Milk May Keep Off Ration List During Next Year
Washington officials indicate a possible easing of fluid milk rationing next year as production lags behind 1943 levels and feed costs bite. A shift of corn and feed proteins to dairy use could raise milk output, with plans to boost subsidies or raise consumer price ceilings to incentivize farmers. Hog production may drop at least 16 percent, freeing resources for dairy incentives.
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Ovid Martin Washington
War Food Administration
Eye
Topeka Man Admits Slaying Hitch-Hike Student
Ernest Hoefgen 31 confessed to shooting Bruce Small a Kansas State College hitchhiker near Peabody. He will be transported to Marion to face murder charges as authorities tie the case to a grisly sequence from Denver to Topeka.
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Topeka
Ernest Hoefgen
Bruce Small
Kansas State College
Marion
Lou Richter
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Hoefgen
Melvin Greenman
Richter
Small
Peabody
Denver
Smoll
Ollie Wright
Marion Oe
George Gephert
Shortage To Follow Pork Glut Warns Industry
New York reports warn of a pork surplus followed by a shortage as 1943 hog production peaks. FDA and meat trade institute officials cite heavy one year run, marketing difficulties, and higher feed costs as factors reducing 1944 pork output and potentially raising dinners' prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Food Distribution Administration
Joseph Cohn
Meat Trade Institute
FDA
C. F. House
British Eighth Army Tests Tire Models on Sahara Sand
In its sweep across Africa, the British Eighth Army used four inch tire models tested on trays of sand in Eng. The report notes trials of these tires amid desert operations as part of logistics and mobility improvements.
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Sands of
Africa
Eighth Army
Eng
Luke B Dodds a Christian Seabee in Guadalcanal Hero
Ada residents celebrate Luke B Dodds a WWI pilot turned WWII Seabee. A Presbyterian elder and letter writer he spent months on Guadalcanal amid foxholes and rain and once earned a presidential citation for heroic work. His son trains as a pilot while wife and daughter await his return to Ada.
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Luke B. Dodds
Christian
Guadalcanal
Ada
Southwest Pacific
General Wheeler
Burma Road
McFarland
Seabee
Luke
Luke Dodds
Newsies
Grenfell
Boy Scouts
Bernard Anderson
Murrell Matthews, Jr
George Hansard
University of Texas At Austin
Marjorie
East 16Th Street
Luke B
Western Auto
Sinking of Scharnhorst May Cost All Hands
London reports no survivors from the German battleship Scharnhorst sunk off Norway by the British Home Fleet. About 1,400 aboard, its loss mirrors Bismarck’s fate in 1941 and signals a decisive Royal Navy victory, with Hitler’s warships pressed into risky anti convoy action.
Sandy Bridge Hazard on Ice Near Ada Friday
Motorists faced danger on the Sandy bridge west of Ada as ice formed after a shower. One car skidded out of control hitting both sides, wrecking fenders. Drivers later exercised caution with slippery surface limiting trouble for others on the bridge.
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Ada
Oklahoma Soldiers Reported Missing in Mediterranean
Washington dispatch says Tech. Sgt. Jack W. Farley of Miami Oklahoma and Cpl. Lewis A. Strange of Elgin Comanche county Oklahoma are reported missing in action in the Mediterranean theater.
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Washington
The
War Department
Tech
Jack W. Farley
Leroy Alexander
Miami
Okla
Lewis A. Strange
Jeffie Strange
Elgin
Comanche County
Tojo Says Allied Drive Is Real and Serious in Diet Address
Premier Tojo warned the Japanese Diet that the Allied counteroffensive is real and fierce fighting rages on multiple fronts. Emperor Hirohito opened the 84th Diet session noting the war situation is grave and total effort is needed to curb enemy ambitions.
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Associated Press
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo Radio
South Pacific
Diet
Hirohito
Japan
Tojo
Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
House of Representatives
Solomons
Bismarck Archipelago
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
New Britain
Comei
U. S
Suehiro Kimura
Wartime stamp schedule outlines ration validity dates
The bulletin lists food and fuel ration details for the period: Meats fats and sugar stamps L M N P Q valid through January 1 or 29 January 1 through February 20 for green stamps. Book Four stamp 1 pork five points through January 1. green stamps D E F through January 20 and G H J valid January 1 to February 20. sugar stamp 29 five pounds through January 15. Shoes and gasoline coupon validity dates and regional end dates for fuel oil periods are specified. All coupons represent ten gallons per unit, with some units worth more.
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Associated Press
South
Middle West
Lee elected Head of Masonic Lodge Ada Ma Lode No 119
Wilbur P. Lee will serve as worshipful master of Ada Ma Lode No. 119 A F and A M for the coming year. Other officers elected include James H. Moore senior warden W A Ryan junior warden E C Haley treasurer D W Swaffar secretary Franklin Bourland senior deacon Norman Colquitt junior deacon Thornton R Simpson senior steward Stuart S Bowen junior steward Rev Milo B Arbuckle chaplain W C Jones Tyler.
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Wilbur P. Lee
Ada Ma
Lodge No
A. F
James H. Moore
W. A. Ryan
E. C. Haley
D. W. Swaffar
Franklin Bourland
Norman Colquitt
Thornton R. Simpson
Stuart S. Bowen
Milo B. Arbuckle
W. C. Jones
Tyler
Federal aid to schools in Oklahoma announced
The federal works agency allocates maintenance and operation funds for Oklahoma schools. Putnam City receives 7805 dollars and Guthrie board of education gets 10065 dollars.
