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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1950
Page
6
The Army rolls out a colored 20 page booklet titled Military Courtesy to guide recruits and their corporals through on and off duty situations. It covers saluting proper conduct and dealing with people from service club ladies to the commanding general.
Local stores show first fall fashions from leading designers with a wide range of colors from pale steel to deep ink blue. Skirts remain 14 inches for day wear, mid calf for high style, and sheath looks persist with softened lines for larger figures. Spanish influence appears in coats and dresses as velvet, lace, and embroidery highlight lavish evening gowns for the season.
Chiang Kai-Shek and General MacArthur announced a foundation for joint defense of Formosa and military cooperation with China in a brief Tokyo statement. MacArthur rejected adding Nationalist troops to Korea, warned of a possible invasion from Communist China, and pledged U.S. and Chinese forces would coordinate to meet any attack while U.S. ships patrolled the Formosa Strait. Keep your chin up we are going to win.
A fashion note highlights slacks with dressed up details including velvet and sequin trim. The feature suggests a refined look with luxurious finishing touches for dressier wear.
President Truman urged Congress to rapidly approve 4.09 billion dollars in new funds to arm anticommunist allies as the Korea crisis endangers world peace. He outlined a breakdown including 3.504 billion for North Atlantic security, 183 million for Greece Turkey and Iran, and 309 million for the Philippines and other nations in Asia.
J. R. Roure pleaded not guilty to murder before Justice Wil loughby and was jailed without bond. A preliminary hearing set for Saturday. Esther Daniel, daughter of Rouse, held as material witness. Both suspects were arrested July 7 over the fatal shooting of Orvil Nicholmne at about 11 30 p m in the 300 block North Johnston. A blast from a 18 gauge shotgun struck Nicholmne in the forearm and chest. County officers investigated the shooting.
July rainfall in Pontotoc county shattered records with 1231 inches, nearly double the prior July best, over 21 rainy days. Despite floods, highways suffered minimal damage while crops show mixed results. Official 1911 onward records list observers and locations in Ada, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma draft officials announced a higher September quota with 2,665 youths to be summoned for pre induction physicals, up from 1,080, plus 1,585 more to report August 14-15. Col. Clive E. Murray said the revised figures meet national needs and shift operations to Tulsa for a new exam station, reflecting a four to one 1-A to draftee delivery ratio.
From Tokyo on August 1 the term knife fight is clarified by Col MP Echols as a close range clash between units of equal size where neither side can withdraw without risk. The description stresses total proximity and unresolved engagement as both sides monitor their lines.
A travel piece by Edith M. Harber recounts a New York to Michigan car trip with meals varied from home-prepared lunches to restaurant dinners in Syracuse Buffalo and aboard to Detroit. It notes cabin comforts onboard and the reasonable trip price, plus includes recipes for Broiled White Fish and Raspberry Chiffon Pie and ends with a local arrest report about a Tennessee woman in fixed clothing.
Buffalo area grain elevator strike threatens to shut down the nation’s largest milling industry, risking mass layoffs of about 15,006 workers if un resolved. AFL locals 1286 and 145 union members demand higher wages while Elevators managers propose wage gains tied to broader vacation benefits. Local picket lines form at idle facilities as talks stall.
New York Aug 1 7 David Sarnoff says mass produced tiny radios at $2 a set could be distributed to Russia and satellite nations to receive the Voice of America The plan aims at giving nonc urtain peoples personal reception and safer access than home radios While NBC and the State Department officials discuss methods engineers have made progress to justify belief that sets will be more available Also nearby Glen Summer Road residents complain of loud noises from power lines with frogs croaking in a swamp noted by a sleepless tenant’s night listening end.
Readers inquire on safe diaper pins for babies, inexpensive room decorations, and affordable refrigerator temperature controls. The article notes a stainless steel diaper pin with needlelike points, a metal shadow box with decals for kids, a decal remover, and a new thermometer usable from 30 degrees below zero to 30 above in freezers and refrigerators.
H J Crawford of Emlenton Pa wealthy promoter testified at a power commission hearing claiming debt avoidance and urging youth to invest. He offered to back up to 1 520 000 to finance two proposed natural gas pipelines in northeastern Ohio. Typhoon birthplaces found LA scientists say typhoons and Atlantic hurricanes originate similarly challenging prior views.
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