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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1946
Page
3
4 H livestock club members should protect animals during the cold spell by providing shelter at night and ensuring ample roughage plus 3 to 5 pounds of grain daily. Water is vital. pump water several times daily and keep it fresh to sustain digestion and production. Water heaters in stock tanks can boost milk yield. 4 H Pig Club members are advised to fatten barrows quickly for the fat stock show.
The government charged the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association Inc. its president Henry H. Rathburn and three executive committee members with manipulating butter prices on the New York mercantile exchange for five days in December. U S Attorney John F X McGahey said Rathburn claimed to support the market to avoid losses for January milk producers.
Oklahoma City January 4 327.015 veterans enrolled in educational institutions or vocational training programs according to the Veterans Administration regional office. Of the total 21,668 are in school 9,598 are in job training 1,728 under public law 16 for disabled veterans also in education and 1,342 in this category are job trainees. In December the VA received 3,068 benefit applications.
At Allen 4 H club 36 girls attended with June Roper delivering a timely clothing topic. The group plans two demonstrations next month as 37 garments 26 meals and 16 new recipes were completed in December. Lula 4 H had eight members with six clothing items finished in September and five meals prepared.
Capt. Marion E. McDaniel a regular army officer is assigned to assist the 171st Field Artillery of the 45th Division in Ada and surrounding communities for at least three years. Master Sergeant Elsey will accompany him and supervise training drills and instruction for National Guard units. Classes for officers will be organized and McDaniel will base his headquarters in Ada to coordinate evolving military tactics and revisions. He served in Hawaii and Europe during prior wartime service and is married to an English wife with a daughter Carole joining Ada soon.
Dale Proctor a 22 year old war veteran was sworn in as Commerce police chief succeeding Frank Franklin who resigned to farm full time. Proctor becomes one of the state’s youngest police chiefs as he assumes command today.
Oklahoma Governor Kerr announced the incoming Roy J Turner administration highway commission would begin with a backlog of over 14 million dollars for road construction. He noted 8.25 million in net current assets, 4.719 million in farm-to-market funds, and about 1.25 million to be transferred by February. Kerr contrasted this with four years ago when funds were under 450 thousand, and said the state would have ample funds to match federal aid as 10 projects funded entirely by state money were let last Tuesday with three more bids due January 11 in Comanche Okmulgee McClain areas.
The War Department plans peacetime training for Organized Reserve components. A new eight inch self propelled artillery battalion, the 762nd, is activated with headquarters in Ada and batteries in Holdenville, Pauls Valley, and Sulphur. Training includes weekly drills and a two week summer encampment in the 4th Army area. Officer recruits nearby are urged to apply through Colonel Braly in Ada or McAlester.
The Great Northern Telegraph company reports 16 crew missing after the Karla struck a mine during open sea cable repair southwest of Finland. Twenty eight were landed safely at Tallinn.
Philippine military police report a U. S. Army plane crashed December 29 at Hinunangan Leyte while en route from Samar to Tacloban. No U. S. confirmation yet. Residents handed over pilot and crew papers but their fate remains unknown. pilot tentatively identified as Capt. Robert M. Beardlee of Berkeley California.
Metropolitan Opera tenor and radio star John Carter performs for the Ada Community Concert Association on January 20 at the East Central auditorium. A Navy chief petty officer during the war he broadcast from the submarine base at South Pacific fronts and later sang with the Central City Colorado Opera Company. Regular and student membership cards have been mailed.
Fleet Adm. Osami Nagano, 65, dies of pneumonia and heart attack in Tokyo. He cast the deciding vote for the Pearl Harbor attack and issued the final order that began the Pacific war. His death leaves 25 defendants in the international war crimes court.
Severe weather increases relief burden as the Salvation Army, Ada's official local aid, issues grocery orders and prescriptions for residents on relief. Adj. Henry Van Dee notes cooperation with welfare, frequent personal calls, and deliveries to those most affected by the cold and income shortages.
Dispatches from Manos Brazil report 10 expedition members killed and seven wounded by poison arrows as they attempted to pacify the Uaimiris. The attackers surrounded the expedition camp in the upper Amazon jungle.
The largest group of dinosaur tracks ever discovered may be seen in Dinosaur Canyon, about 70 miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona, drawing paleontologists and visitors to the site.
The note outlines January poultry tasks including forming a twelve-hen and one-rooster breeding pen, brooder and yard prep, and ordering high quality chicks from a nearby hatchery. It also warns of poisonous castle bean weed causing cow deaths and provides pasture removal and tree protection methods against rabbits with hardware cloth collars and resin alcohol rabbit paint.
Bill Marrs of the War Assets Administration Tulsa region visits Ada January 7 to 10 to assist World War II veterans in buying government surplus property. He will explain priorities and help with applications at the VFW Service Office 102 1/2 East Main Street.
Temperatures near freezing heighten road danger as wet ice reduces braking distance and traction more than sustained zero temperatures.
Dwight D. Eisenhower spent a Florida vacation in Coral Gables Everglades City and Blackwater Sound where he fished with guides and answered questions about D-Day and the Bulge. He refused to consider a presidential run, insisting he is a soldier and ready to return to Washington. He greeted admirers kindly, autographs in hand, amid a relaxed, informal scene.
Honolulu reports hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage as 40 foot waves lash Hilo Maui and Lanai. No casualties yet though lowland residents flee. Coast guard and military order evacuations while weather officials warn of danger at Sunday dawn high tide.
County Superintendent Norman Mitchell reports only one large school closed by Saturday morning due to snow and ice. Vanoss buses uncertain, Byng buses running, rural schools unclear. Indian student attendance cited. county basketball conference planned for paving this week was canceled.
The Dutch army states serious clashes occurred at Medan Sumatra as overall conditions in Sumatra deteriorate despite Soekarno of the Indonesian republic appealing for a peaceful settlement.
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