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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
2
A collage of quips on gowns, Colorado visitors, and political banter highlights a day of light reads. Jokes on uniforms, Lan don’s Estes Park welcome, and talk of the postwar era politics mingle with local recollections and humorous notes about fireworks and rain prayers.
Judge John Boyce McKeel explains a cooperative program with the federal government to fund up to nine juvenile welfare workers in Pontotoc County. The county must create a 1000 to 1200 dollar welfare fund and cooperate on case investigations, foster care, protection of neglected and exploited children, and coordination with courts and schools.
Ray Stegall announces the annual Pontotoc county school board and teachers meeting for Saturday July 18 at 1 pm in the district courtroom. Topics include rural school accrediting for next year and other timely matters. He notes 35 schools earned accredited rating and lists principals for each school.
Oil field equipment recovered earlier at Thittstown was finally identified on Monday, ending a theft case in which Lloyd Carpenter and John Harris were already serving seven year sentences. Burke-Greis Oil Company items were the last to be identified, the loot found in a tent at Fittstown used by the defendants. Raymond Miller and Clifford Carson pleaded not guilty to an alleged knife attack on Tommy Shilling. bond set at 1900 for July 16 preliminary hearing.
Pontotoc county voters will gather near The Ada News to hear July 7 primary results from across the county and state. Candidates for US Senate stage last minute rallies in Glenwood Park and Wintersmith Park plus a Fourth District race drive. Election procedures and AP teletype will speed results as organizers plan rapid local coverage.
Oklahoma 4-H terracing club boys may win a McPheters Terracer at the State Round-Up hosted by Oklahoma A and M College August 4 to 7. County Agent J B Hill notes the prize for the winning agricultural engineering demonstration team from each district. The machine, designed by W H McPheters, can be built at home.
Miss Minnie Sue Lane an Muldrow area resident died in a Fort Smith hospital after a truck bus collision on U S Highway 64 near Muldrow Oklahoma. Six of seven truck occupants were injured while bus passengers escaped unharmed. Other injured include Nola Mae Lane Finney Wilson Jr Maxine Treat and Mr and Mrs Lane with serious injuries.
Bob Simmons of F. H. Moore Inc suffered a broken leg above the ankle while working on a well in the Fitts field. He was rushed to a local clinic Sunday afternoon and reported doing very well Monday.
Frisco officials announced the daylight passenger service will be retained for Ada and extended to Scullin six miles east of Sulphur. The train leaves Tulsa at 7 45 a m and arrives Ada at 11 25 a m. Scullin arrival 12 05 p m and departure 1 55 p m. Ada departures 2 40 p m and Tulsa arrival 6 10 p m. The schedule aims to improve mail service for Rofs Fitzhugh and Hickory and connects Sulphur with St Louis and east.
Mayor Bill Crawford assessed a traffic violation penalty on Mrs Albert Chamberlain wife of the city clerk and first defendant in a case where police issued pink tickets for failure to heed traffic laws. She presented the ticket and 31 fine to the mayor and left.
Rumors of remaining funds in Mississippi state secondary school aid are true. Pontotoc county will receive 5992 to be divided among Latta Allen Fitzhugh Vanoss Francis and Reff for consolidated schools. Funds may buy new classes or bodies with steel bodies recommended to prevent tragedies like Tupelo.
President Roosevelt will come to Oklahoma this fall for a state wide demonstration in Oklahoma City. National committeeman Scott Ferris and Tulsa leader Mrs Jobin Catlett led planning with Sam Battles and Mrs Ed Faulkenberg. County crowds of 500 to 5000 visitors are to hear him at Lincoln Park stadium with banners banners and party funds to decorate the grounds.
In Guthrie on June 26, Judge Edgar S. Vaught presided as two counterfeit honey defendants and six liquor defendants entered guilty pleas in federal court. Sentences included parole terms, jail terms, fines, and probation for several defendants from Oklahoma City Tecumseh Kingfisher and nearby areas.
The Department of Agriculture announced a 29 percent rise in the spring pig crop of 1953 compared with 1935. It forecasts about 14 percent more sows farrow in fall 1936 than 1935, with total farrowing up about 24 percent in 1926 over 1935, and more hogs over six months old as of June 1, 1936 versus a year earlier.
The News publishes candidate announcements subject to the Democratic Primary on July 7, 1936. For Congress Fourth District: George R. Gassaway, W. R. Collins, Tom Corvin, Carmichael, Henry L. Waters Sr., James Willard Owens. For County Commissioner District 3: S. R. Chambers.
Five arrests Sunday and talk Monday of a court test of the city Sunday grocery closing ordinances were reported. The mayor, Bill Crawford, said cases will proceed. Shook and Crouch were jailed after bail refusals. Meaders and Welch posted bail. Pope of Covington pleaded guilty to liquor law violation, receiving one year in jail and probation. Richard Pope was found innocent.
Oklahoma officials announced a $250,000 grasshopper control campaign with $100,000 federal funds to be used this summer. E E Scholl said the effort would start within 48 hours and include county agents, poison distribution, and regional supervision from Kansas City. A separate note mentions popcorn whisky plans and a family obituary for Mrs. Taylor of Okmulgee.
Charles E. Douglas known as the Oklahoma Pop Corn King died in Kansas City at 75 after a heart attack while shopping with his wife eight months after moving from Okmulgee for heart specialist treatment. He built towns in Oklahoma his oil fortune and later invested in popcorn concessions including the Century of Progress Chicago exhibit. He survived by his wife. his first wife had died years earlier.
Two Seminole machine shop workers Earl McFarland and Frank Pinsen were badly burned when a drill pipe used as a support fell and contacted a high voltage line. They were building an overhead crane and were moving pipe into position when the winch line slipped, causing the pipe to strike the power line.
Fred Fry, 20, Durant Oklahoma, a sophomore football player at Oklahoma A and M, died instantly after being knocked from a high oil field derrick platform eight miles west of Eunice New Mexico. He was turning on a steam pressure valve when struck by a lever, hurled to the ground, and died five minutes later. Fry was a Durant high school star and prominent on the Aggie freshman team last year. His body will be sent to Durant to his parents Mr and Mrs P R Fry.
Oklahoma City reports the death of Dr A M Ruhl age 61 a longtime Edmond physician who had practiced for 36 years after a three week illness. He was a prominent local medical figure with deep community ties.
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