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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1969
Page
3
A collection of crowd pleasing dishes for a covered dish supper featuring sausage and rice bake with almonds lima bean and cheese casserole and a black walnut cake with sea foam frosting. Includes steps and baking times for each dish and notes on optional ingredients.
Deputies search for a man with a scratched face believed linked to a Stonewall break in Friday night. Mrs. Terry Mathis fought him off about 8 30 p m as he grappled her and fled after forcing a back door open in a white 1966 or 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 seen nearby.
Louis Hazelwood was elected the new county chairman by Pontotoc County Republicans at the annual convention in the county courthouse. He succeeds Charles Todd, with Mrs. Carl Osborn named vice chairman and Mrs. W. W. Hooker moved to state committeewoman. District committee members named were Mr and Mrs Robert Jack Hoover. The state convention is set for May 10 in Tulsa and delegates include Mrs Howard Thomason and Dr John Densford among others. Two resolutions were approved for submission to the state convention.
Union Valley Extension Home makers Group met at the community building to discuss Know Your State and Oklahoma economics. Eight members welcomed a new member and a guest. work on the community building started April 15 with six members and three preschoolers present at the dress revue.
Miss Karen Sliger and Billy Ken Colbert plan a June 6 ceremony at 8 p m in Wilson Free Will Baptist Church Ada with Rev Scott W Jones officiating. The couple are East Central State College juniors with ties to Ada families and local employers.
Firemen Tuesday morning extinguished a car fire for Ronnie Stockton in the 100 block of W Main. Officials say the blaze started from a backfire at the carburetor. At 10 35 p.m. a Parkview Cafe call reported a hot water tank releasing unburned gases but no fire.
Eunice Isaacs reports Allen alumni plan a banquet in the school cafeteria on Saturday May 10 with reservations at 2 dollars. Audra Bohannon returned home Friday from St Anthony’s Hospital in Oklahoma City.
Weekend guests of the Rev and Mrs Joe Howry included her parents Mr and Mrs Steve McNeill and Wayne Fittstown. The Howrys attended a dinner at the Holiday House in Ada for pastors and ministers of music and education. Mrs Alice Goodman Norman returned home after visiting cousins Mrs Maggie Moore and Mrs Lela Long.
Mrs Beckie Wedd with Mrs J W Bell Bruce Keith and Stevie Guymen visited in Allen on Thursday and Thursday night then accompanied Mrs Alice Hamilton to her home in Stuart for the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Honni cutt returned home Friday from Fort Worth Texas after visiting Mr and Mrs J E Parnell and Mr and Mrs Lee Russell. The Elmer Honnicut s son Glenn called Friday night from Norfolk Virginia where he is in service.
A flurry of weekend and Friday visits report from several towns. Mrs. Lee Drury returns from Oklahoma City after visits with the Drury and Evans families. Dozens of relatives and friends from Holdenville to Tulsa, Ada, Chico and Fort Worth are noted visiting, hosting or traveling, with a few injuries and hospital stays mentioned.
Mr and Mrs Glenn Conditt have moved back to their Allen home from Wichita Kansas. Sunday dinner guests of Mrs Elsie Eubank included the Rev and Mrs Clay Frost Juliana and the Rev and Mrs Howard Hunt Debbie and Lou Ann Broken Arrow. Mrs Bill Jestes hosted Mr and Mrs W B Evett Cushing. Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Charlie Russell were Mr and Mrs Leon Langley Union Valley.
Mrs. Luther West, Mrs. Hugh Brinson, Mrs. Ollie Hall, Mrs. Effie Turner and Mrs. Wright Holdenville traveled on a sightseeing tour Tuesday. They visited Muskogee Park, the Azaleas, Mena in Arkansas, Big Cedar, and Talihina with lunch in Muskogee and dinner in Hartshorne.
Fragmentary notice lists Mrs H J McKenzie Mrs C W Baxter of Holdenville and Mrs Lanna Logan of Wewo a.
Mr and Mrs Jim Jones and family from Lawton and Mr and Mrs Roger Cosby with son from Pickett recently visited Mr and Mrs Austin Fraley.
A number of relatives and friends visited Mr. and Mrs. Benny Jones recently including Mr. and Mrs. James Hayes Sherry and Cody and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lee Teresa Johnnie Karli and Mr. and Mrs. John Lee Latta. Mrs. F O Jones and the Rev Don Newby Stephen and Kathy also called on the Jones household. Further visitors included Mrs. Sybil Collins Mrs. Nora Roper and Mrs. Ruby Crow with others such as Mrs. Loretta Kite and children.
Mrs Woodrow Cook of Healdton and Mr and Mrs P S Karr David Peters and Mr and Mrs Gid Cunningham of Ada visited Mr and Mrs W C Karr recently. W C Karr and David Peters made a business trip to Oklahoma City Tuesday.
Mrs. Inez Agee of Sulphur and Miss Clara Agee visited Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Agee in Ada recently. Also Mr. and Mrs. Jim Boydston and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter McAnally recently.
Attendees at the Latta Baptist Church Vacation Bible School Clinic on Tuesday include Mrs. Wanda Welch Mrs. Laura Haines Mrs. Joyce Trivitt Mrs. Ethelene Golden Mrs. Fern Long Mrs. Nora Lancaster and Mrs. Lavona Jones along with Mr. and Mrs. Tommy John.
Carol Holman and Jimmy Johnson of Oklahoma City visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter McAnzily. The Rev Don Newby and family were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Gray in Westview. The Rev Newby family and Mrs. Lavona Jones visited Mr. and Mrs. Benny Jones and Kenny in Ada and Mon y.
Mr and Mrs Dean Underwood and Terry Moore visited with Mrs Daisy Binion Mrs Lillie Karr and Mrs F C Jones in a social gathering noted for its cordial exchange.
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