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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1972
Page
6
Ada Evening News and the League of Women Voters provide nonpartisan candidate information for county races. Details cover sheriff, county commissioner districts 1 2 3, and candidate Q A responses with answers limited to the first fifty words submitted.
LONNIE L. ABBOTT Democrat outlines vast experience and education including East Central State College and Oklahoma University degrees and 12 years in the Oklahoma House. FRANKLIN CALHOUN HOOVER Democrat promises tax relief, education quality, highway progress, mental health facilities, environmental safeguards with balanced job impact and public approval before any tax changes.
Voter locations span courthouses schools churches and community centers across Pontotoc County. The notice lists precincts for Ward and voting districts, noting districts and polling sites plus changes from legislative reapportionment. It explains that all Pontotoc voters will choose District 3 congressman and District 13 state senator, while state representative districts split within southern Pontotoc and rest vote accordingly.
State Questions 406 487 488 489 and 490 present amendments to the Oklahoma Constitution and related statutes. Proposals cover property assessment by use up to 35 percent, emergency school levies, voter eligibility for bond elections, city debt limits, and school fund investments. Public voters face multiple changes affecting taxation, borrowing, and investment rules.
Candidates for District 3 include Carl Albert a Democrat with a background from McAlester schools to Oklahoma University and Rhodes Scholar credentials and Harold J Marshall an Independent who studied chiropractic and farming. Marshall pledges strong defense education reform and constitutional limits on undeclared wars with calls to curb deficit spending.
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