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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1958
Page
2
A veteran writer reflects on how political campaigns exhaust readers and blur judgment. He warns against emotional overindulgence and urges careful reading, meditation, and personal discernment while noting growing jet airliner plans and summer safety tips. He likens citizens to Gulliver’s captives awaiting a deal with Liliput.
Cattle receipts at the Ada livestock auction totaled 201,500 dollars Tuesday with prices steady across groups. Prices ranged with cattle including cows 12.00 to 21.00, bulls up to 22.75, veal calves 22.00 to 26.00, stockers and feeders mainly 20.00 to 29.00, hogs 17.00 to 25.00, plus a note on home efficiency tips about hanging items after laundering.
The report lists stallion and filly foal entries from Weatherford Texas Ardmore Oklahoma and surrounding areas with owners including I J Wilhelm S David C B Goddard Roy Steffey and John Sturgeon. Grand champion Tamet ridden by Vaughns and reserve Bert Lee ridden by Steffey receive top honors.
Oklahoma State University to host the annual dairy cattle judging school and contest for 4-H members on July 23 24 at the OSU campus. Winning team earns trip to the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo Iowa with potential to advance to Europe. Breeds Ayrshire Brown Swiss Guernsey Holstein and Jersey offer special awards. Oklahoma 4-H has won the national contest three times with two teams progressing to the international event in England.
T J Wilhelm's Miss Trudy Jo and foal Semino c Galdings, Junior Robertson's Te haucuna Waiurika, W Jones' Sutherland's Dwight Madill, and Douglas Alsup's Autry's Rusty Duncan competed for top prizes. The grand champion went to the first place, with the reserve to the second in this bracket.
Hampshire group held its first field day at Newcastle with Bruce Carter giving the welcome and Evergreen Mills furnishing luncheon. The Ponlotoe-Coal County Livestock Association sponsored the sow breeder pig sale in Oklahoma last April amid barbecue pork on the menu.
The Allen School District will use a dismantled refinery water well as an emergency source for drought or fire risk. Superintendent C G Weaver credits D X Sunray for gifting the well and notes it won’t be used for drinking water. Sunray declined a sale of the well and property to keep the water supply available to the schools.
Ronald Dean Matheny age eighteen and Linda Ann Graves age seventeen, both of Ada, wed. K. P. Larsh Jr age twenty two of Rott married Jane Andersat age seventeen of Rott.
FITTSTOWN The Charlie Bighams have moved into a new Latta home and a portion of Fittstown has moved with them. Longtime church volunteers, Mr. Bigham served as church treasurer for 12 years while Mrs. Bigham led the Junior Sunday School for 20 years. The couple were honored with a party at the church building under construction, where they received a parting gift and refreshments.
Ada area residents host visitors from De Queen Oklahoma and Duncan. A lengthy social sketch details multiple family gatherings, 4-H club events, church services, a funeral in Durant, and local visits by Hobbs, Crawford, Moore, and Russell families amid community activities and hospital updates.
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