Evalyn Walsh McLean Dies at 60 After Opulent Life
Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean heiress to the McLean and Post fortunes died at 6 15 p m at her Georgetown home from pneumonia. She owned the Hope diamond and hosted lavish parties at Friendship estate. Survivors include sons John and Edward Jr and Mamie Reynolds daughter of former Senator Reynolds.
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Washington
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Hope
Georgetown
Lindberg
Edward Beal McLean
Washington Post
The
Cincinnati Inquirer
Thomas Walsh
Camp Bird
Colorado
John
Texas
Edward, Jr
Colorado Springs
Colo
Mamie Spears Reynolds
Robert R. Reynolds
Evalyn McLean Reynolds
McLean
Ada Chamber Plans Industrial State Train Tour
Ada Oklahoma prepares for a North and East industrial tour with a four coach train display. Two Ada men will be chosen to join the June 25 departure from Tulsa and July 12 return, accompanied by business reports on markets labor power sites and favorable trends.
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Oklahoma
Ada Chamber of Commerce
Ada
W. M. Emanuel
E. G. Kendall
S. K. Grant
Tulsa
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Pontotoc County Grade Schools to Hold Joint Graduation
Pontotoc county grade school graduates will hold a joint graduation May 3 at 10 o clock in the Ada Junior High auditorium. The event features music by Stonewall high school band directed by Miss Betty Hopkins, invocation by J. M. Nance, and the commencement address by District Judge Hoyt Driskill who also spoke at the prewar ceremony. Ray Stegall will present the diplomas.
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Pontotoc County
Ada
Stonewall High School
Betty Hopkins
J. M. Nance
Oakman School
Hoyt Driskill
Driskill
U. S
Ray Stegall
100000th Ford Tractor Marks Record Highland Park Output
The 100000th Ford tractor rolled from the Highland Park Michigan plant boosting total Ford tractors to 1 300 000. Production from Highland Park since July 1945 now tops 100000 a year as Ada dealer Bob Cason Motor Co. promotes the tractors. The butterfish or spotted gun nel lays eggs in balls and coils around them for protection.
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Ford
The
Motor Company
Highland Park
Michigan
River Rouge
Ada
Bob Cason Motor Co
Senate GOP Plans More Union Curbs In Labor Bill
Senate Republican leaders laid plans to add curbs on unions to the labor bill and push it to passage next week. A bipartisan group warned the bill could be vetoed by President Truman if too tough. Senator Taft said votes exist for four amendments but the plan faces delays and possible late sessions.
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Max Hall
Washington
Senate
Truman
Ellender
Dla
Murray
D-Mont
Pepper
D-Fla
GOP
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Taft
Ohio
Republian
Wherry
R-Neb
Seniors of Allen High Take Three Day Educational Trip
Allen High School seniors went on a three day trip to Carlsbad New Mexico. The group of twenty students visited Carlsbad Cavern and other sites guided by sponsor Raymond G Fleming and Mr and Mrs Arthur Brown.
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Allen
Carlsbad
New Mexico
Raymond G. Fleming
Arthur Brown
Jimmy Welden
Milton Doyle
Ray Kilbore
Sue Levin
Ancil Williams
Mary Ellen West
Springfield Sunday buttermilk ban shocks locals
A fragment notes a Springfield Missouri law making it illegal to sell buttermilk on Sundays. It also observes doctors, nurses, actors, clergy, and artists as poor patients when operations are involved.
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Springfield
Western Allies Halt Retreat Shows Russia Must Reveal Hand
The Moscow Big Four talks collapsed in deadlock yet the Western allies have stopped retreating. Marshall blames Moscow for blocking a four power path to a demilitarized Germany while Molotov accuses the U S of forcing its pact. Moscow may now show its expansion plans, with two possible paths: concessions to stabilize Europe or further territorial expansion. The era of cautious patience continues as both sides weigh next moves.
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Moscow
Europe
U. S
State Marshall
Soviet Union
Germany
Molotov
America
Russia
Marshall
Hearts of Chicago Leaders Stir Donations for Heart Disease Fight
Seventy five Chicago business men viewed the hearts of former executives who died of heart disease and within an hour gave $10,000 to a campaign to cut the rising fatality rate. The Chicago Heart Association sponsored a drive to raise $100,000 for research and education. Six hearts of leaders aged 37 to 80 were displayed in glass and the crowd filed past them at the luncheon.
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Chicago
Chicago Heart Association
Jesse Farm Women Attend Meeting Takes Place At 9 A M
Members of the Jesse farm women club met Tuesday with Mrs. Ed Harlian at 9 a m and sewed two quilt tops. Covered dishes were shared and ice cream and cake served in mid afternoon. The next meeting is set for May 13 at 2 p m with Mrs. Burvle Howard. A slip cover demonstration will cover chair measuring yardage and drafting a chair pattern.
