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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1957
Page
2
The column continues with reader advice on keeping shoes neat and socks free of holes. Ol’ Buzz previews two letters to test whether the audience agrees with a provocative kind of help.
A reader column blends humor and practical counsel on shoeshine upkeep and sock darnage. A separate note from Mrs. Jeinks of Chula Vista offers playful tips, while Southwestern Bell outlines the leap to dial equipment in a city building and a late night cable cut anecdote involving an inebriated caller delaying a multimillion dollar project.
The Vanoss FFA project splits expenses with the school, offering non credit welding and shop work to learn metal cutting and farming repairs. Students like Don McNinch welcome hands on training, planning future use of portable welders and field work to ease mechanization.
Oklahoma City reports Rep. Clint Livingston of Marietta has introduced a House bill for a consumer beer tax. The plan would levy 2 cents on 16 ounce containers and 3 cents on quart bottles plus a per 12 ounce bottle or glass tax, adding to the existing per barrel duty. The item notes Bermuda voting rights and Ada News Want Ads add context.
State Director Herbert Hope announces Oklahoma will contribute 232 men to a national 14 000 man February draft. Inductions target registrants age 22 on February 1 1957, with priority for non volunteers and potential inclusion of fathers upon proof of parenthood. Registrants urged to inform local boards of status changes or dependency updates.
Ray argues that every person possesses inner strength to live normally and a clinical psychologist should assist individuals in discovering their resources. He seeks meetings with formal and informal groups, especially parents discussion groups, and collaboration with social agencies.
Olin Sneed W M announces Emergent Call for Ada Lodge No 119 to attend the funeral and perform the last rites for Gene Carlos Chapman Friday at 1 p.m. at the hall.
Gene Chapman 28 of Ada died Wednesday at Veterans Hospital in Oklahoma City from Hodgkins disease after five years of treatment. Funeral services are set for Friday at 2 at Trinity Baptist Church. Chapman son of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Chapman resided at 603 North Mississippi and served in the 45th Division before pursuing drafting and engineering studies at Central State College and Oklahoma City University. He married Betty Brown and is survived by his wife, a son Gene Jr., and his parents.
Ada residents receive final Dial Day instructions ahead of Sunday January 20 1957. Southwestern Bell mails new directory and a folded disc with each instrument number to place on the dial. The packet explains dialing steps and emergency numbers and includes post cards to inform out of town contacts of the change.
Joy Gibson former president of the International Union of Electrical Workers at the Sylvania Electric Co plant will be arraigned this afternoon on embezzlement charges. She was charged December 7 with $3,113.27 misappropriated between January 13 1954 and February 9. She is held under $2,500 bond. Arraignment before Justice Bass Wilkes.
A bandit hit a Hudson Oil service station at Fourteenth Street and Mississippi Avenue at 5 35 am stealing 23 dollars from the cash register. Police believe he may be the same man who took 25 dollars at gunpoint from an attendant at 505 West Main on December 31 1956. Virgil Price described a blond ruddy man about 28 with a jacket and wool cap, who fled on foot down Fourteenth Street.
Blue Bell engineers will arrive in Ada within ten days to modify leased buildings for temporary operations. Three Ada buildings are leased, marking Blue Bell's first Oklahoma plant and first manufacturing site west of the Mississippi River. Leroy McDonald will head operations. E W Weant is in charge of production. Late February is the target start date, with possible delays.
Ada area news covers Francis and nearby families visiting kin in Hugo Pueblo Wasco and Tulsa. Includes Airman Scroggins returning to camp Illinois and Charles Hooser in Roswell plus local school updates and church activities at Cedar Grove Baptist.
Lula residents share visits with relatives from Stonewall Ada Enid and Yuma Ariz. while Mrs Clifford notes hospital discharge and a trip to Ardmore Air Force Base to see Clovis Thompson. Lula girls lose to Fitzhugh in Pontotoc County Tournament at East Central.
The article lists a string of social visits around Otis Coffey and nearby families. Thelma Perriman and relatives stopped by the Coffey home in the afternoon. Other visitors included Mr and Mrs W B McCullar, Mr and Mrs Frank Luckett, Mr and Mrs Edwin Luckett, and John of Okemah.
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