Ada Marine Tells Of Vietnam Battles
Marine Corporal Donald L. Northcutt recounts a Vietnam firefight near Chu Lai. He earned a Purple Heart after shrapnel wounded nose and hand during a patrol that faced Viet Cong in a desert of rice fields and dikes. Northcutt, on 30 day leave, spoke of dangers, malaria, and his unit’s 11 major operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Vietnam
Donald L. Northcutt
Adan
Northcutt
Delbert Northcutt
West 2Nd
Ada
South Carolina
Chu Lai
K Company
7Th Marine Regiment
Quang Ngai
U. S
U.S
Sneaky Joe Tops OC Horse Show At Western Heights
Sneaky Joe a red dun stallion owned by Leroy Wartchow won five trophies at the Western Heights Quarter Horse Show in Oklahoma City including All Around, Aged Stud, Reserve Champion, the pleasure class, pole bending and roping. The 5-year-old, 15 hands high and 1,200 pounds, is from JA Horse Ranch Texas and was sired by Joe Must Go out of Lady Wells. Wartchow foreman of a 3800 acre ranch near Ada described the horse as very good and noted it is used daily on the ranch. Sneaky Joe has serviced 39 mares this year and is often ridden by Wartchow’s son Ronnie and Charlene with daughters Carla and Connie nearby.
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Sneaky Joe
Leroy
Cotton” Warthow
Route 1
Fitzhugh
Western Heights
Oklahoma City
Joe Must Go
Lady Wells
JA Horse Ranch
Texas
Wartchow
Joe
Ada
Kermit Schafer
Wartcow
Ronnie
Charlene
Carla
Connie
Agricultural project under way at Ada Airport
A cross country pilot may notice an Ada Oklahoma project turning the airport into an agricultural demonstration site. Ned Biffle, with the City of Ada and Soil Conservation Service, sprigs bermuda and seeds 100 acres, drills 50 acres of yellow hop seed, and applies fertilizer while removing weeds by herbicide. The effort aims to beautify the field and create potential returns.
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Ada
Ned Biffle
Biffle
Soil Conservation Service
Bermuda
Orange Welborn
Ada Airport Commission
Commission
Camp honors go to Pontotoc 4H duo
Mike Golden of Union Hill and Marilyn Perkins of Ada named outstanding boy and girl junior leaders at the annual Murray County 4H Camp held at the Oklahoma Biological Station near Lake Texoma. About 190 4H members from Murray, McClain, Cleveland and Pontotoc counties attended the three day event.
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Pontotoc County
Marilyn Perkins
Ada
Mike Golden
Union Hill
Murray, McClain
Cleveland
Pontotoc
U. Biological
Lake Texoma
Ada City Council Retains Griffin and Horne for Audit
Ada City Council discussed auditing practices at its meeting and voted to hire Griffin and Horne CPAs to handle the annual audit at a cost of 1100 dollars per year, replacing Prigmore and Baker of Oklahoma City.
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City of
Ada
Griffin and
Iain Griffin
Horne
Dale Hougas
Hougas
J. B. Davidson
Davidson
Oklahoma Moves to Phase II in Hog Cholera Eradication
Oklahoma advances to Phase II of the four stage hog cholera eradication program making it the 23rd state in this phase and one of 49 states plus Puerto Rico enrolled. The program aims to wipe out the swine disease reducing vaccination costs and losses estimated at about 50 million dollars annually.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
U. S
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Lew Meibergen
Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture
Puerto Rico
J. H. Brashear
Francis Project Grant Approved for Sewer System
The Francis Public Works Authority will receive a $28,500 grant from the Department of the Interior to fund an outfall sewer and oxidation pond for a $96,000 project. The Ada Evening News reports the authority, formed Oct. 12, 1965, includes Harry Chambers as chairman and members Carlos Harrison Eugene Petty and Bob Hooser with Ralph Delaney as consulting engineer. The plan is to finance the remainder with revenue bonds.
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Francis
Department of the Interior
Ada Evening News
Francis Public Works Authority
Harry Chambers
Carlos Harrison
Eugene Petty
Bob Hooser
Ralph Delaney
Ada
Beef Remains Consumers’ Favorite Meat Choice
The Agriculture Department reports beef will continue as the top consumer meat preference. It says beef has high consumer preference and is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, and that cheaper vegetable protein substitutes do not threaten beef.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ada Marine
Con Cook
Australia
Viet
Don Northcutt
Leroy “Cotton” Wartcow
OC Horse Show
Ane Moshier
Yoakum
Dr. Welborn
Lake Texoma Lodge
Norman
Gary Wall
Kenneth Yoakum
SCS
Ada Municipal Aireport
Francis Project
USDA
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