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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1973
Page
4
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A lively piece extols bugwatching at home with pets and gardens. It highlights ants, roly polys, flies, ticks, mantises, katydids, crickets, June bugs, locusts, cicadas, aphids, and wasps, plus the appeal of moths and spiders. It notes how bugs invite birds and how to observe without harm.
Ada firefighters made two runs to small home fires. The first Friday at 11 12 a m at 2808 N Stockton Laura Mae Johnson kitchen fire caused 15 damage. The second Saturday at 10 05 a m at the married students dormitory Stadium Drive oven fire with no damage. Four units responded.
Virginia Wyche divorces Hobart Wyche and Betty Clapp’s divorce from William Don Clapp. Betty Bowerman’s former name is restored.
A three alarm fire broke out Sunday night at a concession stand in Springlake Amusement Park in Oklahoma City. Crowds hampered firefighters and heavy traffic slowed response. Damage amount and cause remained undetermined and may never be known.
A short meditation contrasts profane and reverent use of God's name with examples. It cites Jack Sue Betty Carl Ed Edna and urges sincerity, warning against thoughtless or hypocritical speech. The piece notes Jesus teachings on honesty and warns against swearing or using sacred names flippantly.
A compact obituary roundup lists multiple Oklahoma residents with ages and dates of death in June. Entries include Ruth Ophelia Miller 60 Coalgate. Modena M Young 58 Ada. Hattie McDonald 79 Tulepo. Wrease Dub Chastain 55 Lehigh. William H Davis 68 Stratford. James Boatright 75 Rofs. Watt Alex Alexander 82 Allen. Charles C Wall 71 Stratford. Billie Sullivan Joyner 32 former Ada. Clyde B Welch 53 Ada. Bonner 71 Coalgate. Glenda Peck 35 former Center. Funeral homes: Jim Epperson, Bill Eisenhour, Smith, Criswell, Pickard.
The Ada Greenhouse forecaster Morris Poe notes five months and 10 days into 1973 yield 29.58 inches, close to Ada’s all time yearly high set in 1957. June totals reach 4.85 inches with May 1957 holding the single month record of 14.61 inches.
Courts limit use of a cleared suspect photo in police rogues galleries citing privacy rights while endorsing record keeping for identification. Some cases permit reopening past convictions for public safety, as courts stress societal protection over individual privacy. A separate precipitation report shows January through June rainfall totals totaling 29.58 inches with March the wettest month at 8.05 inches.
Celeste K. Kemler administrator of Valley View Hospital has been named to the Federal Health Council of the Health Services and Mental Health Administration. She is the first Oklahoman selected to the national advisory group and will serve a four year term. She left for Washington D C to attend her first meeting with Caspar W Weinberger noting the council advises on medical facilities grants and hospital service coordination.
Frank Sinatra says he will end retirement only if he can manage crowds and privacy. He spoke at UCLA for alumni awards, noting he hopes to do a television special next fall and perform before a small, controlled audience. He described receiving about 30 000 letters from fans while seeking privacy.
The text contrasts personal problems with growth and coping, urging realism, goal setting, and helping others. It then shifts to humorous observations of Oklahoma's rapid green growth and lawn mowing dangers, imagining an airport tower guiding a mower through tall grass and avoiding hidden hazards.
New York AP reports the SEC considered whether corporations should publish earnings forecasts. Firms split: some say public forecasts reduce insider advantage and promote disclosure, while others warn forecasts tempt manipulation and mislead investors.
Robert Bitts of Colorado regained sight after a plastic lens implant on June 4 at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He first saw wife Martha and their 6 month old son Ruben 27 months after the marriage and described the moment as deeply personal. Bitts, a former Stanford engineering student and math teacher, was blinded in 1956 by sulfur dioxide gas exposure.
Ada residents show nuptial ties as K Welch marries Carolyn S York. Miles Elliott weds Dora Hollingsworth. Ray Hanley joins Zeddra Strickland. Eddie Arnold Boyd weds Jackie McCarty. Jerry Fields and Jeanie Hensley wed. Littleton Fowler Jr marries Brenda Dildine in Ada and surrounding locales.
A Memphis city judge and his golfing party were irritated when drivers drove across a fairway. Five men appeared before City Judge Ray Churchill who suspended their licenses and sentenced each to two hours in jail.
Skylab astronauts Conrad Kerwin and Weitz will survey Walt Disney World as part of the last earth resources test. The crew on a 28 day mission will also conduct medical and solar observatory experiments while sensors gather data in Brevard County and in other regions including the Rockies Great Plains and Venezuela.
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