Wells Declared Unsafe by County Health Director
County sanitarian Bill Price announced two old open wells in the Canadian bottom supplying Francis with water were declared unsafe after a recent inspection. The wells, about 20 feet across and three miles from town, are open and bricked in above ground level, raising concerns over water quality despite a long history of troubled supplies in Francis.
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Francis
Bill Price
Francis Water System
Frisco
Francis Wells
Leo Moore
Qakman
Moore
Annual FFA FHA Banquet Draws 325 to Vanoss
In Vanoss on Thursday night 325 people attended the Future Farmers of America and Pulace Homemakers of America awards dinner at Vanoss School. Western themed decor featured hay bales saddles and a corral while booths displayed work from home economics vocational agriculture and industrial arts. Presiding were FAA president Ted Rutherford and FHA president Brenda Southerland with a program including welcome address invocation introductions queen crowning and entertainment by an Ada quartet.
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Future Farmers of America
Pulace Homemakers of America
Vanoss School
FAA
Ted Rutherford
FHA
Brenda Southerland
Charles Stonecipher
Bill Bratccher
Bull Sale Honors 113 Performance Tested Bulls at Murray College
A sale of performance tested bulls is set for Saturday March 22 at Murray College in Tishomingo. One hundred twelve bulls will be offered by individual breeders after a 14 day feeding test and regular 28 day weigh ins. Continued on Page 2 Cal a
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Murray College
Tishomingo
Sandy Stirs Up The Whole Town
Stonewall residents hunted for Sandy after a missing girl alarm on March 13. Sandra wandered west of town until spotting her mother's car, then walked home with Alf Mensy guiding her to her mother who was near collapse, easing town tension.
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Sandy
Stonewall
Livian. Wood
Alf Mensy
Mrs. Wood
Pie Plate Mixup Stumps Chaddick
Wesley Chad dick did not intend to take another man’s pie plate. Ruth baked a lemon pie for the district Masonic meeting in Stonewall on March 11 and marked the plate with initials. Olive Alexander delivered a pecan pie. Wesley later swapped plates and returned home with the unmarked plate awaiting its owner.
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Stonewall
Wesley Chaddick
Wesley
Ruth
Olive Alexander
Chadwick
Ada
W. C
Louis Alexander
Leaflet Offers Quality Egg Production Pointers
Oklahoma State University announces an eight point profit pointers program for producing and marketing quality eggs. The Leaflet L-23 details seasonal variations flock sizes refrigeration vaccination clean eggs confined layers and consumer information. The booklet supports egg producers under the new egg law in a joint Extension Service Oklahoma Feed Manufacturers and poultry industry effort.
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Oklahoma
Luther Brannon
Oklahoma State University
Extension Service
Oklahoma Feed
C. H. Hailey
Court House
OSU
Sandy Creek flood control project boosted by $375000 in omnibus bill
Sandy Creek planning party arrives April 1 to begin engineering on flood control dams in the watershed. Harral Allen, Sandy conservancy board chair, says $1,306,717 in added federal funding brings total local appropriations toward the dams, with total project federal share at $1,549,139. Easements remain the key hurdle as about half have been secured. seven of 33 sites are cleared and ten more lack only one easement.
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Sandy Creek
Harral Allen
Sandy Conservancy Board
Allen
Robert S. Kerr
Election Looms for District Conservation Board
Pontotoc County Soil Conservation District officials announce a real election may occur for the district board for the first time in memory. Nominations via petitions signed by 25 land occupiers are due by April 9, with five seats on the board. Chair Harold Davis says the goal is to let residents choose.
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Board of Supervisors
Pontotoc County
Sail Conservation District
Lying Manor
State Soil Conservation Board
Harold Davis
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W. L. Knickmeyer
Glen Phillips
Phillips
Ffa-Fha
Vanoss
Janice Bradley
FFA Queen
Mary Vanlandingham
FFA King
Sammy Flooser
Janie Davis
Jackie Baker
Florence Ambrose
Dorothy Little
Troy Melton
Oscar Parker
FFA
Dick McNeal
Creed
Dennis Sutton
Fred Jarrett
Glenda Wallis
Barbara Garden
Junior Iris
Van
Bull Sale
Cal A
Rebt
Chaddick
District Conservation Board
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