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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1938
Page
8
Ada residents host relatives from Kansas City Gainesville Chandler and Oklahoma City while visitors travel from Corpus Christi and Tulsa. A newborn Wilford Lee Moy joins the community at McKeel Cowling clinic, and families gather to attend a funeral, visit kin, and share weekend plans amid town life.
Stephen M. Young drove 104 miles to Tolnto expecting a Democratic rally. He stayed two hours at a tea musical sponsored by a Democratic women’s club. The piece notes a 1931 winter affect on aviation and a stray Idaho mention.
Knoxville reports reveal a congressional inquiry into a 1933–1934 dispute over damages to marble and mineral holdings at Norris Dam. Fred Manley, Knoxville engineer, testified about letters to W H Ford of Norwood Ohio and questioned motives, with references to TVA land deals and politicians.
SARAGOSSA Spain Aug 371 UP I State subsidies for workers with large families seen will be inaugurated in Nationalist Spain to carry out a promise made by Generalissimo Francisco Franco A decree embodying the general plan has been issued General regulations will be published within three months and the date of first payments did The plan provides for subsidies ranging from 15 pesetas monthly for families with no children to 145 pesetas for families with two children This is equal at current exchange rates to about 1 50 and 14 50 The subsidies will be financed by contributions from the state to employers and workers The Nationalist government also plans a scheme for extending and increasing old age pensions Policy disclosed in a statement by Pedro Gonzales Bueno minister of trade unions Revision promised I intend to revise and reorganize the institute of workers welfare to carry out services in regard to social insurances The new state of Spain tends to do its utmost to protect the Working classes Up to now there have been three welfare organizations for old age accidents and maternity The first needs complete overhaul the second needs modifying and improving and the third needs to be more effectively administered All this is part of the labor program The family subsidy for workers is of the most urgent necessity Old age pensions are of similar urgency declared Bueno
Mrs Sarah E Roberts 80 of Ads died August 10 at home funeral 3 p m at Vanuss Rew Shipmen officiating interment Midland cemetery Criswell Funeral Home in charge Surviving five sons Jesse George Charley Will and two daughters Mrs EH McClary and Mire GW Mainer John W Ellis 49 of Ada died August 16 at local hospital funeral August 18 10 a m from Criswell chapel interment Rosedale Cemetery Survived by wife Mary and daughter Mrs Pearl Schultz Hartford Arkansas
The eastern half of Oklahoma received rainfall boosting soil moisture for fall plowing while a heat spike centered in Lawson reached 110. The storm produced scattered totals from 0.05 to 4.20 inches across many towns including Calvin Hughestown area and Tulsa. Northwestern districts faced cloudbursts and travel disruption on Route 66 with air travel affected.
In Stillwater on August 17, ecologist H I Featherly of Oklahoma A and M College explained that flowers and weeds releasing pollen attract bees and spread hay fever. He noted bees collect nectar from blooms that produce pollen, but those flowers should not be blamed for hay fever by sufferers.
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