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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1948
Page
4
Miscread OCR text shows Ada Weekly News and Ada Evening News in fragmented lines. It references publishers, trade notices, and monthly rates, with garbled names and dates. The readable bits indicate a local paper's listing of publication context rather than a cohesive article.
The New York Trust Company highlights Oklahoma as a major industrial hub within four states. Oklahoma has reduced higher bracket income taxes since 1940 and expanded manufacturing in pre and postwar periods. Key sectors include aircraft, petroleum refining, meat packing, textiles, glass, machinery, and food production. Winter wheat, cotton, pecans, peanuts, and livestock drive farm income, with mineral outputs and zinc ore prominent in state production.
A discussion notes no write in on Oklahoma ballots counts, questions legality versus irregular action, and cites party recognition and election law. It also praises farm to market road progress across three county districts, noting rains and bridges while predicting a year round road in the near term.
An English cousin, John Spottiswood, writes from England analyzing American aid to Europe and the Marshall Plan. He ponders whether ERP will meet its goals, if the aid will be used wisely, and whether world events will push the plan aside. The writer argues there is more selfishness than generosity in sending gifts but insists the United States benefits only when others prosper, and expresses gratitude toward the English.
The piece argues against third and fourth party surges threatening the two major parties. It cites Wallace and Thurmond Wright as examples, warns that many parties weaken governments as in France, and urges preserving broad-based representation in Democratic and Republican ranks to avoid factional rule and unjust policies.
The community recalls Dr L Cummings Boc as a gifted physician and shrewd entrepreneur who built a thriving medical practice and diverse ventures including real estate and a ranch. He was loved for his good nature, humor, speed of pace, and generous life. his death came Friday morning. A government book review on cattle diseases prompts reflection on stock health and meat production.
Railroads sponsor a two million dollar exhibit titled Wheels A Rolling at Chicago's lakefront through Labor Day. The display recreates 100 years of U S and railroad history with twenty famous locomotives, models of stations, and military rail cars. Visitors can ride a Burlington line narrow gauge, view German rolling stock, and see a recreated Florida Chicago scene with a Yellowstone geyser. A 220 actor cast performs twice daily on a 450 foot platform
Oklahoma City reports a 22 mile road project on State Highway 16 in Cresic and Oianuiger counties. The state highway department again offers bids after four previous attempts. Bid by August 28 is hoped to finally secure the $300,500 project amid strong defenses of policy.
Mrs Negahaquet will receive a degree from East Central this summer after a long teaching career. She graduated high school in Tasumseh in 1921 and attended the 3 a0 session at East Central in 1923. Married to Alfred Negahaquet in 1922 she continued teaching through 1940 then taught in Patinwatome county. She spent 22 years teaching in Bagce district where she had elementary education and fond memories of her home school. She plans to resume duties there this fall and continues to influence local education.
London reports Western powers have sent ambassadors to Foreign Minister Molotov to present United States Britain and France views on the Russo German war and the Berlin blockade. The plan aims for a less formal exchange to speed agreement while avoiding public rejection by Molotov.
The long dispute between the Oilsheme Highway Camumus sie and the Public Reads administration ends with a settlement. Oklahoma’s 1942 road program proceeds, with cooperation on an urban plan and continued development. Washington conference yielded amicable terms, and employment and industrial growth in Oklahoma are highlighted alongside a call for a new constructive legislative program in 1849. Federal Judge T Alan Goldsborough unfolds miners pension function.
Western democracies escalate pressure on Germany in the Berlin crisis. They impose train blockades in the western zones and widen air relief for civilians while pursuing a unified government for the Ruhr area. Rumors of a possible Big Four meeting surface as Stalin’s camp shapes German policy. United States and Britain defend aid flights as necessary, warning against Bolshevik interference.
District Judge F Justin Hinshaw announced he will rule on Mrs Adz Fisher a Black student petition seeking admission to the all white University of Oklahoma and he likely will rule on two other Black women s suits the arguments completed today. One applicant Miss Helen Maxine Holmes from Oklahoma City and Mrs Mouderie Han pages from Oklahoma City are among the remaining plaintiffs. GW Mc Laurin a former professor at Oklahoma State withdrew his petition this morning.
Oklahoma family and sheriff officers search for Jem Slack a two year old from Mushagen Oklahoma who vanished during a Pike Peak expedition with a medical student from the University of Oklahoma on a summer outing. The boy was believed to have strayed from the group while en route to a picnic near Denver.
BERLIN July 27 German press reports said the Russians are increasing the number of military units and jet fighters in western Germany around Berlin. Reports also mentioned Soviet summer army maneuvers across the Russian zone from the Baltic to Thuringia, with tanks and heavy air support, while American officials noted warning flights in corridors used by Allied transport planes. Reports cited travelers about 22 Russian divisions concentrated along Yugoslavia's frontier with Romania.
Al Negabnquet graduates from East Central dedicating his four years of college to his father Stephen Negabnquet a longtime Potawatomi settler. Born near Topeka he moved to what is now Pearsall, Oklahoma and helped establish Sacred Heart parish and school. He attended Sacred Heart College in 1907 at age nine and later taught there before enlisting in the army and resuming teaching after the war. He married in 1920s and continued teaching in commerce and mone.
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