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Newspaper

Ada Weekly News

Location

Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America

Date

Feb 01, 1940

Page

8

Joan of Arkansas 2% on the hot Venice mx

In chapter XXIV, Joan and Dan face captivity with Ed and Rocco in a dusty room. Plans to escape feel distant as threats and tension rise. Webber, the key football mind, is revealed as Dan, sparking danger and shifting power among the kidnap gang.

Joan OF Arkansas Venice Joan Dan Big Ed Sam Dar Pop Dan Webber Coach Slocum Be ED Rocco Webber

Fitzhugh Girls Rally To Upset Comanche In Title Race

Fitzhugh high school girls basketball clinched the Comanche tournament championship with a 21 20 victory over Comanche after holding the ball for the final four minutes. In the semi finals Fitzhugh defeated Bray 25 24 as Valerie Smith and Christine Bartin earned all tournament team honors amid thirteen entrants.

Fitzhugh High School Fitzhugh Comanche Bray Valerie Smith Christine Bartin

Money To Children With Both Parents

Tulsa dated report by Robert Martin of the Oklahoma public welfare commission asserts aid has been given in hundreds of Tulsa county cases to dependent children whose parents live together. He says social security law has no grant requirement and aid is not unemployment relief, to be given only where a parent is deceased absent or incapacitated.

Tulsa Robert Martin Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission Tulsa County Legal Aid Committee Tulsa County Bar Association Giverce Martin

Waste Possible Marketing Cream

OKLAHOMA CITY January 30 Special too rough skim milk sent to market with cream or marketing cream testing above a forty percent butter fat content is usually an indicator of improper handling or misgrading of dairy products.

J. C. Davison United States Department of Agriculture Davis Davison Oklahoma City

Now's Big Season For Baby Chicks

The season runs January to June with about half a billion chicks produced by over 2,000 commercial hatcheries and 40,000 poultry breeders across 44 states under the National Poultry Improvement Plan. The plan boosts egg production and meat quality while limiting pullorum disease, citing improved hatch rates and lower chick losses as key gains for growers and hatchery operators.

E. W. Cinnamon Winton

Poultry plan aids pullorum disease control growth

Cinnamon notes that hatchability gains and reduced chick losses come from improved methods to fight pullorum disease. The National Poultry Improvement Plan adopted in 1955 has steadily enhanced disease control year by year.

Cinnamon

Now They Make Em To Wear Out

Washington hearing on the 1940-41 appropriation bill hears Dr. Louise Stanley of the home economics bureau discuss hosiery research. Rep. Plumley of Vermont says coal stockings once did not wear out and were taken off the market. He notes a new formula aims to wear out, while Cannon asks about replacement demand.

Washington Plumley R-Vt Congressional Committee Agriculture Department Louise Stanley Home Economic Bureau Stanley Cannon D-Mo

Hinkle Held By YJ. 5 Marshal

Federal officials announced Ross Hinkle of Lawton Oklahoma is in U S marshal custody in Oklahoma City after a secret January indictment by a federal grand jury. He faces one conspiracy to violate the liquor enforcement act of 1934 and nine counts of transporting liquor into a dry state. Names of co defendants were withheld pending arrest. The case marks the first conspiracy charge in the illicit liquor shipments probe from wet Arkansas and Kansas to neighboring dry states. The bond was set at 2500.

Fort Smith Ark Ross Hinkle Lawton Okla Oklahoma City Hinkle Wet Ark Kansas U.S C. R. Barry Binkles

Heiress Joans Gambler Love Twist In Crime Plot

In a tense scene Dan and Joan scheme to free a captive, while Rocco and Big Ed push a dangerous bet on a football game. A newspaper expose reveals Joan as a wealthy heiress, reshaping loyalties when she confronts Dan about his feelings.

Sam Rocco Dan Big Ed Roccop Joan T'S Dani Rhodes Ascagh Ftonna Gallagher Den Alex

Wallace Urges Permanent Farm Subsidy Plan over Parity

Secretary Wallace testifies before a House appropriations subcommittee urging a lasting subsidy system to avoid yearly parity payments. He suggests considering the certificate plan or new tax methods, noting agriculture bears the yearly funding demand while labor and business need not.

Washington Wallace Congress Treasury House Appropriations Tarver D-Ga Roosevelt M Wallace

Borah Estate Is Left to Widow

The late Senator William E. Borah of Idaho left to his widow an estate of approximately two hundred thousand dollars. He served in Congress for many years and was a prominent national figure in politics. The will details were filed in Washington with executors named to administer the estate.

Idaho Borah Washington William E. Borah

Preview Showing Of New Leonards Refrigerators In Tulsa

About two hundred electrical appliance dealers salesmen and service men attended a preview at the Mayo hotel in Tulsa. Oklahoma Tire & Supply Co exclusive distributors for Leonard refrigerators in the Southwest, explained a new economical system for getting manufacturing products to the public and improvements in mass production. Nash Kelvinator corporation will cut 1940 Leonard prices without sacrificing quality, marking the finest refrigerators in the 59 year history of the company.

