Two Girls Die In Springfield, Gas Explosion Level Downtown
A massive blast and fire in downtown Springfield Missouri destroyed three buildings and damaged a fourth, killing Dorothy 10 and Charlotte 7, daughters of Lloyd Mackey. Mackey and son Jack 12 escaped as debris trapped the family’s homeward side. Firefighters arrived quickly, containing the blaze with little more damage to nearby structures.
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Springfield
Bediv
Binn
Public Square
Boonville
Dorothy
Charlotte
Lloyd Mackey
Mackey
Jack
Dawn Town
Ax Tt Boma
Oklahoma Guards Hold Red River Line Over Anthrax Alert
Oklahoma posts guards at the Red River across from northeastern Texas counties to block cattle shipments after an anthrax outbreak. Marold Hutton, president of the state board of agriculture, says a quarantine aims to stop spread. guards are at every bridge. Texas has begun vaccination near infected herds. shipments from the area are refused unless proven from elsewhere in Texas.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Red River
Texas
Marold Hutton
State Board of Agriculture
Hutton
Chitahoma
Titus
Hopkins
Lamar
Delta
Bowie
Morris
Franklin
Hunt
Camp
Enrollment Begins For First Graders In Ada
Ada public schools start class work September 5 but enrollment opens tomorrow August 23. Parents must bring birth certificates. children must be six years old on or before November 1. Enrollment for other grades will follow later in August and September at district schools.
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Ada Public Schoors
First Tradern To-Be
Urey Miust
Searier High
Pontotoc School Dates Announced
Pontotoc school opens with enrollment Friday August 25 and classes start Monday August 28. Buses run on schedule and dances will be served in the lunchroom beginning August 28. Lunchroom program changes convert from Type B to Type A meals with milk. Meal price is 2 cents. Scientists report children thrive best on the first day out at temperatures from OH to OS degrees.
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Pontotoc School
Department of Agriculture
Schools Announce Opening Dates for Enrollment
Schools set first grade enrollment for August 23 to 25 with other grades and high schools starting the following week. Freshmen report September 7 with freshman enrollment September 1 and others enrolling September 12. Classes begin September 14.
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Rds
Serre
East Central
Byng District Sets August 25 Enrollment Date
Supt J B Tearne announces Byng Byng schools will enroll students Friday August 25 for the new gaming year. Buses will run that date and faculty lists are complete. Two new teachers join for the coming year, Mrs Denker teaching English and Mrs Ables teaching commercial work.
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Byng_ schools
Supt. J, B, Tearne
Denker
Ables
Francis School Enrollment Date Set by Superintendent
Francis schools will enroll students Friday, August 25, per Supt. R G Duke. Buses run as usual that date and classes start the following Monday. No changes in staff, bus drivers, cooks, or custodian. Library adds books. hot lunch room improved with a new deep freeze.
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Francis
Supt
R. G. Duke
Duke
Happyland School Enrollment and Start Dates
Enrollment at Happyland School will begin Friday August 25 at 9 a.m. Classes start Monday August 28. The school lunch program begins that Monday, with details to follow.
Stonewall announces enrollment and start dates
Stonewall school announces enrollment for Thursday August 24 by Supt. D. D. Duke. Buses run that day. Classes start Monday August 26 and lunch room opens August 29. Supt. Duke asks that no one buy tickets until instructed. No changes in faculty personnel.
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Stonewall
Supt
D. D. Duke
Supt. Duke
Letta Latta School Opens with Expanded Facilities
Letta Latta school opens officially Monday August 26 after enrollment Friday August 25. Superintendent M L Stegall has led summer work including widened gym doubling seating, a new lunchroom, and extensive landscaping plus sewer extensions. High school staff include Sunt Siegall principal H E B Kuykendall. teachers W H Cleghorn Hazel Bunch Jo Pruitt. elementary staff Vivian Cruson Willie Moore Dollie Price Jean Gregory Irene McFarland Delma Walker. custodian T J Elliott. bus drivers Roy Taxton ey Sis Gawan Mose Lee Dayton Colt.
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Latta
Busta
M. L. Stegall
Sunt, Siegall
H. EB. Kuykendall
W. H. Cleghorn
Hazel Bunch
Jo. Pruitt
A. W. Brown
Vivian Cruson
Willie Moore
Dollie Price
Jean Gregory
Irene McFarland
Delma Walker
Pickett Picket School Announces Fall Enrollment Date
The school sets August 25 as enrollment, with classes starting Monday August 28 at a to be announced time. The hot lunch program begins September 4. Summer work redecorated classrooms and other improvements. Principal is Mrs Bill Bevers and primary teacher is Mrs W Dunn.
