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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1971
Page
3
Legal notices summarize multiple cases in Pontotoc County. Plaintiffs seek public action including quiet title, sale of estate property, and restraining orders against defendants. Notices name defendants such as Virgil E Cottingham and Cott ingham heirs, and list required publication and hearing dates in Ada Oklahoma.
Public notices from the Metropolitan Area Planning and Zoning Commission invite participation for hearings on March 25 1971 and March 30 1971 addressing zoning of unincorporated Pontotoc County areas near Ada Oklahoma and related property reviews. Included are hearings on re zoning petitions for land in Section 23 and Section 28 Township 4 North Range East near State Highway 19 with the Board of County Commissioners set to meet April 5 1971.
Four angre candidates filed for offices in several outlying county towns by morning. No race has emerged yet. From Stonewall: Elmer Trimmer Ward 2 and Jacky D Johnston Ward 1. Gene Williamson Ward 4 and H A Sanders Ward 3 had filed earlier, Henry Bale for city treasurer at Allen, Derrell Phillips for treasurer at Francis.
Oklahoma House passed a measure to require a complete recount in challenged elections and approved a bid to bar sex discrimination in state merit system hiring and firing. Tentative approval also came for a two percent cap on city sales taxes. In the Senate a bill to replace a degree requirement with experience for the Department of Corrections director was sent to the House. A waterway project from the Arkansas River to Lake Eufaula was backed in a resolution urging immediate construction to lower freight rates and boost navigation.
The measure requires helpers who take up estrays to seek the legal owner and report to the sheriff if unsuccessful. The sheriff mails a description of the animal to the State Department of Agriculture, and caretakers may hold the animal until relieved. They receive actual care costs and damages, with provisions for ownership disputes. Ballinger emphasizes cooperation to help stockmen recover missing cattle and estrayed animals.
In West Germany the most common infant names in 1970 were Andreas for boys and Nicole for girls, per a Wickert Institute survey of 2,024 parents. Five percent of boys were named Andreas and five percent of girls Nicole.
Washington AP Agriculture Department officials forecast higher 1971 participation in the set-aside feed grains program. Carroll Brimthauer of ASCS said 72 percent of corn and sorghum base acreage may sign up, with flexibility to shift crops and preserve acreage history, amid blight protections in severe areas.
Obituary notice lists Lula J Brice Ada resident died March 2 Billy Joe Pevehouse 32 Ada teacher died March 1 Frank E Stevens 88 died Feb 28 William J Abbott 76 former Ada resident died Feb 26 Drucilla Thomas 72 Oil Center resident died Feb 26 James A Buchanan 55 Ada resident died Feb 24 with funeral homes noted for each case.
Numerous local residents and visitors are listed in social notices from Stratford and Oil Center. The report details visits, church activities, hospital stays, and family gatherings across communities including Muskogee Lawton Ada Durant Oklahoma City and Welch with many named individuals and households appearing throughout the week.
Eighty nine attended Sunday School and church at the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Rev. Glen Haves led the morning services and Alfred Murr led the Sunday night services. Rev. Haves is conducting a revival at the Calvary.
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