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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1950
Page
5
A guide to lasting Mother’s Day presents for the homemaker, featuring a plastic greenhouse for plants, flower arranging tools, ceramic bowls, crystal ware, glass and silver items, linens, copper pieces, and kitchen utilities. Suggestions include small tables, serving pieces, pottery butter dishes, and personal bedroom gifts like dressers, drapes, and vanity sets.
The text suggests practical gifts such as two pliers a bed room chair or chaise lounge lamps for a dressing table a standing lamp or a bed lamp. It notes the first refrigerator patent in 1856 electricity after 1890 and Kit Carson choosing Taos New Mexico as his permanent home now a museum.
Oklahoma tornadoes killed seven and injured many as three storms swept the state from Hobart to Holdenville. In Holdenville five died, including W. A. Ford and Earl Dean Walker, with 22 hospitalized and four in critical condition. Red Cross opened aid stations and survey crews prepared damage estimates.
An eclectic Barbs column riffs on congressmen sending free seeds, a Ohio husband’s injury from beating rags, concerns about air quality, a piano lesson neighbor, tips on show value, baby fly control, Illinois library training pages, and a note on Japanese family food spending averaging about 58.5 percent.
Four county officers drew no opposition in the recent filings: District 1 Commissioner David Gray District 2 Commissioner Bob Austell County Treasurer Virgil Hunt and County Assessor Chas Rushing. They expressed gratitude for voter support and pledged continued service without campaign distraction, noting time saved will go to district improvements.
Sometime this spring Lieut. Harry E. Rieseberg will pilot a tank-like tractor through a city submerged since 1692 Port Royal Jamaica. Backed by a Hollywood film crew the expedition aims to recover relics from the sunken pirate era and stage underwater streets and buildings for a forthcoming movie based on his treasure lore.
A county official thanks supporters for past favors and loyalty. He pledges to keep records up to date and to continue serving the public in the future as he has in the past.
EUFAULA Okla April 23 The case of W E Dickey a 14 year old country school teacher accused of popping the parties of his girl students is slated for trial in district court Monday Leud conduct charges were filed by McIntosh County Attorney Jimmy White ley The Eufaula school board reviewed similar complaints but pooh poohed the incidents and allowed Dickey to keep his job Dickey has continued teaching on a 2000 bond If convicted he faces 1 to 5 years on the felony count and a lesser charge is pending in county court Also scheduled Monday is the trial of County Commissioner John Collins indicted on three counts of permitting unauthorized claims against the county Whiteley disqualified himself and Judge W A Lackey will preside at both trials with a special prosecutor.
The passage notes a years long hunt for treasure under the Stas with over $100,000 recovered from ancient wrecks in Central American and West Indian waters. Port Royal is predicted as his next major hunting ground.
An Itallem wine dealer urges readers to bite the wine rather than swallow it, promising enhanced tasting. A note then references the first U S forestry school headed by Gifford Pinchot, formed near Asheville on the Vanderbilt Estate in North Carolina.
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