Editorial on Soil Conservation Aims from 1955 ADA Weekly News
Editorial first published June 9, 1955 in the ADA Weekly News outlines aims of the Soil Conservation Districts at county and state levels. It notes the piece influenced the editor’s award from the Oxlahania Association of Soil Conservation Districts and reflects conservation priorities of the era.
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Pontotoc
Ada
Okla
ADA Evening News
Oklahoma
ADA Weekly News
Oxlahania Association of Soil Conservation Districts
The Top Six Inches And The Value Of Topsoil
A bygone view of land as indestructible is replaced by the reality that topsoil is finite. The piece argues conservation is essential, practical farming, and shows how contour plowing and cover crops protect soil while boosting profits. It ends by asking how to secure water for growing needs.
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Nature
Weekly
H. G. Little
Righteousness and the Call to True Rightness
Readers are urged to seek true righteousness beyond Pharisee pretension. Jesus criticizes motive and inner heart, demanding love without limits, including enemies, and a motive to resemble God. The piece cites toothpaste consumption and Gene Autry’s Texas roots as closing notes.
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Ards
Kingdom of Heaven
Jesus
God
Heaven
Christ
Division of Christian Education
National Council
The
Churches of Christ
U. S.A
Community Press Service
Chalk Dust by Norman C. Mitchell County Superintendent
Readers of the WEEKLY largely comprise patrons of 16 dependent schools. This column discusses these districts under county supervision in Ponto toe County. Two dependent districts operate high schools Lula and Francis. Fourteen rural elementary districts range from one to five teachers.
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Ponto ‘Toe
Lula
Francis
Lula News Highlights School Life And Local Games
Ada residents Luetta Brooks and Helen Clifford spent Monday night visiting and attended Lula Centrahoma games in Tupelo with Lula girls losing 48-24 and Lula boys winning by four. The Ada based community discussed school staff, board members, bus drivers, lunchroom staff, and janitors, noting 41 teachers, 18 with master’s degrees, and a 1-22 pupil-teacher ratio.
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Luetta Brooks
Ada
Helen Cifford
Hula
Tupelo
Tupelo Girls
Luls
Lula
Centrahoma
Iula Girls
Lula Boys
Centrahome
Lula Girls
Ted
Helen
Debra Clifford
Missionary Baptist Church
Mrs
Donald Brooks
Linda
Luetta
Tura
Ada Area Bebee News Highlights Local Visits
The Bebee News details a busy week with church attendance at Free Will Baptist, Sunday school for 63, and sermons by Rev. Scott Jones and Rev. Billy Holland. Community members note visits, family gatherings, basketball games, hospital updates, and local travel, with numerous Ada Worstell and Byng connections. James Barrie noted as longtime author obituary closing the fragment.
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Free Will Baptist Church
Scott Jones
Billy Holland
Shawnee
Young People’s League
Supreme Court case links leaflets to free press heritage
A Georgia case over a town ordinance mandating license to hand out leaflets rose to the U S Supreme Court. The decision upheld Liberty of circulation as essential to the liberty of publishing, tracing roots to Milton and the Bill of Rights.
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New York
National
Georgia
Griffin
Ame
U. S. Supreme Court
John Milton
England
Supreme Court
Ahloso News Highlights Local Visits and Games
Local notes record visits among Ada residents and surrounding areas. Families such as Jennings, Green, and Sims attended a Latta Evergreen basketball game Saturday evening. Several households hosted guests from Dallas, Burg, and Pleasant Hill, with minor surgery and illnesses mentioned. A note on a wartime Supreme Court ruling about compulsory flag-salute closes the summary.
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Lois
Louis Sims
Latta
Evergreen Team
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Jack
Evergreen
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