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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1966
Page
1
Oklahoma City reports the 1967 trapping season began December 1 with few participants. Wildlife experts note more furbearers exist than in the past, yet migration to cities has reduced trapping activity. Last year only 600 trappers and 21 fur buyers were licensed in Oklahoma.
Sen. George Miller D Ada was named Friday chairman of the Oklahoma Senate subcommittee on higher education. The appointment was made by Clem McSpadden president pro tempore. McSpadden also named Sen. Gene Stipe D McAlester to head the subcommittee on penal institutions with other chairmen named for Public Lands and Banking and Banking among others.
Jerry J. Farnham will be the new city clerk and treasurer for Ada. City Manager J B Davidson announced the appointment this week as Tom Grant leaves the post after serving since May 1 1959. Jo Ann Dean will be assistant clerk treasurer, replacing Mrs C O Wilson who retires after more than 10 years.
The Vanass Homemakers held their annual Christmas party at Mrs Casey Glasgow's home on Wednesday. The decorated home featured an aluminum turquoise tree, red net tablecloths, poinsettias, festive centerpieces, and family-style displays. Members and guests exchanged gifts and contributed dishes with baked ham provided by the club as the main course. (Continued on Page Two)
In fall 1956 Pontotoc County began school integration affecting Ada Byng Stonewall and Lala. Ten years on three of four are fully integrated with no major issues. Ada Keeps Napier as an all Negro school while many Negro students move to Byng for convenience. Napier faces declining enrollment and will close, with remaining students choosing Ada or Burg.
A vintage kitchen note outlines roast goose and English plum pudding for a Christmas feast. It covers age of goose, dressing ingredients, stuffing cautions, basting, and giblet gravy. For the pudding, it lists suet, sugars, currants, raisins, citron, peel, nuts, bread, eggs, milk, and long boiling. Ends with festive wishes.
Oklahoma City hosts a two man U S Fish and Wildlife Service team led by Robert Stephens and Harry Bishop to assess four operating state hatcheries Byron Medicine Park Durant and Holdenville. They aim to determine modernization needs possibly closing some plants and building one large facility to support new species and experimental stockings.
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