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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
2
Cantwell and Folsom commit full time to Ada area boy s program aiding campaign. First camp begins June 12 for Ada Stonewall and Ahloso scouts with enrollments due by June 10 and health certificates required. seven day fee 6 36 and four day 2 50.
Muskogee May 27. The U S supreme court ruling on Oklahoma registration for elections says the public has misunderstood it. Attorney J C Stone notes the 1916 statute discriminated against negroes and is unconstitutional. It strikes down only the 11 day limit in 1924 for non voters in 1914. The rest of the statutes remain valid. Any unregistered qualified elector may register at any period.
County Superintendent Ray Stegall reports Wendell Summers completed his third year without absence or tardiness at Delberg School. His brothers Lawrence Leroy Summers and Tony Larue Summers also achieved attendance milestones, contributing to a noted family record.
A four year perfect attendance record is reported for one student at Colbert. Merlyn Lee Crome at Colbert has three years without absence or tardy. Four three year perfect attenders at Maxwell at 50 are listed: Ouidalla Harris Mona Tean Carmichael Bobbie Alice Harris and Orlan Harold Dees. Certificates are awarded by the state office to students with perfect attendance.
More than 950 delegates attended a Muskogee banquet closing the Oklahoma Federation of Postoffice Clerks fifteenth annual convention. J M Donaldson and Leo E George led key remarks from national and Washington speakers. Chester R McDonald of Shawnee elected state president, with Grover Youngblood and other officers chosen. national delegates named for Rouston, Texas in September. The 1940 state convention is set for Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City May 29 Gov Phillips designates N R Graham of Tulsa to represent him at a freight rate conference in Denver on June 10 and warns of attendance and proceedings in formal note.
Former Missouri insurance chief O'Malley and political boss Tom Pendergast will begin prison terms for income tax evasion over $377,500 in "bribe money" from a fire insurance rate case. Judge Merrill E. Otis condemned O'Malley for tax fraud and fined both men penalties. O'Malley sentenced to one year and a day, Pendergast to one year and three months. Both must pay taxes and penalties.
Attorney General Mae Q. Williamson will expand his staff from 11 to 16 and take over work from the highway banking public safety and executive offices. Governor Phillips says consolidation could save about 10000 annually while four new attorneys are to be hired and one current $6002 position is eliminated. More than 50 applicants have already applied for the expanded posts.
Members of the Auxiliary of the American Legion completed their annual Poppy sale on a Saturday night. Three thousand three hundred poppies sold to merchants’ wreaths and individual buyers. The proceeds go to crippled World War I veterans and their families. Mrs Lonnie Dorsey praised the unit and the public response, noting help from individuals and merchants and announcing thanks to Station KADA and The Ada News for promotional advertising.
More than 650 students including Lester Ray Stegall of Ada will receive degrees at Oklahoma A and M college commencement on Monday morning May 29. Stegall will earn a Master of Science with a major in education and Dr Ay Liischeid, president of Sast Central State college, Ada, will be the speaker. Sunday services on May 28 will feature John R. Abernathy, presiding elder of the Oklahoma City district of the Methodist Episcopal church.
CALLANDER Ont May 26 The Dionne quintuplets remain charmed by their royal meeting last Monday and overlook tomorrow’s fifth birthday Their big party will be a small family affair with five candles on a cake and their nursery staff physician Allan Roy Dafoe present Their first trip away from home to Toronto for the royal visit had no ill effects Emile teases about another ride while Marie misremembers London Bridge from a bridge they crossed en route to Toronto.
Secretary Hull proposes a six point revision to the Neutrality Act to keep the United States out of war. The plan includes barring American ships from combat areas, restricting American travel to such zones, requiring title transfer before exporting belligerent goods, continuing loans to nations at war, regulating belligerent fund solicitation, and maintaining munitions control and export license systems. The proposals, endorsed by the administration, were sent to Senate and House committees after meetings with Hull and with Roosevelt’s apparent approval.
Pontotoc county farmers and stockmen toured fields showing winter and summer pastures thrive on various soils. Fields featured burr clover, bermuda, Johnson grass, rye grass, lespedeza, vetch and abruzzi rye, some yielding 25 to 40 bushels per acre with soil-building mixtures and a dished old pasture sown to sweet clover and Korean clover showing recovery.
Berlin reports Nazi Germany pursues a policy of wooing old and new friends with lavish entertainment as talks on the Danzig issue hover. Ciano and entourage visit for a German Italian military pact, while Bellevue Palace is prepared for Prince Paul and Olga. Spaniards led by General Juan Vigue arrive with returning legionnaires as Goering welcomes them in Hamburg. The aim is to showcase German greatness and fuel patriotic pride amid the Danzig dispute and growing alliances.
