Ada Christmas Season Opens with City Lights Display
Ada proclaimed Christmas season with Santa Claus arrival as 3 000 residents, many children, gathered at Main and Broadway. Cy Freeman led the program with the Ada High School band, Russell Smith welcomed guests, and Mayor Thrash praised the Jaycees for decorating in below freezing weather. Santa greeted kids from a Denco bus while radio listeners caught parts of the celebration on KADA.
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Ada
Santa Claus
Main
Broadway
Cy Freeman
Ada High Hool Band
Russell Smith
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Ada Jaycees
Baptist Home
Smith
Freeman
KADA
Jaycees
Guy Thrash
Oklahoma
Thrash
Jaycee
Virgil Alexander
Alexander
East Central
J. W. Hough Killed in Arizona Highway Accident
Mrs. R J Hough learned her son J W Buster Hough died in an Arizona car crash Details are sparse Funeral services will be in Los Angeles He leaves a widow his mother two sons Johnny and Roger Loyd and a sister Mrs Bob Williamson He grew up in Ada and worked in local drug stores before moving to Los Angeles three years ago
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R. J. Hough
J. W. “Buster” Hough
Arizona
Hough
Los Angeles
Calif
East Doth
Zone 11
Johnny
Roger Loyd
Bob Williamson
Ada
Ada Anda
Greater returns for amount in vested Ada News Ads
In the Ada News Ads column readers are shown enhanced value for invested amounts with renewed coverage options. The feature highlights how larger commitments yield greater visibility and longer ad runs across key local sections.
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Ada
Ada News Classified
Bomber Fuselages Could Aid Housing
Alfred K. Robinson, auditor supervisor of the U S General Accounting Office, urged using surplus B 29 and B 24 fuselages as emergency veteran housing. He proposed moving fuselages from Walnut Ridge Arkansas and other depots to crowded cities to form trailer camps with central sanitary and cooking facilities. He said the aircraft bodies are weatherproof well wired for lighting and heating and would provide roomier shelters than some trailers.
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Cleveland
Alfred K. Robinson
U. S. General Accounting Office
Walnut Ridge
Ark
Robinson
Summers Chapel Pie Supper For Christmas Fund
Summers Chapel hosts a pie supper Thursday evening to raise funds for a community Christmas tree and program. The Christmas party is set for Friday evening December 21.
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Summers Chapel
May Name Dean To Succeed Dr. Lowry
University of Oklahoma regents may appoint a dean or acting dean of the OU Medical school to succeed Dr. Tom Lowry who died yesterday ending 25 years on the faculty and his tenure as dean since 1942. Dr. Lowry and his twin brother Dr. Dick Lowry were 1916 graduates born in 1891 in Texas.
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Oklahoma City
University of Oklahoma Regents
OU Medical School
Tom Lowry
Lowry
Dick Lowry
Europe
Brothers
Texas
Guthrie
Reject Unionization by Northrop Aircraft Employees
The National Labor Relations Board announced Northrop Aircraft workers voted 1,194 against unionization, 624 for CIO, and 99 for AFL. The anti union vote rose to 61.4 percent, up 11 points from last April’s election.
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Los Angeles
Northrop
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
AFL
NLRB
Army Officer Dead in India Explosion Probe
Lt Col Rolf Olaf Wulfberg commander of the ordnance ammunition area at Camp Kancrapara was found shot to death in a railway coach on Saturday. Seven Americans and 84 Indian workers died in the earlier blast. army investigators have not disclosed findings. Wife resides in Torsdale, Pa.
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Calcutta
U. S. Army
Rolf Olaf Wulfberg
Camp Kancrapara
Wulfberg
Torresdale
John M. Lentz
S.S
Klaus Schilling
Fritz Hintermeier
Paul Walter
U. S
Dachau
Landsberg
Weiss
S. S
Corset Theft Strikes Tulsa Truck in December
In Tulsa on December 12 a thief removed a box containing 22 corsets from a parked truck, prompting a local police inquiry. No injuries reported and no further details provided.