Roff School Opens as Aug 28 Lessons Begin
Aug 24 is opening day for Roff Roff withenrott and Aug 28 start of classes. Buses run at 8 am Friday with noon return. Hot lunch starts first day. Mrs Callie Simpson and Mrs Edna Etchie in charge. Birth certificates required for enrollment. students born on or before Nov 1, 1944 eligible to start. Textbooks largely provided. pupils supply some workbooks. Several staff changes and reorganizations noted for the Tate faculty and departments.
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Roff Withenrott
Callie Simpson
Edna Etchieson
Nev Land
Margie Loper
Loper
Excelsior
Jean Heard
Sunshing
Rott
Tate
Richard Swink
Ellen Crutchfield
Bud Graves
Varitional Ag
Mass Betty Winsard
Udean Clifton
Eng He Murphy
Glish
Gath
Kar
Jean He
Vewell
Sirs Carleton
Grogropee
Heme Ec
Hazel Crockett
Itis Lawrence
James Looac
Wounded Spt Frank Nettles in Korea Hospitalized in Tokyo
Spt Frank Nettles, a 24th Division veteran who fought in Korea, has been wounded by a shell burst and is reported to be in a Tokyo hospital, under treatment and far below normal weight. He grew up in Ada and starred in Ada high football, with relatives named in Ada and Konawa.
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Ward Naydeen
Frank Neales
Japan
Nettles
Ada High School
Gertie Snyder
Ada
N. C. Padgett
Konawa
Andy Nettles
Oklahoma City
Hardy Nettles
Denver Brothers
Doughnuts At Ada Armory Fuel Red Cross Canteen
The Pontotoc county Red Cross opened a canteen at Ada Armory to serve visiting guardsmen with coffee doughnuts and supplies purchased by the chapter. Volunteers ran the operation under chairmen J Hugh Biles and Mrs Dorothy Driskill with Ina Lou Makin arranging the on site setup. The canteen opened at 7 am Tuesday and ran until 5 pm through Friday, serving the first group of guardsmen who consumed about half of the 1000 doughnuts purchased. There were minor issues with staff attendance and a medical exam incident, but operations continued on schedule with a blood draw station collecting roughly three quarts from nearly 200 men.
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Pontotoc County
Ina Lou Makin
Ada
Sunshine Aims At Toketee Falls Dam Weather Experiment
Medford reports an Oregon power company project at Toketee Falls dam aims to dry soil to 20 percent moisture using sunlight. A weather-control crew, hired to clear fog and clouds, claims improved sunshine aiding construction. Dam manager Bovie says they expect to finish the job this year as others in the community are reelected to local posts.
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Toketee Falls
Cascade Range
Hhere
Teo
Umpqua
Giver Canyon
Bovie
Ca 5
Oregon Power Company
Knife-Fork Club Schedule Sets Stimulating Talks 1950
Ada Knife and Fork club releases its 1950 51 program with speakers on current affairs humor art philosophy and science. Dr Gerald Wendt returns as a popular science voice. Membership policy allows two guests per card and restricts nonmembers from Ada. Meetings occur at Memorial Student Union East Central.
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Ada Knife and Fork Club
Board of Directors
J. H. Biles
Andk. B. Nowels
Orel Busby
New Memorial
East Central
George W. Hardy
God
Supreme Court
Gerald Wendt
Nettie Simms
Morris Fishbein
Flying Reporter
Sydney Mustaine
Jack Shultz
Science
Himack
Ada
Gaar Corner News Social Visits and Weekend Travel
Miss Mildred Rogers, Miss Wanda Potter and Min Reba Jones spent Thursday with Miss Francis Maddox. Several visits from Guthrie and Vances residents occurred Friday. A Saturday trip to Pauls Valley included Oler James and others. The big game drew a large crowd as Center defeated Gaar Corner Seniors 20 to 21.
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Mildred Rogers
Wanda Potter
Min Reba Jones
Francis Maddox
Center
Gaar Corner Suniors
Oklahoma free textbook program to reach twelve grades
Oklahoma's free textbook program will cover through eighth grade next year with about two thirds complete. About 20 percent of schools will have texts through seven grades, aided by pupil exchanges and administrative savings of roughly 47 percent. Additional appropriations are needed to reach twelve grades.
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Okishoma
Oklahoma
Grace
Ultmately
Sta Jn
One Jap Grateful For Tose Sareienees As It Was
A fragmented notice reflects a grateful sentiment toward Sareienees and the Adenean Red, noting past events with unclear specifics but expressing thanks and acknowledgement.
