House Rejects Million Dollar Building Appropriation
OKLAHOMA CITY December 16 1936 The house appropriations committee voted 15 to 13 against a bill to appropriate 1 000 000 for a state office and armory building. The failure followed a heated clash over using about 400 000 in royalties from capitol ground oil wells.
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Oklahoma City
Lpi
House Appropriations Committee
House
State Capitol
Senate Highway Department
Scott Ferris
Highway Board
J. M. Gentry
Ferris
Gentry
Senate
School Land Committee
PWA
Appropriations Committee
Joe Whitaker
Eufaula
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Whitaker
Greatest returns for amount in vested
Ada News classified ad notes high yields for investments with vesting terms. It highlights secure options, favorable terms, and potential growth prospects for readers seeking steady capital appreciation.
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Ada News
Man Wanted for Rawleigh Route in Memphis Tenn
Classified want ad seeks a man to manage a Rawleigh route serving 800 families in Memphis Tennessee. Applicants are directed to write today to Rawleigh's department OKL-3- SA in Memphis.
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Rawleigh
Rawleigh’s
Dept
Memphis
Tenn
Parish Chapel School News Highlights Local Students
The week lists students with perfect attendance and spelling, notes social visits and church activities, records recent births and moves, fundraiser proceeds, new furniture at the school, and a planned Christmas program and P Y P S organization. Many families and local members are mentioned by name with various visits and events.
Christmas tree and program at the school house
A Christmas tree and program are planned at the school house Wednesday night December 23 with all invited. Visitors at the H D Haskins home included Mr and Mrs Rance Tucker and family Mrs Floy Standridge and sons Mrs Odis Roberts and Lee Bolen and sons of Walnut were mentioned.
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Claude Loveless
Nadine Escue
Barnadine Ballard
Lee Whitaker
Wewoka
Homer
Lawrence Farmer
Othal Ballard
Joe Ragland
Vaness
Monroe Lee
M. R. Woods
Law Home
John Lewis
Buster McCurtain
Virginia Thames
Edward and
Mozelle Cavener
Avery Pennington
Kenneth Brendle
Willie Ford
Ada
Whitaker
Wanda Fae Little
Betty Lavin Meeks
Hazel Horton
EK. C. Cavener
Herbert Horton
Irene Wood
Winona Mae Law
Vanoass
George Standridge
Ruby
LaVern Dryden
Fronie ePnnington
Walter Fletcher
Bryant
Martha Dunaway
J. W. Isaacs
Philip Dunaway
Asher
C. A. Pennington
Oklahoma City
Ruth Kirby
Monnie
E. C. Cavener
L. T. Mitchell
Jess Day
C. M. Hart
J. W. Ward
Stratford
Forrest Shackleford
Genea Gley
Geneva Isaacs
T. J. Law
J. W. Law
Galey
George Stand
H. D. Haskins
Rance Tucker
Floy Standridge and
Odis Roberts
Lee Bolen
Hayes and Guests Visit Hightower Home on Sunday
Edith Hayes and Floyd Hayes spent time with relatives in Cen ter while Lorene Crow and Opal Duncan attended a Vaness ball game Thursday night.
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Erma Mitchell
Norma Mitchell
Mayme Cantrell
Brother Dewey
Frank Robinson
Lightning Ridgs
Aslee Herrin
Vaness
William
Elizabeth Owens
Ladie Bell Tate
Vanoss
Union Hill
Ruby Stephens
Edith Mitchell
George Mitchell
L. L. Herrin
Haley Williams
Raymond Golden
Mack
Robert
Alton Golden
Catherine Teel
Nellie Roddy
Junior Teel
Everett Roddy
Winnie Bottoms
Evelyn Williams
Edna Simpkins
Norman Mitchell
Ada
Luther Foxx
Evelyn
Marie Williams
Grover Keeling
McGee
Galey Community Notes Include Local Social and Robbery Reports
Miss Jessie Harmon shopped in Coalgate and Stella Brown visited her parents in Ada. Robberies hit U S Cook Lumber Co. and Stan ford blacksmith shop. several rifles ridges and tools stolen. Community plans raise funds for songbooks while inviting neighboring towns to help Galey regain prominence.