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Tulsa
Okla
Steelworkers Plan For Strike And Ada Pot Drive
A multi organization fundraiser in Ada aims to raise funds during a ten day pot boiling contest with six organizations competing for charity turkeys, a goat, and community volunteers. In Pittsburgh a CIO United Steelworkers plan a January 15 strike with 700 000 workers following a 5 to 1 vote and ballots showing broad support for action.
Byrnes Heads For Moscow To Discuss Atomic Energy
Secretary of State Byrnes leaves Washington for Moscow to meet Molotov Bevin and pursue Anglo American Canadian plans for atomic energy control and a UN commission. He flies with pilot Cletus Keating Jr reaching Moscow before Saturday talks. Eisenhower joins him for a farewell.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Byrnes
Moscow
Dwight Eisenhower
Army
Eisenhower
Stalin
Cletus Keating, Jr
Locust Valley
Long Island
Molotov
Bevin
United Nations
United Nations Commission
London
Masonic Temple in McAlester Proposal for World Capital
Rev Ren P Choate of Indianola announced the idea to use McAlester Masonic Temple as temporary headquarters if Tuskahoma is chosen as the seat of the United Nations government. Choate originated the concept for the world capital move.
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Mcalester
Tuskahoma
United Nations
Ren. P. Choate
Choate
Indianola
Waterworks bond issue rejected in Dewey vote
A $60,000 bond proposal for the city waterworks was put to a vote in Dewey and defeated by 109 to 49.
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Dewey
Gospel Singing at Center Schoolhouse Friday Evening
A gospel singing will be held at Center schoolhouse Friday night inviting all Center community members and county singers to join. The event begins about 7 o clock with an informal program as local and visiting singers participate.
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Center Schoolhouse
Center
Charles Gentry
Schoolmasters Meet at Oakman in Pontotoc County
The Pontotoc county Schoolmasters club holds its monthly meeting at Oakman school tonight at 7. A bountiful meal precedes a talk by Joe D. Hurt, manager for the O. E. A. Ada News Want Ads.
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Schoolmasters Club
Pontotoc County
Oakman School
Joe D. Hurt
Couch to Receive Medal for Nonpay Service in Washington
Jim R. Couch, longtime member of Pontotoc County Selective Service Board No 1, will travel to Washington to receive a medal for nonpay service. His name was drawn by Governor Kerr in Oklahoma City along with other boards having more than two years’ service.
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Jim R. Couch
Selective Service Board No. 1
Pontotoc County
Washington
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma City
Couch
Pontotoc County Seeks End Of E Bond Drive
County continues E bond purchases aiming for a $289,000 quota. By Tuesday close Pontotoc had invested $242,990.50 with $46,009.50 remaining. Other bonds reached $939,943.95, pushing the grand total to $1,178,934.45, over all goals. More than $5,000 was added to E bonds on Tuesday.
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Pontotoc County
Tulsan Announces Candidacy For State Superintendent
Dr. Oliver Hodge, a 44 year old Tulsa county school superintendent and longtime Oklahoma educator since 1921, announced he would run as a Democratic candidate for state superintendent of public instruction in the upcoming July primary. He opposes the prevailing school establishment factions and stressed independent leadership.
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Tulsa
Okla
Oliver Hodge
Oklahoma
Tulsa County
Tulsan
Truman Names Board To Probe GM Sticks
Gen. George S. Patton Jr remains in grave condition after a Sunday automobile crash in Heidenberg. An official bulletin noted no paralysis improvement while Mrs. Patton visited. two British consultants prepared to depart and a no visitors sign stayed on his door.
