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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1936
Page
3
Curios and antiques column notes wind spell and heat in Ada. Families from Haskell Rodgers and Marion O Néal report cool nights and vacations, urging trips to Ada glass plant and Rockies, with locals planning Colorado visits and group travel under warm winds.
A vailed set of hometown snippets recalls Ada sports and civic life. An Ada team loss noted with odd ball yardage, a Texas league tale praises a powerful slugger. Local figures Crue gist Ed Gwin Jr and W T Miller are quoted on taxes and theft. An humorous simile closes the column.
Max Soref born in Germany to Russian parents who became Americans claims to speak seven and one half languages and jokes he only half speaks English. He studies Spanish at home in his spare time and now considers Ada his home, seeing it as a Gandy city in the best country in the world.
J. H. Meckheath, who left six or seven years ago, returned from Dallas and said he hardly recognized the town. He noted the unexpected changes as he came up Lucas Hill and spoke with reporters about his renewed visit.
A letters page note praises Ada residents and prints a random list of local names including Bron islaus Czyzewski Boleslaw Siew ko John Bizkupski Stella Klim aszewska Zygmunt Walczewski and Cyprian Adamski, illustrating the effort to compile names for a paper.
The article notes a desire to answer questions about electoral votes for Oklahoma, Wyoming voting qualifications, and whether Taft carried Pennsylvania in 1912. It frames this as obtaining complete information to settle bets and answer questions within the year.
A column note invites readers to contribute to a forthcoming Readers Day issue titled The News Progress Edition. It explains readers have had little chance to contribute and thanks friends for suggestions, proposing to publish submissions if any are received as relief from normal column chatter.
Ada officials said the Edison Memorial Foundation campaign has reached its quota, contributing 138000 to a local hospital project and surpassing its assigned 70000 goal by 3270. Leaders F. F. McKay T. G. Kelly and S. K. Grant coordinated the effort.
Unfavorable weather harmed spring gardens making fall gardening essential. Plant timing hinges on frost dates with vegetables like beans cabbage carrots and squash listed by days to mature. Soak seed soak and plant thickly with covered soil for quicker germination and a productive late season harvest.
A county farm survey shows a serious shortage of grain and hay across most areas with only limited surplus in some counties. Prices for prairie and alfalfa hay are rising as farmers race to harvest and stock feed for fall and winter, risking higher costs and potential shortages for those without own production.
Checotah Oklahoma August 1 J E Kloeckler a McIntosh county farmer reports better grain from land with two rows of corn and one row of mungbeans. He grows mungbeans in every third row this year after late March planting and May mungbean sowing. Plants are left to rot in field adding fertility and moisture retention. He also sparsely plants soybeans in corn rows.
Ernest E. School Extension director and drought relief chairman urged Oklahoma farmers to produce and store their own roughage for fall and winter. He noted the 1934 drought left government stocks costly to move and highlighted Johnson grass patches as valuable emergency feed sources. He warned farmers who ignore this may have to sell livestock this winter.
Oklahoma City report shows Pontotoc county received 9669.21 in rental land benefits under the AAA through May 1 1936. Three year Pontotoc totals reach 357762.24 with cotton corn hogs and peanuts program payments. national three year total is 1 22310418785 reflecting broader farm relief disbursements.
TM Bill Williams 45, a Caddo Indian war veteran, was killed in a cave-in at a sand and gravel pit on his farm four miles west of Fort Cobb. Scott Sumpter, about 45, was trapped but not believed seriously injured. Williams, educated at Haskell Institute, captained the Haskell team against Notre Dame in 1912 and later served in the American Legion and as a Caddo tribal official at Anadarko and Topeka ceremonies.
Prime Minister William Aberhart begins printing velocity dollars in Calgary to spur prosperity. Certificates redeemable for a dollar advance a stamp program that funds public works. merchants may accept or refuse, with cabinet members piloting salaries into the fund and relief money diverted to bolster the redemption pool.
An Agriculture Department report on world cotton prospects indicates a strong market position for cotton. Rising prices in June and July reflect high world consumption of American cotton, low private stock, reduced government-financed cotton, and a crop that may rise only modestly over last year.
About 200 alleged heirs to the Jackson Barnett estate asked to intervene in the dispute over the world's richest mineral fortune in federal court here. Judge Robert L. Williams granted permission for intervention as the case moves forward.
The estate, valued around two million dollars, faces claims from over four hundred individuals. Louise R. Klein, with an application for continuance, was reappointed special commissioner to record evidence. Bertha Barnett and her son Henry seek shares, while Mahala Ashe Caldwell and Sadie Fields of Kentucky seek to intervene as wife and daughter of a first cousin. Action on requests delayed to next motion day.
State troopers detained George Crispell after noting his license plates appeared dated 1930. The unusual plates prompted the arrest as authorities investigated potential violations tied to the age of the registration.
