Cowboy Pink Proposes Riverfront Relocation Plan in Oklahoma
Cad do County elder Cowboy Pink Williams drafts a Atoka County redevelopment idea in a letter to the Daily Oklahoman. He describes slicing Muddy Boggy riverfront into 528 plots for relief families, with fish bait cornbread and rotten-egg garlic bait, funded by small government loans.
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Oklahoma City
Caddo County
Cowboy Pink Williams
Atoka County
Daily
Oklahoman
Williams
David Hall
Arkansas
Mississippi
Supreme Court reverses Groppi contempt conviction
The Wisconsin Assembly contempt conviction of Rev. James Groppi, arising from a 1969 welfare demonstration that shut the legislature, was overturned 7 to 0 by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Burger said due process was violated by lacking a hearing and notice, noting Groppi was held in jail on other charges during the incident. The ruling suggests immediate action in chamber may have produced a different outcome. The protest involved over 1000 demonstrators opposing state budget cuts and caused about $26,000 in damage to chamber furnishings.
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Groppi
Wisconsin Assembly
Dane County
Burger
Filing Opens for Four Vocational School Board Seats
The Pontotoc County Election Board listed new candidates for four of five area vocational technical school board seats and announced a March 25 election day. Filing runs through Friday at 5 p.m. Earlier filings include Byng Vernon, Latta, Stonewall, and Vaness zones, with candidates for Zone 1, Zone 3, Zone 4 and At Large positions.
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Pontotoc County
Franklin D. Allen
Vaness
Jerry McDaniel
Wayne Lollar
Max R. Floyd
Wewoka
Roy L. Hanson
E. Im4th
Hayden G. Haynes
Hughes County
Nixon outlines phased Vietnam drawdown to 69000
President Nixon announced further plans to withdraw U.S. forces from South Vietnam. The reduction targets 69,000 troops by May 1, signaling a continued pullback and Vietnam War policy adjustment.
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Washington
Nixon
South Vietnam
Man Identified As Adan Is Mystery Here
An Associated Press report from Amarillo identifies Ridgley Williams Jr. as one of eight men arrested after a Monday Baton Rouge gunfight that left four dead. Ada residents and local officials could not confirm the Ada address or residence, and no age or hometown was provided.
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Associated Press
Amarillo
Baton Rouge
Ada
Ada Police District Attorney
East Central State College
Hammond Heights
Ridgley Williams Jr
West Texas State University
Canyon
House Votes To Use Electronic Roll Call
Oklahoma House members backed an electronic roll-call device to speed votes and curb ghost voting. The 58 to 33 decision authorizes speaker to install the machine, likely during the next interim. Senate sent 13 bills to the House, including a governor's $311,454 appropriation, and set up a joint conference on redistricting. The House worked on appropriations and other measures, killing a pesticide bill and assigning a sterilization bill to the Social Welfare committee led by Rep. Wiley Sparkman. A companion bill to ban attendance roll-call is expected today.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma House of Representatives
Nee
David Boren
Seminole
Rex Privett
Senate
House
Governor’s Office
Clem McSpadden
Chelsea
Committee On Social Welfare
Wiley Sparkman
D-Grove
Sparkman
Local church numbers and community visits in Stonewall
The Stonewall Church of Christ reported 72 in attendance Sunday with Bill Ballard from Ada leading services. The Church of the Nazarene had 44 in church, Resthaven Nursing Home hosted services by Bro Sam Newberry, and 57 attended Sunday School at the First Baptist Church. Community members and visitors from Ada, Oklahoma City, Allen, and other nearby areas are listed through weekend and weekday visits.