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Jesse Farm Women Club
Ed Harlian
Troy Sherrel
G. M. Doss
Leon Sherrell
Honor Stevenson
Myrtle Jackson
Ray Thompson
A.M. Pharr
B. B. Ryan
Burvle Howard
O. V. Cress
Clean-up Campaign Planned for Sulphur Week
Sulphur announces a city wide clean-up from April 28 to May 5 led by Mayor W A Emerson. The effort aims to improve streets and parks across the community.
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W. A. Emerson
Capital Welcome For Mexico's Aleman Biggest Greeting Since 1939
Washington hosts President Miguel Aleman with grand parades and 25 brass bands along a three mile route. State officials expect a spontaneous, noise filled welcome on his three day visit, with limited private receptions and 2000 invitations for a grand ceremony.
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Mexico
U. S
England
Department of State
Aleman
Mexico City
Truman
State Department
Ican
Washington
Plant to Prosper Gospel Spreading Getting Results
Memphis dispatch reports Edgar Nicholson, once a sharecropper in Swifton Arkansas, now 32 with wife and three children, owns 86 fertile acres and a modern home with electrical features after seven years of Progress funded by gospel planting efforts.
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Will Grimsley
Memphis
Tenn
Edgar Nicholson
Swifton
Ark
Nicholson
You Can t-But He Did Young Tom Alderson Farm Winner
From Toone Tennessee, Tom Alderson bought a farm from the federal land bank after years of saving. The shack and ruined barns gave way to a thriving operation. four years later he earned five thousand eight hundred thirty six dollars from sixteen varied income sources.
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Tom Alderson
Toone, Tenn
Federal Land Bank
Alderson
Helena man ends 26 years of toil to own thriving farm
L. H. Majore of Helena Arkansas worked as a day laborer and sharecropper for 26 years. He ended in poverty with little hope but now owns a farm and earns a solid annual income from cotton corn hay truck crops and livestock.
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L. H. Majore
Helena
Ark
Plant to Prosper guides southern farming diversity
Testimonial on a regional effort born in Memphis to boost crop diversification and farm self sufficiency. The program grew from editorials in the Commercial Appeal to a life changing movement reaching Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Missouri with cash prizes for farm management. In 1933 farmers began replacing cotton with profitable crops. by last year over 102,000 families, about half of them Black, engaged across 7 million acres.
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South
Commercial Appeal
Memphis
Arkansas
Tennessee
Mississippi
Missouri
Restraining Order Placed Against Tulsa Unions Over Jenks Levee
District Judge John Ladner issued a temporary restraining order to stop two Tulsa unions from interfering with the Jenks levee construction. The order names International Hodcarriers Building and Common Laborers Local 1202 and International Union of Operating Hoisting and Portable Engineers Local 627 along with their officers and members. The levee project near Jenks is under a 400 workday contract with the federal government. hearings to make the order permanent are set for May 14. Summonses were served on Local 1202 business agent Oscar Vinall and Local 627 business agent David Graves.
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Tulsa
Okla
John Ladner
Jenks Levee
Jim Ray
Craig O. Goodpasture
Ray Construction Co
International Hodcarriers, Building and Common Laborers Union
AFL
International Union of Operating Hoisting and Portable Engineers
Leve
Jenks
Here
Winners Of 4-H Rally Crowned From Pontotoc Schools
More than 400 attended the Pontotoc county 4-H Club Rally in Ada on April 26 with over 20 schools represented. Garvin Glover Latta won county champion in Balancing a Ration for Milk Production, while various groups honored teams and individuals from Latta, Pickett, Allen, Stonewall, Sumner Chapel, Pleasant Hill, Cedar Grove, Oakman, Byng and others for tests in soil conservation, farm level setups, poultry, dairy care, and thrift.