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Jessie Harmon
Coalgate
Stella Brown
J. W. Brown
Mmes
Delia Rutledge
Kate Harbor
Ada
Frank Scrivner
Blackwell
Kan
U. S. Cook Lumber Co
Stanford
Evern Perciwell
Oklahoma City
Leaham Stanford
Carl Crossier
Fort Smith, Ark
Half Acre Eden and a Hollywood Next Act
Marcia Canfield, heiress daughter of Philip Canfield, faces gossip over Frank Kendrick’s disappearance after an engagement to her and a missing fund. She searches him in Chicago and plans a flight to New York while a mysterious artist Bruce McDougall sketches her as she travels with trepidation and new clues emerge.
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Marcia Canfield
Philip Canfield
Frank Kendrick
Marcia
Kendrick
Dramatic Club
Helen Waddell
Frank
Chicago
Helen
John Waddell
Carlo
Tony
Dolly
New York
Bruce McDougall
McDougall
Christmas Eve program at the place invites all
A community Christmas event will be held on Christmas Eve night December 24 with all invited. Local social notes list visits by Mr. and Mrs. O G Brown and others, a pie supper raised 12 50 for the community Christmas tree, and various family calls Sunday and Saturday evenings.
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Happyland
Melvin Nickel
Kathlene Albert
F. W. Burkhart
John Gann
Claud Carpenter
Russel Head
Maudie Lamb
Ivan Price
Scott Jones
Orhan Ross
Kenneth
Winslow
Pat) Campbell
Lawrence
Kansas
Brother McClain
Freewill Baptist Church
Brother Oliver
This Place
O. G. Brown
S. E. Sweat
Bertha Burleson
Hare Sweat
Florence Lee Brown
Stella Mae Rowe
Irene McMeans
J. B. MecMeans
Lowie Moshier
Roundy Mayers
Tom Moshier
Herman Kerr
Roscoe Sweat
Pauline
Gloria Jean Rowe
Ahloso
Jennie Mae Gibbs
Jewel McMeans
George Stephens
Matanuska Colony Hailed as Model for Future Projects
Ross L. Sheely, head of the Alaska rural rehabilitation effort, predicts the Matanuska Valley Colony will become a model for other colonization ventures in the territory. He cites strong yields, self reliance, and robust soil as proof, noting 165 families are content and no one has left for months.
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Ada
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma
Gaston B. Dismukes
Annie Lawrence
Nee Dismukes
State of
Della Bedford
William McMenamin
Seattle
Ross L. Sheely
Matanuska Valley
Alaska
Matanuska Project
Sheely
United Press
United States
Elmer Thomas
Matanuska Colony
Thomas
Matanuska
Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
University of Alaska
Ecolony
Northband
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Local residents share visits and attendance at Ada show
Lois Kerr visits sister Bertha Grey. Charlie Vineyard of Owl Creek calls on Pete Leslie Sunday evening. Bertha Burleson of Lone Oak stays with mother S. E. Sweat. Charlie Vineyard and family and Pete Leslie and family attend an Ada show. Allen Sweat and Otto Leslie visit Florence Lee and Lola Fay Brown Sunday.
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Lois Kerr
Bertha Grey
Charlie Vineyard
Owl Creek
Pete Leslie
Bertha Burleson
Lone Oak
S. E. Sweat
Ada
Allen Sweat
Otto Leslie
Florence Lee
Lola Fay Brown
Letters to Santa Claus Dear Santa
A festive note from Calving Hayes and friends asks Santa to bring fruits candy and toys for a merry Christmas with everyone helping to prepare.
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Santa Claus
Santa
Calving
Hayes
Dear Santa Letters From Young Hayeses Meek
A trio of holiday requests from young children lists gifts for Santa: Junior Hayes asks for candy, fruit, marbles and a small wagon. Betty June Hayes requests a doll broom candy and fruit and asks to remember her parents. Helen Jolene Meek asks for a doll that says mamma a doll and fruit and candy and remembers her brother LaVoid.
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Santa
Betty June Hayes
LaVoid
Helen Jolene Meek
Ward arraignment delayed in Stratford bank robbery case
Federal court paused the arraignment of George Ward, the Stratford bank robber, because Ward’s attorney was ill in Miami and unlikely to attend until the next day. Federal authorities reported the attorney’s illness.
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Muskogee
George Ward
First National Bank of
Stratford
Ward
Miami
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