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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1961
Page
4
The Ada newspaper history notes merges with the Ada Times-Democrat and Ada Star Pontotoc County Enterprise. It outlines publication details for The Ada Evening News and The Ada Weekly News and lists mail rates and calendar articles for the new year.
A reflective essay warns against calendars and images that misrepresent reality. It contrasts glossy fantasies with authentic scenes, urging admiration of what is good and refusing to bow to evil or trivialized beauty. The piece explores adoring the highest and true worship.
A column tracing early jury trials from 60 B.C. Athens through Socrates and the digasts to modern critique of jury service. It stresses jurors’ public role, evidence limits, oath sworn by jurors, and calls readers to value jury duty while urging legal counsel for precise fact interpretation.
Connie Nelson thanks contributors and urges more news from Pan toloe County as readers note the weekly’s homey charm. The page features community kudos and a recipe for an orange layer cake with detailed measurements and ingredients.
A tide of miscellany mixes recipes, anecdotes, letters, and reflections. The page references a kind grocer, wartime letters about orphans, jokes, poems by Richard Armour, and local commentary on community life and Christmas preparations.
Death notices for Virgil Harris at home with 2 p m service at Fittstown Baptist Church. Charles Winford Tune dies in Ada. funeral at 9 16 a m Friday with grave rites by Ada Lodge. Dillie Mae Stiles of Ada dies. services at Church of Christ with burial in Rosedale Cemetery. Cecil E Lewis of Pontotoc dies in Oklahoma City at 45.
The Ada Post Office extends holiday hours to handle Christmas mail. Postmaster Hicks Smith Jr says parcel post windows run 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, with deliveries Sunday and through Christmas. Regular hours resume next week missing nothing.
Four Ada police officers gave formal depositions yesterday afternoon in a suit filed by Lille Stegall against three officers for false arrest and injuries. The incident stems from the November 19 events when Stegall, 57, of 607 North Bluff, was taken to the police station by Capt. Charles Scott and Officer Richard Gray in a patrol car.
Three cases filed Wednesday in JP Bert Ratliff's Ada court include Tarzan Davis charged with public drunkenness and Glen A. Garriott and John Wesley Lamb cited on traffic or conduct charges filed by the Highway Patrol. Mrs Stegall sues Police Chief Homer Gosnell and officers for alleged rough handling and heads to district court with a $17,793 claim. Civil War era references to Meramec Caverns described as a link in an underground railroad narrative.
A letter argues the U S Agriculture Department overstates farming as the nation’s number one industry. It cites changing farm employment, rising production on fewer acres, and urban migration to support a critique of broad industry labels. The writer praises Pontotoc County farmers and adds local color on Christmas shoppers and a trivia note about the Venus flytrap.
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