McKeown Urges Unemployment Relief and Farm Price Stabilization
Congressman McKeown speaks on the House floor urging relief for unemployment and stabilization of farm prices. He condemns budget talk as a pretext for high taxes and adjournment without a jobs program, calling for bold measures to revive industry and re employ all Americans. He emphasizes standing with Oklahoma interests while addressing national issues.
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McKeown
House
Congress
Oklahoma
Washington
Two Maryville basketball players injured in Oklahoma crash
Tom Merrick and Jack McCracken, both Oklahoma City natives and Maryville Teachers basketball teammates, were injured when their car overturned after attempting to pass a truck eleven miles south of here. Merrick suffered a broken collar bone and head injuries, while McCracken sustained serious back contusions.
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Maryville
Here
Tom Merrick
Oklahoma City
Jack McCracken
Andy Curley
el Reno
Okla
George Pate
Merrick
Mary Ville
McCracken
Ada to adopt flexible city charter with elected commissioners
Ada plans a revised charter featuring five elected ward representatives and a mayor or a city manager option. The freeholders say the system blends aldermanic elements with modern efficiency, aiming for economy and adaptable governance.
Sheriff Forced Glass Eating Habit Amid Carnival Tale
Ada carnival man Robert F. Kelley, 49, eats glass nails hooks and razor blades as part of a routine act. X rays show items in his stomach and chest with a fish hook in the esophagus. he recalls how a sheriff compelled him to eat glass for the show. He has passed many items and says he once carried 800 nails. He is in good health and earns little beyond meals.
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Rrobert FE
Kelley
Ada
Texas
Assessments Set On 121 Concerned Oklahoma Firms
Oklahoma City May 27 state board of equalization set permanent assessments on 121 public service corporations with protests due in ten days if unsatisfied. First session of year ends tentative practice abandoning, Meltven Cornish notes no legal provision for temporary assessments. Oklahoma Gas and Electric valued at $19,827,715 up 296,050 from last year. Cities Service $8,600,409. Cities Service Gas Pipeline $2,469,650. Cosden Pipeline cut to $2,834 oi.
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Oklahoma City
State Board of Equalization
Meltven Cornish
State Tax Commission
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company
Cities Service
Cities Service Gas Pipeline Company
Cosden Pipeline Company
Aubrey Kerr Files for Pontotoc County Judge
Aubrey M Kerr announces candidacy for Pontotoc County Judge subject to the Democratic primary on July 5. The Ada native, a lawyer with Harrell Kerr busy there, pledges economy, merit based trials, and visiting every precinct before the election.
Northwest Missouri Teachers College players injured in crash
Three students from Northwest Missouri Teachers College were injured in a incident near Wellington Kansas on May 28. The report notes the athletic group involved and lists affected players though details are incomplete from the fragment.
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Wellington, Kans
Northwest Missouri Teachers College
Ditch Digging Conflict Ends As Workers Repl ute Machine
In Columbia Missouri a labor dispute over a natural gas pipeline led to 150 unemployed men protesting a ditch digging machine. The Missouri Utilities company agreed to replace the machine with 25 workers and shovels at 35 cents an hour. Project pace expects about three weeks with daily crews.
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Columbia, Mo
Columbia
Missouri Utilities Company
Education for Leisure Needs Emphasis in Kansas Commencement
President W B Bizzell urged Kansas State Teachers College graduates that rising industrial efficiency frees time for avocational pursuits. He called for a thorough curriculum redirection to include purposeful leisure, not as an incidental aspect but as a main objective, possibly without added subjects.
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Emvoria
Kan
W. B. Bizzell
University of Oklahoma
Kansas State Teachers College
Ada Police Chief Urges Safe Driving Citywide
Ada police chief Joe Neal urged all drivers to observe stop and slow signs and drive at reasonable speeds. Copies of the city traffic ordinance setting speed limits will be placed in cars tomorrow to inform residents and visitors. He stressed adherence to reasonable driving rules to avoid accidents and damage.
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Joe Neal
Neal
Proration Fight Starts in Federal Court Over East Texas Oil Field
In Houston a three judge federal court begins consolidation of suits by oil companies challenging Texas railroad commission proration orders in East Texas. The trial focuses on whether the commission's production limits are constitutional, a continuation of disputes after earlier martial law issues.
