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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1965
Page
4
Ada Oklahoma publishing history notes consolidation with multiple papers and lists mail and carrier subscription rates for Ada and surrounding counties. The notice includes pricing for in town and out of town delivery and indicates second class postage details.
A reader argues Oklahoma suffers from external misperception. The piece notes Californians and others caricature the state as treeless and dusty, while Oklahoma residents know diverse landscapes. It calls for ambassadors for Soonerland, a north–south interstate-like highway, and proactive promotion including conventions and a Steinbeck-like novelist.
A devotional note links spiritual illness to physical disease and explores envy through the Saul and David narrative. It argues envy poisons the soul, fuels arrogance, breeds fear and falsehood, and notes that envy often requires a major internal change to heal.
A reflective piece laments the flood of guides from psychologists clergy writers and teachers urging faster living and constant productivity. It contrasts Wordsworth quietism with a culture of efficiency while noting the confusion between distraction and rest as modern life accelerates and leisure vanishes.
A mash of maxims and notes on education race and opinion features aphorisms from Rudyard Kipling to Dizzy Dean. The piece references a Charleston family moving North and lunch with Negro children and includes jokes about business lunches taxes and faith.
Attorney F Lee Bailey believes the Sam Sheppard case will go to the U S Supreme Court after the 6th Circuit ordered his return to prison in a 2 1 decision Bailey arrived from Boston to confer with Sheppard and co counsel He plans to file a notice of appeal within 20 days to stay execution and pursue the high court review The case concerns the 1954 murder of Marilyn Sheppard and the subsequent wrongful conviction claim leading to a 10 year release and renewed appeals
Scientists report mounting evidence that certain meteorites originate from the moon. The findings suggest lunar material shared across samples, reshaping understanding of meteorite sources and solar system history.
In 1962 a group of commuters formed a private ferry service after SF retired its final Bay ferries. They organized their own trips with coffee in the morning and cocktails in the evening.
Ada firemen answered an early call at 508 East 17th for a washing machine motor fire. Only the motor was damaged. Wednesday a mistaken alarm at the Oklahoma State Bank was triggered by a mistaken intercom button press.
Historical reminiscence recounts the shift from Old Lula to the railroad town near Molar later Lula. Names of pioneer families such as Lillard Gore Scott and Hallmark appear with details of depots stores schools and churches built before Lula Cemetery and Post Oak tree remain as markers of the community memory.
April brings a 24 hour silly season with odd calls to butchers from Mr Lamb and fish markets turning away callers asking for Mrs Trout. The playful mystery adds whimsy to a spring day in the city.
N A Scott 76, longtime county resident, died at 7 am Thursday at his home in Union Valley. Arrangements entrusting to Smith Funeral Home will be announced.
Services for Mary Adeline Parrine Abbott 92 of Ada will be at Criswell Chapel at 2 p.m. Friday Rev. Clair A Payette officiating with burial in RoSdale Cemetery. She died at 12 40 p.m. Wednesday at home after a two month illness. Born February 22 1873 in Conway Arkansas to Jack Parrine and Martha Jane Wilson Parrine she married William Pleasant Abbott July 25 1889 in Conway. The couple moved to Ada in 1902 from Morriston Arkansas. Survivors include four sons six daughters four half sisters and many grandchildren great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. She was a member of the Methodist church.
Services are pending at Smith's Funeral Home for Robert Monroe Vick Ada resident who died Thursday morning in a local hospital He was a retired oil field worker and is survived by one son Robert F Vick also of Ada.
Washington AP reports wheat could become a stronger rival to corn oats barley and sorghum as livestock feed. With 1964 wheat support at 1.25 a bushel versus corn around 1.20, feeders may prefer wheat making wheat feeding more stimulated per Agriculture Department farm report.
California's San Joaquin Valley grows about 85 percent of the world's raisins, underscoring its pivotal role in the dried fruit industry. Local growers highlight the climate irrigation and labor as key factors driving the export surge.
Ada reports three fatalities for May after a mostly accident free day. In Municipal Court bonds were forfeited for Hudell Bolin for running a stop sign and Guy Russell Pierce for running a red light, both $5. Justice of the Peace Bert Ratliff's court charged Rolland Lee McMahan with restriction violation Glen O. Ray with nighttime speeding Nick Worcester with public drunkenness Winifred J. Lewis with drunkenness Martin Doll Jr with no driver's license and Robert Lee Wilson with drunkenness.
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