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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1951
Page
7
Oklahoma letters to the editor reveal mixed views on highway safety signs, welfare, taxation, industrial growth, and personal responsibility. Citizens from Anadarko to Shawnee urge practical reforms, pride in state identity, and individual ethics to shape a better New Year.
Notarized certificate dated November 24 1951 acknowledges Claude Marcum Ned Marcum Delton D Marcum Gordon G Marcum and Marvin A Moats as the partners of a drilling venture under the firm name Rev m Drilling Company in Ada Oklahoma with no other partners. Notary Lyle Barrett of Scurry Texas certifies signatures and free voluntary acts.
Senator Tobey urged reviving the whipping post to punish public officials for gross misconduct in federal office. He said he may ask Congress to impose flogging, citing income tax irregularities and government lending inquiries as justification. Kefauver proposed a broad, independent crime commission to clean house across executive departments.
Virgil Tackett of Pike County Kentucky weighed between 500 and 600 pounds and died in his sturdy chair. His custom coffin required removing a door frame to exit. At birth he weighed 13 pounds and never attended school due to doctors fearing danger to his life. He was 26 and will be buried tomorrow. He enjoyed raising purebred White Rock chickens.
Senator Len Kerr of Oklahoma says he will debate the Council of State Chambers of Commerce over his voting record. He accuses the council of bias labeling him a spender and dismisses their 38 vote critique as misaligned with Oklahoma's growth and resources.
The New York Times reports President Truman has selected two of three members for a probe commission to expose government wrongdoers. A young, well known investigator is sought to complete the inquiry team with one Republican and one Democrat already named, pending White House confirmation.
Bartlesville Oklahoma PJ L Jennings former business manager of the Miami News-Record is named general manager of the Bartlesville Examiner and Enterprise. He succeeds Jack Scott who resigned for a post with the Stillwater News-Press. Jennings also served as business manager of the Lawton Press before its sale to the Lawton Constitution in 1949 and was manager of the Santa Fe New Mexican.
New York reports the wedding of City Council President Rudolph Halley and Janice Brosh will take place at 4 45 p m Eastern. Brosh is a nurse who cared for Halley during an illness last April. Halley is 38 and has been married twice before.
Christmas 1951 was marked by faith and hope as war and tensions continued. Soldiers knelt in Korea and pilots in tents prayed for peace while leaders, including President Truman and Britain’s King George VI, urged steadfast faith and eventual peace.
David Marshall Williams, inventor of the short stroke pistol carbine, and his former Caledonia Prison warden Captain H T Peoples, meet in Hollywood as Williams life story becomes Carbine Williams starring James Stewart. Williams, jailed 1920 for manslaughter, was paroled 1929 and now recalls prison reform by Peoples and his tinkering allowed in the shop.
Washington officials announce a briefing for auto makers and union leaders on the tightening materials outlook. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson and defense producer Manly Fleischmann will present, after a pledge to Gov. Williams and Sen. Moody to disclose facts before any drastic cuts. Production goals remain 1,006,000 cars for Q1 with talk of cutbacks for Q2.
Oklahoma veteran R. O. Wilkin won an appeals court ruling voiding Shell Oil leases on 200 acres in Beckham County. The court found Shell was not a bona fide buyer and Wilkin, who paid the mortgage, gains legal ownership as land values surged from 3 to about 1000 dollars per acre. The decision remanded to sever Shell claims and grant Wilkin title to the minerals.
GOODWELL Oklahoma December 27 16 boys teams and 14 girls teams will compete in the 26th annual Panhandle A and M college invitational high school basketball tournament January 3 to 5.
Across the United States editors react to the State Department decision to pay Hungary's $120,000 ransom for four American airmen. Opinions range from condemning the move as blackmail to urging tougher actions against Hungary and the broader international racket.
A one car crash near the Wick Adair ranch on Christmas Eve injured two youths from Allen. Driver William Floyd Kennedy overturned the vehicle as it went out of control. Passengers Carl Williams Jr and Betty Whitehead, both Allen residents, were hospitalized. Williams was later released. Injury extents not learned.
Czech diplomat discusses a possible Iran oil purchase as Iran faces severe cash shortages and 26 diplomats are recalled to cut costs. Britain warns against selling oil to outsiders while Mossadegh’s bid deadline passes without Western bids.
American envoy Donnelly and Walter Dowling prepare to cross the Soviet occupied zone to Nickelsdorf if needed to aid four American airmen held at the Austrian border. Budapest talks stall over Christmas note as Hungary mulls decisions.
The bodies of Dr. Henry G. Bennett and his wife will be flown back to the United States in four to seven days, the Bennett family said, after the Oklahoma A. and M. College president was killed in a plane crash in Iran during a Point Four mission.
Attorney General Mac Q Williamson approved two bond issues yesterday. One for 385000 to fund water works improvement and extension at Altus. The other for 80000 to cover site building and equipment for the Board of Education in Chandler.
Janie Simpson, granddaughter of Mr and Mrs P A Allen Ada route 5, was visited in the hospital by her 4 H friends on Christmas Day. The visit marked a first since she suffered severe burns more than a month ago.
Private citizens in scattered areas promise to raise the $120,000 fine for four U S airmen held by Hungary after being forced down by Soviet fighters. Robert Vogeler, an American prisoner, says he will coordinate efforts to pay the fines and avoid official embarrassment. The airmen Capt John J Swift Capt Dave H Henderson Tech Sgt Jess A Duff and James A Elam face three months jail or a 360000 forint fine each after a military court conviction for border violation.
Harold L. Ickes longtime U S Interior Secretary is hospitalized at Georgetown University Hospital with a painful nerve root condition his wife said he entered the hospital a week ago and is getting along at right. Ickes 77 has lived on a Maryland farm since leaving the Cabinet.
In a pre dawn burglary at Enid High School thieves entered despite locked doors then pried open two more to reach the steel vault. They knocked off the combination then tunneled through a thick wall above the door to reach an impenetrable top and finally cut through a side wall to access a cash box with $89 taken. Principal D Bruce Selby reported the details and the thieves left a box of candy on his desk.
A lonely Christmas morning in Shawinigan Falls ends in gunfire as Jean Marie Trottier wounds Police Sergeant Mathias LaChance then shoots Constable Langevin before dying in a snowbank near 2 a m. The coroner rules murder and death by suicide with the killer found to have acted while of unsound mind.
The U S Army awarded Distinguished Service Crosses to five soldiers for gallantry in Korea. Pre Fumio Moriyama of Honolulu received the decoration, with others including Sgt. Elmer O. Goetz of Jefferson City Missouri, Cpl. Victor Kozares of Washington Pennsylvania, Sgt. Royal Q Wisemore of Leavenworth Washington, and Master Sergeant Howard C. Wurst of Lake City Minnesota.
Marriage notices show multiple couples from Ada and surrounding areas including William H Crisp and Peggy Lou Sanders in Roff. Lois M Scroggins and Geraldine Buchanan in Ada. Loyd Payne and Wyndal Shaw. Billy Howard and Betty Slaughter. Billy Joe Woods and Lorene Foreman. Bernard O Lane and Arlene Morris. George E Vick and Mildred Stevens. John W Elliott and Mary Lillien Lightner. Jerry B Potts and Kath erine Summers. The list includes ages and hometowns such as Fitzhugh Ada Tishomingo Milburn Mill Creek Stonewall Greensboro N C McLagid.
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