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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1957
Page
4
The piece compares pingpong and chess for speed and skill, notes low spectator interest in pingpong despite its excitement, and contrasts college and high school tournaments at East Central, observing fans’ partisan support and overall apathy toward sport as sport. It ends with a question about attendance at East Central football games.
Public service talk explains that an insurance policy is the contract between insurer and holder. It notes policies contain exceptions and exclusions that can nullify benefits, and that you sue the responsible driver, not the other party’s insurer, for damages. It warns mistrial risk if insurance is discussed during a car accident trial and that appellate courts view such references as highly prejudicial.
Lowell Thomas and his wife Tay recount a daring journey by private plane to Africa and Asia. They visit Timbuktu Luxor Kilimanjaro the Mau Mau era Kenya and the Holy Land with RAF bombing missions and encounters with Pygmies. The book features numerous photographs and targets armed travelers of all ages.
Chalk Dust notes the 1956 57 school year is about halfway. Attendance in our schools has been unusually good due to favorable fall and winter weather and health conditions. The writer believes children enjoy going to school with no absences reported in the upper grade at Ahloso school.
Weathered week marks 19 in Sunday School as Marshall Cox visits. A revival led by Rev. Buster Davis runs through January 12 at the Church of God of Prophecy. Missionary Women plan to bake pies Wednesday to fund propane payments.
At 3:12 p.m. Wednesday a three-car pileup at Fourth Street and Broadway Avenue caused only property damage. Inez Marie Pittman was charged with failure to yield right of way. Millard A. Raper and Sharon L. McWilliams drove the other vehicles. Pittman’s car struck Raper’s taxicab, which then hit McWilliams’s car. A public drunkenness count was filed against one motorist and another was fined for an improper U turn.
Letters of notice and proxy for the Ada Industrial Development Corporation annual stockholders meeting have been mailed. The meeting is scheduled for February 4 at 3 30 p m. Directors urge full attendance or proxy representation.
Laura Etta Horton and William A. Horton divorced as plaintiff granted. Ada News Want Ads reference divorce results and related notices.
Dear Easter readers and staff wish you a prosperous new year. The note from Mrs S J Markley Tease thanks readers for support and lists calendar items for the month including the March of Dimes Week of Prayer and National Youth Week events plus several faith and community observances.
Byng 4-H Club scheduled to meet Thursday at 9 am in the school auditorium. First semester examinations begin Friday on regular schedule. Milon Watkins, 80, a long-time Byng resident, died January 3. funeral services were at Criswell Funeral Home in Ada officiated by Elder R. T. Rorer.
Mrs. Douglas Smith reports numerous visits and gatherings around Ahloso. Family connections include the Evans, Treases, Blankenships, Hunters, and Milligan families. The article notes hospital stays, a burial, a drowning incident in California, a new school building opening, and several birthday and funeral events.
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