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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1952
Page
5
Frances Lance of the Frisco Home Demonstration club shares a detailed Farm and Home Week report. She demonstrates an all in one casserole dinner and tips on preserving foods, corner window treatments, and matching kitchen decor for harmonious rooms.
Practical summer ideas include storing greens, using a large tray to move dishes, preferring broiled foods, cooking early, freezing ready meals, relying on canned and frozen items, sipping iced tea and coffee without milk or sugar, freezing mint and cherries for drinks, finishing with chilled desserts, and packing backyard picnic lunches for kids.
Tips for picnic prep include chilling salads in a double boiler with ice beneath, poking onions with a toothpick to prevent centers from popping, freezing waffle batter into wafers, and using paper milk cartons as quick ice blocks. A rubber crutch tip converts a hammer into a non mar mallet for careful repairs.
Eggs can be served at any meal and in many forms. They improve texture and flavor in baked goods, thicken custards, bind meat, coat for coatings, emulsify, clear broths, and leaven sponge cakes. They offer high quality protein and should be kept cool. Do not wash until use.
The schedule lists meetings for Cedar Grove Pecan Grove Allen Happyland McLish Jessee and Laverance from August 18 to August 22. Locations include the school Home Economics cottage and a church with participants Mrs Charles Richard Mrs Oneila Hodges and other organizers.
Ada public schools begin enrollment for faculty and first graders this week with enrollment for grades two through high school scheduled for the following week. Enrollment runs 9 to 4 on August 21 and 22, with A through M names on Thursday and N through Z on Friday. Children must be six by November 1 and bring birth certificates. Rex O. Morrison and principals attend an OEA-NEA workshop in Stillwater beforehand.
In Oklahoma City two teenage boys assaulted 24 year old Norman sailor Ernest M. Beltramini as he waited for a ride. He was struck and run down with a car after a first beating and was taken to the Norman Naval Base after emergency care.
About 300 precinct officials who worked the July runoff may now collect pay. Checks are available at the county clerk Claude Bobbitt’s office on the courthouse second floor. Many workers also served in the July 1 primary. The next election is the November 4 general election.
A ten year frog study conducted in Huntington, West Virginia, introduces a new term to the lexicon of romance. The research highlights behaviors and interactions observed in local frog populations, contributing to broader biological understanding.
Pontotoc County PMA Chairman Henry Little outlines a reshaped 1952 peanut price support with four loan and advance options including farm and warehouse storage, purchase agreements, and CCC financed advances. Only peanuts within acreage allotment qualify. excess quotas incur a half price marketing penalty. Spanish peanuts base rate set at 232.00 per ton with adjustments by quality.
Pontotoc County Agent C. H. Hailey requests farmer input on drought effects before 5 p.m. Tuesday August 19. Farmers should fill the farm form covering actual conditions feedstuffs pasture tonnage grain protein feed pounds and bushels and return to the county agent's office to aid loan eligibility decisions.
Charles Nesbit Smith a 34 year old from Detroit one of the FBI's most wanted men was arrested near Kingman Arizona. He faces embezzlement charges for more than 45000 from the Eight Mile Van Dyke Bank in Detroit. He surrendered at a road block on U S Route 66 with 3378 dollars. He used the alias Charles Pyles and was armed but nonchalant.
County agents report soil analyses for farmers across Ada Stonewall Maxwell and other towns. Tested crops include alfalfa vetch and rye with several samples per farmer. County winners enter state contests for medals or a trip to the national 4 H club congress alongside 4 H record books and project reports.
East Central State College faces full dormitories five weeks before fall term opening. Dean T K Treadwell asks east Ada residents to list available rooms and apartments to house incoming students while cautioning that listings do not guarantee rentals. Call Mr. Treadwell to offer space.
The Stillwater area releases two new bulletins. Fall and Winter Pasture Crops lists crops to plant legume mixes and fertilizers. Fall Gardening covers soil prep vegetable selection for fall gardens and fall Irish potatoes. Available at the county agent's office.
Quarter horse breeders meet at Pontotoc County Fair and name committees for September 11 12 13. Entry clerk Mrs Bill Jones Registration and Breeding Certificates Mrs Robert Minton Mrs Bill James and Orville Maxey organize show duties and competitive events. State association president to appoint Ada show judge.
Charley Cannon of Near Roff died early Saturday night from a severe heart attack. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where the attack proved fatal. Funeral services are to be announced by Criswell Funeral Home. Cannon lived in and near Roff all his life. Survived by his widow and other relatives.
4-H members complete work sheets and write a story about a well running tractor meaning to their farm. Entries submit to the county agent for county winner determination. The tractor operators contest at the county fair features a method demonstration, practical handling, and a short exam drawn from the nine work sheets.
Eva Lois Phillips, nine, was returned to Odessa after a four day disappearance that triggered a large West Texas search. Mrs. Helen Corrne Woods and her husband George Vernon Woods, both in Dallas, faced charges of abducting the girl who said she enjoyed the time away but wished to be with her father.
Colbert school just north of Ada will enroll Monday August 25 and start classes Tuesday August 26. Mrs Vivian Comer is principal with Miss Pearl Walker as the other teacher. Summer work included sanding and varnishing floors upgrading the teacherage a new power mower and grounds improvements.
Bebee school will enroll on Thursday August 21 with classes starting Monday August 25. Hot lunches will be served the first day of school. Students must live in the district or have legal transfers. Principal is Mrs Earlin Haskins with Lorene Sparks as primary and Gracie Hayes in charge of the cook room.
