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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1944
Page
4
The snippet lists publication details for The Ada Evening News and The Ada Weekly News with readings of Associated Press credit and office contact information. It notes weekly Thursday publication and price.
A devotional note presents Exodus 15 25 in which Moses seeks help from the Lord and a tree is cast into bitter waters making them sweet offering guidance for readers. The verse highlights divine aid and provision during hardship.
The piece discusses wartime food rationing and OPA aims to distribute shortages equitably. It notes butter and meat constraints, sugar stamp concerns, and the role of home food reserves. It highlights turkey farming as a growing, profitable industry in the Southwest with strong demand for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
James Thrashers NEA column argues the Atlantic Charter is not a formal document yet its principles guided 26 nations in wartime. He contends the declaration by Roosevelt and Churchill stood as a common framework regardless of a signed original. He warns ongoing debate reflects political bias.
The piece urges housewives to save waste items from the kitchen such as old newspapers rags fats tin cans and other salvaged goods. It ties household recycling to war effort explaining how every saved item speeds shipments saves lives and helps end the war sooner.
A New York Bellevue Hospital psychiatrist likens smoking to thumb-sucking, predicting a social effect as cigarette shortages ease and youths join in. The piece recalls Count Luigi Cornaro’s 12-ounce daily diet of solid food and wine, aging from 35 to 99.
The Office of War Information and Allied reporters push education to correct French misconceptions about Americans. Programs reach Paris and provinces via Voice of America and French broadcasts, with magazines and books distributed and a French journalist tour planned to show U S life firsthand.
The piece analyzes the German offensive under Von Rundstedt against the American lines near the Argonne and the broader risk to Allied victory. It weighs the gamble, possible counterblow by Eisenhower, and the implications for the eastern front as Russian pressure grows.
The War Department lists additional Oklahoma soldiers wounded in action in Europe. Names include Pfc Benjamin F Adams Tulsa Lt Finley Carpenter Tulsa Pvt Joe Danielson Tonkawa Pvt Julius Hall Tulsa Pvt David Henry Muskogee Pvt Richard Holcom Miami Pvt George Holderman Lawton Pvt Ernest Kehahbah Tulsa Pvt Willie Kennedy Lone Grove Sgt Vernon Lemons Blanchard Pvt Bobbie Lord Commerce Pvt Harry Munday Shawnee Pvt Marshall Oliver high command notes Western Allies attack aims and Russian Vistula drive.
Local fans raised over $200 to send Perry high school coaches Harold Daniels Vernon Petree and John Divine to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas for New Year’s Day. Lawton reports Comanche County cotton crop over 90 percent harvested with about 8 000 bales to finish within a week.
Oklahoma Governor Kerr offers holiday wishes to readers and praises state institutions. He highlights Taft hospital for the negro insane and the DB&O Institution, notes the Muskogee School for the Blind, and commends leaders at Vinita, Norman, and Claremore Military Academy. He visits Pryor Whitaker Home for Orphans, praising care, food, housing, and education programs.
The visit covers the Negro Boys Training School at Boley and the Connor School of Agriculture in Warner. Attendees include many state lawmakers and local leaders expressing interest in improving institutional services. The writer notes high school graduates and service members, and urges readers to read the Ada News Want Ads.
McAlester notices mark the fiftieth anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church with three ceremonies set for December 31 January 7 and January 11.
About 30 high school basketball teams are entered in the fourth annual invitational tournament to open here tomorrow. Eight girls teams will participate in the three day event.
CAMP LEE Va Dec 27 Two Oklahomans Guy D Cof felt Blackwell and James M Connelly Tulsa were among 200 newly commissioned officers graduated at the quartermaster school here.
Oklahoma City December 27 Dr Louis H Ritzhaupt state senator from Guthrie announced he will submit five bills to the next legislature aimed at improving public education.
Hy man Leibow, fur store manager, said he installed a burglar alarm for the Christmas period but burglars forced a rear entrance that was not wired and stole 100 fur coats valued at over 6000 dollars.
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