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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1965
Page
4
The Ada Evening News reflection notes Memorial Day has softened into a three day weekend and urges readers to recall the original duty to honor the dead. It compares holiday meaning to Thanksgiving and Christmas, calling for thought beyond personal leisure and material joy.
The piece cautions rural drivers to adapt to gravel and country roads with poor visibility and hazards. It warns against overconfidence away from highways and urges proper signaling and awareness, noting the fatal risk on quiet country sections.
This piece explains patent pending meaning and legal effect. It notes that a marked product has had an application filed and may be granted later. It covers exclusivity for 17 years and the transition to public domain, and cites the constitutional purpose and Lincoln quote.
The 10th annual Stonewall Day will be celebrated Sunday June 13 at Stonewall Sportsman's Club Lake. All residents and former residents of Stonewall Tupelo Jesse Frisco Union Valley Owl Creek and Fittstown vicinities are urged to attend the day long reunion. Families should bring a basket lunch for their family. Talmadge Loman chairs the event with Mrs Anna Young as secretary treasurer.
News Classified Ads offer buying selling trading renting items. Contact FE 2-4433 for details.
Background scripture from II Samuel explores how love and duty clash when a father neglects his kingly duties to shield a son. The piece argues David’s failure was allowance of wrong without discipline, driven by what it calls lazy indulgence mislabeled as love.
The Norman campaign, part of Cleveland County drive, raises 72000 toward a 77500 goal with 15 agencies including Red Cross Salvation Army and the Norman Community Council. Peggy Bagby credits early planning strong volunteer effort and the Red Cross organizers as key to success.
Polar bears are described as easy targets for hunters using airplanes and high powered automatic rifles. The text notes that polar bear rugs are fashionable and white pelts fetch high prices, reflecting a market driven by luxury demand.
A claim attributes the invention of the revolving office chair to Thomas Jefferson, linking a historical figure to a modern ergonomic innovation. This item presents a contested or curious historical note rather than a documented patent or widely cited source.
Jerry John a Missouri Kansas City dental student leaves for Fairbanks Alaska after visiting his Sulphur parents. Jamie John a University of Oklahoma junior heads to Cove Junction Oregon to work with the Forest Service with Ken Riley and Marshall McMurtry also employed there.
An old British joke centers on a peer who dreams he speaks in the House of Lords and wakes to discover he is delivering a real address. The anecdote plays on ambition and the blurring of fantasy and duty in political life.
Ada pharmacist E. D. Wilson has purchased Steen’s Bayless Drug at 116 East Main. Steen plans to return to Dallas with his family after expanding to two Dallas stores, while Wilson will run Bayless without personnel or policy changes.
East Central College is among 15 Oklahoma colleges to receive federal grants this summer to fund jobs for low income students. The E C grant totals 22 121 dollars and pays students for non traditional tasks such as lab work grading papers and office duties. Students may work up to 15 hours weekly under the grant while non summer students may work 40 hours weekly. Eligible families earn no more than 3000 dollars per year.
The second day of June saw Ada record its second accident of the month with O A Stevens backing from a curb and hitting a parked car owned by Daisy Stout. A warrant was issued for Stevens on charges of driving while intoxicated leaving the scene of an accident and improper backing. Pleading guilty in Municipal Court were Donald R Thompson for improper exhaust Ida Evelyn Cooper for running red light Cleburn Howard for public drunkenness Donald Ray Thompson Bobby Joe Couch and Julius Harold Houchen for petit larceny Carolyn Kay McAnally and Iva Pearl McCoy for running stop signs Bond forfeited for running stop signs. Terry Lee Pierce Raymond W Dudley and Edward M Krebs charged in Justice court.
Shirley Ann Stephens is divorced from James Thomas Stephens. Betty Jo Carter is divorced from Jerry Leslie Carter. Ellen Louise Barton is divorced from B. L. Barton Jr. Marilyn Henry is divorced from Harold E. Henry. Dorothy McNutt is divorced from Robert E. McNutt.
County Judge Fred Andrews revoked a one year suspended sentence for driving while intoxicated by Jimmy Stinson Francis and ordered him to serve the term in county jail. The revocation followed evidence Stinson helped beat Eddie Brewster in Ada on May 24. Also charged in county court were Alma Skaggs Anglin Sloan and Wood entries with various offenses.
By Buzzy Bonehouse notes that people make as many summer resolutions as New Year resolutions. The piece suggests the new year prompts calendar changes game listening church pledges and tax calculations.
Landscaping for the Robert S. Kerr Water Research Center is finished by Frank Milsap with Carl Thompson approving. The design features oak and juniper on the west, Austrian Pine at corners, Redbud near parking and Burford Holly along the front beds, with Yaupon Holly by entrance doors forming a hedge.
A reader note from Mary Laseman of Roff pledges to write more engaging correspondence. The column highlights a snake story by Mrs Simon Patton of Frisco and praises other contributors. Mention is made of Minnie Lewis of Oil Center and her son Bob Lew is expected home from Athens Greece with a two year old grandchild unseen by Minnie.
William Vance Thorn ton, an East Central State College graduate, has been admitted to the Kansas City Medical School for the fall 1966 freshman class. A 29 year old Marine Corps veteran and former East Central student, he has worked at Wondel Smith Mortuary in Oklahoma City since February. He is the son of Mrs. Virginia Thornton of 925 East 15th.
The U.S. Army records Ferdinand Zeppelnventer as the German lighter-than-air pioneer making his first balloon ascent in 1863 during a visit to Fort Snelling in Minnesota.
Two men in Washingtons War Production Board silently compare work habits. One uses a reference label refer to Cmdr. Jones to mark rough details. He finally reveals he is Cmdr. Jones and urges readiness.
A courtroom exchange has a man recounting a dog chase and a splintered leg while a judge quips about the bark and bite. A well worn quip follows on progress and discovery, noting that error leads to new findings.
Comment notes a perceived decline in women's status as men achieve leaps in travel speed beyond sound. Reflects social debate on gender roles amid technological progress and rapid transportation milestones.
At the Bronx Zoo four gorillas from Congo origin watch kiddy cartoons on a 16 inch TV outside their cages. The group Pili Pili Sumaili Mambo and Oka with ages six seventeen fifteen and fifteen enjoy action type programs to ease boredom and disputes. Curator Joseph Davis notes the experiment reduced restlessness.
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