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Church of Christ
Rooo
Oklahoma City
Jim Barham
Ada
Arkansas
Barham
Bill Ballard
Bible
Church of the Nazarene
Sam Newberry
Resthaven Nursing Home
Rose Wilson
Valley View Hospital
Colene Reynolds
LeRoy Miller
Maggie Sawyer
Vera Hunt
Luke Moran
Billie Davis
State Department
Africa
Dad Davis
Ruby Coguurn
Kim
Joe Ed Batchelor
Batchelor
Cogburn
Phillip Moore
Joyce Newberry
Elmo Nickell
Leon Nickell
June
W. C
Wayne Bullard
Bill Calloway
Allen
Cecil Bullard
Dora Bullard
Willie McMinn
Agnes Patton
Leon McMinn
Coalgate
Walter Elkins
Centrahoma
Mensay
Edna Johnston
Lula
Norma Underhill
Joyce Snow
Wind Interrupts Ada Electricity
A high wind toppled a tree limb onto an OG&E line on East Arlington at 3 a.m. cutting power for about 40 minutes. About one tenth of Ada's city, east of Mississippi to Orchard and south to East Central State College, lost electricity delaying alarms and causing some workers to arrive nearly an hour late.
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Og&e
East Arlington
Mississippi
Orchard
East Central State College
Filing Opens for Jan. 25 Pontotoc School Elections
Filing began today for school elections across Pontotoc County and for five board seats at the area vocational-technical school. Elections set for January 25 include three mill levies for Ada district and seats on the new vo-tech board, with several candidates filed by noon and four more for the vo-tech positions. The Pontotoc County Election Board runs all polls under a new state-law provision.
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Pontotoc County
Area Vocational-Technical School
Vo-Ted
Jack L. Allen
Ada
Frank R. Crabtree
Stonewall
Bob Thompson
Constant Dr
Hayden G. Haynes
Scenic
Millard Lawson
Vo-Ted Board
Byng
Pickett Center
Vanoss
Pontotoc
Sasakwa
Vamoosa
Seminole County
Stratford
Holdenville
Yeager
Wewoka
Hughes County
Vaness
Ada Junior High
Willard
Glenwood
Ada Girl Pleads Innocent In Marijuana Case
Trudi Drummond Estes, 19, of Ada Okla, pleads innocent to smuggling and conspiracy in a case involving more than two tons of marijuana. Her husband William Estes faces $150,000 bond as co‑conspirator. Several others, including a Savannah veterinarian, are charged and pled guilty in related counts. Voted school board seats, rotating terms, and mill levies also summarized with polling details for Ada area elections on January 25.
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San Antonio
Tex
Trudi Drummond Estes
Ada
Okla
William F. Estes
Mexico
United States
Estes
Ada and
Norman
Willis Hollingsworth
Savannah
Indianapolis
Ind
Charles Phillip Homburg
Ruliff Allen Bratton
Gerald E. Homburg
Tax Help Available at Oklahoma City Post Office
Clyde L. Bickerstaff announced IRS office locations in Oklahoma where taxpayers can get answers and help with tax returns. Ada holds Thursday sessions 8:00 to 4:30 at the Post Office Building. call 332-2130 or the nearest IRS office for assistance. If unresolved by phone, a taxpayer service rep helps on a first come basis.
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Oklahoma City
Clyde L. Bickerstaff
Internal Revenue Service District
Oklahoma
Ada
Bickerstaff
Internal Revenue Service
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Stringtown
New Area Vocational Technical School Board
Byng, Lotta
Don E. Summers
Tom B. Lamson
Collins
Bulletin
Adan
Ference Committee
Oklahoma State Bank
F.D.I.C
Anome State Band
Maude E. Schmidt
Criswell Funeral Home
William Arthur Beam
Criswell Funeral
Raymond L. Matthews
Francis
Smith Funeral Home
Matt Harney
Slater Funeral Home
Randolph Eddie Whitaker
George Monroe Grove
Fielding A. Thomas
Clarita
Roscoe C. Stonecipher
Lenora Mae Johnston
Mary Bernice Way
Pickard Funeral Home
Richard Cowart
Byng — Riley
Young McLish
Billy Don Blankenship
Latta
Wayne Biggs
Roff
Charles R. Brown Pickett Center — J. Thomas Hudson
Ahloso
Kenneth Martin
Main
Broadway
Cowart
C.E
Jack” Duffner
Duffner’s
Total Electric
63Rd & Grand Boulevard
Jack Duffner and
Cleary Petroleum Company
Jack Duffner
Og&ei
Electric Service
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