U. S Leonard Electric Mayor Hotel Tulsa Oklahoma Tire & Supply Co Leonard Refrigerators Southwest Oklahoma Tire’ & Supply Nash-Kelvinator Corporation Leonard Okahoma Tire & Supply Co

Unusual Accident Fatality Near Talihina

Po teau reports a fatality from a strange automobile crash south of Talihina. B A Self and two others rode in a car that left the highway and crashed into a tree. The tree fell across the car, concealing it for more than three hours before the wreck was found.

Minister Saves Man From Jump After Hourlong Struggle

SCRANTON PA January 30 The International Correspondence Schools executive D G Vandercook was pulled to safety by a Methodist minister after an hourlong attempt to stop him from leaping from a fifth floor ledge at the Women's Institute A watchman found him at 2 am clinging to a banister Police and firemen attended Rev Dr Harold Case pastor of Elm Park church and Vandercook's son David aided in the rescue Vandercook escaped with no explanation from his family.

Scranton D. CG. Vandercook International Correspondence Schools Cooperative Training Division Women's Institute Vandercook Dr Case

Finishing Building At Southwestern State College

Weatherford reports Southwestern State College nearing completion of a new industrial arts building. President James B. Boren said it should be ready for second semester use, easing classroom congestion after a summer fire destroyed the administration building. The facility will house mechanics electrical trades and band classes.

Weatherford Southwestern State College James B. Boren

Coal Shortage Shuts Power Across Japan's Industrial Centers

Tokyo reports say an acute coal shortage idled power across 14 prefectures including Osaka Kobe and Tokyo halting factory production. War time rail and shipping strains plus a drought curtailed hydroelectric output though urgent war material factories stayed running. Over 3,000 workers affected as power suspensions extend potentially into tomorrow.

Tokyo I Ndus Japan Osaka Kobe Osaka Civisi Communications Ministry

Industrial Survey Of GRDA Territory In Oklahoma

Industrial survey of the Grand River dam area underway in Vinita to present details to U S senators and Oklahoma congressmen for a potential federal arsenal. Tulsa Chamber of Commerce backs the effort. aims include a nitrate plant and defense related industrial development in northeast Oklahoma.

Vinita Grand River Dam Oklahoma Washington U. S Elmer, Thomas Josh Lee Northeast Oklahoma Arsenal Association Grand River Tulsa Industrral Committee Chamber of Commerce Army Engineering Corps Rock Island San Antonio Tex

State Man Head GRDA In Oklahoma Nomination

Miami January 31. Chairman Ray McNaughton of the Grand River Dam Authority said a Oklahoman is expected to be named general manager of the 20 million dollar hydro electric project. Francis Pat tick Quigley of Atlantic City is preliminarily considered. PWA will approve the GRDA choice.

Miami Ray McNaughton Grand River Dam Authority McNaughton BWA Francis Pattick Quigley Atlantic City PWA Quigley Oklahoma GRDA T. E. Thompson Shawnee

Favor Slash For Month s Oil Quota

Oklahoma oil producers and purchasers met with W J Armstrong to recommend to the corporation commission that February oil allowable be set at 429000 barrels daily, based on U S Bureau of Mines demand. The commission is expected to approve this month, a cut of 4900 barrels from January and 88000 from last February.

Oklahoma City Gan Oklahoma W. J. Armstrong State Conservation Officer U. S. Bureau of Mines Corporation Commission

Denison Dam Fate Is Up To Supreme Court

In Washington Oklahoma argues the Denison dam on the Red River violates state sovereignty while the federal government defends it under the welfare clause. Attorney General Williamson contends non navigable waters render flood projects illegal. Jackson urges an early ruling, not expected before February 26.

Washington Supreme Court Oklahoma Denison Red River Mac Q. Williamson Oklahoma Authority Army Robert Jackson Jackson Texas Arkansas Louisiana Williamson Tex Secretary of War The Cour

Oklahoma Farm Income Higher By Fourteen Million

Oklahoma farmers earned 14 million dollars more in 1939 than the prior year, with total cash income estimated at 194,340,000 dollars. The rise includes income from marketing, commodity loans and government payments, per a report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics dated January 30.

Washington Oklahoma Bureau of Agricultural Economics

County Board Refuses To Transfer Audit Funds

The county excise board on Monday blocked transfers from two budget accounts for audit expenses, ruling law forbids reallocating 23.85 from the county record expense and 34.84 from the biennial fund. They did approve moving 1058.06 in general funds. Aged man dies near Poteau at 84 after hip injury from a January 19 fall.

County Excise Board Excise Board Poteau Whlind Near Poteau

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