Southeastern Oklahoma Junior Livestock Show Set March 1
Officials announced the fourth annual Southeastern Oklahoma Junior Livestock Show will run March 1 to 4 in Ada. Sponsored by the Ada Chamber of Commerce, the event offers $1,000 in cash and other awards to farm youths from 23 counties with exhibits in steers, lambs, and barrows.
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Southeastern Oklahoma
Ada Chamber of Commerce
Oklahoma
Lee Craig
Roy Craig
FFA
Small Farms in East Central Oklahoma Face Size Handicap
A Stillwater Agricultural Experiment Station report finds small farms in Oklahoma’s east central area, especially Okfuskee County, struggle financially. It notes that in 1938 farms under 100 acres earned under $500, while these small farms made up nearly half of the county’s total farms.
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Stillwater
East Central” District
Oklahoma
Creek
Okfuskee
Seminole
Hughes and Pontotoc
Tulsa
Okmulgee
Mcintosh
Pottawatomie
Coal
Johnston
Atoka
Okfuskee County
Grand Lake Fishing Ban Enforced by State Rangers
Disney reports state fish and game commissioner Jerry Ledbetter announces strict enforcement of the Grand Lake fishing ban during spawning season. Extra rangers will patrol the reservoir with fines from ten to twenty five dollars for violations. A large fish catch has been noted behind the Grand River dam as spawning nears. A new hatchery below the dam will be built and finished within two years.
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Disney
Jerry Ledbetter
State Fish and Game Commission
Frand Lake
Grand River
Ledbetter
Stillwater Man Builds Harps From Woven Time
Stillwater resident Charles T. Laughton is noted as the only U S craftsman who makes all harp parts and assembles complete instruments. He has produced 101 harps and is finishing seven more for patrons across the United States. Laughton began by unraveling a door screen for wire and began serious harp work in 1918 after moving to Oklahoma. He arrived in Stillwater in 1889, enrolled at Oklahoma A and M, played violin at dances, and later earned a first violin degree at Central State College Edmond in 1993.
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Stillwater
Oklahoma
Charles T. Laughton
Laughton
United States
Oklahoma A
M. College
Central State College
Edmond
County pay bill stalls in senate committee
Oklahoma City February 3 report says a bill allowing counties to pay commissioners from motor vehicle license revenue was met with strong opposition in a senate committee and its consideration was postponed indefinitely.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Cotton Stam Plan To Begin Here Soon
Pontotoc county farmers may reduce cotton acreage to earn stamps worth 10 cents per pound on underplanted yield. Limits cap at 25 dollars per family for tenants and 50 dollars for those with multiple farms. Landlords and tenants share stamps as they share in crops. Underplanting does not affect 1942 allotments.
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Pontotoc County
David Gray
County Aaa Committee
Ada
Charles Auten Profit From 4 H Calf Feeding
Francis 4 H club member Charles Auten plans to enter two calves in next month’s junior livestock show. He bought calves for 30 dollars each and has spent 46 dollars on feed totaling 106 dollars. He expects at least 100 dollars per calf, totaling 200 dollars, for a projected profit of 94 dollars.
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Charles Auten
Francis
Auten
Charles
Willis Young Bold Junior Stock Exhibitor At March Show
Willis Young of the Fitzhugh 4-H club, veteran exhibitor, poses with a calf for the junior stock show in March. He has fed eight calves and previously won the grand champion steer in 1939 and the grand champion lamb in 1940. This year he competes with a barrow as well, aiming for top prizes.
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Willis Young
Fitzhugh
Willis
Doc Brinkley Bankrupt Amid Vast, Conflicting Assets
Dr John R Brinkley famed for gland surgery and radio venture faces bankruptcy in Del Rio Texas with debts over 1.1 million dollars and assets at 316 500. His wife recounts losses including the 509 990 watt Mexican station XERA the Lockheed Electra plane and Del Rio hospital sales and notes he had run for Kansas governor.
