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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1970
Page
4
A rural advisory notes moisture below normal, drought stress, and hay shortages. It cites cattlemen selling cattle, ongoing feeding, and discusses fire risks from cigarettes and brush burns. Suggestions include plowing fireguards and encouraging purple martins to reduce insect pests.
A series of cases on bus drivers and liability shows drivers must police their vehicle when a passenger threatens others but are not police. In one suit, a drunk man kicked a woman. the court held the company liable and the driver responsible as the person in charge. In another, teens firing paper clips caused injury. driver must stop dangerous games, yet not act as a policeman. A third case found no liability when an intoxicated passenger jabbed a pin into another man. the driver was unaware and focused on operating the bus. The judge stated the driver should act only when unusual and not neglectful of duty.
A reflective essay links labor-management cooperation on a cost-plus project to the Tower of Babel tale. It cautions that pride, not divine ambition, fuels human conflict and downfall, citing a prominent industrialist who died by his own hand after clinging to self sufficiency. It argues full humanity comes from humility before God and others.
Around The County blends church remarks with childhood summer recollections at Oil Center. The piece reflects on water as comfort on hot days, memory of family and circus thrills, plus musings on modern life and travel to Oklahoma City for errands. It surveys aging and generational shifts through personal anecdotes.
An Asher youth, 15 year old Michael O Neal Faulkner, was thrown from a county road tractor he drove southwest of Asher. The tractor wheel ran over him, his body was cut in two, and the death marked the 447th Oklahoma road fatality of the year, down from 522 last year.
A column records numerous weekend visits among local families including Mr. and Mrs. Jack Danger and Willis with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Johnson in Marlow, plus Mrs. Effie McCormick. Nina Sue attended her grandmother Mrs. Lucy Lee’s funeral in Drasco Arkansas, with other attendees noted. Ada Rodeo participants include Paul Tucker and Tonya, Billy Jim Robertson family, and Paul Tucker. several local residents are listed as visitors and dinner guests across nearby towns, with school and church social notes interwoven. The piece also mentions Ada Livestock Auction results with cattle volumes and price ranges for packer cows, bulls, stockers, feeders, and calves.
SODA chair Bill Hoover reports the first EDA payment of 340000 has been received for Ada downtown parking lots. Bonds totaling 428000 were set for delivery, with demolition bids opened and KDA sanctions received. Seven property settlements completed. four awaiting title work. one parcel tied up in court.
Hartwell Greer says he was not surprised by his son Maj. Jack H. Greer's response to a hijacker, noting he trained him that way. Greer, navigator on a C141, grabbed an M16 from Pvt. George Hardin after a failed Saigon hijack from San Son Nhut Airport. Hardin fled Sunday after earlier hijack attempts on July 22.
A Pontotoc County girl, Rhonda Kay Adams, 16, is reported missing. She was last seen Friday at 3 p.m. near Ada eight miles NW, wearing unknown clothes and driving a light-colored 1960 Ford with license PC 1511. She is described as 5 feet 1 inch, 127 pounds, light brown hair and dark gray eyes. Contact Mr. and Mrs. Adams at 332 2009 or local law enforcement with any information.
Ada firemen answered two calls Sunday afternoon. At 2 23 p.m. they extinguished a car blaze for Robert J Kendrick in the 700 block of East 9th caused by a backfire at the carburetor. Earlier last week a brass fire occurred on the Frisco right of way in the 300 block of East 9th.
Charles R Willeford of Prague wed Deborah Kay Null of Stuart and Henry H Helleyman wed Phyllis A King of Del City. B Warner and Christina Courtney Ruback tied in Ada, with Robert W Breeden marrying Ruby Davis. Wayne Cathren wed Lauren Pedersen, both of Ada. Charles Braun of Stonewall married Jo Ellen Welborn of Ada, and Dicky Dee Griffin of Konawa wed Joan Whelchel of Ada.
Britain’s Defense Ministry reports an annual cost of 14185 dollars to maintain each of its 45000 service men, compared with 211496 dollars per man for 453000 troops four years earlier. The rise is attributed to pay raises and purchases of advanced equipment.
Eight industrial specialists will tour Ada Thursday as part of an Industrial Institute at the Kellogg Center, University of Oklahoma. Hosted by the Ada Growth and Development Corporation, the group will be split into two teams for tours of local operations, with luncheon sessions at the Aldridge Building and the Holiday House.
Oklahoma City AP Gov Dewey Bartlett named four state board appointments on Monday Walter Woolley Jr of Adan will serve five years on the Soil Conservation Board Woolley is a rancher and oilman and has chaired the Pontotoc County Soil Conservation District He has also led the Alum ni Association of Oklahoma State University Other appointees include E D Allen Hendrix three years on the Peanut Commission Betty O Neal Altus reappointed four years on the Cosmetology Board Maurice Temerlin Norman three years on the Board of Examiners and Psychologists.
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