Regents boards for Oklahoma colleges prepared to depart for a inspection tour of the eight institutions under its control. The group oversees six teachers colleges, Northeastern Junior College at Miami, and the Colored A and M University, reflecting the board’s new supervision.
Aca News reports higher returns on investment from vested ads in the classified section. Investors note improved visibility and longer display periods boosting inquiries and conversions. Local merchants claim stronger response rates compared with prior terms.
Star Scout Ewing Fidler son of Mr and Mrs E F Fidler 225 West Twenty First has a record in scouting church school and daily life that stands out He served as Kangaroo patrol leader and troop treasurer guiding troop 88 at First Baptist church since January He led radio programs and began to live the twelfth scout law Reverent at age nine as a church member He attends Sunday school church and BTU serves as Sunday school class secretary and Intermediate department president Ada Junior High reports him as an outstanding student
Fidler and Ewing appear on the honor roll with Stali Studio Award for scholarship. Ewing serves as president of Grace groups and home rooms, secretary of a speech class, and leads in the junior high play, band, and scouting. He is active in school and community tasks, including chores at his father’s office.
Secretary Morgenthau told the House Ways and Means Committee a five point framework for tax revision aims to aid business activity and rapid recovery. He proposed lowering some top income surtax rates if tax exempt securities are curtailed, repealing the undistributed profits tax, liberalizing the capital stock tax and excess profits levy, and allowing net business losses to be carried forward to future years.
COALGATE May 27 A district court jury found Al Sherill guilty of manslaughter in the fatal April 27 shooting of Ed Ryan a pioneer Coal County farmer The court fixed his sentence at six years in the state penitentiary The murder charge stemmed from the Cottonwood killing before Judge Ru Paul of Durant Jurors named were Hudson Henderson Woods Dwiggens Hart Gray Woods Reed Buchanan Hartsfield Sones Proffitt
Hobart May 27 Indictments accuse DeRoy Burns former Mountain Park state senator and brother Bryan Burns with padding highway payrolls using a hillbilly band for campaigns in 1936 and 1938. The grand jury linked Harold Jones and others to $178 in questioned pay plus $138 and $108 for campaign services and noted former workers continued to draw pay after leaving.
South Fitts field reports the Simpson-Road house No. 2 Statler well flowing two barrels per hour and yielding 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily through a 2 inch choke. Other wells in nearby fields show testing oil production, drilling progress, and depths reached as crews advance in multiple formations.
Barbourville Kentucky May 27 A coroner's verdict of murder and suicide was returned after ten year old Elsie Higgins confessed, before dying, that she killed her four year old brother Joe and then shot herself. Neighbors viewed the bodies in matching caskets as sheriff R C Partin and nurses recount Elsie's shocking statement.
In Fort Smith Arkansas Oklahoma rodeo opening day three Stillwell Oklahoma boys rode 70 miles by bicycle to attend the event. Two boys joined the ride with Jack Houseberg aged 13 and Jackie Gordon 12. The youngest Billy Joe Cowan rode on the bike frame using the handlebar and rear frame as support.
Pontotoc county records its first typhoid case of the season in Burris City. Dr. Glenn W. McDonald warns the typhoid danger is beginning and urges vaccination at least a month before summer travel. He stresses sanitation, septic tanks or sanitary pits, home fly screens, and proper water/sewage practices to curb carriers.
Federal Judge Hearts will hear a petition Monday to delay the public sale of the bankrupt Fort Smith and Western railroad properties set for next Wednesday. The motion, backed by Oklahoma officials and county treasurers, seeks time to allow a Detroit bidder to inventory and appraise roughly 200 miles of track between Fort Smith and Oklahoma City, citing the bidder's engine and equipment business as relevant to operating short line railroads.
WPA project for Glenwood Park includes a new swimming pool, grounds landscaping, and playground facilities. Work orders likely issued after June 12, per Commissioner J. H. Pryor. The $14,000 pro ject awaits WPA work period start.
Peggy McClure and Allen Hall were arrested in two Friday raids by Deputy US Marshal Allen Stanferd and the sheriff's force. Officers found 111 quarts at Peggy McClure's near Union Hall school and 20 gallons and 39 bottles on Highway 12 near Galey. No charges filed yet. both held in county jail as internal revenue violation charges were contemplated.
Chelsea May 27 2 Mrs Sarah Jane Carnahan 93 a Kentuckian who came to Oklahoma in 1887 dies tonight at her home from complications attributed to a fall Survivors include sons B Carnahan of Drumright Charles of Cushing and Everett of Chelsea Funeral arrangements are incomplete She settled near Guthrie after coming to Oklahoma and led the Turkey Track ranch near Drumright earlier operated the Ripley hotel before 1914
Gar Nell Lee filed for divorce against Edd Lee in district court on Saturday. Ada News Classified Ads notes a petition proceeding in this matter.
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