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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1971
Page
4
A string of humorous vignettes on marriage, parenting, and social quirks unfolds. A visiting preacher spurs a family toward domestic harmony while family members and neighbors share wry insights. Jests cover early marriage, boyish pranks, and the enduring paradoxes of women, with cautions and light satire.
The article argues rural living differs from farming. It notes many cling to old images, while true farmers invest heavily, own land, and run businesses amid rising costs and larger units. Success hinges on debt, equipment, regulation knowledge, and market foresight.
The article explains how public opinion polls gain court acceptance when well designed and extensive. It cites cases where small or biased polls failed to prove prejudice or confusion, while carefully conducted surveys supported false advertising, bus radio experiments, and trademark familiarity, offering a unique form of evidence beyond fingerprints.
A regional essay extols the Eastern Redcedar juniper as a hardy evergreen across the eastern U S and western areas. It notes its usefulness in past and present, its drought and cold resilience, and its symbolic meaning in cemeteries and culture, while contrasting opinions among farmers and pine lovers.
Howard Vandergrift returned home after treatment at Valley View Hospital. Mrs Lorene Williams is a surgery patient there. Families from Oklahoma City Denton and Ada visited local relatives. Many locals and relatives were noted visiting or hosting over the weekend, including McAnallys and Tilleys.
Mrs Ethel Reed visits with son Douglas Reed and guests from Texas while Ross Baptist Church Women’s Missionary Society meets at Nettie Hodges home for Bible study lunch and exchange gifts. Guests include Rev Phillip Davis. Cards are sent to Ada Nursing Homes patients. A Christmas social is planned Wednesday night with a choral group program for nursing home guests.
Visiting lists show numerous families at Ballards Nursing Home and Latta including Miss Alice Binion Lena Cochran and Yvonne Gray from Russell, Daisy Binion, Callie Rose, and others. The notes mention Sunday school attendance at Oakman and a Christmas program at Union Hill Baptist Church with several local families attending events and meetings.
MINNIZ 8 HARPER 7 former Stonewall resident died Dec 10 Criswell Funeral Home JESSIE MAGNESS 85 Coalgate resident died Dec 8 Leonard Funeral Home JOHN D CLIFTON 64 Ada resident died Dec 2 Criswell Funeral Home MRS BE R MATHERLY 87 Ada resident died Dec 13 LELA RB FARMER 79 former Ada resident died Dec 13 Smith Funeral Home ETHEL L CLAYTON Ada resident died Dec 14 Criswell Funeral Home plus extended notes on family visits and social gatherings in Ada and nearby towns.
Morris district directors include Johnny Quan Frederick Paul Mock Altus and Ryvers Retder of Meers. South Central District lists Water Woolley Jr Ada Dwain Penner Mill Creek and Edwin Ketchum Duncan. Southeast District names Ray Tucker Finley Bill Hopper Wilburton. At large directors elected: R A Latspeich Rosston Don Howard Waurika Harley Custer Oklahoma City Skip Healey Davis Leo Roberts Ardmore and Jack Downey Perkins.
Milburn Carl Morrison of Ada marries Mary Alice Day of Allen in a simple ceremony. The couple announced plans to reside in Ada and begin new lives together.
Tex AP high school pupils are invited to propose experiments for Skylab, the U.S. space laboratory set for flight early in 1974. The Skylab Student Project is co sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and NASA.
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