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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
2
A long, muddled recount claims to reveal what Eisenhower pondered as he faced Jodl at Reims during the D Day surrender ceremony. The account details a tense moment under floodlights, notes the commander’s internal doubts about the Nazi surrender and the broader war, and references contemporaries and observers present.
A fragmented account shows Kazak with war injuries shaping the Cardinals lineup. It mentions Bernard Terr Bakanic and players like Stan Mysick and Cumire Slaughter, detailing rehabilitation, position shifts, and influence on infield defense and double plays.
Oslo reports the death of Sigtid Undset a Nobel laureate famed for the Kristen Tarvranadades trilogy. Her career earned the Nobel Prize in 1928 for her literary work of the Middle Ages and her wartime writings. Her eldest son Andyrs was killed in action. another son served in an ambulance unit. Undset fled to Lillehammer, then Sweden, then the United States with companion Bensot Hans.
Five men perish when the fishing vessel Lustset capsizes off the Afiska peninsula near False Pass. Four crew members are seriously injured, including a Washington state legislator. Johnny B rescued survivors and recovered three bodies. Proceedings continue to locate remaining missing crew.
Sulphur High School Future Homemakers of America with adviser Miss Mildred Vaughan heads to the Southern region convention in Memphis Tennessee June 14 through 18. Miss Bernice Shedeck Oklahoma School for the Deaf FHA president travels as delegate. Four members join as Teen Times sales staff and a skit is planned for the Parade of States program. Eleven states plus Puerto Rico will be represented as Oklahoma and other clubs send delegates and reservations.
Edward E. Drenev, 23, of Youngstown and a Ohio university student in Tororo, is set to receive a bachelor of science degree amid chaotic events. His wife gave birth to their first child today in their apartment, with a lightning strike causing minor damage but no injuries.
Bill Reagan, student at East Gentral, was named editor of the 1949-50 The Tiger yearbook by the student council. He plans a summer gathering of material and a September subscription drive as the college resumes. Reagan, last year’s council reporter, has a background as college correspondent for the Ada News and studies English with practical teaching and journalism.
Ada Midget baseball league prepares to begin with 166 boys aged 12 to 15 in two leagues American and National. Ronald Clark named president of the American league and Dickie Bayless president of the National league. Team managers include Johnny Kerr and others. play slated to start around June 26 with a dugout and scare board funded by Ed Clark and local clubs. Donations sought to cover about $1,200 operating costs. over $200 already given.
In Garmisch Germany on June 11 Richard Strauss celebrated his 85th birthday with Bavarian officials presenting him a 2,300 year old Greek statue and the city of Munich receiving a waltz score he composed in its honor. The festival drew Bavaria’s artistic elite as Strauss, healthy and smiling, thanked attendees and recalled writing the waltz years earlier for Munich though it had never been performed.
Braddy Motor Co. completed a face lifting job with a new floor to ceiling glass front and three glass proof tinted plates modernizing the showroom. Ken Braddy, owner and manager, opened the Lincoln Mercury Agency here about two years ago after naval service in the war and prior work with Universel Credit. Inside, stainless steel trim frames the showroom windows.
Francis Patrick Matthews of Nebraska emerges as a blunt, practical choice for Navy Secretary. A lawyer turned financier with Catholic connections, he brings cool logic, scarce humor, and a demand for tough measures. His backstory spans business, banking, and public service with a hoped career toward Ireland, now redirected to Washington politics.
WASHVILLE Tenn June 1 UP Giovanni Rossi Lomantis a young atomic scientist aged 28 has left Fisk University in a huff rather than admit or deny he belongs to the Communist party Charles Johnson president of Norare university said tonight the physicist stalked off the campus when told contract would be suspended in a congressional hearing Lomantis twice interrogated by the House Un American Activities Committee on his alleged Communist affiliations was named by a former associate yesterday as a Communist worker Lomantis came to Fisk four months ago from Carmensani University to teach theoretical physics
The Murray County Flower and Vegetable Show will be held Thursday in Sulphur at the American Region Hall. Entries run from 3 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 30 with removal until 4 p.m. Judging starts at 9 a.m. A program is set for 2 to 3 p.m. and two divisions exist for home demonstration club members and an open class for all garden and flower clubs in the county. Rabbons will decorate the venue, organized by the Sulphur Chamber of Commerce and Murray County Home Demonstration Council. The event is open to the public.
President Truman returned to Washington from Little Rock by air aboard the Independence after a long flight. Reporters described a 2 mile per hour tailwind that boosted the plane to about 320 miles an hour for the trip.
Washington June 11 Truman era politics focus on Midwest farm policy. Democratic leaders including Vice-President Barkley and Secretary Brennand Brannan attend a two day Des Moines conference to build support for 1950 congressional campaigns and farm gains. The Brannan plan promises high returns to farmers financed by government payments to balance producer and consumer prices, sparking Republican Senator Wherry's charge of socializing agriculture.
Banbury Connecticut June 11 Walter Trask 50 amateur radio operator both volume and distance on his set last night hearing voices from across Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Neighbors in New Bedford and Claremont reported the strange groans after he fell asleep at the transmitter. Police investigated and found Trask sleeping in front of his live radio gear.
A massive sturgeon weighing over 130 pounds was displayed in Moscow after being lanced and landed by Tong Han Deen. The catch drew quick interest from local residents and was shown at a city event before heading to a sale inquiry in the area.
Berryville Arkansas June sheriff Ami Howerton offers a new theory in the shooting death of two Ozark boys. He believes Leon Jubb accidentally killed his brother Dewey and then shot himself in a chain of panic during a March outing in pine woods. The case, which left a third boy wounded and a dog dead, has no external suspect.
DES MOINES Iowa A dispute over a neighbor's pack of coon hounds led District Judge C Edwin Moore Leake to rule the howling constitutes a nuisance The owner Henry W Clayton described the sounds as music but the court sided with the neighbor saying loud off hours howling is a private nuisance and ordered three days confinement of the dogs and the music ceased.
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