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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1958
Page
1
The four night event drew over 35,000 fans as 150 cowboys vied for top money. Sonny Davis of Kenna New Mexico led the show, capturing two saddle prizes and securing a strong finish in both divisions.
Complete official Ada Rodeo results reported with Davis earning 1731 dollars in prize money over four nights. Davis set a 12.6 second calf roping record on a 15 foot score line. James Bynum and Euline Smith won top rewards in saddle and barrel events. Local riders Ira Akers Buster Ivory Harry Tompkins led among bronc and bull riding. Jannette Collier rode a Shetland pony in barrel finals.
A Union Valley community meeting is scheduled for Friday night to plan keeping the school building as a community center. Stonewall district moved Union Valley school into the district this year leaving the building unoccupied. D. D. Duke will explain steps to deed it back. a trustees board will be named, with a social hour after.
Latta students enroll Tuesday August 26 starting at 9 a.m. Classes begin September 2. Bus routes same as last year. Harold Clark new high school principal and coach. Clark is an Oklahoma native and UBO grad with an MA from the University of Oklahoma. He previously taught at Newcastle.
The Upper Muddy Boggy Watershed Association schedules its third general meeting at the Coalgate Community Building on Monday at 8 p m. to discuss conservancy district petitions and report on board actions with state Soil Conservation Board representatives present.
Glenn Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Jones, loves kittens and refuses to relocate them. A mother cat tried to move her litter twice into the family car, then into a hay truck, but the cats remain at the Jones home as Glenn insists they do not want to leave.
FITTSTOWN Monday was eventful for 18 year old Bill Corbin son of Mr and Mrs Carlton Corbin He registered for the draft renewed his driver license and left for Stillwater to enroll at Oklahoma State University
Mike Tiffin, 10, Vaness 4-H, earned 25 dollars for fourth place in KWTV Evergreen State Pig Feeding Contest at Oklahoma City National Stockyards on August 13. His Hampshire-Duroc cross pigs weighed 217 pounds at weigh-in after 88 days on feed, averaging 1.8 pounds gain per head daily.
Orel Busby of the 4-B Ranch east of Ada moves from contrived tree injections to aerial spraying to clear timber. He says 2,000 acres of trees have been reclaimed for grazing, boosting land productivity three to five times on initial 300 acres. Sunlight and open land bring back high quality Bermuda and other grasses, with optimism to convert almost all ranch acreage to pasture while preserving shade trees and beauty spots.
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