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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1961
Page
2
A lengthy county column describes freezing weather straining water lines and calf rescues. It notes a local Angus cow delivering twins with one calf dying, and residents heating barns and baths, plus community visits, churchless Sundays due to rain. Beaver trapping gains state legalization and market humor.
Mrs. Fred and children head to Purdin Missouri for winter with Rushton family. Several guests visit, including Helen Hemingway and Mrs. James Hemingway Holdenville. Mrs Vinson injures back and is observed in Vallay Hospital. Various trips to California, El Sobrante and Longview noted. Ed Wallace sustains a back injury from a porch fall.
East Central items list residents including Lou Hellack Tishoninga Mrs Mary Thompson Ada and Pauls ValleyMary Cape with a nurse on daily duty. Radio station KADA is mentioned with Jim Slone Bette Craig and Robert Muntz Ada Nancy Me- are noted amid scattered fragments about Venus carbon dioxide detection and related science.
Center report notes Sondra Garrett daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pug Garrett has chicken pox. She visited her doctor twice Monday and will miss school for several days. Relatives and neighbors helped care for her at Rae Garrett’s home. Weather turns wintry. slick roads raise accident concerns while livestock lack shelter.
The article lists attending freshmen from several schools including Holman chosen for toss-up with Wayne Brown in a freshmen quiz. Allen students under M L Crawford directed by Bud Graves included Bar ders Wolford Peay Watson and Allred. Roff participants Heard Etchieson Dil beck Clary Govee Chandler led by Bud Graves assisted in closing ceremonies.
Mrs. Pearl Julian was admitted to Physicians and Surgeons Hospital Holdenville on Thursday.
Doris Davis and Jennie Low r Hellack lead a script adaptation with multiple stagings. Stave 1 features Marley's Ghost and Narrators including Nancy Thompson and Scrooge. Stave II through V list numerous actors as Spirits Narrators Scrooge and Cratchit figures with extensive character rosters.
The article explains mistletoe’s parasitic growth on many trees from New Jersey to Florida and west to California. It notes that it clings to elms, poplars, willows, oaks, and cypress or juniper types vary by region, with Oklahoma plants forming large clumps and persisting unless the host dies.
The passage discusses mistletoe as a semi parasite and notes Oklahoma adopting mistletoe as its state flower the first in the union to do so. It mentions critics favored dogwood or redbud, with redbud later chosen as the state tree in a compromise.
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