Ada Weekly News history and publication details
The Ada Weekly News established in 1961 notes editor William O D Lit Little. It consolidates with The Ada Weekly Democrat in 1910 and with Pontotoc County Enterprise in 1912 and with Ada Star Democrat in 1919. The Ada Evening News and The Ada Weekly News are published weekly with various subscription rates and post office details.
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Ada
Oklahoma
News Publishing and Printing
Ada Weekly Democrat
Pontotoc
ADA Evening News
ADA Weekly
The Atomic Bomb II and its World Impact
Opinion on the atomic bomb's power and potential effects if used in war. Warns of devastation from a single bomb equating to tens of millions of pounds of TNT. Cites Pearl Harbor as context and calls for restraint after the war to prevent further destruction.
War of psychology and the war of arms
The author argues both a psychological and conventional war are waged against Japan. He notes successes against Germany and Japan’s continued resolve despite efforts to induce surrender. He suggests declaring a long defense without invasion might force reconsideration, though doubts legality or practicality arise.
American Gratitude Shines in Car Ride to Help Soldier
A motorist in Virginia speeds to reach a train to Washington with a war veteran on board. The patrol follows as the driver pleads guilty, but the officer releases him after hearing the veteran’s story. The piece praises American spirit and notes penicillin costs.
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Charlottsville
Washington
Isaac's Well Digging Teaches Peaceful Prosperity
In biblical parable, Abraham’s wells and Isaac's repeated digging teach persistence and peace. Despite rivals who filled his wells, Isaac named each in turn Esek Sitnah and Rehoboth, finding room and fruitfulness with God. The piece urges wise restraint and enduring patience over conflict.
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Sychar
Jesus
Samaria
Jacob
Abraham
Wells
Abimelech
Eee
Beersheba
Lot
Sodom
Isaac
Gerar
Rehoboth
Japan's Secret Weapon Described by Admiral Mitscher
Vice Admiral Mitscher warned of Japan’s tactics including massed human bodies as a form of suicide defense tied to dynamite and a winged rocket bomb. He said such methods reflect Japan’s desperation as the home islands face isolation and pressure, potentially delaying invasion but not stopping American superiority.
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Marc Mitscher
Japanese Islands
Japan
Germans to Cut Wood in Occupied Zone to Face Winter
A Luxemburg dispatch reports Germans in the American occupied zone may lack coal next winter. If forests supply wood and heating systems adapt, households could manage. The piece notes wood’s historic role, from pioneer times to consolidated fuel use, and urges cooperation with visitors and room rentals as the rodeo grows.
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Luxemburg
Ada
Fourth Polio Case Shown In PonTotoc County
A fourth infantile paralysis case is reported in PonTotoc County this year, Ada is the source village. Bobby Crowell, son of Vic and Mrs Crowell of 9054 South Townsend, is hospitalized with polio. Two other county children from Rebee and Stonewall receive care at Crippled Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City, and a Stonewall girl died recently from the disease.
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Pontotoc County
Ada
Bobby Crowell
Vic Crowell
South Townsend
Rebee
Stonewall
Crippled Children's Hospital
Oklahoma City
Explosion at Port Arthur wheat elevator kills many
At least 13 people die and many are missing after a blast wrecks storage elevator No. 5 of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in Port Arthur Ontario near Fort William. Seventy workers were at the site. four bodies found 200 feet away. Cause unknown. dust likely.
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Port Arthur
Ont
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Ltd
Great Lakes
Fort William
John Burton
Eastern Terminal Elevator Company
Saskatchewan Pool
FBI says sabotage mostly by domestic actors cautions citizens
D A Bryce told Ada Lions Club internal security is a shared duty and no foreign government directed the 2000 plus sabotage cases. He cited FBI successes since Pearl Harbor and noted 16,000 aliens in protective custody and 12,000 plus Selective Service convictions as proof of cooperation with local officers. Meanwhile Moscow radio and Izvestia reported Truman's Hiroshima bombing.
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D. A. Bryce
Oklahoma City
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S
Bryce
FBI
Ada Lions Club
America
Staten Island
Roosevelt
Selective Service and Training Act
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Life Of Christ School At Bromide Declared Success
The five day Life of Christ School at the Bromide Presbyterian church averaged 30 pupils with 37 peak attendance. Teachers included Mrs Lige Wisdom T H Atkins and Harry Miller with Mrs Jack Owens at the piano. Kenneth Wayne Kirkpatrick joined the church after confessing Christ. Certificates awarded to 27 pupils. prizes given for exams and crafts. parents praised the program and attendance drive.
