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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1934
Page
6
Ada escaped heavy losses from fire in 1933. Ed Haley, fire chief, shows property involved valued at 932 485 with 696 500 insurance. Buildings 540 880 contents 391 595. 104 calls nearly nine per month. Losses 13 450 with two downtown blazes. Buildings 4 045 contents 9 405. Department ran 893 blocks and laid 19 600 feet of hose.
Mrs B E Collins of Ada Oklahoma was appointed to assist Mrs Jessie Morgan home demonstration agent in field work linked to Mrs Morgan duties. Collins, a East Central Teachers College graduate, knows Pontotoc County and will support 4 H rural clubs and adult farm women clubs while Mrs Cessna Hardberger handles clerical work.
President Roosevelt signs the general wholesale and distribution code and approves separate codes for peanut millers and carpet makers. Hugh Johnson orders sanitary products code under 50 000 employee rule. The wholesale code allows price differentials set by code authorities after hearings with Johnson's consent. Johnson cites 10 to 15 percent higher employment expectation and a 44 hour week with $14 to $15 minimums. 675 009 workers in 1929.
T G Kelly named chairman to organize a January 30 event here as part of a national ball drive. Proceeds benefit the Warm Springs Foundation supporting infantile paralysis research and victim recovery. Local committees include Harwell, Miller, McBride, West, Crawford and others.
Latta and Stratford girls basketball teams reached the Byng tournament finals after two close wins each. Latta beat Stonewall 38 33 in semis while Stratford defeated Maud 31 20 to advance to the final clash.
Oklahoma City January 13. The Oklahoma tax commission plans vigorous collection for the one per cent state sales tax. First warrants will go to sheriffs in 77 counties to seize unpaid taxes plus penalties. W. D. Humphrey says many warrants come from audits of merchants and firms failing to file reports. The tax, effective July 10, has already raised 1.6 million dollars for common schools after admin costs.
Oklahoma City report shows embezzlers had zero parole violations while chicken thieves 16 percent and robbers 12 percent recur. Gov Murray has granted clemency to 1,637 individuals in three years with 110 acts revoked and 811 paroles issued. In Washington, Roosevelt seeks power to revalue the dollar between 50 and 60 percent of its gold content and to create a two billion dollar stabilization fund.
Miss Alice Carlson notes farm women in Oklahoma use a budget canning plan to meet family health needs. A sample family of five should store 20 quarts greens, 75 quarts tomatoes, 110 quarts other vegetables, 150 quarts fruit, 30 quarts jellies, and 20 quarts pickles for nine months or eight months of other foods.
In Tremont, 1933, detective Bannister teams with editor Jim Paxton to probe the death of orchestra leader Tracy King. A glamor girl Juliet France, a found photograph, and a tense hotel room clue push him toward a wider conspiracy as police hunt an unknown suspect. The case grows with a jailhouse connection to Carlotta Scurlach and Denise Lang.
In New Orleans a heated mayoral campaign heats up with threats of martial law and 10 000 policemen to secure a quiet orderly election. Huey P Long supports John Klorer against Mayor Walmsley amid voter list irregularities and arrests at the registrar's office.
President Roosevelt urges Congress to fix the dollar at 60 percent of its gold value with a 2 billion dollar stabilization fund. He seeks authority to take over 3.5 billion dollars in gold from Federal Reserve banks and to pay for it in gold certificates. He notes no fiat currency and outlines the method to cut gold content of the dollar while protecting treasury gold.
A readable OCR fragment lists crops including cowpeas winter squash pumpkins peppers tomatoes sweet potatoes corn popcorn onions Irish potatoes turnips rutabaga peas peanuts edamame soybeans.
W. E. Selby reports missing poultry in Lawnwood Hughes county and recalls a rabbit eating a young guinea as he watched two rabbits feed near a hen with newborns. The tale notes breeders’ observations of rabbits killing smaller animals and hints at evolutionary implications. Burns Keeling Marriage Announced.
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