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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
4
The piece argues the price spread reflects needed services from farm to home and the many steps in processing and delivering goods. It notes each handoff adds value and cost, funding millions of jobs, with questions aimed at critics who want to shrink the producer to consumer gap.
A persuasive argument argues that profit driven wealth funds public goods from churches to universities and foundations. It asserts philanthropists improve society, warns against abolishing profits, cites New Zealand social schemes as cautionary, and ends with the quote about those lacking knowledge seeking distinction through doubt.
A devotional study on Paul’s Jerusalem defense and his conversion tale. The lesson emphasizes Paul’s sincerity, the Holy Spirit’s guidance, and the call to tolerance toward those with differing beliefs. It urges readers to avoid labeling others as heretics and to respect sincere convictions.
An Oklahoma talk with a rich oilman highlights shifts after the New Deal. Excerpts reflect on taxation, home exemptions, and civic duty, urging gratitude to the sacrifices of past generations while aiming to improve the world they fought for.
An essay outlines a hypothetical $1,000,000,000 annual peace budget with prizes for students and funds for advertising and arbitration. It contrasts such plans with the reality that the world spends about $12,000,000,000 yearly on war preparations, urging citizens to consider redirecting funds to peace.
The piece mimics a corporate board meeting and riffs on paying people for producing nothing. It satirizes deficits, taxation shifts, and rising national debt as a path to abundance, then shifts to rural Oklahoma livestock praise and pedestrian safety humor. The final note nods to royal fantasies in Blandings.
East Texas production rose boosting the national crude oil daily average by 146 574 barrels to 3 587 540 for the week ended May 27 Oklahoma output fell 13 525 barrels to 449 725 Texas overall up 176 654 to 1 461 989 barrels Illinois up 3 423 to 218 128 Rocky Mountain region up 770 to 78 040 Louisiana up 625 to 267 980 California down 11 250 to 614 500 New Mexico down 20 to 116 850 Eastern fields down 1 150 to 98 750 Michigan down 43 to 63 848.
Oklahoma City May 20 A gubernatorial denial ends Phil Kennamer Tulsa manslaughter sentence clemency bid He will fly to Tulsa then return to McAlester penitentiary June 2 to resume 25 year term for the Thanksgiving night 1934 killing of John F Gorrell Jr Governor Phillips labeled him a disobedient and wilful boy with a life of intoxication and neglect. His mother’s illness and funeral preceded a parole prior to his rearrest.
CHICKASHA May 30 Ninety nine year old Burl Mash of Sulphur led eight farmer veterans registered for the thirty first Oklahoma division reunion and convention of United Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy. Other veterans included Gen John W Harris Oklahoma City commander in chief Rev J J Methvin Anadarko chaplain general Henry C Treadway Cordell state commander William E Watson Bristow William G Freeman Wetumka Thomas A Shockley Henryetta and W B Cantwell Ada.
EL RENO Oklahoma May 39 The water well flowed freely today due to successful use of half a stick of dynamite. One of the wells supplying this area showed improved flow as a result of the blasting method reported by United Press.
Otis Harrell, water department plant superintendent, tested a dry well by dropping half a stick of dynamite to blast rusted slots in a perforated steel pipe. The blast widened slots without breaking the pipe, allowing water to flow in at a normal rate.
Eugene Connally a 17 year old Oklahoma City youth was charged with larceny of an automobile after police say he was forced to drive to Ada by two companions. The car stolen at Ada was found abandoned in McAlester next to the Prince Chevrolet car. Connally appeared in Justice Court in Ada and was given 24 hours to plead with bond set at 1000. His father told the court he sent his son to the store and the youth ended up in Ada somehow.
An inmate at Northern Oklahoma Hospital for Mental Patients may transfer to Helena state orphans home after an eighth grade level comprehension test. Superintendent L L Lounsbury said the 15-year-old, unnamed, scored 88 percent across 111 subjects, with a comprehension rating of 53 versus the state average of 39. The boy has been in the hospital since 1929 and may pursue studies in a more suitable environment.
BASSE Switzerland May 30 The Bank for International Settlements said it was forced to authorize handing over about 25 million dollars deposited in the Bank of England for the Czecho Slovak National Bank after a demand from the Czech National Bank administration. Britain sought legal advice on preventing the transfer, but the BIS noted deposits from central banks are immune. The BIS role was limited to verifying the Czech request signature. The article also notes Uranus’s four moons Ariel Oberon Titania Umbriel.
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