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Life of Christ
Bromide
Lige Wisdom
T. H. Atkins
Harry Miller
Jack Owens
Willis Worley
Ray Toney
H. T. Channel
Kenneth Wayne Kirkpatrick
Leota Kirkpatrick
Gov” Moseley
Betty Jean Dewberry
Jeanette Collins
Joe Moseley
Billy Jean Collins
Tommy Atkins
Tressie Lou Webb
J. B. Jones
James Jones Jr
A. J. Townley
Lady Kirkpatrick
Jerry Booth
Imogene Wisdom
Willy Bill Kirkpatrick
Merelyn Wisdom
Doris Mae Milligan
Martha Lee Newman
Charles Epperson
Marilyn Booth
Sonny Worley
Judy Morgan
Kenneth Lowe
Karen Howard
Glenna Kay Smith
Madine Webb
Wanda Milligan
Charlene Davis
Billy Toney
Geralyn Bettinger
Der
Christ
Wanda Lee Milligan
Bevin Says Europe Must Be Helped
London August 7 Ernest Bevin Britain's foreign secretary told the UNRRA conference that liberated Europe must be aided over the next 12 months to prevent disease anarchy and bloodshed He cited food as the major need and urged larger contributions from nations already impoverished by the war acknowledging the strain on great powers.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Britain
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Europe
Bevin
UNRRA
St Louis OK Superintendent Seeks Teachers
St. Louis superintendent T L Womack hunts for teachers for next school year. He targets five hires but finds prospects scarce despite offering housing for singles and couples. He seeks a high school principal coach music band instructor and teachers in math science junior high and primary grades. Readers urged to write him at St. Louis Oklahoma.
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T. L. Womack
St. Louis
Womack
Oklahoma
Oklahoma A and M and Langston earnings drop in school land report
Oklahoma A and M college at Stillwater and Langston University saw declines in school land earnings in the past fiscal year Walter Marlin of the state school land commission reported in a special copy for Governor Kerr. Despite the drops these two schools had lower totals overall for the year but earnings across most apportionments rose by 185 648 over the prior year with common school receiving 1 571 494 and the University of Oklahoma up 3 170.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Stillwater
Langston University
Langston
Walter Marlin
State School Land Commission
Rober S. Kerr
Marlin
Aggie Institution
University of Oklahoma
Atomic bomb cost justified by war savings says Truman
Washington reports President Truman says the atomic bomb cost 2 billion dollars and would justify the war’s shortened duration if it saves nine days. Treasury experts note this cost equals less than nine days of fighting at current spending rates. July expenditures topped 7.395 billion with daily averages near 239 million. Burns files petition to intervene in Wells case challenging Oklahoma contingency fund and higher education appropriations.
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Washington
Truman
Treasury
U. S
Burns
Oklahoma City
Supreme Court
Robert Burns
J. K. Wells
Wells
Jet plane Shooting Star flies Dayton to New York in an hour
A jet propelled plane named Shooting Star completed the Dayton to New York flight in a little over one hour. The remark references a folkloric line about the cow jumping over the moon as a playful comparison.
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Dayton
New York
City of Kweilin Looted Thoroughly by Japanese Forces
Report from Kanhsien and Chungk ing says Kweilin was sacked with total destruction. About 50,000 Chinese in Kanhsien were killed or missing in six months of occupation. Up to July end more than 1,000 civilians killed at Ichang by injections described as meningitis vaccines. Japanese squads set Kweilin ablaze for 20 days before dying, traitors paid 3,000 dollars per destroyed building. Two thirds of the population fled or hid. only the poorest remained.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Kweilin
Carthage
Kanhsien
Ewerlin
Lidice
Kwangsi
Owo
David Chandler
Kanhs
Yangtze
Ichang
China
Chandler
Nazis Far Behind Avers Churchill On Atomic Secrets
London reports Churchill said Germany had some atomic power secrets but British and American science outpaced German efforts. He noted German scale was considerable yet far behind and cited 1942-43 Norwegian store raids with heavy losses and potential impact if Germany had atomic power.
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London
Germany
Winston Churchill
Attlee
Churchill
Universal Military Training Fades
Congressional supporters say they have nearly abandoned hopes for a peace time universal training program. They plan to seek compulsory training for all able bodied youths when Congress reconvenes in October, but expect little success. The House committee backed the idea, with army navy and veterans groups in favor, while church groups educators and labor oppose it. President Truman has not stated his views ahead of a fall message.
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Washington
Universal
Congress
House
Representative Woodrum
D-Va
Army
Navy
Veterans
Capitol Hill
Truman
Goodwins Visit Relatives in Ada During Relocation
Lt and Mrs William H Goodwin visit Lt Goodwins mother Mrs Charles Goodwin and sister Mary Elizabeth at 123 East Seventeenth Ada He is a B 29 pilot en route from Maxwell Field Alabama to Lincoln Nebraska for advanced combat training He is grandson of Mr and Mrs H A Stevenson and nephew of Mrs Marjorie Braly.
