J N King Named City Treasurer to Succeed Ray Martin
City Manager W E Hansen announced J N King will become clerk and treasurer on January 1 1947 replacing Ray Martin who resigned to join a local firm. King has 28 years in Ada residence 12 years in banking 10 years in mercantile leadership and eight years as Breco Memorial hospital business manager with Breco Oil office duties.
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W. E. Hansen
J. N. King
Ray Martin
King
Ada
Breco Memorial Hospital
Brec
Public Schools And College to Close Friday Afternoon
Friday classes will be minimal as students celebrate the holidays. Public schools and East Central State College will close Friday afternoon and resume Monday morning December 30. Ada programs mark the holiday with festival assemblies and parties across elementary and secondary levels. Churchill accuses the government of tyranny and incompetence as labor plans to supervise farming and take over railways surface in political debate.
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East Central State College
Ada High
Ada Junior High
Glenn Williams
London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Attlee
Herbert Morrison
Bevin
New York
United Nations
Foreign Ministers Council
Russia Pushes Wider Scope for UN Greek Probe
Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko proposed extending a U N investigation of Greece to cover the entire country and limiting inquiries into Albania Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to border areas. He denounced British troop involvement and criticized the Tsaldaris government as terror against democrats grows.
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William L. Ryan Lake
Success
N. Y
Russia
United Nations
Greece
Andrei A. Gromyko
Albania
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
United Nations Security Council
Gromyko
Constantin Tsaldaris
City Property Clean-Up Continues With Police Station Update
The city undertakes property renovations with Thursday morning painting starting in the police station. The city manager's office is completed with new walls, ceiling, colors, lighting, and blinds. The police station will receive a scaled-down facelift featuring black lower walls and lighter upper sections for improved illumination.
Former Ada resident killed in Oklahoma City double murder
Melvin Corbin age 46 and O. W. Collins 49, long-time friends, killed each other with the same pistol before dawn in front of a Tinker Field home in northwest Oklahoma City. Corbin’s body returned to Ada. funeral arrangements to be announced by Smith Funeral Home.
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Melvin Corbin
Ada
Oklahoma City
Corbin
O. W. Collins
Seminole
Associated Press
Tinker Field
Smith Funeral Home
Certificates mailed to Dr Baltzar replace destroyed diplomas
Norman Oklahoma December 19 Certificates of attendance and graduation to replace diplomas destroyed during the occupation of the Philippines have been mailed by the University of Oklahoma to Dr Bertha M Baltzar Cebu City. Dr Baltazar a 1927 medical school graduate requested the certificates to reopen her office after serving as a physician with guerrilla forces during the war.
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Norman
Okla
Philippines
University of Oklahoma
Bertha M. Baltzar
Cebu City
Baltazar
University Medical School
Weather Outlook for Oklahoma Tonight and Friday
Mostly cloudy conditions across Oklahoma with light rain possible tonight except in the Panhandle. Friday brings further chances of rain in central and eastern regions. Warmer temperatures develop tonight with lows from 25 in the Panhandle to near 40 in the extreme south.
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Oklahoma
Panhandle
Central
Post Office to Open Two Windows Late Two Nights
Ada post office will keep only the stamp and parcel post windows open until 8 p m on Friday and Saturday nights. Regular hours will have all windows open. Postmaster Mary West reminds on first class mail and cautions about forwarding failed if the recipient moved.
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Ada
Mary West
Bandits Tie Up Tulsan in Home Invasion
Tulsa police hunt for three bandits who invaded the home of A. C. Van Deventer, a billiard parlor operator, bound him, his wife, a maid and her husband, and carried away more than 700 dollars. One robber slugged Van Deventer and cut telephone wires. the trio spent over an hour ransacking the house. The thief returned two diamond rings to the wife after taking them from her fingers.
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Tulsa
Okla
A. C. van Deventer
van Deventer
Christmas Aid Expands Help for Ada Needy Families
The Salvation Army under Adas Phil 31st Christmas Adjutant Henry Van Dee asks residents to add to the Sed pot on Main Street. More families in Ada face hardship this year, with Lions Club delivering toys from recent collections and the Army coordinating county wide relief.
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Phil
Henry van Dee
Salvation Army
Ada
Lions Club
War assets bids on 29 surplus horses and mules
The War Assets Administration announces sealed bids due December 26 for 29 surplus horses and mules to be offered for sale January 14 at the Army Quartermaster Depot in Fort Reno Tulsa area.
