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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1932
Page
4
Readers learn that Oklahoma colleges attract growing numbers of high school graduates from Pontotoc County and elsewhere, straining faculty and funding. The piece argues public cost must be shouldered to expand access, protecting the goal of broad college attainment while controlling expenses.
A column argues for trained psychologists to assess criminals and improve law enforcement. It praises Judge McKeel for clarity on highway issues, criticizes political meddling, and applauds Congressman McKeown and Oklahoma drys. It notes road funding challenges, district judge reductions, and praises Dr. W. Grisso as Pecan Growers president for Ardmore.
Nehemiah leads a festive, spiritually focused restoration period with reading of the law and a seven day joyful feast. The piece links biblical leisure to modern recreation via Y M C A and Boy Scouts, then shifts to taxes, civic duty, and Oklahoma road politics, ending with McKeown’s crop allotment plan and Roosevelt’s attention.
Senate leaders La Follette and Costigan push new emergency relief bills as Roosevelt backs farm aid. Debate centers on public works bonds and a US Exchange Corporation lending credits to unemployed families, with Hoover opposing expanded relief amid a looming veto.
Leslie Oberlander II of near Garber wins the American Royal Show grand champion calf prize for the second year, the first repeat winner in the event. The feature highlights farmer prosperity, livestock value, and Oklahoma farm clubs shaping resilient rural progress.
In Taylor Texas a gas explosion wrecked a boarding house killing Lydia Quezon 19 a waitress and Louis Kleinman 58 Dallas dry goods merchant. Oscar Lau and Mrs A Schwarz Buhler were badly burned but improving. two others injured.
A 1932 NEA Service report notes letters to papers from Santa Clauses seeking debt cancellations and red wagons. It remarks on hunger marchers funded by public expense and a Polk County jail robbery by inmates, with Santa Clauses appearing in public as lively as last year.
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