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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1936
Page
6
The piece previews a 1935 memory quiz by NEA Service asking readers to recall major events of 1935 with questions spanning politics, disasters, sports, science and culture. It notes the challenge of updating memory and promises answers later in the issue.
Secretary Wallace warned on a national farm hour that ending the AAA could later echo 1932 conditions for agriculture. He cited uncertainty about six to nine month effects and the need for substitutes to raise foreign buying power and tariffs reductions, else prices may fall again within three years.
The Vanoss School Journal covers class studies from English to geography, with Swift and Addison readings and Ivanhoe on tap. It notes Miss Minnie Waters as substitute teacher, junior and senior class drills, new students, spelling records, and a boys basketball game slate against Fitzhugh on the home court plus previous conference results.
Mansfield farmer Joe T. Talley is dead and Annie Hennesay is in critical condition after a close range gun fight over courtship. Talley died after a struggle witnessed by Hennesay’s children Ruby and Preston. Police say Talley fired once. three shells were found in Hennesay’s abdomen. The community also notes a Nativity pageant and local church events amid the aftermath.
County commissioners plan to put all important roads in Pon totoc county under all weather condition within twelve months. They acquired three trucks and WPA labor to gravel bad spots on mail routes and school bus roads, replacing wood bridges with concrete pipe where possible, while noting many bridges are failing under heavy trucks. Local residents and students are mentioned in passing in snapshots of life around Ada.
A charter for Ada's proposed new hospital is obtained and temporary officers named led by S C Boswell as president and Milton Keating as secretary treasurer. The Commonwealth Fund of New York will fund 80 percent of construction with the local group raising at least 25 percent plus a deficit reserve of 15 900 for year one and 12 000 for four years. Charity care may reach 25 percent of patient load.
The Hennesay children and Charles Talley, son of the slain man, testified before Justice of the Peace W. N. Curry about the tragedy. The Hennesay mother, a divorcee, had spurned Talley for two years while Talley said rejected courtship drove the father to despondency.
The first grade continues studying the Fact and Story Reader with top spellers Jean Gregory Mary Lou Dillard Charlotte Clark Caroline Harper Bobby Jean Davis and Patsy Ruth Godby. New arrivals include Wanda Faye Moore from Fairfax and Leon Martin who re entered after Fairfax schooling. Frances Clark returns after illness and Margaret Jean Hayhurst visits Oklahoma City relatives.
A man identified only by letters in his pockets as Francis Donahoe was found dead in the engine room of an ice plant in Tulsa. Police believe he fell from improvised beds on overhead beams. a brother Grant Donahoe of Council Bluffs Iowa is named in letters found. The letters suggest he was en route from Iowa to California. relatives are being sought.
At the Cheerio club meeting in Oak Park only 12 men attended while 100 women were present. The club elected Justin K. Orvis as president and learned he is married with two children.
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