Ada Rodeo Opens With Five Show Parade and Big Finale
Ada gears for a five show rodeo from Grand Entry to Sunday finale with a parade at 2 30 PM on Wednesday. Louisiana Brahma calves and rodeo stock prepare for the crowds as riders from Texas and Oklahoma arrive for the Ada roundup. A Monday booster trip departs at 7 AM for locals to join, while Beeswax Moore and Bull Brady bring acts for family entertainment and a new trick rider Virginia May joins the lineup. An interlude barbecue for 4,000 plus Ada roundup guests follows the parade as visiting clubs gather at the roundup barns.
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Beeswax Moore
Bull Brady
Virginia May
Calixus
Bonham
Paris
Clarksville
Honeygrove
Denison
Fi Worth
Oklahoma
Allus
Hobart
Frederick
Ada
Governors Guest at Three Quarter Horse Show Night
Gov Roy J Turner will attend a Saturday night show featuring three quarter horse races daily with four purse races on weekday afternoons. About 100 horses from several states expected. Ada Bode in charge will approve matched races. State patrols will manage traffic as Bob Crosby performs his rodeo act with Iris horse and a rodeo band.
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Gov
Roy J. Turner
Ada Bode
Bob Crosby
Hell
Austin Kidwell
Ada Rodeo to Offer 13000 Prize Money and Big Parade
The Ada Rodeo opens Wednesday as the largest outdoor rodeo in the southwest with a 13000 prize pool and a grand parade. About 150 cowboys from Texas and Louisiana are expected, with $5150 added by the Ada Chamber of Commerce and various prize saddles for five divisions. Arena capacity tops 14007, tickets at 123 South Broadway and five fair grounds offices. Directors Binns Truitt and Earl McKenree push final plans for August 13 to 17, with a Wednesday parade at 2 30 and nightly shows culminating Sunday afternoon.
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Southwest
Louisiana
Texas
Ada Rodeo
Ada /Chamber of Commerce
South Broadway
Fair Grounds
Binns
Dick Truitt
Isistant
Woodward
Earl McKenree
We Ks
Alvord Arena
Fred Alvord
Stolen Goods Recovered After Iowa Escapees Caught
A total of $5,000 worth of stolen items including silverware cameras clocks clothing and household furnishings were recovered in Ponca City Oklahoma after two escaped Iowa convicts Edward Ireland 27 Monticello Iowa and Marvin Banks 26 Storm Lake Iowa were cornered with a 15 year old Ponca City girl. Authorities say loot came from Kay and Pawnee county farms and from areas in Kansas and Colorado and Arkansas. Also sought is Eugene F. McDaniels 22 who escaped from a state prison near U. S. 270 in McAlester Oklahoma. There are 31,062,875 head of sheep in New Zealand.
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Ponca City
Okla
Iowa
Folice
D. F. B. Harsh
Harsh
Edward Ireland
Monticeldo
Towa
Marvin Banks
Storm Lake
Junge
Anamosa
Rosebud
Kay County
Pawnee
Drumright
Shawnee
Chandler's
Syracuse
Kansas
Goodland
Ladunta
Colo. Beaver
Arkansas
Mcalester
Oka
State Penitentiary
U. S. Highway 270
Eugene F. McDaniels
Oklahoma City
Average World War II veteran now 29 years old
The Veterans Administration released age distribution findings showing World War II veterans average 29, four years older than currently serving personnel. Other data include World War I veterans at 53.7, Spanish American War vets at 71, Indian Wars at 95, Civil War at 100.7, with 28 percent of 14,361,000 WWII vets under 23.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Armed Services
Flying Farmers Elect Officers for 1948 Convention
The National Flying Farmers Association elected officers at Stillwater Oklahoma. Forrest Watson of Thomas Oklahoma was re elected president. Alfred Ward of Johnson Kansas was elected vice president and Bert A Hansen of Vernon Center Minnesota was re elected secretary treasurer. The three day convention concluded with plans to hold the 1948 meeting in Columbus Ohio.