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Truman Names Board
Heidelberg
Germany
George S. Patton, Jr
U. S
Patton
Bertha Hohle
Grygla
Minn
Fact Finding Group To Study Causes Of Nationwide Tieup
President Truman named a fact finding board to probe the General Motors strike and CIO UAW union leaders pledged cooperation. The group will review the dispute and the union will present facts on the companys ability to pay a 30 percent wage increase as General Motors comments. The move follows a 22 day walkout idling 213000 workers.
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Detroit
Truman
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
R. J. Thomas
Walter P. Reuther
Walter P. Stacy
Washington
Lloyd K. Garrison
War Labor Board
Milton Eisenhower
Kansas State College
All 40 Defendants Convicted at Dachau Atrocity Trial
A U S military court convicted Commandant Martin Weiss and 39 fellow defendants of atrocities at Dachau. The verdicts mark the end of a high profile trial in Dachau Germany with the U S military authorities delivering judgment on the war crimes case.
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Dachau
Germany
U. S
Martin Weiss
Dachau Concentration Camp
Two White Men Held Here In Connection With Robberies
Boby Miller and Elmer Nichols are white men arrested after two armed robberies Saturday night in negro town and the 200 block South Townsend. They were held by county authorities after being identified by city police. the robberies yielded about $85. Eighteen other weekend arrests were reported as one of the largest since 1936 boom.
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Boby Miller
Elmer Nichols
Negro Town
South
Townsend
Kellogg Dies At Home Of Son In Francis
Pontotoc county pioneer A. Kellogg died at his son J. H. Kellogg’s home in Francis. Born in 1860 in Illinois and raised in Grayson County Texas, he married in 1885 and leaves a widow five daughters three sons, two sisters, twenty six grandchildren and twenty three great grandchildren. Funeral at Cedar Grove cemetery near Francis on Thursday at 2 p.m. He was active in the Church of God and evangelistic work and looked forward to the 1946 camp meeting.
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S. A. Kellogg
Pontotoc County
J. H. Kellogg
Francis
Illinois
Grayson County
Texas
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Georgia Jones
Bristow
Maudie Casey
Essie Hammond
Oklahoma City
H. E. Kellogg
Welty
Eliza Cargill
Denton
Ollie Newton
Abilene
Kellogg
Church of God
Beautification plan for U S Highway 70 in Oklahoma
Gov. Kerr will host a December 16 meeting in Ardmore to plan beautification of U S Highway 70 through Oklahoma. Representatives from all route communities are expected as Glenn S. Durrell outlines tree-planting plans along the highway. In China, dancing is part of a trainer’s routine.
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Ardmore
Oklahoma
Robert S. Kerr
Glenn S. Durrell
State Planning Resources Board
Truman To Go Home For Christmas Day
President Truman announced at a news conference he will fly to Independence Missouri on Christmas Day to dine with his mother in law and his elderly aunt. Mrs Truman and their daughter Margaret will travel by train to Independence on December 18, following his usual trio of Christmas dinners.
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Washington
Truman
Independence Mo
Christmas Dog Tags Solve City Finance Chief’s Gift Dilemma
Tulsa December 12. City Finance Commissioner John Hall solves Christmas gifts by sending dog tags to friends who own dogs with certificates proving taxes paid.
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Tulsa
Okla
John Hall
Ford Workers Wage Talks Tie to Industry Pattern
Detroit December meeting between Ford Motor Co and UAW CIO unfolds as the company weighs the union demand for a 30 percent wage increase and penalties for wildcat strikes. Credit union pension and profit sharing as alternatives are discussed, with potential industry-wide impact.
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Murray
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
CIO
United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Uaw-Cio
Richard T. Leonard
National Uaw Ford
Leonard
Wildcatters
Nazi leaders face war crimes trial as film reenacts rise
Twenty one German leaders on trial watched a documentary reenactment showing Hitler, brown shirts, and goose stepping scenes from the Nazi era. The film, assembled in Berlin by naval officers from confiscated movies, was presented as evidence.
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Daniel DE Luce Nuernberg
Hitler
Berlin
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