Geography Teacher Grows French Grapes For Hobby
East Central Oklahoma educator Robert Garner heads a 40 acre hobby farm devoting to trial grapes from France. He grows 11 varieties from 5900 offered, with 22 vines thriving and several promising, hoping Oklahoma soils can support commercial wine grape production. He also experiments with pistachio seeds and eucalyptus from abroad to test climate resilience.
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Robert Garner
East Central Geography Department
Garner
Oklahoma
East Central
USDA Offices Move to New Ada Location
USDA offices shift from 520 East Main to a new 40 by 80 foot building at 813 East Main in Ada. The one story brick veneer structure houses 13 offices including Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service Farm Home Administration and Soil Conservation Service with interconnecting hallways and ample parking. The old building owned by Clarence Miller remains housing the Indian Department with future relocation planned.
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East Main
USDA
Ada
Bobby Thompson
Walter Woolley Jr
Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service
Bennet Sherrer
Farm Home Administration
Arthur Ray
Soil Conservation Service
Kenneth Yoakum
Clarence Miller
Indian Department
Federal
Post Office Moves Back to Rennie Twelfth Home
The United States Post Office shifts Monday from temporary digs to the permanent Rennie at Twelfth location. Post master Hicks Smith Jr notes service will remain uninterrupted except for box relocations starting 6 pm. Moving begins 1 pm with departments and carriers followed by lock boxes and dispatch. Customers urged to use drive up mail on East Tenth until reopening Tuesday in the renovated Federal Building.
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Jerry Criswell
United States Post Office
Rennie
Twelfth
Hicks Smith Jr
Federal Building
Postal Service
Smith
East Tenth
Postal Department
Oklahoma cattlemen club accuses USDA of hurting beef market
OCA president Bill Brannan of Marietta told a luncheon gathering that the USDA and State Department damage the cattle industry by pushing foreign relations over American producers. He warned imports equal a large portion of U S beef consumption and urged congressional restrictions while noting a 30 million loss to cattlemen from lowered prices.
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Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association
U. S. Department of Agriculture
State Department
USDA
Bill Brannan
Marietta
OCA
Brannan
Oklahoma
OCA Hach
Orville Freeman
Washington
Phil Busby
Oklahoma CowBelles
Special Sale Days Planned For July in Ada
The Ada Chamber of Commerce Retail Merchants Committee schedules a series of July sales events. July 3 brings Friday is Saturday Day, July 6 a Dollar Day, July 13 a White Elephant Sale in tandem with The King and I, July 21 Ada Night at Oklahoma City with the 89ers facing the Indianapolis Indians, and July 27 a Sidewalk Sale chaired by Frank Dillon.
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Retail Merchants Committee of
The
Chamber of Commerce of
Ada
Ada Community Theatre
Oklahoma City
89Ers
Indianapolis Indians
Frank Dillon
Retail Merchants Committee
Stonewall Selects Stokes as Next Superintendent
Sybil Stokes, veteran county administrator, will lead Stonewall schools next fall replacing D. D. Duke who resigns to teach. Stokes has 12 years as high school principal and has taught math science at Stonewall. served as Air Corps meteorologist 1941–46. educated at East Central and OU.
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Sybil Stokes
Stonewall
D. D. Duke
Moore
Stokes
Moiselle
Air Corps
South Pacific
East Central
University of Oklahoma
Gas Company Cuts Oklahoma Rates After Tax Reduction
Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. will cut rates by 474000 dollars per year due to lower core rate income taxes. No date for the reduction was set and rate structure changes are undecided. The Public Service Commission said new rates take effect upon receipt of a new schedule.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma Natural Gas Co
C. C. Ingram
Corporate Commission
Ray C. Jones
Oklahoma City
Ada High School Car Stolen Near Aldridge Hotel
A 1964 pink Buick used for Ada High School driver education was stolen Thursday afternoon from a parking area near the Aldridge Hotel. Police received the report at 1 27 p m Instructor Lee Roy Mapp left the car briefly at the Aldridge Pharmacy. A suspect described as a man 30 to 40 with dark hair about six feet tall wearing a light shirt is sought.
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Ada High
Aldridge
Lee Roy Mapp
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