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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1952
Page
6
Postmaster Mary H West announces the 1952 Christmas mail season is underway with a goal of delivering all gifts by December 23. She urges early mailing, specifies deadlines for parcel post and cards, and advises business mail hold, careful addressing, and preparation of packaging supplies to avoid rural delays.
Stratford residents hosted and visited many relatives during Thanksgiving. Families from Oklahoma City Shawnee Stillwater and Perry joined locals for meals and companionship at multiple homes including the Arthur Crawford Watts and McClaren households. A baby girl arrived at Stratford Maternity Hospital November 25 and plans for continuing visits were noted.
Ex coal miner William C. Marland is elected West Virginia governor, youngest in state history. A former mine worker and UMW member, he rose from assistant attorney general to attorney general before winning the governorship. His platform emphasizes good roads, schools, and expanded recreational facilities.
Stratford High School music program stays busy with events. Glee club attended the Thanksgiving Harvest of Music at Oklahoma A&M College. Dec 2 Hand Parents club meeting at 6 30 in the band room. Dec 5 band members travel to the A and M College band clinic. Three Stratford students Richard McClure Jackie Corley J R Burkhart and director Charles Otto will join the 21st Oklahoma Band Clinic at Oklahoma A and M College Dec 4 and 5. Tulsa election plans discussed for next spring to choose new city government form or retain current system including commissioner council or strong mayor options.
Christine Jorgensen, former Army private George Jorgensen Jr., now undergoes sex-change in Copenhagen's Rigs Hospitalet. Doctors secrecy surrounds the case as she prepares to return to the United States after completing treatment and training as a photographer. The Daily News reports the two-year process began after Jorgensen traveled from New Jersey to Denmark seeking gender reassignment.
Ringwood Ohda Nov 29 Quick thinking Richard Walls a Ringwood high school student turned a rope into a tourniquet and saved the life of Rudf Hill 66 a farmer. Hill was cutting trees when a falling tree pushed him toward a whirling buzz saw severing most of the muscles and blood vessels in his leg. Walls applied the tourniquet and sent two others for help. Hill was taken to Enid hospital where doctors said his condition was satisfactory.
King McLeroy appeared before Judge Tal Crawford on Friday and withdrew a not guilty plea. He entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to 30 days in county jail with a $50 fine and costs. The article also notes porpoises reach about stay teeth.
A long list of Thanksgiving visits fills Allen area with relatives from Sulphur Ada Duncan and Chickasha. Residents include K F Cooley, S M Ester, Hodges, Miler, Milner, Barnes, Roberson, Weems, Pipkin, Burkett, Locke, Walker, Kennedy and others visiting kin in Allen Oklahoma. The notes mention travel by plane to Norman for OU Nebraska game and eventual train return, plus a local stroke in Kemp. Ostrich scene and pyramid plaster remark close the item.
James Thompson announces the launch of a $175000 steel folding chair plant on the Ada industrial site. Production starts with one eight hour shift, aiming 500 chairs daily, rising to around the clock within a year. The firm expects to create at least 50 jobs.
Blaine Oklahoma November 29 ten year old Alfred Rowell was accidentally shot and killed by his 14 year old brother Marion while rabbit hunting near their home. Haskell County Attorney Nat Henderson said the boys had chased a rabbit into a hollow log and when it ran out Marion fired the shotgun as Alfred moved into range. The shooting was ruled accidental.
Amateur Athletic Union contributions to the 1952 U S Olympic Fund totaled 27843589 dollars The AAU raised 19146829 dollars for the 1943 Olympiad.
Roff school officials announce preparations for a return to classes Monday after the grade school fire. Adj. Gen. Roy Kenney permits use of the new armory as home for the departmental grades. First four grades stay in the high school building. Textbooks and school furniture are being replaced with aid from neighboring districts and the state department. Buses and hot lunch will operate as usual.
Fessy NS Gesiring announces owners may reserve 1953 tag numbers until December 6. After that date no reservations will be taken due to office workload. To reserve a 1953 number owners must bring their car license and fee, says Clyde Kaiser, tag agent.
Local items note Norma Walls and others at Mrs. Doc Tracy Saturday event. Charles Martin drove to Stillwater after visit with Lloyd and Royce Fulton at Oklahoma A. M. Eager talks invite M. L. Stegil to speak at Coal Gate church. Mrs. Glen Blake heads to Nashville for holiday with Maxwell McDonald family. Glen Anson and Verlen Arter return home for holidays while attending Oklahoma A. M. college. WMU, Lattz home demonstration host Christmas party December 2 at 1 30 p m.
