Ratliffs To National Convention Lead Oklahoma Rural Carriers
Bert E B Ratliff of Ada elected state president of Oklahoma National Rural Letter Carriers association at El Reno convention held on 23 24 25 with Mrs Ratliff re elected state president of the auxiliary. The group 33500 national members and 20500 auxiliary 956 and 661 in Oklahoma. Ratliff active 28 years in office and as district and state officer. He and Mrs Ratliff and children to attend 1939 Portland convention with Bert Jr and Mary Jane joining junior group proceedings.
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National Rural Letter Carriers Association
el Renody
Bert EB. Ratliff
Ada
Ladies Auxiliary
Ratliff
NOR
LC. A
National
Oklahoma
Auxiliary
Bert
Birs
Ratiff
Oil production in Pentotos county holds above a million barrels monthly
The county continues steady oil output with Pentotos monthly totals topping one million barrels. April yields averaged 85 200 barrels daily totaling 1 077 263 barrels and May 1 082 115 barrels while June declined to 1 009 279 barrels. Figures from the oil and gas conservation department list May and June breakdowns by fields and wells with Allen Fitts Fitts Oil Creek and Jesse showing varied production.
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Pentotoe County
Moore
Magnolia
Pentotos County
South Fitts
Pentotoc County
Fitts
Oil and Gas Conservation Department
State Corporation Commission
Allen
Fitts Oil Creek
Jesse
Jesse-Hunton
Fitts-Oil Creek
Simpson- Roadhouse
Statler
E. EK. Moore, Inc
Scott Brown
Magnola No
Magnola No.rtherspoon
Simpson
Konawa Dey
Lord
Masters
Fittsfield
Stonewell Co
Heney
Sene
Kingery
Flemming
Culver-Shepherd
Snyder
Konawa
Viola
Shafer
Shi
Culver- Shepherd
Burton
Hunton
Cooper
McKinley
J. Edgar Smith
Kuhn
Sec
D. P Brunson
Ord
Annetta Kahn
Wildcat
We Might Repeal Mexican Policing
Fort Worth reports quote observers noting unrest in Mexico and widening industrial strife. The White House adviser warns that if tensions peak, the United States may again police the Mexican border to protect American lives and property, echoing 1915 actions under Brown.
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Fort Worth
Aus
Mexico
Elliott Roosevelt
Brown
Lazaro Cardenas
State Department
Cardenas
Trio Of Indian Maidens To Gotham
An Anadarko report describes three OFlakoma Indian maidens in native buckskin to visit New York for the World’s Fair August 14 to 19. Princess Esther Riddles and attendants Eva Lou Ware Vivian Saunkeah, with chaperon Rose. Lee Lindsay will accompany. Riddles to preside at fair opening. Guard of honor escort may attend.
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Anadarko
Esther Riddles
Sill
Eva Lou Ware
Vivian Saunkeah
Eng Rose
Lee Lindsay
Princess Riddles
Miss Lindsay
Fort Silt
Duncan
Lake Dun
Ican
Farm Purchase Group Is Named
The Pontotoc county Tenant Purchase committee held its first session Saturday afternoon, acquainting with its duties and planning organization. The committee, under Farm Security Administration jurisdiction, includes L. L. Lillard Ada routs 3 Phil McLachlan Fitzhugh and Henry Little Stratford, and will evaluate farms the government plans to buy for tenant farmers under the FSA act.
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Pontotoc County
Linesman Survives 2300 Volt Electric Shock Rescue
Stillwater workers Lane and Ernst describe his 2300 volt shock while atop a 30 foot pole. Charles McKenzie cut Lane’s safety belt, lassoed the cross beam, and helped lower him to the ground for hospital treatment.
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Stillwater
Lane
Charles McKenzie
Albert Ernst
Stillwater Municipal Light and Power Company
Ernst
McKenzie Ceaing
McKenzie
Grogey
Tests Continue To Show Francis Water Supply Is Unsafe
Laboratory tests show the Francis water supply remains unsafe for human consumption says Burley Walker sanitarian of the City County Health unit. An emergency chlorinator exists but is not used enough to ensure safety while officials work with town authorities. Stonewall also reports progress as wells were cleaned and chlorine applied, though some samples still test unsafe, indicating possible contamination in water lines.
