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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1939
Page
3
County Clerk Tom Grant spent Thursday in the filing room under his office as new lumber and filing cases arrive. He plans shelves and filing boxes to neatly store old records and keep permanent documents in order.
Joe B Hill Pontotoc county agent reports addition of 4000 breeding animals and inquiries from farmers seeking Hereford Angus sheep and gilts. He notes Pontotoc farmers improve pastures to support stock and cites Oklahoma praise while warning counties not to fall behind.
Oklahoma City March 13 Up Young Phil Kennamer ree on 90 day parole from a manslaughter sentence for the society fang killing of John Gorrell Jr traveled to attend his mother's funeral He spoke little telling a reporter he did not feel like talking His hands bore tar and oil from oil company work in Phoenix He was paroled to accompany his mother to Arizona for her death May navole expires May
Oklahoma City awaits the third and final weekend of the state high school basketball championship with 32 teams vying for titles. Defending champions Tulsa Central and Ada Byng girls face tough early rounds as Cyril and Victory exit earlier rounds amid mechanical explanations for steering issues from a patch on a front wheel inner tube.
Wilburn Bennett, 4-H club boy from Owl Creek, won first prize and $10 in the pig feeding contest sponsored by the Smith Packing plant, the Oklahoma State Bank, and the First National Bank. His pig grew from 93 to 349 pounds, a gain of 251 pounds, as of March 5, with Carol Tanner taking second and $3 for two pigs gaining 240 pounds.
Pittsburg March 13 A two year old Harold Holt Jr suffers from Wilm's tumor crushing liver lungs and kidney doctors say no cure exists and death is near. His father a 26 year old rowboat crewman pleads for help while Harold’s mother and doctors discuss unknown causes and the limits of treatment. Two others are under care and more cases have occurred at Children's Hospital.
A district court jury awarded E. W. Larson 4000 damages against Du Pont De Nemours after a four day trial over alleged damage to Shockiey No 1 well in the Francis area from nitric explosive charges in 1938. Larson sought 11221. the jury began deliberations Thursday afternoon and returned a verdict at 8.0.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train collided with a car at highway 64 crossing near Claremore Oklahoma late Sunday, killing a little girl, her grandmother, and a woman friend identified as Mrs Chalmers 42 Mrs Anna Marie Wasson 49 and Teddy Joy DeWitt 2 15 years old. Authorities said the car skidded onto the tracks as the driver attempted to stop.
Three month old child of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Sellars died when a trailer housing the family was destroyed by fire in Konawa Oklahoma. Mrs. Sellars had left to fetch water from a nearby creek and returned to find the trailer ablaze.
Willis Young, a cattle expert and club boy, earned a promise from Hill that if Young's steer won grand champion at the 1939 Southeast Oklahoma Junior Livestock Show, Hill would buy a suit of clothes. Young's Hereford achieved grand champion status last week, and Hill fulfilled the bet by sending Young to obtain the suit.
Oklahoma City March 10 Gov Phillips urged slot machine operators to move out their paraphernalia as a bill to outlaw the machines and impose stiff penalties progressed but was held for reconsideration. Phillips praised the action while noting no need for harsh removal penalties in his district. He argued building owners would face misdemeanor charges for operating machines and touted public support against the gaming lobby.
The county sheriff raided Sunday and Monday filed unlawful possession charges. Mer Hanson arraigned before County Judge Hoyt Driskill with $500 bond after arrest at Hazel's Place west of Ada for 34 pints of whiskey. Luke Taylor arrested at St Herson's north of Ada on Highway 99 and charged with six pints of whiskey, pleaded not guilty and posted $500 bond.
Hollywood announces it offered the St. Louis Cardinals 2500 dollars for Ernie Orsatti 34 year old outfielder who had voluntarily retired earlier this season in a bid to boost its lineup.
Tulsa March 13 The funeral of Mrs Franklin E Kennamer 54 wife of the federal judge who died at home last night has been tentatively set for tomorrow Her son Phil who was released from McAlester penitentiary on parole to be with his mother was to leave Phoenix on an airliner for Tulsa The family has deep roots in Tulsa and Greenwood Arkansas with survivors including the widower two other children and several siblings.
SALLISAW March 11 Occupants of the Sequoyah county courthouse from the county attorney to the prisoners hope for mild weather and an early summer. Until July 1 the courthouse will lack electricity heat water and all but one telephone. Lights and water were cut off yesterday for delinquent bills and only the Sheriff Charley Hutchens office telephone remains. Hutchens has kerosene lamps for his office and jailers carry water from a nearby filling station. With no steam heat and no water prisoners use more blankets at night. County Commissioner Frank Connelly and County Treasurer Perry Campbell say funds could not be diverted to pay utility bills.