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Tulsa
War Assets Administration
Army Quartermaster Depot
Fort Reno
One Killed When Truck and Bus Collide Near White Rock
In Columbia South Carolina a lumber truck and a school bus collided near Spring Hill. Sam Rowe the truck occupant died. Bus driver J Earl Wessinger was hospitalized in serious condition. Eight other men on the truck survived. Three grammar school pupils brothers O Neale Laverne and Leland Earle were bruised with teeth knocked out. The crash occurred about 20 miles from Silverstreet, near where a deadly bus train crash happened yesterday.
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Columbia
S. C
White Rock
Sam Rowe
J. Earl Wessinger
O’neale
Laverne
Leland Earle
Spring Hill School
Silverstreet
Southern Railway
Scot Gets Tired Of Parking Fines
In Oklahoma City the Scot R S Dunlop reported receiving his seventh ticket on a cross country trip from New York to California. He complained about American traffic laws and had the first $1 fine excused, but a second ticket for parking on the wrong side of the street in front of the police station remained.
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Oklahoma City
R. S. Dunlop
New York
California
E. S
Dunlop
Priest
Bilbo Denies Receiving Any of $25,000 in War Scandal
Senator Theodore Bilbo declared he did not get a cent of the $25,000 handed to him in a wartime contractor case. The Mississippi Democrat testified under oath during a Senate War Investigating Committee hearing as Republican Senator Ferguson pressed for details about the payment.
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Bilbo
Edward Terry
Theodore Bilbo
Senate
Washington, D
Terry
Iscariot
Washington
Theodore G. Bilbo
D-Miss
Senate War Investigating Committee
Ferguson
Rmich
F. T. Newton
Mississippi
Newton
Wall Doxey
Doxey
Senator
Walt Doxey
Judas Iscariot
Edward P. Terry
Ross Collins
Sissippi
Turner Inauguration Promises Simple Ceremony in Oklahoma
Gov elect Roy J. Turner will be sworn in January 13 on the south steps of the state capitol with no parade or formal balls. The 45 minute event includes a 20 to 25 minute address by Turner, led by Chief Justice Bibson and Vice Chief Justice Hurst, followed by an informal reception.
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Oklahoma City
Roy J. Turner
Turner
State Capitol
Thomas L. Bibson
Thurman S. Hurst
Capitol
Transfer of hardened inmates to Granite reformatory
Oklahoma City December reports inmates moved from McAlester state penitentiary to Granite reformatory for rehabilitation. Brown, board chairman, says Granite unsuitable for reforming youths. plan to shift younger men back to McAlester and use Stringtown as a potential reformary. Authorities note prior delays due to Granite repairs and discuss future prisoner interchanges and safeguards.
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Oklahoma City
McAlester
Granite Reformatory
State Board of Asis
Granite
Virgil Brown
Oklahoma
Brown
Stringtown
Greater returns for amount in vested
Ada News Want Ads report investment terms with higher returns for vested amounts. Details outline incentives and eligibility, urging readers to review terms and contact the Ada area office for clarification and guidance on investment plans.
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Ada News
Defense on Atomic Age Needs Drives Army Plans
Washington reports outline long range manpower for a new Congress. Officials warn weakened overseas forces and domestic reserve shortages would fail against an atomic attack. Unification and universal military training top the program to create a tech trained pool and bolster volunteer enlistment.
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Washington
Congress
United States
National Guard
War Department
Navy
Six Tularemia Cases Reported in Oklahoma Counties
Six tularemia cases were reported in Creek and Rogers counties with a warning against handling wild rabbits from hunting trips. Dr. Phillip Josephs said three patients were being treated in Sapulpa, and Dr. M. F. Gordon reported three hospitalizations in Rogers county. Dr. James H. Neal noted transmission often occurs during rabbit skinning.
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Tulsa
Okla
Creek
Rogers
Phillip Josephs
Sapulpa
M. F. Gordon
Claremore
Rogers County
James H. Neal
Osteopathy leader named honorary colonel on Kerr staff
Gov. Kerr announces the appointment of Dr. C. W. Hammond president of the state board of osteopathy as an honorary colonel on the governor’s staff in Bartlesville Oklahoma.
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Bartlesville
Okla
C. W. Hammond
State Board of Osteopathy
Robert S. Kerr
Silly Scene of a Cather Harp and a Doctor's Office
A humorous vignette shows Cather Harp walking past a doctor's office fearing the office girl will charge him for a call. The narrator notes the only item found in pockets is a tiny ball of fuzz.
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Cather Harp
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Francis Hanks
Don Hatch
Mrs. Juanita Enix
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