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San Antonio
Tex
John R. Brinkley
Kansas
R. O. Huff
M. Coppard
del Rio
Brinkleys
Brinkley
Rio Grande
Douglas. Fairbanks, Sr
U. S
Coast, Guard Service
Little Rock
Milford
Kan
Washington
White House
XERA
Federal District Court
Exemption Claimed on Property Seeks Tax Relief
Tax records show notes and securities totaling 87000 dollars with an exemption claimed on 162500 dollars of property. The filing outlines asset categories and the requested reduction under applicable exemption provisions.
Nighttime drill idea tested by U S Army at Fort Jackson
At Fort Jackson South Carolina on February 3 officers of the 117th infantry demonstrate daytime night vision by goggles covered with dark blue translucent material. The aim is to adopt the method for the 30th division and allow large scale maneuvers to proceed as if under night conditions. Colonel R H Bond notes the plan originated with Col R H Gleaves and Capt L S Helm is credited with developing the concept.
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Fort Jackson
S. C
U. S. Army
117Th Infantry
National Guard
Georgia
Tennessee
Carolinas
R H. Bond
114Th Infantry
R. H. Gleaves
Bond
Jackson (Tenn
L. S. Helm
Wricht Leaves Oklahoma Federation for Constitutional Rights
Rev Wricht steps down as head of the Oklahoma Federation for Constitutional Rights after Paul S Wright retires from active participation The federation defends democracy and opposes two bills to bar communists from public office noting no communist members exist in their 3 000 strong group and that Wright remains focused on his parish.
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Oklahoma City
Rube Martin
Oklahoma Federation For Constitutional Rights
Paul S. Wright
Wright
First Presbyterian Church
Federation
Senate
Paul Stewart
Antlers
Mussolini
Stalin
Hitler
United States
Roosevelt
Siegried Ameringer
Ameringer
Walter W Opton Dies at 81 in Stonewall
Walter W Opton 81 died Sunday at 5 30 p m at his Stonewall home. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 p m from Criswell Funeral Home chapel with L L Bowles officiating. Burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery. Survived by three daughters Mrs V E Co of Borger Mrs W Taylor and Mrs Oliver B Ska of Amarillo and two sons C W of Houston and Fred Upton of Stonewall.
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Walter W. Opton
Stonewall
Criswell Funeral Home
L. L. Bowles
Rosedale Cemetery
V. E
Coalgate Schools name D D Kirkland as superintendent
D D Kirkland has been re elected superintendent of Coalgate city schools for the next year. announced by Herman A Jones president of the board. Kirkland has led the district since age twenty and previously served as superintendent in Burbank Maud and Holdenville.
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D. D. Kirkland
Coalgate City
Herman A. Jones
Coalgate Board of Education
Kirkland
Burbank
Maud
Holdenville
Oklahoma
State Association
Jones
Ledlie Holland
Texan Returns After RAF Service Flying With Bombers
Lee Sullivan a 20 year old Texan from Hillsboro near Dallas arrived in Canada after nine months piloting Royal Air Force bombers. He flew 48 missions over Germany and France, believing Germans used fireworks to mislead anti aircraft defenses. Sullivan said he came to Canada on his own last March seeking home and a future ferrying Britain bombers.
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Lee Sullivan
Canada
Royal Air Force
Hillsboro
Dallas
Germany
France
Sullivan
Ottawa
Dian Shores
Food For Leahy Misses Ship
The Red Cross supply ship Cold Harbor sailed from Baltimore with a 1 090 000 dollar relief cargo for France and Spain but missed a 42 ton consignment of canned beef fruit Sev etibinn cigars and cigarettes for Ambassador William Leahy at Vichy France due to the British navicert delay. Ernest J Swift Red Cross vice chairman said the State Department asked for navicert too late and the Leahy cargo will likely be sent on a later ship to Spain.
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Baltimore
Red Cross
Cold Harbor
France
Spain
William Leahy
Vichy
Leahy
Ernest J. Swift
State Department
Delaney Heads Major Louisiana-Nevada Transit Venture
Ada businessman W A Gus Delaney announces purchase of two associates interests and relocation of the Louisiana Nevada Transit company headquarters to his Ada office building. The firm, organized in 1938 to serve Arkansas Portland Cement at Okay, built a 76 mile line from Cotton Valley to Okay and expanded gas distribution to Hope, Bradley, Taylor, Fulton, Saratoga and McNab. A planned Ouachita river power plant and a sour gas processing plant are proposed to boost regional industry and gas and electric service.
