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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1956
Page
9
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson unveiled preliminary soil bank concepts for 1956 during a May 31 press conference. The plan would pay farmers in eligible areas who reduce 1956 crops by plowing up planted fields and cutting acreage below the allotment, with payments based on a base unit rate.
Mrs. Doyle Thomas heard scratching from a cardboard box behind her Frisco home while doing laundry. She discovered an extraordinary vermin and, to capture it, placed a quart fruit jar in front of the creature, hoping to trap it.
A recipe combines two thirds cup apple butter with orange rind grated to spread on a ham slice and bake at 300 degrees for one hour yielding four to six servings. A tip suggests adding sliced dates to bran muffin batter. The piece also recounts a curious incident about a centipede and a snake seen in a bathroom with a family frightened but unharmed.
Ada's egg producers face a growing market as Trader Mills of Ada and Wilson and Co. of Oklahoma City outline a plan to supply grade A eggs. Key organizers Lundgaard Lundegaard Stephens Hanson have held meetings with poultrymen to set up handling and distribution channels for a near unlimited local demand.
At the Oklahoma Aberdeen Angus Field Day on June 2 at Fort Reno El Reno Okla Carlton Corbin Mrs Corbin Bill and Mary Corbin attended Bill and Mary entered the 4 H judging contest with Mary placing third high individual and Bill fifth Dr Doyle Chambers of the animal husbandry department A&M College and Dwight Stephens director of the experimental farm spoke on progeny testing and performance testing.
The Vanoss alumni association held its second annual meeting Saturday night June 2 with more than 300 graduates and spouses attending a gala reunion and banquet. Officers elected include president Joe Martin Stratford secretary J T Murphy Center and treasurer Mrs C O Hunt Stratford. Next meeting is the McLish alumni association on June 9 at 7 30 p m in the McLish gymnasium Reservations with Helen Green Route 3 Ada Plates are 1 50 and casual dress. Class of 1956 graduates admitted free. Latta's meet continues on page 2 column 4.
D. W. Maloy, Pontotoc County courthouse janitor, filled a rose bed with corn seed left from his Union Valley plot. He now has corn, plus cotton stalks and peanut vines, in the east courthouse bed. He plans to harvest if weather cooperates and says it may be a scientific experiment.
The weekly invites readers from Fitzhugh Summers Chapel Union Valley Oil Center Black Rock Happyland Maxwell to share local news. Editors seek correspondents to cover their communities and offer to visit in person to discuss reporting.
Pontotoc County 4-H members earned multiple blue and red ribbons at the State Roundup held on the Oklahoma A&M College campus in Stillwater. County girls placing include Nancy Elliott Wilma Cook Bette Davis Doris Young Carolyn Coffee Carolyn Swanson Jo Ann Jaquess Wanda Young Barbara Morrow Frankie Sullivan and Nancy Elliott. Wanda Young Barbara Morrow placed third in state earning a $12 cash award from the Oklahoma Cotton Research Foundation. Mary Jo Hudson Sydney Dennis along with Wilma Cook and Bette Davis attended short courses in recreation junior leadership and leadership development programs.
Alph Stanphill of the Oklahoma Game and Fish Department discusses proposals to designate cottontail rabbits as game animals and shorten the squirrel hunting season. He notes year round rabbit hunts during breeding and suggests split or shortened seasons to protect breeding stock, inviting feedback from hunters statewide.
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