Oklahoma City reports Governor Phillips saying tag deadline will be extended beyond March 21. Legislators may pass a joint resolution to extend timing. the executive order is not planned. Auto owners advised to wait until a new license tag law is in place. Barron Collier, noted capitalist and hotel magnate, died of a heart attack at Useppa Florida.
Claremore Oklahoma March 13 Sheriff Tom Dean of Rogers county ruled the auto crash death of Mrs. Tom Burrows fifty unavoidable. Driver Robert William Swim twenty five who struck her was released after questioning. Relative Jeter Davis forty one also released as her companion at the time of the accident.
PAULS VALLEY March 13 Ipi Carele Morrison 18 year old high school senior shot three times Saturday night during an argument over dates with another boy. She is reported improving in hospital but in critical condition. Murray Williams freshman at Murray State College of Agriculture was held in county jail. Williams said he shot the girl during the dispute. No charge filed.
George E. Fisher of Oklahoma City was appointed to the state industrial commission by Gov. Phillips and confirmed by the senate. A 1930 University of Oklahoma graduate, he has practiced law in Holdenville and Oklahoma City. A separate note mentions a movement to raise speed limits, with California proposing limits of 45 mph at night.
Fishermen are urged to fish the city lake before Wednesday night as the area closes temporarily afterward. Bad weather slowed fishing but recent weeks yielded fine catches. Sunday drew many visitors to the lake and Wintersmith park, where park officials are clearing underbrush and adding evergreens and flower beds to enhance the park’s appeal.
March 13 marks the last day to get a new license without risk of arrest and fines. In the county, about 10,000 drivers had not yet renewed by Sunday. The tag office crowded Monday with a line stretching outside and onto the corner of Twelfth and Broadway as T. J. Chambless and helpers worked at top speed to handle the rush.
Thurmond Must Serve His Term. PIA L Thurmond Jr son of an Elk City banker must go to the penitentiary Wednesday to begin a two year manslaughter sentence. Governor Phillips declined to extend the 90 day leave of absence granted by Lieut Governor Berry. He was convicted in the hit run death of M K Beam, a real estate dealer on an Oklahoma City street on August 193%. His original four year sentence was reduced to two years on appeal and a new trial was granted.
Eddie Stockard pleaded guilty at arraignment in A W Oliver's justice court on a charge of driving while intoxicated. He was bound over to district court on a $1,000 bond after being identified as the driver of a car that rolled over about a half mile north of Adz on highway 99 early Sunday morning. Santa Monica will bid for the 1949 Will Rogers Memorial Highway Association convention with Rochelle Hudson traveling to Albuquerque New Mexico for the meeting accompanied by Bill and Jimmy Will Rogers' sons. Two thirds of city accident fatalities are pedestrians.
The Shawnee News reports H S Moss of Dallas completed No 1 Leachman in Seminole county near Shawnee. The well in Cromwell sand yielded heavy oil with Hunton lime and Wilcox sand zones. Tidewater Pipe Line connected. Key figures include M C Leachman, J J Krabzuba, H S Moss, H A Bishop, HC Vanderpool, Dilworth Hager and Kerlyn Oil. Farmers were offered 1500 dollars per acre for the well and 1000 dollars for offsets.
Federal court opens today in Georgia under very different conditions from the first assignment in Ada on December 1, 1924. Judge Franklin E Kennamer began in a makeshift courtroom in the Convention Hall after Tom D McKeown helped win Ada on the federal docket. The opening day saw Kennamer finish work early and join Ada friends in starting the third season of the assignment.
Washington March 13 Democratic leaders hailed the house vote on the government reorganization bill and predicted no further revolts in this session Only five Democrats opposed the measure and leaders credited a caucus a month earlier with reinforcing unity Rep Rayburn of Texas and Rep Boland of Pennsylvania stressed cohesion while Rep Martin of Massachusetts urged caution noting no major changes yet and doubtful future proposals from President Roosevelt
Washington March 14 14 Rep Nichols of Oklahoma said a bill to re allocate frozen cotton acreage would be signed soon by President Roosevelt and take effect by March 18 The plan redistributes unused allotments by state and under Nichols amendment unused acreage would be distributed to cotton producers based on family needs upon producer application.
The Tax Commission approved L. L. Gill as Seminole tax agent, a victory for Rep Bell over Sen John Boyce McKeel after blocking Gill’s appointment. Carmichael said Gill would be checked tomorrow. The article notes the average motorist license fee in the U S is about $15 and compares it to the gasoline bill.
Miller Clark was arraigned in the justice court of A. W. Oliver on a charge of assault with a sharp weapon. He pled not guilty and is held on $1,000 bond with a March 22 preliminary hearing. The complaint says he attacked Joe Collins with a knife Sunday.
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