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Washington
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Federal Works Agency
Putnam City
Guthrie Board of Education
George Hansard Hero of Southwest Pacific Returns Home
Ada residents recall George Hansard, a former OK Electric assistant chief electrician, now back from 11 months in the Southwest Pacific. He volunteered during World War I and again shows humor and skill while supervising electrical work and transport for his unit. His family, church, and Ada community anticipate his homecoming celebration.
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George Hansard
Southwest Pacific
Harry Miller
Coast Artillery
France
OK Electric
Hansard
George
Mrs. Hansard
Oklahoma Portland Cement Plant
John Mahaffey
Ada
First Baptist Church
States
Scharnhorst Sunk by British Forces Off Norway
British home fleet units sunk the German battleship Scharnhorst in a blazing Arctic battle off Norway after she left her lair to attack a Murmansk convoy. The action crippled Hitler’s fleet, leaving only Tirpitz and Gneisenau as damaged remaining high-seas capitals.
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London
Scharnhorst
Arctic
Norway
Murmansk
Hitler
Barents Sea
North Cape
U. S
Berlin
Bruce Fraser
Fraser
Glorious
Gneisenau
Genessenau
Prinz Eugen
English Channel
North Sea
Brest
France
Tirpitz
Alten Fjord
de Geneisenau
Sir William James
Naval Information
Lueutzow
Scheer
Philippines faces years of aid after war says Ickes
Secretary Ickes outlined postwar needs for the Philippines including sympathetic US assistance and an economic rehabilitation program. He said independence could come by 1946 if the Japanese are expelled, with a nine member Philippine-US rehabilitation commission likely to govern recovery. Guerrilla activity and loyalty to the United States were noted.
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Washington
Ickes
Philippines
United States
Philippine Islands
Senate
House
Interior Department
Treasuries
General Rehabilitation Commission
Commonwealth
Oklahoma Governor Seeks Public Feedback On Year Of Communications
The governor reflects on a year of weekly letters to the press and public, urges reader opinions, and thanks newspapers for space. He argues for improved veterans voting access, warns Congress against neglect, and suggests later school start times to save daylight. He recalls a dining room mishap at a Washington hotel.
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Oklahoma
Congress of the United States
Congress
Releigh
Washington
Raleigh
Huntsmen Save Feathers Fats and Hides
United States Fish and Wildlife Service calls for a one man salvage crew to gather hides from deer and elk fats from fur bearing animals feathers from wild ducks and geese and used shell casings. Feathers and hides fund military needs. depots are in Chicago and Seattle with packages mail marked Waterfowl Feathers.
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Ann Stevick
NEA
Washington
Fish and Wildlife Service
Izaak Waltoneague
South
Halstead Street
Chicago
Ill
Ducks Unlimited
Columbus St
Seattle
Wash
California
Spain
Blue Plate Bunny
Services’ Food Laboratory
College Park
Rotarians Furnish Naval Base Tree
The Ada Rotary club furnished a Christmas tree for the Corpus Christi naval base with decorations provided through joint Ada and Corpus Christi club efforts. Rotary clubs in each state supplied trees for service members from their states.
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Ada Rotary Club
Corpus Christi Naval Base
Ada Club
Corpus Christi Club
Rotary Clubs
First Oklahoma Medical Board exams held mid year
Fifty four people took medical tests in Oklahoma City today before the state board of medical examiners the first such mid year exams in state history Chairman Dr Sam A McKeel of Ada said two tests annually would be held under a 1943 law.
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Oklahoma City
State Board of Medical Examiners
Oklahoma
Sam A. McKeel
Ada
Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson Dies at 63
Mississippi statesman Paul B. Johnson Jr. died at his farm near Hattiesburg after a long battle with heart attacks. At 63, his death ends a career noted for tax and revenue measures that yielded a record treasury surplus of about 24 million dollars. Lieutenant Governor Dennis Murphree will act as governor until Thomas L. Bailey is inaugurated on January 18.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Paul B. Johnson
Johnson
Hattiesburg
Treasury
Thomas L. Bailey
Meridian
Red Army drives deeper in Ukraine and Vitebsk front
Moscow reports winter offensive cutting the Kiev Zhitomir highway trapping a large German tank and infantry force in Ukraine. Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army advances within 20 miles of Zhytomyr as Soviet forces push from the Vitebsk sector toward the German base. Berlin says battles of varying fortunes continue and penetrations are sealed off.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Red
Ukraine
Kiev- Zhitomir
Nikolai Vatutin
Zhitomir
Vitebsk
Vichy
Radiec
Kiev
Vatutin
Berlin
Paris
Zhlobin
Drivers Licenses Bargain This Week
Automobile owners should renew or obtain drivers licenses this week. A. K. Thornton, head of the tag office, announced. An Oklahoma City highway patrolman will be in Ada every Tuesday afternoon to administer tests for lost licenses and first time applicants. Thornton urged those with reservations for specific license plate numbers, including numbers in the hundreds, to visit the tag office promptly.
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A. K. Thornton
Highway Patrol
Oklahoma City
Ada
Thornton
Florida Cypress Near Orlando Hints At 3500 Year Span
A fragmentary caption notes a cypress tree near Orlando described as among Florida's oldest living things at about 3500 years old. The brief mentions the tree and its age without further context.
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Florida
S E
Orlando
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James
Atlantic
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Masonic Lodge
George R. Hansard
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