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Stillwater
Okla
National Flying Farmers Association
Collumbus
Hic
Forrest Watson
Thomas
Alfred Ward
Johnson
Kansas
Bert A. Hansen
Vernon’ Center Minn
Two Tulsa Officers Suspended Today
Two veteran Tulsa police officers G. Jack Kelly and B. Hall were suspended by the city commission. Wednes day set as the date for ouster charges. The action followed an altercation involving officer Harold Wickersham and J. R. Kennedy on June 11. Wickersham resigned, saying he faced injustice toward Hall and Kelly.
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Tulsa
Okla
Jack) Kelly
B. Hall
City Commission
Harold Wickersham
J. R. Kennedy
Wickersham
Force
Hall
Kelly
Kennedy
Roy Hyatt
Hail
MYF Group Meets At Fittstown Church
The Methodist Youth Fellowship of Fittstown Methodist Church hosted the Powca sub-district meeting of the Durant district. Marian Turner welcomed attendees while Joanna Mooney led the program and Sara Stalder performed a piano solo. Richard Hayes read a poem, Rev. Simmons spoke on friendship, and Edrita Polrarney presided over a short business session before a recreation period led by Don English. Sixty seven people from Ada Stonewall Coalgate Antlers Durant Atoka and Fittstown attended.
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Methodist Youth Fellowship
Fittstown Methodist Church
Powca
Durant
Marian Turner
Joanna Mooney
Stonewall
Sara Stalder
Coalgate
Richard Hayes
Ada
Rev. Simmons
Edrita Polrarney
Lown
Shawnee considers 150000 bond issue for city projects
Shawnee city commissioners vote to submit to voters a proposed 150000 bond issue to fund improvements to Shawnee creek and to purchase new fire and sanitation department equipment. The note mentions Liberia settlements dating from the 1820s as African homes for freed U.S. slaves and philanthropic efforts.
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Shawnee, Okio
Shawnee
Liberia
U. S
Treasure hunt grips Berlin over vanished royal jewels
American investigators chase a $2,000,000 jewel theft tied to German Princess Herming's jewels reported missing from a Frankfurt trunk. Prince Ferninand von Schoenasich-Carolath, blinded by a war wound, cites NKVD shadows and international tension as Berlin’s underworld spans multiple nationalities. 95 pieces valued at 5 million marks were guarded in Frankfurt by U S forces while 66 remain under U S guard in the American sector.
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Berlin
Shostly
Ferninand von Schoenasich-Carolath
Herming
Germany
Frankfurt-on-Oder
NKVD
Princess Hermine
U. S. Guard
Frankfurt-on-Main
Yinerlin
Detroit Housewives Shop in Canada Across Border
Detroit housewives crossed into Windsor Ontario to buy meat and eggs at lower prices than in the United States. Crowded river tunnel and Ambassador Bridge traffic highlighted the crossing as shoppers sought cheaper groceries with Canadian prices cited for eggs porterhouse steak bacon roasts and pork chops. Canadian customs duties limited purchases to five dollars per person.
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Detroit
Windsor
Boy Struck by Car Leaves Boy in Minor Condition
Jimmy Owens 7 19 West Ninth sustained minor injuries when a car driven by Cecil B. Henson of Stonewall struck him Saturday afternoon in the 700 block West Main as he crossed a heavily traveled street. Police say he ran from his mother and stepped into traffic about 7 8 miles an hour, receiving treatment at a local hospital and later being discharged.
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Jimmy Owens
West Ninth
Cecil B. Henson
Stonewall
Cecil Smith
Young Owens
West Main
Maith Street
Henson
Red Cross Swim Course Attracts Many TOP-Seated
A Glenwood pool class shows a large group of students in Red Cross swimming instruction. Students include Kenneth Hudsey Tammy Hudson Don Ray Reed Douglas McCord Jerry Ratzell Rodney Lee Campbell Kenneth Holloman Jerry Pritchard Jo Anna Pritchard Melody Higginbotham Joyce Bazemore Skippy Floyd Mary Hader Doris Jean Wood Darla June Carson Carolyn Carson Kay Higginbotham Donna Budd Mary Jane Leonard Ben Spaulding Paul Gene Riggs and David Wood. Standing from left to right are Bill Campbell Elizabeth Lasarsky Red Cross senior lifeguards Lavelle Roberts Dorabhiy Crumley and Red Cross instructors observing. The scene captures flutter exercises and flutter kick as part of the training with the group divided into three classes. Instruction occurs at the Glenwood pools on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.
