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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1969
Page
3
A community kitchen feature highlights a young girl delivering Two Way Cookies as a profitable pastime. It details two cookie batters with ingredients such as flour, eggs, sugar, coconut, dates and nuts, plus baking steps and yields.
A vintage recipe cards notes double cream cookies. Mix Le or soft butter with heavy cream and flour, chill, roll, cut into small rounds, sugar coat, prick tops, bake until puffed then cool. Pair with Creamy Frosting made from butter confectioners sugar egg yolk vanilla and almond extract.
Cream shortening and sugar with lemon rind until light. Add egg and beat until smooth. Mix flour with baking soda and cream of tartar. add alternately with lemon juice and water. Stir in nuts. Shape dough into small balls, bake 8 to 10 minutes at a moderate oven, then roll in confectioners sugar. Variations use orange rind and juice and pecans.
A concise schoolhouse recipe lists sugar milk butter and cocoa boiled briefly then mixed with oats coconut peanut butter vanilla and more. Drop spoonfuls on waxed paper yields about 30 cookies.
The Oklahoma State Employment Service Ada office placed 261 jobs in June across professional technical clerical bench and construction fields. Three hundred twenty three new applications were filed as students pursued guramet work. Seasonal farm labor offices closed June 27 with wheat harvest nearing completion. broomcorn harvest expected around July 10 in Washita Bierpottine area near Lindsay and Maysville.
Paul Quirk of McAlester has been chosen as Ada Boys Club director succeeding Exile Staggs who will take a similar post in Austin Texas. Quirk, an assistant director of the McAlester club for two and a half years, is a 1981 McAlester High School graduate and attended Eastern Oklahoma State College Wilburton. He will begin duties July 23 in Ada.
A Contrahoma man Walter Paul Jordan age 25 was charged in District Court with robbery with a firearm for a daylight holdup at Criswell Funeral Home. He pled not guilty at arraignment and was ordered for 60 days observation at Griffin Memorial State Hospital by agreement with his lawyer.
A sprawling local round up lists dozens of Ada Stonewall and Frisco area residents visiting relatives attending family gatherings and rodeos. Names include Campbell Minor Slater Barnes Daniels West Marshall Brady Byrd Kennedy and Daniel with multiple extended family sightings around July celebrations and church events. A long roster records visits to and from Ada Stonewall Frisco Fittstown and Prague detailing picnics fireworks and a July Fourth family reunion. An Eton bound note mentions poverty essays from visiting English aristocracy sons.
Residentsattend picnics at the J R Pendergrass home in Oakman and gatherings with the Berry Bishops, Sid Walton, and others. Coastal visitors include Doris Angel and Betty Fleahardy in Jacksonville, while fishing trips occur at Lake Texoma and Lake Eufaula. July 4 celebrations, roadside socials, and church activities are noted along with hospital stays and road trips to Ada, Tulsa, and Seminole.
Mrs Orville Ryan and Stuart Texas and Mrs Carolyn Glover and children Wyoming vacationing in Oklahoma visiting relatives and friends at Amarillo Paducah Ada Oklahoma City and California. Fireworks displays and July 4 dinners with members of the Norton Beam McKinney Laughlin Jordan McDonald and Shope families noted along with Lake Texoma camping trips and other visits.
Mr and Mrs J D Hall and Rebecca visited Mr and Mrs John Collins and family recent A visitor of Mr and Mrs Loyd Hanks and family was Morris Carney Mrs Wilmorene Golden Charles Diana Claudette and Law Mrs Joe Daniel took the fence celebrated July 4 picnick
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