Ada high school student John Loy Geary won the highest honors in Northwestern University’s summer session speech institute. Coach Mrs. Iona Ballew Freeman confirms the award, with representatives from eight states in attendance. The victory earns a scholarship for next summer.
A. J. Katz, Sapulpa pioneer merchant aged 85, died at home after a heat related illness. He emigrated from Germany at 15, lived in Baltimore Horse Cave Louisville before settling in Sapulpa 26 years ago. Survived by five sons and four daughters. Funeral Friday at 2 pm in Oklahoma City with burial in Fairlawn Cemetery.
Ada fire department members recall a cold Saturday morning as they responded to a fire alarm. Alva Hitt and Wee Dickey humorously discuss the frost while Hitt wraps a slicker around his tall frame after waking for the call.
Round strides on three Ada building projects in the business district continued this week. The Nance Bus Lines expect the new station ready for occupancy by August 10, with interior finishing and a ramp at the loading platform still to be done. The Cummings building is nearly complete with doors being fitted on the second floor offices and top floor offices nearing opening. The State Conservative office moved into temporary quarters on the second floor with Ira Dugan announcing a three room suite for the office force. Concrete pouring was finished on the basement and two hotel floors at the Aldridge addition, with the third floorWork expected to begin next week. Residential construction proceeds with the Finley and Lollar firm reporting many residences nearing completion.
The governor who failed to win a U S senate bid in the primary reshuffles leadership. Charles E McPherron is dismissed as commander of the forty fifth national guard division. Westfall and Mathews join the board of education soon after Marland’s inauguration. Westfall once led Marland Oil in Mexico while Mathews, a Rhodes scholar and author, had not held public office before.
Oklahoma City August 1 Democratic U S Senate nominee Rep Josh Lee left for Washington to press drought relief funds and urge President Roosevelt to speak in Oklahoma City on September 30 He will also meet James Farley to discuss the national committee and study irrigation projects for the Panhandle using deep wells and available natural gas He plans outreach to county groups after Tulsa committee meetings with Sam Battles and Elmer Thomas.
Governor Marland dismissed Chest er H. Westfall of Ponca City and Joseph Mathews of Pawhuska from the state board of education by terse letters. He cited they were not qualified after they opposed politics in schools and had fought to keep politics out of state education. This follows another removal earlier in the week amid a school governance shakeup.
In Greenville Texas two firemen Roscoe Daugherty and Earl Jenkins died after an explosion blocked their exit from a downtown warehouse blaze. They entered with a hose line to reach the center of the fire but could not break a barred window and perished as flames spread.
Ben B. Laska, a Denver attorney, turned himself over to U S Marshal to begin a ten year term for taking ten thousand of Urschel ransom as a legal fee in the Albert Bates abduction case. He is the first lawyer convicted in a U S kidnapping case. Other defendants include Millie O Edison, Laska's witness, facing perjury charges.
D. W. Stephens of Fort Smith Arkansas a Miss Garrett of Van Buren Arkansas and Lena Mae Holland of Dallas were injured when their car overturned in a yard in McKinney Texas after visiting the Texas Centennial exposition.
A man fainted in a crowded area near Main and Townsend. An ambulance arrived, stretcher bearers prepared the patient, but he quickly regained consciousness with help from his son. The crowd dispersed and the ambulance left quietly.
Bill Harper of Portland Park was beaten near a Bebee road filling station and hospitalised with severe head wounds and a dislocated shoulder. Sheriff Kaiser and deputies hunt a well known county character out on bond, said to be the bottle wielder.
WPA administrator P. W. S. Key announced 5,000 additional drought area jobs will start Monday on soil conservation projects in Oklahoma. He did not discuss the WPA worker investigations or Major General McPherren’s dismissal. Floriene Slayton called a Monday meeting of federal agencies to expedite the drought program.
Mr and Mrs Robert A Simpkins of Oakman announce the marriage of their daughter Juanita June to J B Allison of Hickory The ceremony was a quiet Wednesday July 29 at the Oakman home conducted by Rev Karen Only the couple s parents and a few intimate friends attended The bride is a Byng high school alumna who played on the basketball team They will reside on a ranch near Hickory
Mrs. H. M. Ledbetter of Ada announces the marriage of her daughter Wynona Ledbetter to Earnest R. Hook of Earlsboro Oklahoma. The ceremony took place in McAlester on July 22 and the couple will reside in Kansas after a trip to Dallas and Fort Worth.
State Senator Al Nichols failed to pay an election bet and planned a knee pants parade through Wewoka streets. He called Rep Josh Lee's campaign workers knee pants boys, a claim challenged by Calvin Smith superintendent of Seminole County schools. Nichols later said he would parade in knee pants if Lee were nominated and noted pledges to win the president pro tempore chair.
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