored 172 of 195 possible. A resident of Ada he is the nephew of Mrs. Daisy E. McNair and entered the army August 27, 1942.
Paul Geisler was appointed chief clerk of the Garfield county office of price administration and rationing. He will oversee administrative tasks and implement rationing programs in the county.
Ada readers learn Pvt Zack Smith of Oklahoma City now at Borden Army General Hospital Chickasha after enlisting last July and serving with a bomber ground crew in England. He recalls London bombings, kindness of British people and mentions two young sons Eddie 4 and Michael 14 months.
Soldiers arriving at Borden army hospital in Chickasha include T/4 Andrew J. Edwards Ada with eighteen months in Egypt aboard the AG supply engineers. Also T/4 J. T. Walker Milburn, another litter case, injured by shrapnel in the left knee. Walker spoke of extreme Persian Gulf heat and hazard.
Major Buford A. Merritt formerly of Roff is assigned to the staff and detachments of the Field Artillery school at Fort Sill. He is the son of Mr and Mrs L M Merritt of Roff and a East Central graduate and Sigma Nu member.
Former Ada resident Howard Couch, once a federal inspector at the Oklahoma Portland Cement plant, now serves under Gen. Joe Stilwell in Burma. A longtime National Guard member, Couch has learned Chinese to aid operations in the North Burma theater while his wife stays in Oklahoma City.
Horace Mann, noted American education reformer, is linked to a birth detail indicating June as the birth month. The preserved snippet places Mann in a historical context centered on his early life milestones.
Cpl. Jack Johnson of the medical corps writes from Italy that frontline bakeries at Anzio bake 13 000 loaves daily and keep rising bread even under shelling. He notes mobile bakeries move with the advance and two bakers earn Purple Hearts while no loaf is wasted. Johnson plans postwar reforms to the trade. His wife Mrs Ayline Johnson lives in Ada.
Brig. General Edmund W. Hill announces the promotion of Andrew J. Deaton from private first class to corporal. Deaton serves in the station post office as a clerk and has been overseas in the European Theater since August 1943. He joined the air forces March 31, 1943 at Fort Sill. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Foster Deaton of Bakersfield California, with a brother Monroe in the navy and wife Anita residing in Ada.
Master Sergeant Corydon T. Jennings rises from technical sergeant to lead ground crews at a Liberator base in England. He entered service June 28, 1940, trained at Randolph Field Texas and Chanute Field. He holds the American Defense and Good Conduct Ribbons and is son of C. T. Jennings, 925 East Sixth, with a brother George T. Jennings serving in the Marines in the South Pacific.
Philip Shipley, a radio sound technician in the U S Navy since October 26 last year, is being transferred from San Diego California to Orange Texas. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Sherman Shipley and slated for service with a destroyer.
Orientation training lieutenant Robert E. Campbell recently completed a short course at an Air Service command station in England. Before enlistment, he worked as a mechanic's helper in Ada.
Leland Cartwright has been spending a furlough with his sister Mrs. Jack Crouse and his mother Mrs. Mattie Simpson. He is stationed at Fort Sam Houston Texas.
First Lt. Jerry B. Gwin M D of 501 S Broadway earned his medical degree from Tulane University last week during graduation exercises. Brig Gen Addison D David commandant addressed the officers.
Woolley of Stonewall has finished three months of physical conditioning at Athens Georgia. He is the son of W W Woolley and reported to the Athens base from the CAA War Training Service School in Clarksville Tennessee.
A fragment notes German air unit tactics describing groups of two or four planes maintaining tight spacing and following their commander, suggesting reluctance to stray from the leader during operations.
Staff Sergeant Barney J. Rogers is promoted after training at Fort Ord California and Allis Chalmers plant. He served 18 months in Panama and is assigned to a field artillery battery. The notice cites his parents Mrs Lenora Rogers and local 4 H club members involved with feeding Hereford and Angus steers.
Thirteen 4-H club members of Pontotoc county undertake a year long project to feed baby beef calves. Calves are on nurse cows to ensure milk, with grain feeding beginning to aid weight gain. Goals aim for 900 to 1,000 pound steers by next spring with careful daily care to avoid digestive trouble.
The Extension Division of A and M College hosted a Food Preservation Refresher School at Murray College in Tishomingo to teach leaders the latest canning, drying, brining, freezing, and storage methods. Demonstrations by Martha McPheeters and Willa Dean Nicholson covered containers, spoilage prevention, and quality products. Attendees included Ada Farm Security, State Public Health, Indian Agency, and SE District home economics staff with Lemna Maloney coordinating and Cordell Hull quoted on international cooperation.
Sgt. Robert Thompson of Lovelady district and Robert F O Davis of Stonewall are listed as missing in the Mediterranean area. Thompson, about 23, is the older of two sons in service and was later reported as a prisoner of war after capture. Davis, 24, formerly an oil field worker, has a brother in the south Pacific and attended Stonewall High School.
Col Mosier oversees an England depot that provides shoes from 5A to 14EE and can special order sizes. The clothing room stocks 250000 pairs of socks with 500000 aimed as ideal, plus boots caps jackets overcoats shirts laces and mess kits for 15 installations serving GI units. Inventory is monthly with strict tally checks and emergency orders filled as needed.
In Coal County two large hybrid and open pollinated corn variety demonstrations are planted by J M Nelson in Clarita and R R Hall in Eureka with over sixteen varieties including Reid's Yellow Dent Oklahoma Silvermine and Hayes Golden. A county labor board surveys farm labor needs for the season with potential use of prisoners of war if local labor is insufficient. A pecan budding demonstration at Albert Krebs farm near Boggy precedes a follow up with Fred LeCrone of Oklahoma A and M College and a public session on April 28 with grafting and consultation.
The article notes an earlier filing period for county and state offices to allow ballots for Oklahomans serving out of state. The window runs Monday through Friday, April 24–28, forcing hopeful candidates to decide quickly and may curb campaign activity due to wartime constraints. Republicans face possible renewed competition this year.
An agricultural demonstration on pecan trees will be held one mile east of Coalgate on the farm of A. R. Hall. Those interested should note the event and be present. The demonstration will start at an unspecified time.
Pontotoc county reports no applicants at the county superintendent’s office for the annual Oklahoma history, school law, and agriculture examinations needed for teaching certificates. Most teachers already hold state certificates, and college enrollment is down. A two week late May workshop offers emergency teacher preparation for graduates over 18, with superintendent endorsement and a vacant position as prerequisite. Four Pontotoc teachers are currently teaching under the war emergency workshop plan.
Fort Sill Okla April 22 Sgt Alton Chappell 19 of Iowa Park Texas was convicted by a army court martial of deserting his unit in Italy and falsifying checks. He received 18 years in prison was dishonorably discharged and ordered to forfeit all pay and allowances. He was arrested in Oklahoma City last January while dressed as an air corps lieutenant. He admitted hitching rides to Naves Casablanca Metal and Wet Palm Beach Fla then tried to reach Memphis Little Rock Dallas Fort Worth and Abilene Texas.
Poultry specialists identify sex of newly hatched chicks. A group of partridges is called a covey.
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