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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1944
Page
4
The Ada Evening News announces subscription rates by carrier per week month and year with mail options inside and outside trade territory. The Ada Weekly News is published every Thursday and notes Associated Press affiliation and circulation details.
Ada should lead a county wide survey to plan post war roads and support county commissioners and the excise board in funding and construction. Proposes all weather routes to Lula Union Valley and to Highway 99, and improvements to Fourth Street and Broadway in Ada plus a permanent streets and highways organization. Also notes post war farm to market road funding and rural access.
The article surveys wartime and postwar U S immigration questions as Congress adjourns. It outlines proposals from five year bans to expanded quotas, cites labor needs and humanitarian duties, and discusses selective immigration versus the current 3 percent cap with emphasis on worker shortages and refugee relief.
War analyst DeWitt MacKenzie argues the Cologne plain will be the war’s hardest battle as Eisenhower pressures Von Rundstedt to defend the Ruhr and keep the Saar corridor. He notes two looming threats, heavy German casualties, and ongoing Allied bombardment shaping a decisive struggle.
A passage calls for doors for millions who deserve a new chance to begin again in the new world, framing a hopeful invitation to restart lives and rebuild.
The Pontotoc County Nutrition Committee will hold a meeting on Wednesday December 13 at 8 o clock in the county home demonstration office. Susan B Gray of the Oklahoma Nutrition Committee will attend to oversee an officer election and a general planning session. All members are urged to attend and Pontotoc County Council of Social Agencies are invited.
A U S Army force study finds among every 1000 soldiers 50 are air plane armorers and 12 are sheet metal workers.
Mrs Renfro Herndon filled in for Miss Core due to illness last week. Mrs A R Wallace substituted for Mrs Grace Payne who was ill but resumed her classwork on Thursday.
Homeroom 214 received the Church Attendance Flag this week. Roddy Simmons from the room ranks on both Citizenship and Scholarship honor rolls with an A average. The Blue Jays defeated Stratford 31 to 18 on December 5, the team’s seventh game with only one loss.
Junior High students attend daytime films in the auditorium when outdoors is unsuitable. noon screenings begin at 12 30 with titles like The World s Fair of 1940 Ford Building English Fighting Planes Jerry Pulls the String a Marionette Show Children of Switzerland Glacier National Park. MISNER PLAY Ada Junior High and High School enjoyed the Misner play Joan D Arc. The Misner players are noted Hollywood actors. CHAPEL HOUR A brief chapel hour followed.
The Misner Play Tuesday morning presented church flags to home rooms 103 214 and 208 for perfect church attendance. The eighth grade recorded the week's highest attendance percentage as Rev Spence McClain of the Junior High Faculty delivered the benediction.
Miss Drains classes assign English to Spanish translations. Students compose pieces themed Home and translate them into Spanish as practice.
The United Seamen's Service plans Christmas cats for crews but warns 125 USS centers that cats will be taboo as gifts aboard tankers or ammunition ships due to static electricity from fur potentially causing explosions.
Navy plane over the Kurile Islands last July suffered a hydraulic line cut by a Japanese fighter. With insufficient fluid to lower the landing gear, the crew received a transfusion of breakfast leftovers coffee and orange juice from Aviation Machinist's Mate Charles W. Scott of Optima, Oklahoma.
Garden City Kansas reports twelve year old Billy Orcutt captured a jack rabbit. The startled animal sprang at him and struck a fence post, knocking it out.
Police hunt a thief who twice beat Mrs. Geraldine Anderson's milkman to the back porch. On the first visit he took 16.23 dollars left in a bottle for the milkman. A second visit saw 23 dollars missing from a similar place before the milkman arrived.
Springfield report says Secretary of State Richard Yates Rowe will help ease Uncle Sam's postal strain this Christmas. He notes 1945 automobile license plates will not be mailed until after December 26, delaying issuance to reduce rush traffic.
Capt. Floyd Randolph Denham of Oklahoma City has been advanced to major and Second Lt. Roy Peyton Woodruff of Ada has been promoted to first lieutenant. The army announced today. Also ordered to active duty were Lt. James Eugene Pollard of Lovell and Second Lt. Clair Earl Graven of Maramec and Second Lt. Jeanne.
Classified ad from Ada News urges readers in Hutchison Oklahoma City to lay away their war bonds for greater returns. The message promotes savings during wartime and links bond purchases to sooner peace and financial gains.
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