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William H. Goodwin
Lt. Goodwin
Charles Goodwin
Mary Elizabeth Goodwin
East Seventeenth
Goodwin
Maxwell Field
Alabama
Lincoln
Nebraska
H. A. Stevenson
Marjorie Braly
Kansas Governor Blasts OPA Over Stove Ban
TOPEKA Aug. 6. Governor Schoeppel criticized the OPA after Cpl Norville Sanders an honorably discharged veteran lacking an oil stove faced refusal to issue a certificate to buy one. Sanders, home 26 months overseas in North Africa and Italy, was denied because he had not burned oil in six months. Purple Sage club of Rock Springs Wyoming offered six months of free food.
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Topeka
Norville Sanders
OPA
Andrew Schoeppel
Kansas
Schoeppel
N. O. Davis
Wichita
Davis
Ield
The
Purple Sage Club
Rock Springs
Wyo
Sanders
North Africa
Italy
O. S. Scheutz
Timken
Six Injured When Trains Sideswipe
Six Rock Island railroad employees were injured when the Rock Island Rocket and a Santa Fe freight engine side swiped at a switch near Sedgwick Kansas. The Rocket derailed into a ditch for about 100 feet while no passengers were hurt. Injured: Frank H. Ayers and P C Peterson of Herington. Ora Spagner H E McClanahan G L Watts and Lewis P Hurt of Kansas City.
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Sedgwick
Kas
Rock Island Railroad
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Frank H. Ayers
P. C. Peterson
Herington
Ora Spagner
H. E. McClanahan
Wounded Navy Casualties List Names Oklahomans
The Navy reports wounded service members from Oklahoma including Pfc. J. E. Aston of Stonewall and others such as Pvt. L. C. Boatwright of Alex, Pfc. J. L. Boaz of Sapulpa, Pvt. Delbert Clark of Anadarko, Pvt. R. E. Connor of Clinton, Pvt. A. F. Davis of Cheyenne, Pfc. J. H. Funk Jr. of Okmulgee, Pfc. R. J. House of Oklahoma City, Cpl. W. R. Manchester Jr. of Oklahoma City, AO 3/c M. L. Marshall of Harrah, Pfc. W. S. Rogers of Adair, Pfc. E. J. Sikorski of Newkirk, Pfc. Arvil Tootle of Sallisaw, and Pfc. Ishmael Elza Upton of Stonewall.
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Navy
M. L. Marshall
Harrah
W. S. Rogers
Adair
E. J. Sikorski
Newkirk
Arvil Tootle
Sallisaw
Ishmael Elza Upton
USMCA
Lila F. Upton
Stonewall
Tarumi Port Hit by Heaviest Fire Raid Yet
Manila reports Tarumi Japan port set ablaze by over 400 Far East air forces planes in a two hour attack. Liberator and Mitchell bombers plus Thunderbolt and Mustang fighters targeted factories and wharves, flames rising as high as 12 000 feet.
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Manila
Tarumi
Okinawa
Douglas MacArthur
Far East
Campbells Son Reports Reassignment at Naval Center
Campbell 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. H L Campbell of El Reno, reported at Shoemaker Calif Naval Training and Distribution Center for reclassification and further assignment. He has served two years ten months, previously at Jacksonville Fla. His wife Anna Campbell resides at 701 Kings Road. Mrs Kenneth Ambrose Jr. and children Kenneth III and Jo of Big Spring Texas are visiting in the home of Mr and Mrs E Ambrose at 801 East Seventeenth. Mrs Jack Ambrose will arrive Monday from Hope Ark for a 30 day visit.
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Cityton L. A
Tg Amm
H. L. Campbell
el Reno
Shoemaker
Calif
Naval Training and Distribution Center
Campbell
Navy
Jacksonville
Fla
Anna Campbell
Kings Road
Kenneth Ambrose Jr
Kenneth, III
Big Spring
Texas
E. Ambrose
East Seventeenth
Jack Ambrose
Hope
Arkansas
Spider bites spoil Wiesner's Mohawk Park race
Otto Wiesner, holder of the Hart trophy, was forced to withdraw from the Sequoyah Yacht club races at Mohawk Park after a spider bite left him ill. The Tulsa event was to feature Wiesner aboard his boat Senta, challenging fellow club members.
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Tulsa
Okla
Otto Wiesner
Sequoyah
Greater returns for amount in vested Ada News Classified Ads
An Ada News classified ad notes higher returns on investments for readers who vest funds. The item highlights boosted yields and clarified terms for investors seeking better value.
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