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Houston
Texas
Texas State Railroad Commission
East Texas
R. S. Sterling
Railroad Commission
Greatest results for the amount invested News Classified Ads
The ad section highlights value deals and strong returns from local classified listings. Readers are urged to compare prices, track market rates, and identify high demand items through concise offers and clear terms. Community sellers report steady inquiries and timely sales.
Great War Ace Ponder Freed on Bond in Texas
Fort Worth world war ace T. Ponder was released on $1,500 bail in San Angelo after a customs officer, with a pilot and seized rum plan, pursued him from the Mexican border 200 miles away to the airport. Ponder lamented fame from his service and noted if he had barnstormed the story wouldn’t lead newspapers.
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San Angelo
Tex
T. Ponder of
Fort Worth
Mexico
Ponder
America
Martial Law In Oklahoma Oil Fields Restored
Oklahoma Governor Murray reimposed martial law on 3000 prorated oil wells after Wilcox Oil and Gas filed a supreme court petition seeking to limit the state commission. Burns criticized the move as political, while Murray said enforcement would continue until new laws curb violations. The Wilcox petition challenges the legislature's authority to assign production regulation to the commission.
Oil production falls sharply across United States
Oklahoma and Texas drive a week of declines in U S crude output while Kansas and California show mixed changes. The Oil and Gas Journal reports a total daily average of 2,168,325 barrels, down from 2,219,362 the prior week, with Oklahoma at 398,615 barrels and California down to 490,000.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
Texas
East Texas
Kansas
Eastern
Rocky Mountain
California
Oklahoma City
Lathrop
West Texas
North Central
Texas Panhandle
North
Louisiana
Arkansas
Gulf Coast
Pechina
County Sinking Fund Gets Most Of Supplement
Pontotoc county excise board acted Saturday on part of April supplemental estimate after discovering several thousand dollars of protested pre 1920 taxes with no appropriation records. They set aside 1350 for highways 125 for the court fund 1609 for the county superintendent expenses and 200 for emergency relief. Most of the available sum will go to the sinking fund.
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Pontotoc
Veterans march on Memorial Day along Michigan Avenue
Chicago observers recall the spirit of 63 as three war veterans join the Memorial Day parade walking rather than riding. Two fire horn blasts and a drum beating accompany their steady march, despite age and slight frailty.
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Chicago
Michigan Boulevard
Congress and Prohibition Groups Busy Pre-convention
Washington May 30. With time running short leaders from Republican and prohibition factions push new plans before the national conventions. The 89 groups backing the Eighteenth Amendment meet to finalize anti wet platforms while the Women’s National Committee schedules a June 13 Chicago convention to press against any repeal. An open letter from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment urges a clear wet plank and threatens defeat. Democratic and Republican delegate quotas are 122 and 42 respectively out of 1154 combined.
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Washington
Congress
National Conference of
Woman's N National Committee For Law Enforce
Ment
Chicago
College draws students from wide territory
Fast Central Teachers College hosts a growing, geographically diverse summer enrollment. Advanced students come from Oklahoma institutions including Southeastern, Durant, Eastern Oklahoma, and others plus out of state schools such as Western Tennessee Teachers College, University of Arkansas, East Texas Teachers College, and Indiana State Teachers College. Beginning freshmen arrive from communities like Bixby and Hollywood High, Los Angeles.
