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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1946
Page
2
Ada embraced a council manager government, new parking meters, trash collection, and an airport study while tackling a citywide cleanup and anti polio measures. The year featured housing booms, flood prone weather, road resurfacing, a grand jury, and election shifts including sheriff and county judges.
A report outlines competing Antarctic claims by the United States Argentina Chile Australia and others as nations vie for mineral wealth and strategic positions. Washington hints at a large US claim based on early Byrd expeditions with possible UN court settlement talks emerging.
Mrs. R. F. Crumley pioneer resident of Roff dies at a local hospital at 72 after major surgery. Funeral at First Christian church with burial in Ada’s Rosedale cemetery. Survived by husband R. F. Crumley. son H. E. Crumley. daughters Helen Gaither Margaret Fairchild and Dorothy Bruce.
A. K. Thornton, tag agent, notes many car and truck owners still lack 1947 licenses. With Dec 21 comparisons down, about 6 688 face penalties if unlicensed by February 1. Office staffing will increase in January to handle rush. Ada alone has over 3 000 owners needing licenses or proof.
County Superintendent Norman C. Mitchell analyzes 25 years of migration from rural Pontotoc County and its impact on local schools. He notes declining enrollment, farm consolidation into ranches, depleting soils, housing issues for tenant farmers, and rising finances tied to enrollment, urging legislative action to address the rural school crisis.
Housing Expeditor Frank R. Creedon reports 946900 dwellings begun and 584300 completed by November 30 1946 with 665000 starts for the year including 450000 new permanent homes and apartments. The year shows large gains in building materials and a shift after Wyatt's departure amid relaxed controls.
Ada police arrested Joseph C. Fielding at 8 15 PM on an embezzlement charge. He allegedly sold a car to Lowell Tyner of Tulsa for 1665 dollars then kept the check and fled, later driving a 3000 dollar 1946 Buick reportedly stolen in Chicago. He is held in Ada awaiting Tulsa authorities.
The record notes 115 309 000 000 bearing age trees in 1920 and 55 000 000 000 fruit bearing trees in 1945. It presents a raw comparison of tree counts across the two years.
Thea Bonner is to become sheriff succeeding Johnny Phillips. Laverne Fisher will be the new county attorney replacing H. M. Shirley. W. B. Thornsborough remains county judge. Sam Sullivan to take the district judgeship from Roy Paul amid upcoming changes.
The state leads the nation with the most national monuments, surpassing all others in a tally of protected sites. Officials note the count highlights Arizona’s unique heritage and federal preservation priorities across multiple regions.
Dallas zoo superintendent Walton Carlton worries about Joe the Guinea baboon who endures extreme cold. Joe’s tail has already lost two inches from frostbite in prior cold snaps and may suffer more if winter worsens, threatening a bob tailed fate.
Two Oklahoma men died in a highway collision north of Springerville Arizona after the Rose Bowl game while riding with an Illinois man. L A Heck 52 Centrahoma and Ray Griffith 55 Union were killed. Fred A Read 42 Thompsonville Illinois driver hospitalized with a broken jaw. Funeral plans to be announced by Criswell Funeral Home pending relatives' contact.
Tulsa residents misread sun thawing frozen shingles as fires as eight below zero battered the city. Harold Shannon at the Tulsa ice company ducked back inside to escape the sub zero. Fire equipment answered five alarms from homeowners mistaken for blazes.
A mature maple tree can generate 3639 pounds of carbohydrates in a single summer, reflecting the tree's high photosynthetic output and energy storage potential.
Fourteen snowbound farms northeast of Kingfisher Oklahoma received mail today via an improvised air drop. Irwin Bollenbach organized the run after his mother Claude, a widow twelve miles from town, ran low on food and asked for help. He gathered 14 farmers, loaded mail bundles, and dropped them from 100 feet at each farm, then carried groceries to his mother.
The PBM SA, weighing about 60 000 pounds, stands as the Navy's largest amphibian ever constructed.
Oklahoma manufacturing employment rose in the last months of 1946, totaling 55 000 in November with 2200 meat industry hires after price ceilings were lifted. Gains occurred mainly in stone clay glass and printing and publishing while transport equipment, aircraft, and chemical plants saw declines.
Eight year old Joseph LeRoy Andrews, son of Elmer T. Andrews, was critically injured when an automobile skidded on an icy Mulhall street and struck him. He suffered brain concussion multiple fractures and head lacerations and was taken to an Oklahoma City hospital. The Sikorsky S 51 is noted as the world’s first four place commercial helicopter.
Oklahoma farmers are planning spring crops as winter eases. At Oklahoma A and M College Dr Frank B Cross urges land conditioning with fertilizer or fibrous material, deep plowing eight to ten inches, and rough soil until planting. Strawberries to be planted mid February to March 5 and oats should be seeded with attention to soil preparation seed treatment and spring varieties like Kawota Fulton and Texas Red.
Dr G F Gray of Oklahoma A and M College horticulturist advises quick soil prep for spring fruit tree planting. If available barnyard manure should be spread on the orchard and plowed under. Ground to remain soft until just before setting the trees, then loosened, harrowed, rows marked, and stalker used. Planting time: to March 15.
Farmers paint and repair machinery and order parts during spare hours. They fix house and outbuildings and complete January chores. They plan butchering, care for newborn chicks, spray for peach leaf curl and San Jose scale, and treat herds for cattle grubs.
The state hosts a 4 H club district tractor maintenance school in Muskogee and Chickasha January 6-9. Oklahoma A and M students plan a coronation for Royal Jupiter the grand champion steer from Chicago's International livestock Exposition. An egg grading school runs January 9-11, while the Northeast Oklahoma Hereford Association holds its annual sale January 10 in Tulsa. National Western Stock Show entries in Denver run January 10-18.
In Washington the split over the chaplaincy began the new senate session as Democrats charge Republicans with partisan politics. Dr Pier Marshall won the post as chaplain by voice vote amid party lines. Sen Barkley defended the office as nonpartisan while Sen Bridges noted the Church of Abraham Lincoln affiliation. The move follows the ouster of Dr Frederick Brown Harris as outgoing chaplain.
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