Social Security Taxes to Reach More Households
Washington August 1. President Truman is expected to sign the social security bill expanding coverage on January 1. About 3.5 million domestics will be taxed under the new system, with employers and workers each paying three percent, and collection likely by quarterly payments. Experts favor the employer remittance method with forms.
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Max Hall
Washington
Truman
Congress
Federal Security Agency
Internal Revenue Bureau
Eight Swim Across English Channel
Eight swimmers completed the English Channel mass race in a London Daily Mail sponsored event. Fe Abd-El Rehim and Roger Je Morvan broke the 24 year old record with times around 11 hours for the 19 mile course. Morvan won £1,000 while Rehim finished first among the Egyptians and English woman Eileen Fenton finished in 16 hours 31 minutes.
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Dover
Eng
Eileen Fenton
London Daily Mail
Jason Zirgares
Greece
Antonio Albertondo
Argentina
London
Fe Abd-El Rehim
Egypt
Roger Je Morvan
France
Georges Michel
Rehim
Morvan
Hehim
Sam Rockett
England
New Jersey Peaches Declared Among The Finest By Editors
Food editors tour a New Jersey peach orchard noting ripening stages and varieties. Readers praise home grown fruit as best for fresh eating and desserts. Recipes like Peach Jubilee and Peach Menague Pie are requested.
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Edith M. Barber
New Jersey
Peaches Jubilee and Peach Pie with Meringue Topping
A compact peach dessert feature describes peeling and slicing five to medium peaches with a half cup sugar and quarter cup water, cooking until juicy, then flambéing with rum. Also outlines a peach pie with meringue topping, using egg whites, cream of tartar, sugar, vanilla, and baking until browned, served hot or cold with coconut garnish.
Quick Meal Instructions From Old Menu Note
A compact preparation guide lists items including cold cuts noodles with cheese baked tomatoes salad peaches and coffee. It describes a light oven method for tomatoes and salad dressing, cooking noodles and blending peaches with sugar, finishing peaches at dessert time and making coffee.
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General Fealutew Carp
Sunday burglar hits Redondo Beach home thrice
Fe Doreny Santana told police she was robbed after every Sunday movie outing for three weeks. First week $20 missing, second week $26, third week more theft occurred but she noticed lights flicker as she returned. Police cautioned noting repeated incidents in Redondo Beach.
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Doreny
Santana
Thes
Eight minutes Fitin Barne among waterless finishers
The fragment notes an eight minute finish by William Edward Barne, a scoreman aged M years, with vy hours, 49 minutes recorded. Of 24 starters, six remained in waterless conditions, including two women.
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William Edwarai Barne
Nix
Taegu Front Holds Against Red Assaults Amid New Shifts
Reports say U S and South Korean troops repelled North Korean attacks near Taegu and Sobuk Ridge as the Reds shifted east of the central warfront. Commanders described heavy house-to-house fighting and North Korean casualties, with an allied front strengthening morale under high air cover.
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Masan
Sobuk Ridge
Magan Port
Taegu
U.S
Don Whites Head
Col
John
Mike) Michaelis
U. S
Tom Lambert
Taegun
Korea
Kim Tl Sung
Tae~ Gu
Japan
Korean Central Warfront
Lambert
Tangu
MacArthur
J. Lawton Collins
Tokyo
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
U. S. Naval
Hess to Return to Mexico City Soon
Hess will depart Ada to join his family in Mexico City where his wife and two children await after the birth of son Charles David Hess at Valley View hospital on August 14. He has served in diplomacy since 1946, with postings in Washington Paramaribo and The Hague.
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Chacita
Hess
Mexico City
Menigo
Ada
Charles David Hess
Valley View Hospital
Mra Hess
Charles David
Carolyn
Hees
Heva
Washington, DC
Paramaribo
Maryea City
Charles T Hess
Busby Addition
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Pontotoc
1St Cavalry Division
South Korea
Happyland
Happyland School
Letta
Pickett
Roff
Frank Neffles
Red Cross
Armory
E. R. Muntz
Medford
Ore
Woodrow Coffer
BN. Buovars
W. 3. Morrsen
George Toih‘ver
Biles
Gaar Corner News
OC Brooks
Connie
Guthrie
Adelia Jones
Vances
Jack Jones
Oler James
Glades Fox
Patsy Ruth McClured
Pauls Valley
Robert McClure
West Texas
Pat McClure
Avery Pennington
Alva Penningios
Mrs. Lois Shook
J.C. Maddox
Reta
Doletz Jones
Patsy Ruth McClure
Sis Moter Vistea
J.C. James Lun
Mise Velma Breas
Breck
Republi
New
Redondo Beach
Calif
Jin Ted
Penn States
Gebrdes
Bis Alicona
Colums
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