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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1965
Page
4
A Ada News column discusses the Girard College will in Philadelphia, funding for poor white male orphans, and modern challenges to private endowments. The piece argues such wills reflect personal choice and should not be overturned unless public funds are involved.
A well known county resident recalls a southeastern Oklahoma fishing camp anecdote from the 1930s. A mountaineer explains how he stole a lunch, choosing a heavy pail to find hickory nuts beneath a ball peen hammer, illustrating how one can misjudge wealth.
President Johnson closed the White House Conference on Education with a call to expand federal involvement. Attendees highlighted desegregation, high dropout rates, urban school decline, and preschool programs for deprived children, urging stronger funding and new proposals. Johnson vowed not to fall behind past failures as he framed the discussions as a basis for action.
An exhortation on Christianity as a life of being and doing not mere knowledge. It argues the Bible is the religion of a book for all people not just scholars, urges humble contact with its truth, and calls Christians to study Scripture to prepare for every good work.
The column reflects on Byron Harvey's death, the Harvey House legacy, and the western dining chain. It shifts to horse culture, saddlery, and Appaloosa popularity, then to 1965 politics and a meditation on society and responsibility through Ol Joe and Ol Buzz.
Ada born oilman S J Sarkeys, aged 95, died in Oklahoma City Wednesday. Survived by son S J Sarkeys Jr, funeral Friday 10:30 a.m. at Hahn Funeral Home Oklahoma City with interment there. Sarkeys built oil holdings across Oklahoma and New Mexico and recently began a drilling campaign in the Jesse area. He admired Dr A Linscheid and hoped to endow him to lecture abroad.
A legal look at whether dancers can claim damages from management. Some cases deny claims for normal floor wax and dim lighting, while others order compensation when management failed to protect against non standard risks such as a grape on the floor or a violent partner.
A preacher jokes about forgotten words as he slips on a banana peel. The incident prompts lighthearted reflections on memory and language.
Glass fiber emerged as a versatile manufacturing material in the early 1930s, though largely unknown to housewives and drapers before its era. The compound's early reception highlighted its potential across industries.
The Roff Sportsmen's Club will sponsor the annual fish fry Friday night at the club house from 5 to 8 p.m. The menu features fish baked beans salad pie and beverages.
Inhabitants of Nauru must leave the Pacific island when its phosphate resource ends in about three decades. They have rejected offers from Wales Curtis and Goodenough Islands.
Harrison Cope an East Central graduate and son of Mr and Mrs Howard Cope will teach history and government at Eastern A&M Wilburton next year. He moves from Anadarko where he taught last year. His wife is dean of women at Eastern. Both previously taught at Okemah before moving to Anadarko. They have three children Reba a student at OSU and Joe and Connie at home. He has two brothers Bill Cope and Charlie Cope and a sister Mrs Buck Price.
Classified advertisement note offering items and services with contact number FE 2-4433. Ends.
Firemen stayed busy Wednesday afternoon after a midnight blaze at M and P Grocery Tuesday night. A 2 02 p m wash down at Main and Townsend followed a five gallon soap spill from a turning truck creating slick streets. At 4 43 p m a house fire at Nola Ashley Route 3 north of the city caused porch flooring damage from fireworks. At 7 24 p m a car fire at 10th and Constant involved Bill Kennedy owned vehicle with wiring short, limiting damage to wiring and insulation.
Louis L Choate of Mesa Arizona formerly of Ada died Monday in Mesa He was 60 born October 24 1904 in Wynnewood Oklahoma and lived in and around Ada most of his life He was a member of a Free Will Baptist Church Services Sunday at 2 pm in Smith Funeral Home with Rev Bert Jones officiating Burial in Maxwell Cemetery North of Oil Center Surviving are three daughters a son a sister three brothers eight grandchildren and numerous nephews and nieces
Mrs. Willie B. Holbrook Boone 72 of Ada died at 9 15 am Thursday in a local hospital after a four week illness. Born January 4 1891 in Arkansas she was a charter member of the Bible Baptist Church. Survived by son Bill E. Price Ada three daughters Opal Halliday Ada Lorene McCoy Altus and Lucylle Serviss Long Beach California six grandchildren a sister Nola McCawley and a brother Vernon Holbrook. Services Saturday at 10 am in Bible Baptist Church with Rev Frank Smith and Rev Bert Harrison officiating. Burial in Rosedale Cemetery Criswell Funeral Home in charge.
Ardmore resident Ora Norton Sloan born December 16, 1890 in Alabama died suddenly at 11 15 a m Wednesday in Ardmore. He was a cotton ginner married to Ada Hughes March 2, 1924. Survived by wife, daughter Dee Choate, sons Durward and Boyd Sloan, foster daughter Mary Pittman, three sisters Fanny Beller Maggie Davis Pauline Whitsett and 12 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Criswell Funeral Home.
Joe Taylor of 631 West 6th died at 7 45 a.m. Thursday in a local hospital. The retired Ideal Cement Company employee is survived by his wife a son and a daughter and other relatives. Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The highest geographic point in New England is Mt Washington in New Hampshire at 6,238 feet. Rhode Island records the region’s lowest high point, Jerimoth Hill at 812 feet above sea level.
A patchwork of poems and quips, mixing Alexander Pope lines with proverbs and jokes. The fragmentary text includes references to contentment, independence, social classes, and light humorous observations.
A light verse about children enjoying a baseball game with drinks, popcorn, peanuts, and snacks through the innings. The dad fetches hot dogs and milk at intervals, keeping them fed until the seventh inning stretch.
A college mathematics teacher recounts a bizarre hit and run remark. The policeman asks for a license number, the professor replies that he did not have it but notes a riddle: if the number is doubled and squared, the square root of the product equals the original number with its digits reversed.
A short play outline by Pat Baker shows kids spilling out to play then fighting among themselves. They retreat home crying as mothers react with peacemaking attempts that devolve into more conflict. The pattern repeats across acts with evolving tensions.
The speaker asserts the golden hair worn by Gulla is hers and claims knowledge of its purchase. The assertion is delivered as a sworn statement confirming ownership and origin.
An airline passenger boards a Love Field plane with a lit cigar and asks to smoke inside. The stewardess says he may smoke if it does not annoy the female passengers. He replies he would rather not smoke than annoy the ladies.
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