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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1978
Page
4
The article argues many small high schools dodge consolidation by the ADA rule and could survive if legislation clears hurdles. It notes the value of schools to towns, but highlights limited course offerings, sports, arts, and sciences. It contrasts broad-based options with ultra small programs and the impact on students transitioning to larger colleges.
The piece muses on global conflicts from Carter Torrijos to Israel and Arabs, then centers on the universal urge to plan. It contrasts grand geopolitical debates with personal ambitions like planning vacations and gardening, concluding with gardening as a morbid, unrewarding ritual of burying seeds.
Konawa High School earned the Class A first place trophy at the interscholastic meet. First place winners included Alison Lucas for English I Oklahoma history and Algebra I, Beverly Burns in Home Economics I, Sandra Mason in general business, Don Robertson in drafting, Terry Huckleberry in chemistry, Mel Louthan in physics, and Vonda Jones in mathematics honor exam. Second place went to Alison Lucas general science, Sandra Mason Spanish I, Mike Hobb drafting, Deidre Stacy mathematics honor exam. Third place: Brad Stacy drafting and Scott Wyatt chemistry.
Eddie used a blue box to make free long distance calls and was charged with fraud. Courts upheld some monitoring as legal to curb cheating but ruled against excessive recording and tapes of conversations. The decisions frame privacy as essential in a free society yet endorse reasonable measures against fraud.
Two first-grade classes at Emerson Elementary in Coalgate mixed flour yeast salt and water to make bread. Jennie Moyer and Sandra Riley guided 36 students through kneading rising punching and baking as a nutrition lesson ending with the Story of The Little Red Hen.
Sulphur reports Walter Alsup of the Sulphur Sportswear Company will be at the Sulphur Chamber of Commerce office Saturday all day to interview for seamstress presser and secretarial positions. Job forms available at the chamber. applicants urged to submit by mail or in person to Box 170 Sulphur Okla. 73086. Alsup seeks to establish a plant in Sulphur dependent on local job prospects.
The Economic Development Administration awards 150000 dollars to Oklahoma to be matched with 50000 from the Oklahoma Department of Industrial Development. Rep Wes Watkins says the Title 9 economic adjustment program will aid Hughes Seminole Coal Pittsburg Latimer and Okfuskee counties to study unemployment and plant closings and plan actions to restore jobs.
Ada firemen were called at 10 10 a m Wednesday to a mattress blaze set by children playing with matches at 310 East 16th Street. The house owned by Orval Hickman and rented by Darline Smith sustained the fire as firefighters quickly doused the flames.
The Board of Regents approved the resignations of Associate Dean of Students Pamela Bell and Business Administration instructor James Davidson at East Central University. Bell, 27, will resign July 1 to pursue further studies. Davidson leaves at semester end.
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