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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1938
Page
8
Ada residents share travel updates and family news including trips to Breckenridge and Long Beach California. Birth announcements at 602 West Ninth Street and 500 East Ninth Street mark twin girls Annette and Jeanette.
Obituaries for Kinne, Wood, Breed infant, Hudson, Frankie Roberts, Estell Hyatt, Jeter, Parker infant, Adaline Bolin, and related funeral plans. Notices list ages, residences, survivors, and burial sites at Rosedale Memorial Park and local cemeteries. Additional brief notes include a railroad crossing accident fatality near Haileyville.
Subfreezing weather bit into northern Oklahoma as a broad cold wave swept through the nation. In Tulsa 86 year old H I McCoy died in a fire started while his wife thawed pipes. Across the Midwest, temperatures plunged with Moorehead Minn reporting ten below zero and numerous cities seeing record lows. Banks of snow shut highways, stalled trains, and forced school and power outages as relief workers mobilized.
Oil leases on 176 Osage tracts were auctioned in Pawhuska for 27950 dollars after 243 tracts were offered. Only 24 tracts totaling 649 acres found buyers in an inducement sale, with Carter Oil Company of Tulsa bidding the most.
The auction in the Osage Museum building saw IT.L 0. Bartonville pay $5,100 for a 160 acre tract and the next highest bidder pay $2,000 for a 40-acre tract. The Norman Oil Company of Tulsa leased 14 tracts, the largest number taken by any company.
Oklahoma City report says bankers can aid farm diversification and soil conservation by tying loans to broader farm programs. Dan H Otis of Madison Wisconsin notes Georgia banks require livestock and feed production for cotton loans, promoting ownership and steadier income. Oklahoma Bankers association committee lists FP Hard as chairman and members Carr Ardmore Beyer Guthrie Call Cyril, Butts Nash.
The Oklahoma City cattle market shows 1,200 head with calves 600, activity mixed and prices generally steady to higher for beef cattle, hogs at 25 to 40 cents lower, and sheep with fat lambs steady to up 10 cents. New York cotton fell on long liquidation with May easing to 8.47, while New Orleans spot cotton closed steady to 3 points lower. Over 53,000 automobile trailers were sold in 1936 per the census after a special trailer industry survey.
Washington Jan 26 The interior department told Representative Baren D Oklahoma that Pine Oil has an adequate corporate surety bond covering Indian oil leases. Oscar L Chapman acting secretary said Pine will be held responsible for protecting Indian interests and paying compensatory royalty if wells under leases fail to produce. The long list of local social notes follows about visits, family events, and community happenings in Vanoss and Ada areas.
A Mountain Fork flood cut water to a civilian conservation camp and damaged a mesh fence on William H. Murray's farm west of here. U.S. Biological Survey workers D. W. Kolb and A. E. Gray are marooned at Carnasaw Creek camp with horses and ample food, but no danger reported.
Washington Jan 2012 Farm bill conferees said they agreed to raise small benefit payments for farmers under 200 dollars a year as part of the ever normal granary plan. Pope said quotas for corn wheat cotton and tobacco would apply later. rice likely exempt. A special review panel would handle county protests and appeals to courts.
The article notes penalties for farmers failing to stay within cotton acreage or quota limits. Penalties amount to two cents per pound this year and three cents per pound in subsequent years, enforcing compliance with the quota system.
Ray Stegall, county superintendent, Tuesday morning worked out the apportionment of gross production tax funds for Pontotoc county school districts. The December total of 903.62 is allocated mainly to District 19 Ada with 5450.64, followed by U. G. 2 McLish at 1662.88 and Stonewall at 1117.01. Rural areas receive smaller shares, some as low as 27.86, but the tax funds are essential for local school financing.
An Ada news classified item notes a person called Greaser returning for an amount of money vested. The brief item conveys a local financial or settlement matter within the classified section.
Ada chamber promotes agricultural showcase for 4 H and FP A youth ages 11 to 21 from multiple counties. Entries due Feb 23 1948 to J B Hill Ada Oklahoma with county agent certification. Animals must be in place by 12 noon March 2, ownership rules apply, and exhibit handling details outlined.
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