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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
1
Secretary Morgenthau places the U S deficit for the fiscal year at 1.4 billion dollars the largest such peacetime figure in history. He also cites a public debt of 33 75 billion and recoverable assets totaling 8 75 billion while noting tomorrow’s treasury statement may adjust figures.
Subcommittees in Wintersmith plan an all day July 4 celebration at Wintersmith Park with a softball game, public office speakers, water sports and a bathing beauty contest. Gene Ford's band plays in the plaza, bathers compete for prizes, and a fireworks finale closes the day. Special officers will manage traffic exits.
Sheriff Clyde Kaiser recovered 19 flashlights two cases of flash bulb bulbs an electric fan and other merchandise from a woods three miles south of Ada in a case linked to a Coalgate burglary. Four suspects two held in Pontotoc jail two in Holdenville face ties to Allen and Atwood drug store robberies.
City records show June fines totalled 600.32 dollars as of Tuesday afternoon, covering traffic violations and other offenses. Mayor Bill Crawford released the figure noting 275 arrests by midnight and that many defendants will pay fines at police court today, with June beating May by about 36 dollars. Some violators also worked out fines on city streets.
Oklahoma City reports that a dairy barn estimated at fifteen thousand dollars will be built at the Taft state hospital for the negro insane. Chairman L. M. Nichols of the board of affairs announced the project today.
A bus crash above the Natural Bridge gorge in Virginia during a heavy rainstorm left five dead and 24 injured. Driver J J Olderson swerved to avoid a plunge as the vehicle struck a bank and toppled, with bodies taken to Roanoke and remaining injured sent to Lexington and a hotel hospital. The crash occurred near the Cedar Creek cave landmark on U S Route 11. Identified dead include J J Olderson Lena Holden J P Hamilton John Keesee and Horace Hudgins among others. a unidentified woman died of shock.
After weeks of delay the Pontotoc county fair board plans immediate WPA project work for a fall fair. President Bates resigns due to ill health and a new board member will be appointed after a Monday meeting with county supervisors to discuss future plans and site selection for new fairground buildings.
Five Pontiac men and one Flint resident pleaded guilty in Oakland County Circuit Court to an arson charge for destruction of the Workers Educational Association camp in 1933. Judge George B. Hartrick deferred sentence. Names include James E. Bader and his son George Bader, Randall Wilson, Gordon Smith, and Harry P. Davis.
Vincent McKinney, 30, died in a Durant hospital from burns after a farmhouse blaze seven miles southeast of Durant. His mother and brother suffered minor burns, as the fire engulfed the residence, a barn, and two smaller buildings. Funeral services are set for tomorrow afternoon.
Thirteen men charged with conspiracy in a whisky ring bringing Texas liquor into southern Oklahoma entered nolo contendere pleas and were sentenced by Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught in Guthrie.
The process requires a scream test for any actress considered for a Dracula or Frankenstein role. Directors assess vocal fright impact to match the movie’s eerie mood and maintain casting standards.
President Roosevelt addresses Philadelphia outlining the 1932 mandate to end despotism and promote equal opportunity. He warns of fear and unemployment and pleads for a government that acts with charity rather than indifference.
Judge Lucius Babcock of Oklahoma City ordered how the $306000 settlement from oil holdings in the John Fitts field is to be paid to Mrs A J Harden. Mr Harden must pay $100000 now $100000 in 1937 and $100000 in 1958. Mrs Harden moved to Ada and sent the children to school while Mr Harden stayed at the Byrds Mill cabin home.
Mrs. Sybil McLaughlin, about 35, suffered burns when a five gallon kerosene can exploded while she tried to start a fire in the cook stove at her farm home northeast of Shawnee. She ran into the yard ablaze and was hospitalized with severe burns.
An earthquake likely of disastrous proportions registered at the Moscow seismological institute at 9:17 a.m. Oklahoma time with its epicenter near the Aleutian Islands.
Dr Gael D Davis Breco about 30 drowned after diving into a five foot deep pool at Elm Grove park three miles southeast of Ada. He struck the bottom and broke his neck. his body was recovered fifteen minutes later. He leaves a wife a son and parents. He was a 32d degree Mason and member of two Oklahoma City lodges.
A disastrous Texas flood leaves twenty dead and fourteen missing as authorities assess damage along the border. Emergency crews continue searches while communities brace for further rain. Local officials warn of continuing flood risks and urge heightened vigilance.
Devastating rains in southwest Texas cause at least twenty deaths, with fourteen others missing. Floodwaters destroy homes and crops, drown members of the Warnette family near Nixon, and wash away cattle. Plum Creek swells halting a Missouri Pacific train and fueling widespread loss.
Defending champion Fred Perry and Germany's Baron von Cramm advanced to the final round of the all England tennis championship for the second consecutive year at Wimbledon. A delegate at a keynote speech might describe the moment as three long years.
Evidence of a large building program in Ada includes the Aldridge hotel addition with concrete footings poured and materials arriving. Across Twelfth Street bricklayers work on a new Union Bus Station east of the Cummings building while the Cummings clinic office interior progresses. Dormitories at East Central State Teachers College near completion with occupancy for 112 men and 178 women planned. many residences under construction or announced by real estate firms. The school board awards a 13000 auditorium addition to Washington ward school and three small residence permits are issued on East Sixth and East Corona.
J. E. Snider a 72 year old cowboy pleaded guilty to attempting to extort $1,000 from Mrs Will Rogers widow of the late humorist He offered to sell the Rogers family a manuscript claiming Rogers once rustled cattle Snider faces sentencing in federal court on Monday The remark about old line politicians appears in the source text.
A northward thunder shower cooled Pontotoc county on Wednesday afternoon restoring moisture to crops. Ada reports 1.21 inches from Lena Jordan official observer, while some areas received less. The rain lasted over two hours and brought widespread relief to farmers and city residents.
Washington officials rushed relief as rains spread to the Ohio Valley and Midwest. WPA to hire over 25,000 farmers for roads and dams in the Dakotas Montana Wyoming and Minnesota. A cattle purchase program and higher soil conservation payments are under consideration to aid ruined growers.
Seven died and 15 wounded in Merida Yucatan after troops on a government house roof fired on striking chauffeurs during a disorderly protest. The city was placed under military control. A centenarian reportedly wears elephant tusk teeth that snap at a democrat.
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