Democrats and 38 Republicans Vote In Oklahoma Primary
In Tuesday's Oklahoma runoff, Democrat J Howard Edmondson won the governor nomination by about two to one as George Nigh and Buck Cartwright captured lieutenant governor and state senate seats. County results showed tight races while 38 Republicans appeared at the polls for the attorney general nomination, Hyde edging Cowan 29 to 9 amid questions about GOP turnout.
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J. Howard Edmondson
Tulsa
W. P
Bill Atkinson
Shetland Pony
Oklahoma
Edmondson
Pontotoc County
George Nigh
McAlester
Gene Lung
Robert W. Ford
Martin Clark
George R. Collins
Bob Austell
Austell
Hyde
Cowan
Weekly
Jesse
Annual Farm Home Meeting Set for August in Stillwater
The 41st annual Farm Home Conference will be held August 4 to 7 at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater with about 2,500 Oklahoma home makers and Pontotoc county representatives expected to attend. Demonstrations will showcase new homemaking methods on a schedule permitting each participant to attend.
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Oklahoma
Pontotocounty
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater
Fire Destroys Walter Graper Warehouse Sparks Start New Building
Fire destroyed Graper's Ada warehouse causing an estimated loss of 4000 to 5000 dollars. Insurance covered the building but not the contents which included electric tools and church wiring. Ada Fire Department contained the blaze. Graper began work on a new building the next day and thanked helpers.
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Fittstown
Walter Graper
Graper
Ada Fire Department
New Baptist Church
Rev Chilcoat Honored At Ada Pentecostal Camp Meeting
In FITTSTOWN Ada area Rev Luther Chilcoat received a surprise This Is Your Life program at his 24th Pentecostal camp meeting. Family and friends arranged telegrams phone calls and a photo album recounting his life, with the event described as heavenly and memorable.
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Fittstown
Mike
Chilcoat
Harden City
Ada
Austell Seeks Recount in County Commission Race
Austell filed a petition Thursday for a recount of the runoff for county commissioner post two after a tight result. The tally showed Collins 1,551 to Austell 1,509, a 42 vote margin, with the recount request submitted before the noon deadline to the Pontotoc County Election Board.
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Bob Austell
Post
Austell
George R. Collins
Collins
Pontotoc
County Election Board
County Commission
Orville Maxey
Galey Homecoming Draws 300 Attendees
Gala Galey Homecoming Day drew about 300 people Sunday July 13 with Rev Doc Haley of Shawnee as master of ceremonies. Attendees from Kansas New Mexico Texas Colorado California and Oklahoma sang religious songs and shared a noon dinner. The group set the next homecoming for the second Sunday in July 1959. Eight children of the late Mr and Mrs Bobby Wood performed a song, with singers from Stratford Ada and Artesia shining in memory of their parents.
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Galey
Doc Haley
Shawnee
Kansas
New Mexico
Texas
Colorado
California
Oklahoma
Bobby Wood
Jennie Hinkle
Stratford
Ruth Blevins
Artesia
N. M
Ellen Griffin
Daisy Golden
Ada
Billie Wood
Mitchell
Marvin and
Hughes Wood
Stonewall Post Office Receives Modern Fixtures
Stonewall gets a new look with modern postal equipment including 550 combination boxes and updated counters. Postmaster Pat Campbell demonstrates the new boxes as staff work full blast to install dispatch, parcel, and filing fixtures. The post office moved to its current building in 1957 and handles about $5500 in yearly receipts.
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Marjorie McCarter
Stonewall Post Office
First Baptist Church
Pat Campbell
Stonewall
Campbell the
Vernon Younts
Postal
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Williams
Collins-Cartwright
Buck Cartwright
Seminole County
Collins’ Pontotoc
Cartwright
STC
Carey
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