State Farmers Seek Simple Farm Program
Oklahoma farmers at a July 26 27 meeting at Oklahoma A and M College urged a simplified 1938 Agricultural Conservation program. Twenty four representatives discussed uniform nationwide payments or land diversion based schemes. Findings will be sent to Washington AAA officials.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma A. and M. College
Pontotoc County
Phil McLachlan
Washington
The
AAA
Oklahoma Agricultural Conservation Committee
Extension Service
McLachlan
United States
Arkansas
C. D. Walker
Altus
Oklahoma _ Agricultural Conservation committee
Myrtle Coleman Named as Deputy
Mrs Myrtle Coleman, longtime county employee, was named deputy county clerk succeeding Willard Anderson, killed in an automobile accident. The appointment was announced by County Clerk H D Garner on Wednesday as bonds and swearing in were arranged. Coleman has six years of service in the county treasurer office and was at work during final steps of her bond and oath.
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Myrtle Coleman
Willard Anderson
H. D. Garner
No Favor Shown Mrs Roosevelt Tax Ruling Explained
Robert H. Jackson testifying before a joint tax committee said the treasury followed precedents in ruling Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s radio contract produced no taxable income. He noted the charity benefited but she received no personal money and no enrichment from her broadcasts.
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Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Treasury
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Jackson
Congressional Tax Committee
Philadelphia
Representative Fish
R-Ny
Republican Committee
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Justice Department
Internal Revenue Legal Unit
Internal Revenue Commissioner
PESSIMIST By Bob Blanks Jr
A humorous note about drivers stopping at a stop sign when police are present and a bleak view of young women's concerns. The piece blends dialect and social commentary on appearances and motivations.
City Votes Budget Share For Ada Pontotoc Health Unit
The Ada city council approved an $1,800 appropriation as its one sixth share of the health unit budget for the next fiscal year. The unit, formed three months ago, totals $10,800 locally with $5,400 from the state health department. Typhoid clinics wrap up soon while emphasis shifts to diphtheria immunizations and Schick testing to assess need for toxoid.
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Pontotoc County
Albert Chamberlain
Ada
State Health Department
Former Ada grocer Lloyd Rains dies in Phoenix
Word has reached Ada of the death last Saturday of Lloyd Rains former Ada grocer at Phoenix Arizona. Family members left Ada for Phoenix to arrange burial there. Rains had worked in Phoenix for a year and was once a leading Ada grocer with his brother Roy Rains later solo. He is survived by his widow daughter Frieda and son Roy.
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Lloyd Rains
Ada
Phoenix
Ariz
Rains
Arizona City
Roy Rains
Roy
Frieda
Burns Accepts Oklahoma City Agricultural Board Posts
Forrest K. Burns of Enid began duties as secretary of the state board of agriculture with a $2400 annual salary. Joe C. Scott, board president, announced Burns acceptance and appointed L. H. Stinett as state dairy commissioner, succeeding A. W. Dean.
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Oklahoma City
P.forrest K. Burns
Enid
State Board of Agriculture
Joe C. Scott
Burns
Scott
L. H. Stinett
Cleveland County
A. W. Dean
No Trace Of Hijacker Active At Calvin
HOLDENVILLE July 28 An intensive search of Hughes and Pittsburg county records failed to locate any trace of a hijacker who beat and gagged Calvin filling station operator Adam Welch and robbed him of 21 dollars. Welch said a youth in a light sedan announced a stickup and struck him with an iron bar while brandishing a gun.
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Holdenville
Harve Ball
Hughes and
Pittsburg
Calvin
Adam Welch
Welch
Tragic Farm Accident Claims Pat Billingsley Life
Patrick M. Billingsley, 32, a longtime chauffeur for P. A. Norris, died after a Caterpillar tractor overturned during a 11 15 am run in a pasture near Norris residence. The machine ignited from gasoline fumes and billingsley was burned. burial planned in Roxey, Texas.
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Patrick M. Billingsley
P. A. Norris
Norris
Roxey
Texas
Billingsley
John Billingsley
J. C. Barnes
Terrorist turmoil as King visits Belfast rocked by bombs
In Belfast during a coronation visit by George VI and Queen Elizabeth, gas main explosions and arson erupted as Irish Republicans attacked symbols of British rule. Police blamed the violence on republican extremists amid a planned terror campaign across the border. a child was lightly injured.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Ulster
Free State
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Carlingford
Bundoran
North Ireland
Government House
Irish Free State
Vigilante suit decision expected by Oklahoma judges
Oklahoma City waits as three district judges in en banc session take under advisement an injunction suit brought by the Oklahoma Vigilantes. They plan to rule tomorrow on whether the sixteenth legislature over appropriated funds, contending $13,000,000 excess and House Bill 380 treasury notes threaten the state constitution and public debt limits.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Vigilantes
Sid White
White
Treasury
President Roosevelts Five Bill Plan Aims at New Laws
President Roosevelt and congressional leaders agreed to push a five point program before adjournment. The package includes a maximum hour minimum wage law, judiciary reorganization, a low cost housing measure, revenue-law loophole closures, and a sugar bill.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Iron Recovered From Farm Tank Near Steedman
County deputies Charley Shockley and Jim Rogers recovered 177 pieces of sheet iron buried under water in a farm tank about a mile east of Steedman. The iron, mostly 10 to 12 feet long, was returned to owner Dr. L Cummings, who reported the loss July 16.
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L. Cummings
Steedman
Cummings
Charley Shockley
Jim Rogers
Cantwell Named to Staff of General Claypool
W. B. Cantwell, Civil War survivor and longtime Oklahoma organizer, is appointed to the staff of General J. M. Claypool, commander of the United Confederate Veterans. He serves as assistant quartermaster general with brigadier general rank and already heads the organization’s second division in Oklahoma.
