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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1945
Page
7
Calcutta reports Allied officers note a likely major engagement at the Sittang bend in southern Burma as Japanese forces mass on the east bank. An artillery backed thrust north of Pegu aims to unite forces and free thousands cut off west of the river.
In Chickasha Oklahoma on July 18 three Oklahoma soldiers were to receive the Purple Heart in ceremonies at Borden General Hospital. A citation notes a past wicker bread canister origin from the Greek kanas tron.
After the ceremony the bride returns home with two loaves and breaks them into bits to feed the guests, a quaint rural custom observed in Albania.
Sixth Army headquarters reports Luzon troops praise revolutionary non recoil 57 and 75 millimeter guns after their combat baptism. Soldiers like Sgt. Thomas Kriner of St. Louis say the guns match bazookas in range and power with lighter weight and shoulder firing ability. Bronze stars were awarded to Pvt. Robert Higgins of Lyons Kansas and Pvt. Richard French of Fort Scott Kansas for the first combat use of the weapon.
Oklahoma City July 18 The state Regents for Higher Education will discuss allocating 5 292 000 for construction at state colleges and universities in the next biennium. A legislative resolution requests 250 000 to help start the Southern Oklahoma hospital at Ardmore if 250 000 more is raised locally. No action on the hospital is expected before July 26 when the institution becomes legally established.
In Tuttle Oklahoma on July 18 15 year old Robert Eugene Beaty aided his father J M Beaty 67 after a car crash with a parked maintenance truck. The boy applied a tourniquet to stop bleeding saving his father's life before hospital care.
The navy said two mine sweepers YMS 50 and YMS 365 were lost in the Borneo area with no crew deaths or missing sailors. YMS 365 was commanded by Lt. (jg) Huff of New Orleans and YMS 50 by Lt. (jg) Stern of Logan Iowa. The ships, built by Wheeler Shipbuilding, brought total naval losses to 324 vessels. YMS 365 commissioned 1943. YMS 50 commissioned 1942 and served in convoy escorts and battles against enemy aircraft in the Solomon Islands and Tarawa.
Oklahoma City July 17 Ranchers and dairymen from farm groups will meet to discuss averting a serious protein feed shortage in Oklahoma. President Joe C Scott says a 25 percent cut in cotton acreage will reduce cottonseed and worsen protein feed availability next winter. He urges appealing to the Commodity Credit Corp for at least 125000 tons of northern soybeans to be processed locally.
Oklahoma City July 18 The state highway commission accepted bids on 27 road projects across 23 counties as part of its summer maintenance. Illinix Construction Co. bid 279,465.82 for two McClain County projects on state highways 59 and 59A and 76. Other apparent low bidders include Midwest Materials and Construction Co. and Rex Bentley with bids across Pottawatomie, Garfield, Oklahoma, Carter, Bryan, Atoka, Hughes, Seminole, Lincoln counties, among others.
Donald Louis Mahnke of Peoria Illinois admitted to officers that his car carried 19 cases of whiskey bound for Tulsa Oklahoma. He said he was making his second trip from Illinois into Oklahoma amid a local rum-running pattern through Missouri and Arkansas. Mahnke faces liquor enforcement act charges.
A London dispatch reports Denmark and Italy aiming for UNRRA full membership soon after the relief agency opens its third major conference in London on August 7. Denmark’s admission is viewed as virtually certain and the two nations hope for added aid and food supplies.
Tulsa women at a singfest advocate forming a national auxiliary to the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. O C Sash proposes a women’s auxiliary to avoid masculine control, with plans to organize a local unit Monday night in Tulsa.
Washington reports civilian train travel will grow more uncomfortable as most passenger rolling stock moves into a military pool. Sleeping cars are already limited on short runs, with further civilian sleeper service reductions expected. Defense transportation officials will assess how much civilian service remains as military demand grows. Schnellenbach signals possible consolidation of federal labor agencies under his department but says he will merely streamline procedures, not overturn congressionally granted powers.
Washington July 18 Lewis B Schwellenbach appeared to chart a course that with congressional sanction would make him the most powerful secretary of labor as a new cabinet department is created He told a news conference yesterday that plans would be pushed to establish a strong labor law agency and expand federal role in labor affairs under the department
Mrs. Dixie Evans twenty six, wife of a serviceman, jaywalked into heavy downtown traffic and refused to give her name. A police officer jailed her after she clung to a telephone pole. The municipal court judge found her guilty and fined fifty dollars, far above the usual two dollar jaywalking fee.
The Navy wounded list includes eleven men from Oklahoma, with names and hometowns such as Oklahoma City, Enid, Geary, Lawton, Muldrow, and Locust Grove. The report also notes several missing personnel including Sgts Medler and Westbrook.
Norman July 18 Dr W Thornton University of Oklahoma government professor and Norman mayor for three years was elected to the city's new seven member commission today. Another faculty member Bruce Willey engineering instructor also was elected to the commission.
A brief note recalls Stradivarius instruments once sold for about 16 dollars and now fetching as high as 12 000 dollars each, underscoring the dramatic rise in value of the famed Italian maker's violins.
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