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Pontotoc County
Ada
Allen, Francis
Stonewall
Fitzhugh
McLish
Latta
Byng
Vaness
Pleasant Hill
Pickett
Center
Cedar Grove
Oakman
Galey
Summers Chapel
Union Hill
Pecan Grove
Egypt
Hart
Bill Bevers
Harvey Lambert
Pontotoc
Vernon J. Frye
Cecil Dowell
Holdenville
J. L. Wilmouth
Homer Kuykendall
Sybil Stokes
J. E. Teague
J. R. Crockett
Allen
Cy Voss
E. L. Stratton
Thomas P. Daniels
H. B. Hartgraves
J. M. Nance
Chas. A. Gentry
Billy Hugh Thompson
Milton Voyles
Babcock
Leslie Pence
Ronald Jones
John G. Lovelace, Jr
George Smith
Loyd Brannon
Floyd Lowe
Soil Conservation
Jim Smith
R. L. West
Francis
Carol Dean Brantley
Vernon Laxton
Jackie Vogt
Bobby Penrod
Louis Kimbrough
Bobby Triplett
Richard Hartgraves
Calvin Jamar
Gailey
Darrell Farmer
Bruce Holland
Wayne Kendall
Ray Northam
Joe Dean West
Michael Canada
James Stephens
Bobby Langley
Bob Bevins
Bill Bevins
Gene Steel
Elmer Cochran
Garvin Glover
Floyd Linn
Thrift
Gilliam Reaves
Ethan Coburn
Yannis Morgan
Beecher Smith
Leroy Willoughby
Douglas Price
Poultry Management
Deryl Farmer
Ivan Blair
David Bandy
Charles Sutton
Dale Myers
Awake
Joe Tom Griffith
Bill Holt
William Carter
Charles Chandler
Royce Fulton
Billy Henson
W. A. Odom
Maurice Howell
Charles Blankenship
Raymond Holland
J. D. Casper
William Reeves
Pete Evett
Delbert Tucker
Harold Mathews
Charles Scroggins
Leonard J. Bishop
Ozell Vinson
Louis Abbott
Jack Dunn
Carrol Brantley
Mike Yoakum
Phillip Briggs
Jimmy Culver
Lyndall Foreman
Raymond Whitwell
MeLish
Charles Ray Price
Pecan
Wilburn Jacques
Alvin Jamar
Lewis Raymond Crain
Gillum Reeves
Douglas Vance Price
Union Hull
Sulphur High School Quartet Tops State Music Contest
Sulphur high school boys quartet formed by Bruce Frye Raymond Cleveland Carroll Cox and Orel Peak ranked among four top quartets at the state music contest held at the University of Oklahoma on April 24 25. Anna Marie Fulton directs the Sulphur high school music department.
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Sulphur
Sulphur High School
Bruce Frye
Raymond Cleveland
Carroll Cox
Orel Peak
University of Oklahoma
Classen
Oklahoma City
Ardmore
Frederick
Anna Marie Fulton
Frisco Texas Flash Service Discontinued and Replaced
Frisco's Texas Flash between Kansas City and Dallas will end service from Tulsa to Dallas on May 1. The Firefly will take over, running between Kansas City and Oklahoma City. E. G. Baker, passenger traffic manager, announced the change.
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ST. Louis
Frisco
Texas Flash
Kansas City
Dallas
Tulsa
Okla
Firefly
Oklahoma City
E. G. Baker
New Train Schedule Changes for Ada Route Adjustments
Rail notices update the schedule for No 118 Dallas to Kansas City and No 117 Kansas City to Dallas with delays and discontinues. It lists changes for Nos 510 508 507 and confirms No 509 remains unchanged.
Rail schedule shifts for The Flash and The Firefly
The Flash will arrive Ada from the south at 11 42 a m and from the north at 6 29 p m daily under the new timetable. The Firefly operates between Tulsa and Oklahoma City, replacing trains 15 and 16, with major changes including The Flash’s final Dallas runs on April 29 and 30. The Firefly departs Kansas City at 9 30 a m daily, reaches Ft Scott at 11 33 and Tulsa at 3 30 p m, leaves Tulsa at 6 25 p m for Oklahoma City at 9 10 p m, then returns to Tulsa by 12 15 p m and KC by 3 00 p m.
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Ada
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Dallas
Ft. Scott
Kansas
Kansas City
Ada High Senior Awarded 1200 Scholarship
Ada High School senior Joy Rogers has won a $1200 scholarship to Oklahoma City University and will enroll next year. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Rogers she has served as band queen for two years and earned honors. She belongs to the Contrahomas Tantettes and the Rainbow.
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Joy Rogers
Ada
Oklahoma City University
Felix Rogers
Joy
Contrahomas
Tantettes
Order of the Rainbow
Cache of Jewelry Cash Guns Found
Tahoe City Calif April 26 State Highway Patrolman George Peterkin reported a cache of jewelry several thousand dollars in cash six guns and a stolen automobile found in cabins occupied by a southern California party One of the party was killed yesterday as he resisted arrest James Anderson 31 a Los Angeles bridegroom of three weeks was fatally wounded by two California highway patrolmen as he struggled on a resort cabin floor with a third officer Patrol Sgt H B Fowler Anderson threatened Fowler with a gun after Fowler entered the cabin to investigate a Reno night club fracas of Thursday
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Tahoe City
Calif
George Peterkin
California
James Anderson
Los Angeles
H. B. Fowler
Peterkin
Anderson
Fowler
Reno
Broken Arrow votes down city manager plan
Broken Arrow Oklahoma residents rejected a charter amendment to adopt a city manager form of government, voting 452 to 315 on Friday. The city will continue under the mayor and council government.
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Broken Arrow
Okla
Enid Committee Plans Tornado Relief for Woodward
A committee of Enid businessmen meets to organize further relief for Woodward following the April 9 tornado damage.
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Enid
Woodward
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