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W. B. Cantwell
J. M. Claypool
United Confederate Veterans
Mr. Cantwell
Oklahoma
Application To Be Heard Aug 4 In Stonewall Nuisance Case
Hearing scheduled for August 4 on W W Stanfield county attorney petitioning for a temporary injunction to close Slims place in Stonewall leased by C B Lowery. Business listed as public nuisance alleged to offend decency and threaten residents health. Four buildings a filling station cafe and tourist cabins named. request padlock order.
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W. W. Stanfield
Slim
Slim's
Stonewall
C. B. Lowery
Sheriff's Office
Traxler Case Ties Texas Grady County in Oklahoma
Mrs. Pete Traxler pleads innocent to a Grady county harboring charge and is jailed on 3500 bond. She already faces a 5000 bond on a federal aiding her fugitive husband case. Traxler, recaptured after escaping Huntsville prison, awaits trials in three Oklahoma counties.
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Chickasha
Pete Traxler
Oklahoma
Grady County
Traxler
Huntsville
Tex
McAlester Penitentiary
Bryan Phillips
Houston County
Texas
Phillips
Houston
Ben Carter
Durant
Bryan
Pontotoc
Marshall
Gilmore Brothers Bond In Allen Will Dispute
Four Gilmore men posted peace bonds in A W Oliver's justice court, completing six bonds tied to dispute over their mother's will. John Gilmore faces assault with intent to kill after a Monday shooting in Allen that left Ed Gilmore wounded. Ed's condition improved while Ed lies in an Ada hospital.
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Gilmore Brothers
Justice Court
A. W. Oliver
Buck
Bill Gilmore
Joe
John
Allen
John Gilmore
Liberty
Ed Gilmore
Ada
Burdeshaw Burn Deaths After Gas Explosion Near San Saba
Mrs. W H Burdeshaw died Tuesday night from burns after a gas explosion at a tourist cabin near San Saba Texas. Her husband W H Burdeshaw and Mrs Buck Sharp were injured. their son Kent Burdeshaw escaped unharmed. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Criswell Funeral Home after body arrives in Ada.
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W. H. Burdeshaw
San Saba
Texas
Ada
Buck Sharp
Kent Burdeshaw
Odessa
Burtleshaw
Paralyic Gages Reported Friday In Pontotoc County
Two new cases of infantile paralysis were reported Friday to Dr Glen MacDonald of the county health unit. The total cases this summer in Pontotoc County reach 19. Health officials urge keeping children from crowds and note the count does not indicate an epidemic. Dr MacDonald said typhoid inoculations will wind down as summer ends and diphtheria prevention clinics will begin in two weeks with a toxoid vaccine program to build immunity over about a month.
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McDonald
Schick
Glen MacDonald
County Health Unit
Pontotoc County
MacDonald
Chinese Forces Leave Barracks To End Fighting
The 37th Chinese division reportedly withdrew from Peiping to ease danger in the walled city as Japanese bombarded Tangku and fought Chinese troops in Tientsin suburbs. Americans sought shelter in basements while both sides claimed battlefield successes amid intensifying North China hostilities.
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Peiping
Thurs
Japan
Tokyo
North China
Tangku
Tientsin
China
United States
Joseph C. Grew
Koki Hirota
Nanyuan
Seng Tai
Langfang
Chaochipeng
Foreign Office
Mrs Magnusson Improves After Ada Accident
Mrs. S. M. Magnusson, injured in a Sunday car crash two miles east of Ada, regained enough strength to visit downtown briefly Wednesday. She suffered rib fractures and extensive bruises, with her car nearly a total loss. She disputes a prior report blaming wet roads, saying another car rear ended hers, sending it into a ditch and pinning her under the wreckage.
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S. M. Magnusson
Ada
Youth Enters Plea of Guilty in Ada Larceny Case
Ray Landrum pleaded guilty at a Sherwood W. Hill justice court arraignment for larceny of an automobile. The case has not moved to district court, and no sentence was imposed. Landrum was returned from Tahlequah after sheriff’s deputies arrested him and brought him to Ada for the theft of a car owned by Henry Lovelady, southeast of Ada.
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Ray Landrum
Justice Court
Sherwood W. Hill
Landrum
Tahlequah
Ada
Henry Lovelady
Deaton Appeals Move After Four Municipal Convictions
Mayor Bill Crawford transcribed four municipal court cases against Austin Deaton, a Pontotoc county legislator, to the county court after he posted $50 appeal bonds in each case. Deaton was fined $45 in municipal court for drunkenness, resisting an officer, breach of the peace, and carrying a weapon following an incident in a city park about three weeks earlier.
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Bill Crawford
Austin Deaton
Pontotoc County
Deaton
Seminoles to Receive $35 Each from Tribal Funds
The house Indian affairs committee approved a plan by Rep. Lyle E. Boren to pay $35 to every Seminole nation member in Oklahoma. The total would draw $109,445 from tribal treasury funds, leaving about $42,000 in the Seminole fund. The panel also backed extending two years the deadline to file refunds for taxes on exempt lands.
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Washington
House Indian Affairs Committee
Lyle E. Boren
Seminole
Okla
Oklahoma
Treasury
Charles H. West
Interior
Buffalo food strike ends with ratified compromise
Buffalo New York July 23 striking truck drivers unanimously ratified a compromise contract with wholesale grocery merchants, ending Buffalo's eight day food embargo and the most serious phase of the strike.
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Buffalo
WN. Y
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