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Ada
Louisiana- Nevada Transit Company
Arkansas
W. A
Gus” Delaney
T. R. Jones
Dallas
M. O. Mathews
Delaney
East Twelfth
Charles Boettcher
Denver
C. K. Boettcher
M. O. Matthews
Arkansas Portland Cement Company
Okay
Ark
Cotton Valley
Hope
Fulton
Power and Light Company
Bradley, Taylor
Saratoga
McNab
Ouachita River
Dy Ding
Louisiana - Nevada Transit Company
Ada C of C Sees 41 As Bright Year For Ada
Ada Chamber of Commerce maps a bold 1941 plan to lift business and professional life in Ada Oklahoma. The drive to raise 10000 dollars begins February 11 under G J Morton and H A Huddleston with President L G Denny guiding a program featuring East Central State College highways trade expansion conventions civic improvement and agriculture. The airport project alone is expected to inject over 150000 in payrolls while plans for an enlarged packing plant and rock wool ink and cheese manufacture aim to grow local industry and commerce.
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Ada
Ada Chamber of Commerce
G. J. Morton
H. A. Huddleston
L. G. Denny
East Central State College
East Central College
Chamber of Commerce
Dr Kerr Resigns Tulsa Presbyterian Pastorate
Charles W. Kerr, longtime pastor of Tulsa First Presbyterian Church, resigns effective March 31 after 41 years. He served as a former moderator of the United States General Assembly and stayed to see the church pay off its debt. The congregation will select a successor in coming weeks. The church grew from a 1900 mission with 1300 people to a 3100-member congregation.
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Tulsa
Charles W. Kerr
First ‘Presbyterian Church
U. S. General Assembly
Kerr
Dr. Kerr
United States
Josephson Wilcox Test Planned Near Ada Field
Plans by Joe Josephson to resume work at a Wilcox test location staked last week in 1546 near Colbert school east of the old Ada gas field. Alma Oil Co No 1 Norris near Center reports drilling past 2375 feet with possible Arbuckle target. weather and operations noted amid other regional activity.
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Joe Josephson
Curry C
Colbert ‘School
Ada
Alma Oi! Company
Norris
Center
Wheeler Denounces Slanderous FDR Story About Him
Senator Wheeler denounces as a slanderous attack a Roosevelt claim that William E. Dodd quoted him saying Nazi domination of Europe was inevitable. Wheeler, recovering from influenza in Palm Beach, says the accusation is absolutely false and a desperate bid to discredit him over opposition to aid to Britain.
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Washington
Wheeler
D-Mont
Roosevelt
William E. Dodd
Europe
Dodd
Germany
Joseph P. Kennedy
Palm Beach
Fla
United States
Senate
Youth on Bicycle Struck by Auto. Minor Injuries Reported
Britt Turner Jr. 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Britt Turner of Stockton and Eighteenth, was slightly injured when his bicycle was hit by a car on Broadway at Fifth. Ray Whittington, who was driving in the same direction, swerved to avoid the bike and struck it. Turner was taken to a physician. only minor head bruises were found.
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Britton Turner
Britt Turner
Stockton
Young Turner
Broadway
Fifth Street
Ray Whittington
Colbert
Turner
Whittington
Two Burkburnett Boys Die In Kerosene Blast
In Burkburnett Texas on February 1 a kerosene blast in a bedroom fatally burned Euel Dean Germany aged 4 and J H Germany Jr 12 sons of Mr and Mrs J H Germany. Avys Lee Germany 10 and grandfather W N Bedford were also burned.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
Burkburnett
J. H. Germany
Euel Dean
Avis Lee Germany
W. N. Bedford
Germany
Avis Lee
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Great Aid To Farm Youth of
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W. E. Harvey
W. A. Delaney, Jr
C. H. Hailey
4-H
Young
State Experiment
Grand Lake
Doc Brinkley
Alderman Duncan
Rev. Wricht
Coalgate Schools
RAF
Gun
Gift
Bardia
Libya
Big Concern
Gus Delaney
Ada C
C. of
Resians
First Presbyterian
Josephson
England
Cape Hatteras, N. C
Gulf Stream
FDR
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