Union Valley Forms Five Trustee Board for Community Center
About 30 Union Valley residents met at the school to keep the building as a community center after annexation to Stonewall. Five trustees Robert Sanders Dub Scott B M Stephens Mrs Beulah Elmore and Tom Nothal were named with plans to deed the building back to the community once the Stonewall board approves September 8. The mineral rights stay with Stonewall, and playground equipment remains except the merry go round. A community park idea was discussed and a fund of 36 dollars was raised for electric bills and insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Valley
Stonewall
D. D. Duke
Robert Sanders
Dub Scott
B. M. Stephens
Beulah Elmore
Tom Nothal
Duke
Stonewall School Board
Beulah
Elmore
Stonere
Fair Time's A-Coming Show Set Sept 15-17
Preparations for the Pon totoc County Free Fair ramp up as catalogs go out to exhibitors and a four team county baseball tournament is lined up by the entertainment committee. Fair runs September 15 to 17 with livestock judging Tuesday and quarterhorse judging on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc County
Byng
Stonewall
Vaness
Roff
Hailey
Oklahoma 1959 Soil Bank Rate Up To $12 Per Acre
The U S Department of Agriculture announces 1959 basic soil bank rates nationwide with Oklahoma at 12 per acre up from 9 in 1956 1958. State ASC committees set county rates based on productivity rents and costs, with farm rates capped at 20 percent of land value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
State Agricultural Stabilization Conservation
ASC
Oklahoma
He Wasnt Blushing In Stonewall Shade Bed Incident
In Stonewall last Saturday George Barnes was teased about blushing but slept under a shade tree in Ada. He bought an army cot to nap outside but the shade moved, exposing him to the sun and leaving his face blistered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonewall
George Barnes
Ada
Mr. Barnes
Lightning Strike Ends Telephoning Near Storm
Mrs. Cal West narrowly escaped injury during an electrical storm when lightning struck the telephone while she spoke with her daughter Mrs. Wesley Price. She felt numbness in her hand and arm and dropped the phone in fright as the bolt hit the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis
Cal West
Wesley Price
Egypt Sunday School Plans Union Service
Residents of the Egypt community are invited to meet at the school at 10 a.m. Sunday, August 30, to organize a union Sunday School. A preaching service is scheduled for 11 o'clock, with Rev. Cummings in charge. Plans are to invite preachers of various denominations for succeeding Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
the School
Cummings
Joe K Abbott Home Destroyed In Rural Fire
The Joe Kent Abbott residence five miles south of the Ada Brick Plant was consumed by flames shortly after noon on Wednesday. Abbott was in the fields when a neighbor alerted him. a television set and cedar chest were saved. Firefighters contained the blaze. the five room frame house had only existed four to five years and the cause was not known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Kent Abbott
Ada
Abbott
Dudley Young
Wilson Sets Homecoming
The Wilson community plans its annual homecoming at the church on Sunday August 31. The all day event includes singing visiting and a basket dinner with former teachers and preachers invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
HD Club Women Set 1959 Program Schedule
County home demonstration clubs plan for 1959 with a program planning meeting for vice presidents on Friday August 29 at 1 30 p m in Ada City Hall. Miss Martha Mote county agent announces the event and outlines that plans will guide local clubs through the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Hailey
Ada Chamber of Commerce
Ada
Martha Mote
County Home
Progress Report On Upper Muddy Boggy Watershed Meeting
About 100 people attended the third general meeting of the Upper Muddy Boggy Watershed Association in Coalgate. Philip Busby outlined progress, discussed a conservancy district petition, and urged landowner planning aid and legislative support for more construction funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coalgate
Upper Muddy Boggy
Lavern Fisher
The
Oklahoma Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Conservancy
Dis
Fisher
Dave Roberts
Upper Clear Boggy
Harral Allen
Allen
Watershed Association
Spring Floods Bermuda Grass Survives Across Oklahoma Study
An Oklahoma State survey shows Bermuda grass tolerates spring flooding with quick recovery after water recedes. M. D. Gamble of the U S Soil Conservation Service examined conditions at 30 water bodies across Oklahoma and parts of Texas. Grass endured up to 139 days submerged, with depths from under 3 feet to 20 feet, yet resumed growth promptly after floodwaters receded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. D. Gamble
Oklahoma City
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Also Mentioned on This Page
Citizens’ Group
Home Demonstration Club
County Excise Board
Future Farmers of America
County 4-H Federation
HD Council
4-H
4-H Federation
Hokit
Lester Hokit
Marvin Stokes
Sybil Stokes
Claude Corvin
Shelby Sherrill
Asher
Highway 18
Lines and
Buckner
Muskogee
Unews
Egypt Sunday School
Joe K. Abbott
Busby
Bermuda
Northcentral
Texas
Northeast
Tex
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