Being Ten In Ada: A Young Writer Shares Week at Camp and School
An Ada News editor notes Holly Sumpter, 11, sent a week of essays under the title Being Ten in Ada. The pieces recount camp fun and homesickness, school expectations, diving lessons, watermelon meals, piano boredom, and a tale of earning a dollar for data and a toy, reflecting a child’s view of daily life.
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Holly Sumpter
Cecil Sumpter
E. Northcrest Drive
Holly
Ada
Democrats Charge Nixon In Jeopardy Over Economic Issues
AP reports Democratic strategists say Nixon faces serious trouble with taxes and rising prices, urging campaigns to stress inflation and tax problems in Senate and House races. Polls from six states underpin the claim, noting Nixon’s foreign strengths but economic vulnerabilities.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Peter Hart
Democratic National Committee
Senate
House
Alaska
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Vermont
New York
GOP
Hart
Ada Public Library Highlights How To Books This Week
Ada Public Library shelves overflow with how to titles across adult, juvenile, and non fiction sections. Notable entries include How to Keep Fit by Francis Chichester How to Live with a Cat by Margaret Gay and How to Clean Everything by Alma Moore plus new fiction and educational guides for all ages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Public Library
Francis Chichester
Atlantic
Earle Brauer
New English
William Chisholm
Martin Ebon
Margaret Gay
Know - Nothing Gardener’s Guide
George Hull
Stanley Jespien
Harvey Krow
Lawrence Lamb
John Lynde
Jean Malmstrom
Helen Miller
Alma Moore
Kirk Polking
Richard Rieder
Barron
Murray Rockowitz
Constance Wright
William Zisch
Open to Change Newick Telegraph Switch Ends Florrie’s Job
In Newick England AP reports 79 year old Florrie Smith, long a hello central operator, loses her automated exchange job. She declines a post office transfer due to travel fatigue and plans to seek a home night job.
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Newick
England
Florrie Smith
Florrie
General Post Office
East Central Sets Enrollment Dates and Rules
East Central State College announces freshmen orientation September 2 to 5 with reporting times by hours and name groups. Transfer students and undergraduates register by group on September 8 and 9, with evening and graduate enrollment schedules and requirements including social security numbers and a ballpoint pen.
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East Central State College
Student Union
East Central
Registry Office
East
Central
Vanoss School Opens August 25 For 1969 70 Term
Vanoss Public School starts its 1969 70 term August 25 with intensive summer work complete. A kindergarten program is added with Mrs Linda Embry as teacher. Birth certificates required for kindergarten and first grade, with age cutoffs by November 1. New staff include Bill Johnson as boys basketball and baseball coach and Aaron Murray as sixth grade teacher. Bus drivers meet Wednesday at 9 am, and Hl students enroll August 25 with buses on regular routes.
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Vanoss Public School
Linda Embry
Bill Johnson
Vaness
Lone Grove
Aaron Murray
Angus Breeders Plan Meeting At Roff Ranch
One of five over the fence discussion meetings for beet battle breeders will be held at 7 30 pm Friday at Robert H Kerr's K 4 Angus Ranch near Roff. The two hour program includes the American Angus Association herd improvement records program and a classification demonstration with other area meetings set for Thursday and Friday in Vinita Mounds Muskogee and Checotah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert H. Kerr
Roff
American
Ada Should Apply Now In Latta Newspaper Route Interest
A notice notes interest in a Latta newspaper route for Ada and emphasizes that boys earning their own money gain dignity and responsibility. The item frames delivery work as a path to maturity with daily bundle drops in Latta.
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Latta
Subway Pickpocket Snatched by Trainee Policewoman
Brook lyn resident 29 grabs purse from 21 year old secretary on a subway platform. The victim, in police training, wrestled the thief until officers arrived. The incident underscores rising crime concerns in city transit.
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Juan Crespo
Brooklyn
New York
Crossword Clues List From A Fragmented Page
A jumbled set of crossword clues and partial answers including numbers, letters, and scattered words. Items mention musical notes, Greek letters, verbs like Speak and Depart, and references to ships, flowers, and legal terms, all in a damaged puzzle page format.
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Cross
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Tuck
Sdnes
Lear
Public Library
Richard Condon
William Woolfolk
Wales
Hilda Boden
Mel Evans
John Fitzgerald
Sara
Joan Gill
Silent Sentinels
Robert Araske
Vanoss
Toledo, Ohio
Wmhb-Fm
M.“Mack” Welch
Angus
Roff Ranch
WHO
ADA Evening News
North Broadway
Los Angeles
Edur
Art Beeman
Imposs
Jay Fortune
By Warren Sattler
Sonny South
BY Courtney Alderson
By al Smith
ATH
Hathaway
Fredewald2
Akima
Honolulu
Miter
Seth Grant
Hamilton
Ohio
Seth
Alain Martindale
Niles
Mich
Capital of Columbia Lorrow
Proncurt
Loys
By Kern Pederson
Pops
By George Wolfe
Deems
BY Tom Okay
By Brad Anderson
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