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Francis
Burley Walker
Walker
Stonewall
Sure He's There For I Shot Him
Hugo Oklahoma Aug 5 Sheriff Roy Harmon reports he sought John Anderson 55 on an arrest summons for a theft case. At landlord W W Tidwell’s farm Anderson was said to be present then Tidwell claimed I just shot him. Anderson wounded was taken to Hugo hospital then Paris sanitarium as Tidwell posted $1000 bond and faced no charges. Motion picture equipment installed in 120 Methodist churches in England.
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Hugo
Roy Harmon
Choctaw County
Oklahoma
John Anderson
W. W. Tidwell
Anderson
Harman
Tidwell
Hanan
Harmon
Sheriff
Paris
Tex
East Central to Educate Teachers While Opening Four Year Program
East Central State College will continue to educate teachers as the program opens for the academic year September 11. The Seventeenth legislature renamed the school removing teacher from its caption, but the college will still offer a liberal undergraduate education with strengthened music, English, sociology, economics, history, government, natural sciences, languages and mathematics. Enrollment opens Monday at 8 in the college library reading room and runs through Tuesday, with freshmen classifying on the first day and upperclassmen on the second.
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East Central State College
College Library
State Board of Education
East Central
Central
County Free Fair Plans Move Ahead
County officials begin annual fair preparations with premium list printing and distribution planned this week. 4 H members and local farmers ready crops and livestock for competition as fair staff finalize exhibitory layout. Gates open by September 20 for Pontotoc county agricultural showcase.
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Jong
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma Youth among Two Dead in Canada Mishap
Regina police report a car misjudged a curve west of Belle Plaine, rolling over and striking a telephone pole. Dead are Elwyn W. Claia, 20, of Cushing, Oklahoma, and Muriel McIntyre, 19, of Regina. seriously injured are Jack Heron, 79, and James Parker, 18, both from Regina. Claude, a University of Oklahoma student visiting with his parents, survived.
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Regina
Susk
Belle Plaine
Elwyn W. Claia
Cushing
Okla
Muriel McIntyre
Jack Heron
James Parker
Claude
University of Oklahoma
Ellis D. Claude
Dr Adams named head of local health unit in Ada
Dr Richard M Adams named new director of the City County Health unit, succeeding Dr Glenn W McDonald on leave. McDonald to attend nine months at Johns Hopkins after guard duty at Fort Sill. Adams, longtime state health staffer, plans to continue McDonald’s work in Ada, brings two saddle horses, and will establish his home here. Manslaughter charge filed in Nowata after fatal collision between automobile and truck.
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Richard Martin
Dick” Adams
Glenn W. McDonald
Doctor Adams
Doctor McDonald
National Guard
Fort Sill
Wewoka
State Health Department
Okfuskee
Okemah
Oklahoma
Adams
Ada
John Hopkins
Dates Set For Preliminaries In McKeel Bribery Cases
State Senator John Boyce McKeel faces preliminary hearings in two bribery charges. One alleges he took 300 from Jim Richards to dismiss whiskey cases. the other accuses 800 from Si Herion for no prosecution in eight cases. Hearings are set August 17 and the following day in Stonewall justice court.
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John Boyce McKeel
Justice Court
H. C
Buck” Taylor
Stonewall
Jim Richards
Fittstown
Richards
McKeel
Ar-Raigmnent
A- W. Oliver
Ada
Si Herion
Herion
Reed
Carloss Wadlington
Oliver
Hoyt Driskill
Driskill
Postal Official At Tipton Held For Mail Theft
LAWTON Aug. 5 A7 The arrest of Isaac Franklin Dale 42 assistant postmaster at Tipton 12 days ago was disclosed by postal inspectors charged with theft from the mails Dale allegedly took about 500 from around 100 letters over three years bond set at 1000 Oklahoma City U S district attorney said the stolen money was small contributions to an orphanage and school operated by Tipton sharen The inspectors said Dale was arrested July 25 with marked money stolen from the mails in his possession
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Lawton
Isaac Franklin Dale
Tipton
Dale
Charles £. Dierker
U. S
Oklahoma City
State Gaining In War On Syphilis Oklahoma City
Oklahoma state health commissioner Dr G F Mathews reports the syphilis elimination program begun July 1 1987 has reached peak efficiency with blood tests at state laboratories rising from 74311 to 137000 in the fiscal year and about 30000 cases under treatment in the state now, up from 13986 in 1936 prior to the program.
