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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1944
Page
2
The Pontotoc County Tuberculosis Association begins a drive to raise 2500 dollars with mailed letters to firms and residents. Willard school students fold and address 7500 letters supervised by Mrs. J W Huff as 90 workers assist. Ten cases sent to sanatoria, 15 at home, five total deaths this year.
Muskogee and Carter counties topped their total bond quotas in the Sixth War Loan drive. Muskogee sold 2 835 000 against a 2 656 000 quota while Carter County moved 1 394 000 against 1 388 000. However E bond sales lagged statewide.
A Detroit war plant strike ended at Chrysler Dodge while two other plants Briggs Mack Avenue and Graham Paige remain idle. About 1,300 Chrysler workers returned after a mass meeting to end their strike, as 3,800 Graham Paige workers stay idle and plan to return Tuesday. Union and war labor board actions govern demoted foremen seniority disputes.
Charles A. Wells, journalist and world traveler, will headline a special assembly Tuesday at 10 in Ada. He arrives December 10 to 15 for conferences at First Christian Church and will illustrate his talk with drawings. Wells leads the Christ and World Need conferences, a major religious outreach.
Cpl. Jack Harl, U S Marine, arrived from San Diego for a 30 day furlough visiting his mother in Oklahoma City and grandmother in Ada. He spent 13 months in the Southwest Pacific and will return to Cherry Point North Carolina for reassignment.
East Central Journal catalogs faculty hobbies from radio tinkering to gardening and music. Names include Mrs Chaney, Mr. Molloy, Miss Watt, Mr. Gordon Harrel, Mr. Faust, Mr. Metzel, Mrs. Cox, Miss Drain, Elsie Porter, and others, highlighting personality quirks and campus scenes.
Scientists estimate that roughly 16,000 tons of rain and snow reach the Earth each second, illustrating the vast scale of atmospheric precipitation and the exchange of water within the climate system.
Travis Franklin Hensley longtime El Reno publisher and former mayor died at 93 in Oklahoma City after a long illness. He founded the El Reno Daily Tribune and published early Oklahoma papers including the first Enid paper The West Side Democrat dated September 16 1893. He also ran the Oklahoma Democrat later El Reno Democrat before 1906 and with his two sons started The People’s Press later The El Reno Daily Tribune.
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