Mrs R C Borders and children visited her sister Mrs Bennie Kirby in Wetumka. Ray Cummings and sons spent Thanksgiving with Fred Bowers in Ada. Flannigan and Guy Milner returned to Norman for OU classes after holidays with relatives. Gene Thomas and daughter Sharon Rose of Ponca City visited D F West and others. Ira’s family hosted Virgil Ramsey and children in Shawnee. Joe Williams returned from Tulsa after visiting Gerald Weems. C C Call of Copan and Donna Jo Call of Madison stayed with Mrs Kidwell and relatives. Grady Miller and daughter Marilyn visited his parents in Tulsa. Keith Tiernan and Bristow family joined Tom Tiernan. Lee Drury returned from Oklahoma City for a family reunion. S L Drury and family traveled to Allen with Sterling Evans and children. Sandra and Edward Evans visited grandparents. Dale Nunley and C F Kile hosted at Tulsa during holidays. Joe Gilmore and Melinda of Oakland, Calif., visited relatives here.
Joan Earls 66, former Ada resident, died Saturday morning at his Shawnee home. A retired farmer, he lived southwest of Shawnee from 1902 to 1948, then moved into Shawnee. Surviving include wife Cleo. three sons Jim Shawnee, Clifford Tecumseh route 2, Floyd Tulsa. father Charles Shawnee. brother Will Shawnee. sister Mrs Mary Partridge Denver. half-brother C. T. Barton Shawnee. half-sisters Mrs B Wynkopp Shawnee and Mrs Ava Dickey Fort Worth. Services 4:30 p.m. Monday at Gaskill funeral home chapel Shawnee. burial Fairview cemetery.
Carl Browall, longtime Ada native and son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Browall, has been promoted to general superintendent of Pacific Western Oil. He and his wife and sons have moved from Landor Wyoming to Pasadena California, where he assumes his new duties. Browall previously managed Free Mont County operations in Landor for four years and started in Ada with the Lake Oil company before moving west. His father was a pioneer physician and his mother long served as secretary of the local school board.
New Orleans police probe the murder of 30 year old socialite Mrs James L Conger found in her apartment with a fractured skull. Evidence includes possible rape and choking before blunt force death. Her husband 42 was questioned and released as investigators seek motive and weapon.
Rev Harry W Miller, hurt in a car crash near Coalgate two weeks ago, is released from an Oklahoma City hospital and returned to his Coalgate home. Doctors say his condition has improved steadily.
Oklahoma reports 519 highway deaths for 1952, up two from the same period last year. Victims include Billy Parsons, 24, near Trooper country. Homer Corbin, 42, near Durant. and Hazel Smith, 38, of Sulphur, who died from injuries after a train collision in Duncan. Also two women died on icy state highways, Jann Pote, 19, of McPherson, and Evelyn Campbell, 82, of Waita.
Oklahoma City November 29 Support grew for legislation to revive education for about 37 000 handicapped children in the state. The Oklahoma Education Association Parent Teachers Association and others aim to back the program before the January legislative session. Budgets proposed by the Department of Education total 343 920 and 43 920 for the next two years. The program previously ended after an appropriation bill died. Enrollment peaked at 4 037 in 1950 82 with many students needing special training. declines followed as funds ran out.
U.S. crude oil production rose in September to 106,480,000 barrels daily, the Oil and Gas Journal reports, up about 260,000 bpd or 42 percent from August. Total global output reached 12,596,000 bpd, with Russia and satellites at 11? and non Communist nations at 1,138,100 bpd. France led foreign gains with 487,700 bpd, driven by Kirkuk to Banias pipeline. Canada climbed to 194,700 bpd aided by ice-locked terminals, with 300,000 bpd expected later in 1953 after new BC pipeline completion.
Sulphur roundup club selects Bill Allen to head for the year at the chamber of commerce meeting. Houston Russell is vice president, Dayton Burnside parade marshal, Mable Fulton secretary, and Forrest McMurtry treasurer. Three new executive committee members elected: Bob Fulton, Forrest McMurtry, Dayton Burnside. Holdover board members include Jim Howe, Mabel Fulton, Jim McClelland, Paul Thompson, Bill Allen and Houston Russell.
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