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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1973
Page
4
Practical tips for handling slick roads during snow and ice season. Emphasizes slow steady control, avoiding abrupt actions, proper braking, and maintaining room to maneuver. Suggests tools like shovels, burlap, chains, and even four wheel drive or snow vehicles for extreme cases. Encourages staying calm, planning stopping points, and using gears to manage speed.
A trailer park owner faced lawsuits after installing climbing bars over blacktop, a seven year old fell and won damages for negligence. Other cases cited include a decayed tree blamed on an act of God and a shower injury where the plaintiff assumed the risk by choosing a dangerous path.
Connie Nelson presents a reflective column mixing self-help maxims and seasonal change. The piece shifts from personal discipline to the busy realities of winter for farms and towns, noting the contrast between simple New Year resolutions and modern hectic planning. It ends with quotes attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Deaths reported for January 4 and 5 list Frank Schutte aged 63 in Tupelo Robert H. McKenzie 72 of Allen Leslie W Jones 67 of Clarita with funeral homes Criswell Leonard and Leonard Funeral Homes noted.
New York AP report notes 32 percent of boys and 2 percent of girls would join a limited term volunteer service if draft ends. Poll by Scholastic Institute surveyed 1,142,000 students in 2,000 schools. Other questions covered courts, police, and teacher hiring attitudes.
Wenatchee editor Hu Blonk reports a large majority of editors lawyers and judges in 43 states back voluntary agreements between media and legal profession. Survey by AP Managing Editors Association finds codes improve trial and arrest coverage while protecting press freedom and fair trial.
Nine cars of a Santa Fe freight derailed near Kildare Oklahoma crushing abandoned cattle cars on a siding. An Oklahoma Highway Patrol packer in Pawnee said the derailment occurred at about 4 p.m. on Wednesday, with the boxcar laden with potatoes burned and left derailed.
The Ada School Board unanimously renewed Dr. Max Skelton as Superintendent for 1973-74. They hired two new teachers, accepted two resignations in junior high, including Pauline Whitsett retiring for medical reasons and Storm Duty resigning for family reasons, with Aubry J. Bain Jr. appointed as Whitsett's replacement and Dale Myers hired for science.
A bolster under a boxcar collapsed triggering the derailment according to officials. Santa Fe workers labored overnight to repair the damaged tracks and restore service.
The piece frames a clash over constitutional roles as President Nixon asserts a mandate to govern via three fronts: war policy, the budget, and government organization, while Democratic leaders push Congress to preserve its separate powers after a January election. Mansfield pledges a distinct constitutional role for the Senate.
Oklahoma City OK FBI appoints Debruler, a 16 year FBI veteran from the Washington Inspection Division, as the new agent in charge of Oklahoma. Debruler will replace Arnold C. Larson and is set to assume duties in Oklahoma City around February 1. Large will become chief of the FBI Los Angeles administrative division.
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