Pontotoc Homecoming Draws 1500 to School and Cemetery
Mrs. Dick Truitt and son Rich ard and Mrs. Cole Underhill led a Pontotoc homecoming with about 1500 attendees from near and far. Ada lumber companies donated benches, and dinner at the school cafeteria raised 235 dollars for ground care for a year. Decoration Day in 55 will repeat the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Markley
Dick Truitt
Richard
Cole Underhill
Pontotoc
California
Ada Lumber Companies
Athel Chambers
Men Move Mountains At Lawrence
The town of Lawrence near Ada lives from a single industry, the Ideal Cement quarry. About 125 residents in 35 houses work amid a Bavarian Alps like setting with an old school and bridge. The quarry is a modern four by one thousand foot site with four miles of track and a spur to Frisco Railroad, feeding the Ada plant. Exploration tests determine rock depth before quarrying begins.
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Lawrence
Woodford
Frisco
Ada
United States
Ideal Cement Company
Vanoss Seniors Recall Galveston Trip Unqualified Success
Vanoss High School seniors raised nearly $800 to fund a six day Galveston Texas trip chaperoned by Supt. and Mrs. H L Kinsey. The group enjoyed sunbathing swimming rides and sightseeing while noting the trip was too short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanoss
Galveston
Vanoss High School
Texas
H. L. Kinsey
Betty Kirk
Thelma Tucker
Sabra Landreth
Oma Burdine
Joe Gray
Patsy Coffey
Lorene Holman
Floyd Holman
Paul Sutton
Lynwood Cantwell
Jimmy Roundtree
Helen Pedersen
Eugene Summers
Frances Maddox
Vaness
Stewart Beach
County School Count Grows in Pontotoc County 1954
The 1954 enumeration shows growth in school age and pre-school populations. White school age children total 6,316 with 3,301 boys and 3,015 girls, plus 95 boys and 105 girls in other categories. Pre-school white children total 2,898 and Negro pre-schoolers 113, for a county grand total of 3,011 pre-schoolers. Families rise from 4,412 to 4,540. Ada and nearby towns show gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc County
Ada
Oakman
Jesse
Worstell
Driver Pleads Guilty to Nighttime Speeding Charge
John Vernon Shults was arrested May 29 by Highway Patrol trooper H D Van Ars dell and pleaded guilty in Justice of the Peace court to a nighttime speeding charge after being caught about 14 miles west on State Highway 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Vernon Shults
H. D. van Arsdell
Justice of the Peace Court
C. W. Floyd
Shults
Mrs Hatchett to Appear on KTEN for Center Homecoming Days
Center prepares for Homecoming Day on Sunday June 6 featuring a large chicken dinner and reunion of early settler families including Virgil Medlock Tom Steed C R Anthony and Tom Thomas Sr Mrs Hatchett will recount Center's history on KTEN Friday June 4 at 4 15 PM with Mrs Z D Parker coordinating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. P. Hatchett
Center
KTEN
Virgil Medlock
Tom Steed
C. R. Anthony
Tom Thomas
Hatchett
Z. D. Parker
Routine Audit Beginning of County Treasurer
The County Treasurer Virgil Hunt said a routine audit by a representative of the State Examiner and Inspector’s office has begun. The check usually lasts ten days or longer, and fourteen months have passed since the last audit. This is described as an exhaustive review of the county’s fiscal operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Examiner and Inspector’s Office
Virgil Hunt
Man Sought Here Over Bogus Check
Ada man Argyle McElroy faces a bogus check charge after giving a $9.02 paint payment on December 28, 1953 to Raymance Paint Contracting Co. The Montgomery Ward complaint says the check bounced for insufficient funds and he had not yet been captured by noon Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argyle McElroy
Ada
R. R. Dobnick
Montgomery Ward Co
McElroy
Raymance Paint Contracting Co
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Arthur Harber
Arvel Howell
Cement Company
By Murrelle Mahoney
Genner
Mrs. Hatchett
K-Ten
Myrtle Southerland
Ren
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