Fireball Mystery Near Busby Ranch Report
Newsman John Bennett describes a late night visit to Busby Ranch where teens reported glowing lights dubbed Fox Fires or Will-of-the-Wisps. He and the group observed a nocturnal phenomenon from a fence line, with Ronnie Black citing a year of prior sightings as curiosity and doubt drive further investigation.
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John Bennett
W.L. Knickmyer
Busby Ranch
Ronnie Black
Oklahoma
Ray H. Page
Wallace Laws
Laws
Lights in Cemetery Baffle Allen Area Resident
Allen resident says mysterious bouncing lights near his home have persisted for six years. J W Shropshire reports seeing the luminous orbs near a cemetery a mile east, where graves date before 1900 and brush fills a six foot hole. Coffman recalls tales of lights at the cemetery tied to local funerals.
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Allen Area
J. W. Shropshire
Allen
Shropshire
Oscar Colfman
Coffman
Ceornfield
Oscar Coffman
Ada
Qualls
Lights in field near Allen spark buzz and mystery
Reported near the 4B Ranch lights appeared nightly over weeks, seen by Bill Statas and OG&E workers. Eyewitnesses describe glowing colored balls 15 18 inches wide moving over a field with no noise, some bouncing, others vanishing. A News crew later investigated with several locals, but details remained uncertain and some sought rational explanations.
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Allen
Weakuriea
Bill Statas
Ignis Fatuus
Amenon
Allen Youngsters
Pontotoc County
Starns
Boondocks
Og&e
Marshall Erwin
Johnny Plunk
Harvey Huckeby
Bruce Roark
Stoneybroke Ranch Bull Wins International Award
The Corbins’ Aberdeen Angus Emulous 7000th, bred at Stoneybroke Ranch south of Ada, earned the international “T-Bone Award” for top beef carcass values after a 140 day performance test at Murray State College. Calves sired by him topped packer cut out values and eye size, boosting a legacy that includes a 13.35 pound daily gain.
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Carlton Corbin
Corbina
Emulous
Performance Registry International
Murray State College
Corbins
PRI
Corvallis
Ore
Barbara
Corbin
Stoneybroke Ranch
Ada
Murray Corbin
Carlton
Tishomingo
Curtis Farms
Cary
Arkansas Firm Wins Contract For SCS Work
A. K. McBride of Fort Smith, Ark., won the Soil Conservation Service contract for Site No. 4 in the Sandy Conservancy District with a low bid of 126,643 dollars. Bids from E. H. Holtzen Enid 138,715 G. Contractors Purcell 150,725 Earthmovers Inc Henryetta 149,492 and Simms Inc Duncan 162,246. The site four miles southwest of Ada will store 85 acres of water on a 174 acre flood pool from a 9.3 square mile drainage area.
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Soil Conservation Service
Ada
East Main
Sandy Conservancy District
A. K. McBride
Ft. Smith
Ark
E. H. Holtzen
Enid
G. Contractors
Purcell
Earthmovers, Inc
Henryetta
Simms, Inc
Duncan
Virl Loman
Jay Jackson
Sherwood
O'Neal
Adolph Bleier
Congress weighs Upper Blue River Watershed project approval
Washington President Kennedy has submitted authorization for the 203000 acre Upper Blue River watershed project in southeastern Oklahoma. Congressmen Carl Albert and Tom Steed say the plan, approved locally, moves to Public Works committees for possible approval before the session ends. The effort, to be funded at about 3935000 dollars over eight years, would install 741 floodwater retarding structures in Johnston Pontotoc Murray Bryan and Atoka counties, with local landowners contributing easements and land treatment measures aimed at flood control erosion and water supply retention.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Upper Blue River
Oklahoma
Carl Albert
Tom Steed
Johnston
Pontotoc Counties
Murray
Bryan
Atoka
Johnston County
Pontotoc
Albert, Steed
Mike Monroney
Washita Valley
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Stonewall
Canada
Kansas City
Arlie Halsey
Their
Hk Aa
Jonn Qualls
John
Summers Chapel
Ter
Arkansas
Blue River
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