USDA Sets Excess Rates For Cotton in 1961
U S Department of Agriculture announced penalties for excess cotton under marketing quotas for the 1961 crop. Upland cotton penalty rate set at 19.5 cents per pound with quota penalties tied to parity price. Parity price for upland cotton listed as 38.96 cents per pound as of June. Growers approved quotas in December referendums, with continued notes on noncompliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Byng power plant fades from active duty in OG&E network
The Byng OG&E power station, once a bustling hub with fifty workers, is retired and largely silent. A mass exodus in the 1950s left only a skeleton crew. the surrounding company community dwindled to two inhabited homes. The plant sits six miles northwest of Ada on Big Sandy Creek, near a broad savannah across the river.
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Byng
Og&e Power
Ernest Thompson
Og&e
Sulphur
Old Byng
Oklahoma City
Noble,Sulphur
Ada
Sandy
Jis
County Man Dies In Auto Accident
A 51 year old farmer, Dewey A. Cox of Oil Center, died early Thursday when his 1956 Ford pickup collided with Opal Lee Suttons car about eight miles northwest of Ada on a county road near SH 13. Cox died at Ada Valley View Hospital. Coxs pickup overturned after impact. Sutton and two passengers, Matlie Black and Lorettha Page, survived. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Smith Funeral Home.
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H. T. Gay
Dewey Cox
Oil Center
Cox
Opal Lee Sutton
Ada
Dewey A. Cox
Valley View Hospital
SH 13
Route 2
Mel
Sutton
Matlie Black
Vaness
Lorettha Page
Ihut
Ward
Pontotoc County
Stonewall
Nannie L. Cox
Smith Funeral Home
Wheat Gets ASC Approval for 1962 Allotment Applications
The ASC county office accepts wheat allotment applications for farms with no established 1962 allotment. Producers who seeded wheat in prior years and want 1962 allotment must apply in writing by July 1, 1961. Forms are available at the ASC county office.
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ASC
Guy Pegg
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
ASC County
Galley-Wanting Around The County
Mary Laseman notes social visits and illness in Ada area readers. Pauline Cartwright returns home after two weeks with son Jim and daughter-in-law in Los Angeles. Several neighbors and relatives visit or host, with several hospitalizations mentioned and property rebuilding progress reported in Konawa.
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Mary Laseman
Pauline Cartwright
Jim
Inlaw
Los Angeles
Corbin’ Johnan
Houser
Ardmore
Rudean Clifton
Clay Johnson
Kate Murphy
Konawa
Westview Community News and Recital Notes
Westview notes report Sunday school attendance with all teachers present and details of a five day Vacation Bible School beginning Monday at 8 30 am. Several local families visit Gordon Nelson and neighbors report moving in and out. A piano recital by Becky Shellenbarger is announced, Mrs Alice Weathers dies at 89, and George Van Schuyver dies in Oklahoma City.
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Ross Richardson
Medina
Tex
J. L. Hyde
Quinlan
Mabel Tucker
Harry
Stanley Chastain
Bunyard
Oscar, Parker
Ada
Aldred Bunyard
Richardson
Roma City
George Bunyard
A Rucker
Chastain
Altus
Mildred Grey
Pomona
Calif
Lena, Atkinson
Westview
Becky’ Shellenbarger
Alice Weath
Murielers
Hayden Bruner
K. Davis
South Gate
Weath
Becky
Oklahoma
California
Mildred E. Loy
Huntington Park
Lorene Weathers
Los Angeles
Della Murray
Mattie Weathers
Edna Book
Weathers
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USDA
F. E. Love
Roff
Jefferers
Times
Old Byng Power
W. P. Stevens
Walter Goodknight
W. W. Potts
Minnie Doyle
Bue Doyle
Alvin Mantooth
Stratford
Jess Glasgow
Joe Jr
Vather
Virgil Williams
Frank Hartis
Cloys Bond
Harris
Rosa Watson
Wilson
George Tolliver
Jahn Reed
Corbin Johnson
Melena
Kent
Pittsburg
Penn
Corbin
Joe Harbison
Vivian Sue
East St! Louis
Ill
Marjorie Soutee
Ed Roberts
Perry
Cheerie
Clyde Newcomb
Lake Charles
Soulee
Dee Willoughby
Oi Center
Wesley Brantley
Phyllis
Marjorie
Jack Griffith
Fort Worth
Richard Soutee
Lee Hill
Kemp
Gordon Nelson
Nelson
J. D. Cosper
Joe-David
Jerry
Roy
Sherry
Kay
Tulsa
Colby Nelson
Thomas Roy
Margie Lou
Gordon Nelsons
R. E. Weber
Campbells
Asa
Marjorie Hutchinson
Jan
Kim Shellenberger
Rube DeLozier
Walnut Grove
Claude Delozier
Hearty
George van Schuyver
Pontotoco County
Oklahoma’ City
Church of Christ
John RB Stewart
Sunny Lane Cemetery
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