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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
5
State editors tease Ada’s charm as Oklahoma Press Association delegates enjoy shows tours and dances. The Ada Chamber hosts a warm welcome while local firms showcase products avoiding oil boom stereotypes. The writer notes Ada’s potential beyond oil with manufacturing and agriculture, praising civic spirit and hospitality.
The Oklahoma Press Association spring convention in Ada showcased hospitality that was efficient and unobtrusive. Ada’s balanced hosting, strong local leadership, and diverse industries suggest the town will thrive beyond oil, with solid commerce and lasting community spirit.
Ada is praised for growth and hospitality as the Oklahoma Press Association visits. The piece traces Ada’s rise from a corn-field street to a thriving commercial center with strong education, natural resources, oil, and waterworks. It notes leaders in business and journalism and cites Ada’s strong retail and auto sales, population and valuation figures, and the long-standing effort to attract visitors and investment.
The Ada Chamber of Commerce held a $25 prize for the best Ada editorial at the Oklahoma Press association convention. Tom Phillips of Heldenville Daily News won with this piece praising Ada as a thriving, diversified economic center with oil, agriculture, and industry, strong schools, churches, and newspapers, and a population around 18,000.
A visiting press group reports Ada Oklahoma locals greet visitors warmly and boast strong per capita sales. They praise Ada for friendliness, cleanliness and progress, noting the oil city’s growth and the East Central College presence during a three day convention.
The Wetonga Republican lauds Ada Pontotoc county Oklahoma as a progressive town hosting an OPA convention. It highlights wide paved streets, modernized business district, thriving manufacturing with cement mills and brick work, two top newspapers, active civic clubs, and generous hospitality including arranged tours and breakfast in Sulphur. The piece ends urging readers to see Ada first, noting the town has everything.
A visitor notes Ada hosts hospitable, cultured residents and stable economy despite the 1938 recession. The city plans wide streets, supports education from kindergarten to college, and benefits from nearby agriculture and natural resources. Saturdays bustle as shoppers fill stores, reflecting strong employment prospects and community spirit.
Ada grows from a dull town into a thriving city through oil wealth and industrious leadership. The Ada community diversifies beyond oil, supporting cement plants, agriculture, livestock shows, and East Central State Teachers College under Dr. A Linscheid, creating a culture and steady civic strength for a wholesome family city.
Ada hosts Oklahoma Press Association convention with over 4000 enrollments and strong Ada growth. Visitors enjoyed city hospitality, central teachers luncheon, and Ada’s new business district, airfields, homes, and hospital. Officials credit oil industry and citizen integrity for Ada’s top status and future.
The Ponca City News writer reports on Ada Oklahoma praising its oil industry civic growth and water supply. Ada hosts a visiting press group, highlights cement and glass plants, a water lake and a tenacious community, and notes the city’s legislative influence and a teachers college led by Dr A Linscheid. The piece urges readers to visit Ada.
County political spotlight shifts as the grand jury report looms over races less than three weeks from the primary. Indictments or clean bills could alter county contests, while Senator Elmer Thomas visits Ada with a campaign speech amid tightening political tension.
A head on collision a mile west of Ingomar between the Olympian passenger train and a CCC work train killed a CCC youth and injured 13 others. The Olympian had previously crashed a bridge into a flooded creek five miles east, with estimated 47 deaths.
Washington reports the government will more than double its farm loan program for the 130 fiscal year to cut tenancy. Congress appropriated 25 million dollars for the year ending June 30, 1999, up from 10 million in 1938.
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