14 Dec 1950
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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1950
Page
1
VFW Auxiliary plans a Christmas program Friday at Sulphur hospital for patients unable to attend. Ada auxiliary volunteers assist with planning and hosting. participants include Carols by Glenwood grade choir Ada and readings from Coalgate and Duncan square dance.
A state patrol summary for November shows officers on duty with a confiscated gun on the job, arrests for defective vehicles and 38 other arrests, 619 moving violation warnings, 33 driver's license warnings, fire vehicle warnings and 64 safety speeches across 13 counties.
New Orleans December 14 A11 Hoph Ww V is named champion vegetable grower in a National Junior Grows Association event. Prizes include $200 to McBee, $100 to George Kendall, Guthrie, Don ad Dean Kolar, and Barner. The contest supported by a $36,000 agricultural scholarship fund and state awards with various prizes for produce and apples.
A fragmentary weather note indicates cloudy conditions across Oklahoma with temperatures around 26 to 32 degrees at night and a forecasted high near 53 degrees on Friday.
The Christmas greens and carols concluded the Hanging of the Greens in Enght Hall before college and town attendees. The Fast Central choir led by Noel Wyatt opened with Come All Ye Faithful as students from 21 campus organizations processed with candles and wreaths. A religious interpretive movement followed by Mrs. Betty Gilliam and Esterlee Worshamn featured seven white robed girls. W. B. Morrison presented Colleen Vaughn and Dava Lynn Broyles who handed out food cans to the Salvation Army representative George Short.
Retail Merchant Association will extend hours starting December 20 to handle the holiday shopping rush. Weather is favorable and forecast to remain so through Friday, encouraging shoppers to complete most buying early.
The Ada Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Bay Orphans Home plan a Friday 7 20 pm Christmas party north of the vi with Santa as the feature. Alfred Katz leads the Jaycees arranging gifts and entertainment including Haves school performers. Clifford Green will MC as Jaycees donate refreshments from Ada stores and invite the public.
A special convention of the Oklahoma School Bus Drivers Association will be held in Ada at Ada Junior High School on Friday December 20 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. County superintendent Norman C. Mitchell says the group will organize and draft a legislative policy aimed at 1921 increases in appropriations for transportation and driver salaries.
CHICAGO December disorder spreads from Chicago to key points as rail strikes disrupt freight and some passenger and mail service despite a federal court order to end the action. The army warned it may take action to enforce order while the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen faces internal turmoil and leaders weigh further steps.
The United Nations General Assembly backed a three man peace committee led by Iran's Nassrollah Entezam by a 52 to 5 vote, with the Soviet bloc and China opposing. Entezam, who deferred chairing, urged broad backing to avert global danger as opponents warned of a possible push toward war. Egyptian sponsor Mahmoud Fawzi Bey lamented Communist opposition while urging public support for peace measures.
A U S air force spokesman said indications point to an intensified air war in Korea as Soviet and Chinese aviation support grows. He noted a pattern of rising enemy air activity since late June, with MiG-15 jets and allied jet units engaging near Sinuiju and Huntram areas while Allied sorties exceed 160,000 across the theater. The briefing framed the shift as a response to new jet capabilities and improving enemy air strength through coordinated Communist air operations.
The State Department denounces Moscow’s naked lie that the United States and Japan have secretly begun rebuilding the Javanese army. It suggests communist propaganda aims to widen the alliance between Stalinist China and its opponents, accusing Moscow of misrepresenting treaty terms and military actions.
Weather bureau notes little change across the state with a limited temperature range. Extreme northern areas may be slightly cooler while most regions stay near recent readings. Forecast mentions tonight's lows and the day’s overall mild pattern despite scattered flashes nearby.
Funeral service for Cpl. James Winton, 19, killed in a Milton, Oklahoma motor accident, will be held Friday at 2 PM at Pontotoc church. Burial at Pontotoc cemetery. Winton, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Winton, graduated Pontotoc High School, entered service in 1944, trained at Camp Chaffee and West Point mechanics school, one of three soldiers returning from a furlough when the car overturned. He left several relatives at Pontotoc and Texas households.
Washington opens its biggest tax collection period with an expected intake around 16 billion dollars over three months. The move aims to cover deficits from the current year as corporations face final payments at the old 38 percent rate while individuals prepare for 1950 taxes and refunds through earlier filing.
Mary H West reports that Christ iti led at the lo year appear ha real post officer thi s headed for an all-thigh. Post office staff work to meet a record hood as greetings for out-of-state deliveries must post by Friday night December 15 to reach destinations in time. After that date use air mail or faster stamps. Christmas cards for local deliveries should be mailed at least a week before Christmas.
President Truman discussed home front mobilization with congressional leaders urging wage price controls. Senators Maybank and Tobey voiced hope for a national emergency and broad controls as part of wartime measures. The White House met with banking, economic, and atomic committee leaders ahead of a radio address outlining government steps amid the world crisis.
Maury Teague appeared before Justice Armstrong on a Wednesday plea hearing. Bond set at 21,500. Teague waived preliminary hearing and is to face further proceedings. He is accused of obtaining 25 dollars from Wooten Downtown Service with a bogus check. Local radio announcer referred to in the case.
Forces pushed deeper into the northeast Korea beachhead as about 100000 Chinese Reds massed on an arc around UN positions. In the northwest near Manchuria the day saw the largest jet battles yet, with no clear victor. The US Fifth Army’s Third Division abandoned Oro and withdrew toward Hungnam, as Puerto Rican troops dynamited spans of a bridge over the Songchon river and other outer defenses. Oro burned from pre-dawn fighting amid expected probing by Chinese forces.
President Truman and daughter Margaret attended the National Press Club father daughter dinner in Washington. He requested autographs from more than 200 daughters of club members and urged each to send a Christmas card bearing the note I was at the press club father daughter dinner here’s my autograph. The event followed the Paul Hume letter controversy with little discussion of the incident.
A reader recalls older days and jokes about how praise for a bold speech was once a common compliment while observing recent grocery price trends and noting growing similarities to Mrs Hubbard.
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