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Fast Central Teachers College
University of Oklahoma
East Central District
Oklahoma
Southeastern
Durant
Wilburton
Central
Edmond
Murray Aggies
Tishomingo
Oklahoma A. and
Stillwater
Norman
Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee
Northeastern
Tahlequah
Oklahoma City University
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma College For Women
Chickashe
Cameron Aggies
Lawton
University of Tulsa
Tulsa
Seminole Junior College
Seminole
Okmulgee Junior College
Okmulgee
Panhandle Aggies
Goodwell
Western Tennessee Teachers College
Memphis
Arkansas State Teachers College
Conway
Ark
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville
East Texas Teachers College
Commerce
Texas
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Kan
Northwestern University
Evanston
Denton
Paris Junior College
Paris
Haskell Institute
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Indiana State Teachers College
Bixby
Red Oak
Classen High
Vinita
Pryor
Duncan
Webb City
Hollywood High
Los Angeles
Grapevine
Ottawa
Wat
Logan
Suspension for Two Day Agents
Kansas City May 31 4 Asserting two Kansas special federal prohibition agents failed to obey orders Col Amos W Woodcock director of prohibition enforcement has announced the suspension of John B Madden and Brice Armstrong On a brief visit here late yesterday Col Woodcock made public the suspensions Madden denied a specific charge that he refused to turn over documentary evidence of an important investigation to S M Brewster United States district attorney at Topeka Madden said he gave Brewster copies of the evidence even though he thought the request an unusual procedure He declined to produce the originals until he presents them to the federal grand jury which will convene in Wichita June 22 The agent said he was investigating a reputed Reno county liquor conspiracy and that the case was so iron clad he will be able to submit names of 590 persons including county officials businessmen and farmers Some of the persons involved were in the ring which Madden and Armstrong uncovered three years ago Woodcock said Armstrong had disobeyed flatly an order of his superior H L Duncan in Kansas City to report from western Kansas for instruction Madden asserted Armstrong was on his way to Kansas City having been delayed in clearing up his work after receiving the order which came when he was in Oklahoma Last May following reports of discord between Madden and George H Wark federal prohibition administrator for Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Arkansas Madden has ordered transferred to Seattle Wash When he failed to report he was suspended but later was reinstated
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Kansas City
Kansas
Amos W. Woodcock
Prohibition Enforcement
John B. Madden
Brice Armstrong
Col Woodcock
Hutchinson
Kan
Madden
S. M. Brewster
United States
Topeka
Brewster
Federal Grand Jury
Wichita
Reno
Armstrong
Woodcock
H. L. Duncan
Oklahoma
George H. Wark
Missouri
Arkansas
Seattle
Wash
Injunction Halts Wellston Highway Project
Oklahoma City May 31 An injunction halts the Wellston gap project in Lincoln County as Judge Sam Hooker grants a temporary restraining order on a dispute over the U S Highway 66 realignment. The order delays awarding contracts while bids for grading drainage and paving are reviewed amid a state commission plan to reroute the road.
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Oklahoma City
Wellston Gap
Lincoln County
Sam Hooker
Hooker
J. Wery
John Seaba
Wellston
U. 8
Highway 66
State Highway Commission
Oklahoma
Lew Wentz
J. F. McKeel
Wentz
Circulating Bill Proposes Uniform County Salaries
The non-partisan taxpayers association seeks a uniform salary scale for county officials. Petitions circulate in several counties to enact lower, population based pay, repealing over 150 special county laws. In counties under 15 000 population, salaries would be 1200 for clerks and treasurers and 1500 for attorney judge sheriff. adds about 300 per 10 000 population.
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Perry
Okla
Taxpayers Association
W. E. Merry
Merry
Toe
No Punishment Severe Enough For This Chap
Senator Cutting of New Mexico says capital punishment might be warranted in some cases. He recounted a late night call about the revenue bill and the budget balance, noting he was not strong for the death penalty but would have voted for it if proposed. The item also mentions three more Neanderthal skeletons found by scientists.
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Washington
Cutting
N. M
Senate
Frances Wintersmith Park Dedication Slated Near Ada
Preparations are underway for the Friday evening dedication of the Frances Wintersmith park by the lake southeast of Ada. J. F. McKeel leads the program with Robert S. Kerr as principal speaker, music by the college band, and a pageant titled My Home Town.
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Ada
Frances Wintersmith
Wintersmith
City Board of Park Commissioners
Lake Dam
J. F. McKeel
Robert S. Kerr
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McHbown
Revision Board
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Lhrge
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Aubrey Nteth
Aubrey M. Kerr
Pontotoc County
Aub’ Kerr
W. S. Kerr
Pecan Grove
Oklahoma Portland Cement Company
East Central
Law School of
the State University
Harrell & Kerr
Kerr
Bobby Dual
A. P. Barrett
Webb Walker
CANCE
Bizzell
Ine Neal
Pare
Amouiti ‘Nvested
W. T. Ponder
Martial Law Oil Field
Murray
William H
Robert Burns
New York
Wilcox Oil and Gas Company
Supreme Court
State Corporation Commission
Burns
King
Pat Malloy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wilcox
Wilcox Company
Corporation Commission
United States Supreme Court
Commission
Comanche County
Sterling
D. C
Sampley
Beckham County
Carter
Grandfield
Carter, Stephenson and Boyle
R. S. James Engineering Co
Stroud
W. L. James
Beaver County
Green & Reese
Fairview
Herman Merveldt
S. S. Strong
Beaver City
Strong
Washita County
Rocky Island Railroad
Canute
Park & Co
Highway Commission
Hawks
Lockwood Jones
Washita
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