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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1969
Page
8
Dr Ray Quiett will speak at the Ada Lions Club regular luncheon session. The group meets Tuesday at the Aldridge for their weekly gathering.
Around the County notes show neighbors enjoying supper after a ballgame at Stonewall. Visits include Morgan Wells with Milipisa from Frisco, Pat Gregory and Christie Moore with the Kerr families, and Babe Kerr’s visits to Ada. A Stonewall senior center musical drew 106 registrations.
Sunday School attendance was 46 with one visitor. Birthdays celebrated for Thelma Perriman Stephenie McCullar Anita McCullar Charles Ownbey and T Bum pus. Local visits include Jim Ownbey and family from Arizona and Ercy Ownbey from Stratford. A funeral was held in Ross for Virgil Scarberry.
Mr and Mrs Bert Wright Corley and Jack Griffith Fort Worth visited Mrs Johnson Sunday. Saturday guests at Alvie Griffiths included Herbert Griffith and Mrs Griffith Roff. Tuesday guests at the Griffith home were Mrs Lloyd Briggs Necia Leslie Stillwater Mrs Bertha Wagnon and Phyllis Ann Sparks Duncan. Alvie Griffith attended a past presidents meeting of extension homemakers in Ada.
Mrs. Marvin Hunt returned home from Valley View Hospital recently. Mrs. Arno Griffiths visited Sunday and Monday. Her mother in law Mrs. Ezra Hunt is visiting this week. Mrs. Gertie Summers Mrs. Mack Summers and Mrs. May Johnson visited Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Summers and their family from San Antonio, Texas, arrived Monday for a visit.
The text lists numerous Summers family members and relatives visiting across several households including Hatcher and Summers families. It notes visits from Mr and Mrs Oscar Summers of San Antonio and May Johnson, plus a return from Vietnam by Johnny Lee Summers. A fish fry at Lloyd McIlroy's home is also mentioned.
Fort Worth resident Jack Griffith visited Mr and Mrs Ar no Griffith Sunday. Charlie Dunn from Pickett called on Mrs Alma Dunn and Mrs Naomi Stanfield. Frank Townsley of Ada hosted visitors, along with Lloyd McIlroy and others from Oklahoma City. Luster McIlroy and family vacationed in Bartlesville and visited relatives including Lloyd McIlroy. Ada church attendance followed by visits to Marie South and family, with Luster McIlroy and Pete Lull of Castro Valley and Spurgeon Solomon and daughters also noted.
The Ada City Council met Monday in City Hall with routine items on the agenda. Items include street equipment committee recommendations, bids on fire department radio equipment, a Civil Defense ordinance for fall out shelters in new public buildings, urban planning contract with the Oklahoma Industrial Development and Park Department, approval of claims, and general correspondence.
Police investigate two Saturday night burglaries. At Strike and Spare Bowl Lanes 1020 N Mississippi a person locked in at closing. a cigarette machine yielded 96.50. At Bill Smoots Texaco 1230 Arlington entry by prying an overhead door. 22 from a cigarette machine and 30 in coins from the cash register.
Thomas H. Lagos graduates from Wittenberg University with a straight A average and summa cum laude honors. He will attend University of Michigan Law School with a full tuition scholarship after turning down Harvard and Chicago. Lagos completed college courses while in high school and worked full time as a repairman, planning a Navy law career and future politics.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller departs from Kennedy Airport for a nine hour nonstop flight to Brasilia Brazil on the third leg of his troubled presidential mission. Protests and violence have dogged the tour with deaths and injuries and calls to cancel stops in several countries.
A new four way stop at N Broadway and the Mississippi bypass led to 25 traffic violations. Pleaded guilty, each was fined five dollars. Bonds forfeited by Roy Beal Minnie Billings Doris Mae Blackburn Leon Brownie Clark Marvin Crawley Houston.
A roster names E. Duty Fred Gray, Donald Ray Hammons, T. C. Hill, Carl Leon ard Hobbs, Anita Louise James, David Leon Johnson, Earl La Von Laughlin, Lorene A. Laxton, Robert E. Leonard, Geneva J. McGee, William E. Parrott, Jessie Lee Putman, Acalee Homer Rhoads, Elmer Rounsaville, Carole Ann Snyder, Earl Loyd Sutton, Roger D. Whittington and Robert O. Wilfong.
Olympia the capital of Washington was incorporated in 1859 marking its formal status as a city. The event reflects early territorial development and administrative establishment in the Puget Sound region.
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