Stonewall Homecoming Draws Crowds From Far Borders
Stonewall Day drew hundreds to Sportsmen's Club Park on Sunday June 12 with attendees from New Mexico California and multiple states. Charley Shockley opened the event registering participants and Frisco Home Demonstration Club served refreshments while officers for the coming year were elected by acclamation. Community nostalgia and neighbors reconnecting filled the day as former residents from Ada Tulsa Roswell and beyond shared memories and stories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J .Markley
Stonewall
Sportsmen's Club Park
New Mexico
California
Charley Shockley
Ada
Erskin Lillard
Tulsa
Lillard
Wesley Chaddick
Lula Darnell
Anna Young
Darnell
Sportsmen’s Club
Bob Sammons
W. L. Tinsley
Sulphur
Maysville
O. T. Johnson
Monroe Byrd
Union Valley
Anna Burnett Young
Westview Woman A Ozarks Benefactor Emblem
Mary Cox a Westview native from the Missouri Ozarks is remembered for community aid tied to her father's mill. Neighbors gathered to grind corn and discuss helping those in need, with women actively participating alongside men in communal projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westview
Ozarks
Missouri Ozarks
Mary Cox
Little Mary
Thelma Stroud
Oklahoma
Health Dept Plans County Polio Program
The Ada City-County Health Department leads a county wide polio prevention program with free injections for residents up to age twenty and pregnant women under doctor's advice. Clinics run Tuesdays and Thursdays in Ada and monthly in Vaness Rofs McLish Stonewall Allen. Dr K W Navin directs the county clinics. staff includes Nancy Halliburton and nurses Robbie Eden Paralee Hisle Betty Cannon Inez Hisle. Only one paralytic polio case was reported in Pontotoc County this year, linked to no shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
Pontotoc County
Nancy Halliburton
Robbie Eden
Paralee Hisle
Betty Cannon
Inez Hisle
Dixie Gosnell
Health Department
Local Social News Highlights Around Ada and Sulphur
Sunday visits to the Pederson home include Mack McNeil and Karen Wallis with extended stops in Sulphur and Ada. Local families travel to Oklahoma City and Memphis for work, visits, and planning meetings while nursing aide classes are planned and trips to Carlsbad Cavern and Mexican destinations are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pederson
Richard Pederson
Oklahoma City
Kenneth Hunt
Rudy Jones
Cecil Glazier
Kingston
Ada Farm and Ranch Club Sets June Meeting
Ada Farm and Ranch Club will meet next Thursday night June 23 at the W C Wigley Ranch four miles south of Fittstown. Dr Don Williams says a program on improving beef will begin at 7 00 PM for all interested in better beef production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Farm and Ranch Club
W. C. Wigley
Fittstown
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Joe Salee
Richmond
Calif
Bill Godby
Roswell
N. M
Ava Henson
Grace Holcomb
Harry Wyrick
Ethel Rives
W. L. Wright
Madill
Wrights
Health Dept. Plans
Ada Health Department
K. W. Navin
Pontotoc
Pottawatomie County
Connie Woods
R. E. Cowling
Lightning Ridge
Eric Allen
Midland
Mrs
Chris Pederson
Mack McNeil
Galey
Tom Martain
Elzie Smith
Latta
Kirk and
Randy Smith
Mrs. J. LeGee
Karen Wallis
Melvin Johnson
David
Marion
Patricia
Arlis
Marjorie
Sim Miller
Roff
By Mary Laseman
Beulah Hathaway
WMU
Paul Walsh
YWA
Kelham Church
Courts Redford
Washburn
Southern Baptist Convention
Nashville
Tenn
Mary Ann Harber
Ruth
Jane
Frankie Stevens
Mary Ann
Cotton Stevens
Claude Gaddis
Ralph Morgan
Sapulpa
Hobbs
Carlsbad
el Paso
Jaurez
Mexico
Lowell Laseman
Mill Creek
L. W. Laseman
Minnie Gipson
Nursing
A. O. Pickens
Odessa
Tex
Nora Etchieson
Rickens
Etchieson
Homer Blevins
Frank Key
Memphis
J. Shaw
Joe Robnett
Don Williams
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