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Oklahoma City
G. F. Mathews
Oklahoma
Mathews
Russians Assert Japanese Repulsed Across Border War
Moscow reports from Tass say Japanese forces were repulsed in ongoing clashes along the Outer Mongolia and Manchoukuo frontier east of the Khalka river. Air and ground combat continued since late July with 67 Japanese and six Soviet planes downed in aerial battles. The dispute centers on the Khalka boundary with Manchoukuo and Outer Mongolia staking opposing claims to the line.
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Moscow
Outer Mongolia
Manchoukuo
Khalka River
Tass
Dtates
Khalka
Senate Passes Bill for Loans On Farm Needs
Washington August 4 A 119 599 918 appropriation to continue government loans for bolstering farm prices was approved quickly by the senate as it sped consideration of the session’s last major legislation in hopes of a week end adjournment. The vote on the commodity credit corporation appropriation was 60 to 0.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
House
Congress
Hearings On Expenditures Set August 14
The county excise board announced a public hearing for August 14 at 10 am to question any item in the 1939 40 budget. Taxpayers may attend and challenge purposes or necessity of expenditures. The session followed a four hour budget review with disputed items including auditor Goodall’s $200 a month salary and proposals for hiring additional courthouse janitors.
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Ben Hatcher
County Excise Board
Excise Board
Tom Grant
Bernard Goodall
Bil Pegg
Hatcher
Pegg
Goodall
State Examiner and Inspector's Office
George Collins
Board of County Commissioners
Don Erans
The
Shorts Hater Invited As Chief Judge At Arkansas Revue
Batesville Arkansas August 5. Mayor J H Cowell of Nettleton invited to serve as chief judge of the White River Water Carnival bathing beauty revue next week. The invitation quotes a playful challenge and notes prior fines for a shorts and skirt costume.
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Batesville
Ark
J. H. Cowell
Nettleton
Arkansas
Claude C. Walbert
White River
Wilbert
Cowell
Ada Woman Denies Involvement In Stock Schemes
Mrs. Cumenings Cummins of Ada protests a published Ardmore report accusing her of losing 2000 to two confident men. She says she did not engage in stock market dealings or any related purchase plans. She was a victim of a clever embezzlement gang and had no role in the alleged market deals.
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C. A. Cummins
Ada
Ardmore
Fishing Prospects Dim Across Oklahoma Waters
Oklahoma streams and lakes are at low stages with poor fishing overall. Southern creeks run dry and rangers seive fish to deeper pools while Johnston county’s Pennington creek has fallen to new lows. Some improvement noted near Rattan and Lake Murray after showers. southeastern Oklahoma fares best.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Pennington Creek
Johnston County
Anadarke
Chickasha
Ponca City
Frederick
Payne
Logan Counties
Rattan
Atoka City Lake
Lake Murray
Ardmore
Marietta
R. S. Maddry
Idahel
McCurtain
Attorney General Rules On Oklahoma School Board Matters
Oklahoma City August 5 Attorney General Mack Q Williamson ruled a county superintendent need not pay the cost of an appeal from an order removing a director and clerk of a school district The opinion wrote for Adair County superintendent G M Hagan who removed personnel on a charge of neglect of duty Also ruled Baseline tax funds may be used to pay street department salaries and buy equipment In a separate ruling county commissioners cannot force Pontotac county treasurer to sell bonds purchased with sinking funds without boards of trustees approval
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Oklahoma City
Mack Q. Williamson
G. M. Hagan
Adair County
Everett S. Collins
Creek County
Williamson
Pontatec
Woman Confesses She Shot Father in Oklahoma
Miss Hattie Carter, 18, surrendered to Sheriff Grover C Bishop in Tahlequah and admitted shooting her father, Jim Carter, after he threatened to kill her and her mother Maud Carter. Justice George W Corn reported Carter was shot in the back with a .38 caliber pistol.
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Tahlequah
Hattie Carter
Grover C
Bishop
Jim Carter
Maud
George W. Corn
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England
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Lockey Jimmy Stout
Joe Donelan
Jim. Fitzsimmons
Saratoga
Canada
Dominion
Dr. Adams
Dr. McDonald
Nowata
John Mayfied
James B. Parker
Mayfied
J. B. McKeel
H. C. Taylor
LF. Dale
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