Plan to enter record books for county and state 4-H contests contact the county agent’s office for record sheets and information. Open contests include Livestock achievement, dairy achievement, field crops, poultry, farm and home electric, meat animals, soil and water conservation, entomology, tractor maintenance, garden, farm and home safety achievement and state 4-H congress.
Pawhuska Oklahoma reports about 175000 cattle on Osage County pastures are moved out for market or fattening by October 1. County Agent A A Sewell notes small herds started leaving 10 days ago and gains have been strong due to favorable spring and ongoing summer heat drought. Most cattle come from out of state incl Texas New Mexico Arkansas and Louisiana.
Hemus of the St Louis Cardinals and Williams of the New York Giants remain the leading off hitters on their clubs as the season lineup compared with spring positions shows continuity.
Coal County Cotton Farmers alert to cotton leafworms bollworms and a worsening boll weevil infestation. Farmers urged to monitor crops and apply 3 5 40 or liquid sprays promptly in many county fields.
Farmers urged to plant winter crops to bolster hay for livestock. Ry egrass vetch rye and oats are recommended while rains continue. The Agricultural Mobilization Committee announced PMA seed loans and meetings, with soil tests and fertilizer plans for legumes requiring phosphate and lime.
The county agent and four club boys have been invited to the State 4-H Conservation Camp at Camp Egan near Tahlequah from August 25 to 27. Plans aim to take four boys to the wildlife conservation camp, praised as one of the best for training in conservation and wildlife activities.
Louisv ille Ky August 16 Rudolph Baude a 95 year old retiree and former jeweler has collected 1350 for outliving the life insurance mortality table. He bought a 1000 policy August 10 1880 at age 24. The table sets 96 as the end of life Baude reaches 96 November 7 but the insurer counts him as 96 on the policy anniversary.
Raymond C. Linker, 25, son of Mrs C M Linker of Centrahoma Oklahoma, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve at Fort Monmouth New Jersey during Signal Corps Officer Candidate Class graduation. He entered service in April 1945 and will remain on active duty for 18 months. Linker is married to Betty I Linker of Stonewall and they have three children.
A 45 year old woman Jean Sellier climbed a hotel ledge nine stories high in Manhattan to fetch her cat. Police coaxing failed and she entered an unused room. Bellevue Hospital took her for observation while the cat wandered a hotel hallway.
A female victim at the Dallas Zoo is dead after a Saturday night shooting by a rifleman who has killed multiple animals and now a person. Ray Hubbard, head of the Park Board, offered a 250 dollar reward. Previous targets include a llama a zebra and two deer. The vicuna is related to the llama and alpaca families.
Twenty two passengers, most sleepy, escaped serious injury when a Blue Ridge Lines bus went off the road in Hancock Maryland and struck a power pole. One rider Frank L Benefield 45 of Washington required hospitalization.
Murray county court clerk Mrs Mable Fulton reports August marriage licenses. Names include C A Lynn and Inez Green. Billy D Morgan and Patricia L Hensley. Rodger C Price and Helen Bates. Lonnie Coffman and Jean Hucks. Gienn Fox and Glenda Peck. Walter Buchanan and Lillian Jane Miller. William James Cobb and Lela Ruth Dixon. Pete Amason and Edith Gabrish. Gene Davis and Thelma Philips. Dates span August 2 to August 9.
Premier Chou En-lai and top Soviet leaders begin high level talks in Moscow to strengthen the Chinese Soviet partnership. The agenda includes expanding the 1950 pact, seeking more Soviet aid and credits, boosting trade, and possibly returning Port Arthur and the Manchurian Railway per the agreement terms.
The U S Department of Agriculture on July 29 set the average price support for Middling 7 8 inch upland cotton at 30.91 cents per pound, 90 percent of the August 1 1952 parity price of 34.35 cents. Middling 15 16 inch cotton will be 31.96 cents per pound, with premiums and discounts tied to this rate. Location differentials range from 32.94 cents in Carolinas mills to 31.16 cents in Arizona California. Loans and purchase agreements run through April 30 1953, with notes bearing 3 1 2 percent interest due July 31 1953 and callable on demand.
A five member Anglo American raft expedition drifting across the Mediterranean lost two members after departing from a French port near Marseille. British participant Muriel Grand, 20, may quit, deciding tomorrow. The group began on the Rhone at Lyon and aims to study reactions during a six week voyage.
Wellington reports a new Guadalcanal beef program as the Kurimarau departs Suva carrying three bulls and 40 Hereford heifers. The plan, funded by the British government, aims to reestablish cattle on Guadalcanal a former WWII battleground under British protection.
The Mississippi River surface between dikes at New Orleans runs about 3 feet above sea level and above the city’s street average, indicating higher water levels than typical.
Adlai Stevenson with a nine member strategy board outlined a broad tactic for the Democratic presidential year. Major speaking tours by train and air plan to fit a television time table. A nationwide team of 100 party leaders to buttress the effort. The plan shifts from old style oratory to short clear issue presentations.
Washington report shows urban households averaged 4300 dollars in net income for 1950 but spent 4700, about 6 percent more. Figures based on a door to door survey in 91 cities and towns. final consumer price index due next year.
Levi J. Weems charged with drunk driving pleads not guilty before County Judge Tal Crawford. Bond set at $500 as a result of the appearance on Saturday.
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