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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1954
Page
2
A collage of Ada items including boxing query, city manager search, church trip to Purdue, and local quips. Highlights include Chuck Davey quitting boxing, the Ada chamber selection delay, and remarks from the city attorney. The column weaves local humor with civic updates and small-town anecdotes.
Ada Chamber of Commerce seeks a secretary manager with high city standing evident in applicant pool. First Methodist Church of Ada plans a major budget and reactivation drive as the city water rights case returns to public view.
The article follows core sampling by three geologists led by John Wolfe, with diamonds drills and blasting routines. It details blasting charges, rock flow to the crusher, Woodford electric trains guiding 15 ton loads, and the path from quarried rock to cement using Sylvan shale in Ada.
Collene Williams visited her aunt Miss Ada Williams in Oklahoma City. A. B. Laughlin hosted a weekend wine roast on the lawn and led a fishing trip to Lake Texoma. Attendees from Ada Ponca City Fitts Town and Kansas City joined the anniversary party for Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Stegall with gifts and refreshments.
Phyllis Brantley spent last week with her cousin Mrs Eddie Roberts and family in Cushing and returned home over the weekend.
Mrs Dick Murphy of Stonewall visited her brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Luther Thompson. Mrs Powers formerly Mildred Blackwell of Stonewall remains injured from a Lexington Virginia crash but improving. Friends may write through Stonewall Jackson Hospital Lexington Virginia. Mr and Mrs M L Stegall and son Jerry spent the weekend in Tulsa. Mrs R W Ford traveled to Little Rock Arkansas after her sister died. Thursday night Mr and Mrs Wesley Brantley hosted an event.
Process flow shows rock pieces entering a bin then a conveyor to a hammermill. Crushed material moves by elevator to a bin and railcars. Cars run to the Frisco spur and enter the Ideal Cement Plant at Ada for final crushing mixing with shale and burning in kilns to become cement.
Campaign activity tightens as candidates finalize organization and corner men predict frontrunners. The U S Senate race between Kerr and Turner begins to heat up amid strategic timing, with the governor’s race drawing most public interest and overshadowing other contests in Oklahoma’s 1954 elections.
W D Hattox longtime Fitzhugh resident died in Shawnee early this week. Funeral services set for Thursday at 3 at Criswell Funeral Home Rosedale Cemetery. Survived by daughters Laverne Hatcher Joan Miller of Albuquerque Irene Childers of Ft Worth and son Jerry of Albuquerque ten grandchildren.
Mrs. Margaret Ann Elizabeth Gregg of Ada aged 80 died Thursday at 6 30 am at home. Survived by husband C T Gregg daughters Ella Price Rosie Burkhart Thelma Brown Robbie Violet sons Ernest Taylor Gregg brother Alex Sims twenty grandchildren ten great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 2 pm Smith Funeral Chapel Bro Arnott Lowder Memorial Park. The Greggs moved from Center Point Arkansas to Stonewall in 1907 then Tishomingo and Ada.
Funeral services for James Albert James 61 of Route 1 Olney will be held Thursday at 3 at Olney School. Brother Eddie Wessel of Wapanucka will conduct. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery Wapanucka. Smith Funeral Home is in charge.
Bill Doenges spoke with a group of Democratic supporters Friday afternoon during a county tour. He outlined that his slogan is Hard work and short speeches and urged a state wide cooperative effort over piecemeal local action.
Thomas Worley Estes a 37 year old Howard Sheet Metal Co employee died from injuries from a two truck collision four miles east of Sulphur. He died at 12 35 a m Tuesday after hospital care following head injuries. J B Allen and Albert Bud Gibson were injured with a broken collar bone and three broken ribs respectively. Services were set for 3 p m Wednesday at Smiths Funeral Chapel. Estes had been hospitalized in Sulphur then Ada and was unconscious from the crash.
Washington May 29 six Oklahoma leaders were named to the national board of SBA field advisers. Recipients include W A Delaney Jr Ada J Paul Loosen Walter L Stephenson John Wallace and Earl Wells Henry in Tulsa Ada Enid Miami and Henry counties.
Rev and Mrs F H LaFollette travel to McKenzie Tennessee this week to attend the graduation exercises of their daughter Betty LaFollette Scott who will graduate from Bethel College on June 3 with a major in Christian Education and a minor in home economics.
Joe Carson died at noon Monday at 722 North Broad Way at age 75. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1 o clock from his home under the Philemon Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife Della an adopted daughter and several grandchildren. Burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
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