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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1970
Page
13
On August 6 from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. on the east sidewalk of N Broadway outside the newspaper office, a buttered egg failed to cook despite 120 degree sidewalk heat. A photo team tested the claim with a large egg under 104 degree air. It remained largely uncooked after an hour while onlookers watched.
Terry Middlesworth, 28, football trainer and health teacher at East Central, is hospitalized in Valley View with typhoid fever diagnosed after summer school at the University of Oklahoma. He is in isolation, improving but still serious, with sources tracing possible exposure from Norman to Camp Simpson.
The Presidents Commission on Pornography maintains its draft recommendations for liberalized obscenity laws. The panel edited its report without major changes and plans repeal of laws banning adult porn material while seeking stronger protections for children. President Nixon warned he would oppose the recommendations.
Mrs Millie Smith and Mrs Stella Rush visited Friday with Mrs Eva Foreman. The Williams family from Vanderbilt Texas and the Monk family from St. Louis dined with Mrs Foreman and visited Tecumseh area churches and nearby residents. Numerous church, nursing home, and hospital arrivals mark a weekend of social visits across Ada and surrounding towns.
Mr and Mrs G L Thompson Sally Mike and Billy Gary Echols Mr and Mrs Shorty Thompson Mr and Mrs Sam Sanders Jack Beverly Jerry and Mark Pam and Barry Ellis Lawton and Mr and Mrs Ronnie West went to a social gathering in St Louis and related activities were noted.
Continued page item notes Paula Tucker moving to Boswell to teach. Visitors include Mrs Bennie Wilker and Mrs Betty Mitchell with Rev and Mrs Glen Eaves and family. Mrs Brock and Linda Brock from Konawa visited Mr and Mrs Willis Sutton on Thursday.
Willis Sutton visited Mrs. Floy Burk on Sunday and also called on Mrs. Lona Soward and Mrs. Vernon Covington to check on their well being and share news.
Johnny Soward visited Mrs. Lena Soward and Vernon Covington on Thursday. Homer Hooper and Purcell visited Mrs. Soward recently.
AEC Commissioner James T. Rainey urged a United Nations U S symposium to prioritize studying environmental effects of steam electric power plants, fossil and nuclear, to balance energy needs with safeguards. He called for regional site planning public hearings and stronger public input, noting lacking data on environmental impacts. The Argonne National Laboratory and Battelle Memorial Institute conducted the study on thermal effects.
Mrs Doris Sims and her children visited Mrs Marguarite Green and her children Monday Debbie and Dianne Andrews visited Nina Sue Eaves Tuesday.
All night gospel singing set for Middle Creek No 2 Indian Church four miles west of Holdenville on old Highway 270 Saturday. Rev Major Hawkins pastor says the event begins about 8 p m with Jesse Jim of Ardmore serving as master of ceremonies.
AP reports Dr William A LaPlante Borg Warner expert notes adults typically know 300 core words that cover about half of everyday reading material.
Latta Extension Homemakers met at Mrs. Wesley Brantley Jr s home for August. President Mrs C E Brady led the session with singing and devotional by Mrs Charles Floyd Jr. Prayer by Mrs Calvin Grace. Roll call answered with Something I like to make. Plans for the county fair were laid and hobby program discussed by Mrs Floyd and Mrs Acord. Refreshments served to members and guest Mrs Kenneth Faulkner.
Governor Bartlett appoints Walter Woolley Jr of Pontotoc County to the State Soil Conservation Board alongside Raymond Watson Claude Brannon Leonard Graumann and M G Thompson. Neal Stidham suffers a heart attack and is homebound for eight weeks. Louie Moshier circulates a county brochure marking 55 flood control reservoir fishing sites with names listed for the district.
A late M H Hobbs family reunion gathered at Wintersmith Park on Sunday August 9 with around fifty relatives present. Attendees included Buster and Shirley Hobbs Norma Clyde Hobbs Tim Roff Cecil Hobbs Kaye Ringling Ervin Duncan Moore Bobby Williams Vicki Laura Bob Jewell Winters Kenneth Winters Meena Roy Winters Barbara Judy Mike George Allen Cheek Wilford Tucker Joanna Wilford Glenn Beth Pratt Jim Hawkins Eddie Bryan Bowden Nora Hobbs Dave Fulton Leonard Hobbs Dan Duncan Sue Morrison C F Hopkins C W Hopkins Inez Debbie Chester Richard Hobbs Shelley Kathy and others from Oklahoma and California.
One in three of Britain's new doctors leaves the country each year to settle abroad permanently. A St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal survey of 2,000 yearly graduates shows more than 700 doctors training in Britain each year go abroad to practice. Canada is the top destination, and many earn more overseas in private practice than in Britain’s national health service.
The coffee tree faces 375 diseases with 10 serious threats among them. among these, coffee rust is the most severe.
In Southeastern Kentucky the Daniel Boone National Forest originated when Ford Motor Co bought land in 1920 to supply timber for car bodies. Ford retained some acreage as the government began acquiring land in 1965. The U S Forest Service now holds over 100000 acres spanning parts of 12 counties.
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