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Kenneth Hudsey
Tammy Hudson
Don Ray Reed
Douglas McCord
Jerry Ratzell
Rodney Lee Campbell
Kenneth Holloman
Jerry Pritchard
Jo Anna Pritchard
Melody Higginbotham
Joyce Bazemore
Skippy Floyd
Mary Hader
Doris Jean Wood
Darla June Carson
Carolyn Carson
Kay Higginbotham
Donna Budd
Mary Jane Leonard
Ben Spaulding
Paul Gene’ Riggs
David Wood
Red Cross
Glenwood
Red Cross expands Glenwood pool swim program
Red Cross swimming courses proceed at Glenwood pools for weeks with three classes now in operation and junior and senior life saving courses starting this week. Enrollment requires strong swimming ability and at least five pool lengths. ages 12 to 15 enroll in senior life saving, over 15 in the senior course. Free instruction contrasts with pool admission fees. registrations open Monday morning with 16 total hours over four days.
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Red Cross
Glenwood Pools
Hayden Haynes
Pontotoc County
Red Cross Water Safety
Glenwood
Donald M. Nevins
Taout Executive
Boy Scouts
Sulphur to Vote on School Bonds
Sulphur Mayor W A Emerson issued a proclamation for a special election on August 19 to issue 60000 in school bonds for the Sulphur school district. The bonds fund a new high school building after years without a proper facility and prior condemnation of the old building.
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W. A. Emerson
Sulphur
Board of Education
Oklahoma School For Deaf
State Veterans’ Hospitals
Platt National Park
Oklahoma School For Desf
State Board of Education
Senate
Desert Cloudburst Disrupts Rail and Road Traffic
A desert cloudburst near Needles, California, disrupted rail traffic on the Santa Fe main line and damaged Transcontinental Highway No. 68. A tunnel detour mouth was blocked by a slide, with officials predicting traffic would resume within a few hours after bulldozers clear the right of way. The blast of old political thought by Henry A. Wallace is noted in a quoted remark.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Desert
Needles
Here
Sana Fe
Santa Fe
Two World Idea and Christ’s Teachings Face World Troubles
A speech cites Dwight Eisenhower and Tom Clark arguing the world must choose a two world framework or follow Christ’s teachings to prevent atomic conflict. Truman and Stassen urge spiritual cooperation. Moral Re- Armament gatherings draw delegates in Mackinac and Switzerland as religion resurges globally amid anti religious regimes.
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Europe
Asia
Palestine
England
Dwight Eisenhower
Billings
Montana
United States
Tom Clark
International Sunday School
Des Moines
World Brotherhood
Clark
Syraage
Vermont
General Store Club
Truman
Baptist’ World Congress
Copenhagen
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
America
North American Assembly For Moral Re-Armament
Mackinsen Sland
Michigan
Faux
Switzerland
Corn Price Soars As Rains Fail To Arrive on Time
Chicago reports a blistering heat wave pushing corn prices to new peaks on the Chicago Board of Trade. Futures surge as rain delays threaten crops in Nebraska and Indiana, with August highs and record board activity marking one of the strongest upswings in the market's 99 year history.
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Chicago
Indiana
Nebraska
Corn Belt
Mapy
Joe Morrow
Weather Bureau
Board of Trade
Koags
Survatt
Winvis
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Aldridge
New Zealand
Ohio
MYF
Fittstown Church
Hunt
Canada
Navy
France
Bidault
Enid
John Booton
Booton
Jefferson Davis
Henry A. Wallace
Christ
Dewitt MacKenzie
David J. Cleasby
Perry
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