Sunshine church service and local visiting notes
Sunshine written news records a morning service special by Dee class and a 32 attendee evening service. The item lists numerous local visits and gatherings involving residents from Sunshine Ada Roff Norman and McLish, noting school events and a McLish graduation with valedictorian Lisa Underhill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bomid Tan
Dee
Ann Byng
Sunshine
Dennis Wes
James Wesberry
Gordon Jobe
Coalgate
Dan Parr
Donna
Danny
Kay
Melissa Green
J. L. Green
Lucille Hobgood
Pearl Blevins
Harden City
Ada
Clyde Hobgood
Daily Phillips
Rue
Beatrice Bbe
Mary Phillips
Roff
Joy White
Jim Wyche
Ray
Essie Goodwin
Ruby Ashley
Et Ashley
Clyde Hoobgood
Don Parr
Jess Ross
Margene Hewett
Stonewall Nursing Home
Leonard Ford
Mead
Louise Adams
Claude Hewett
Virgie Hewett
Lorita Wingard
Oklahoma City
Ed Nelson
Lincoln Plaza
Jess Green
Norman
Hobart Hayes
Mary Jo Green
Mildred Young
Annie Green
Valley View Hospital
Tilly and
Leon Parish
Bob Taylor
Julia Thomas
T. J. Roquemore
Jonne
Beth
Kathy Stewart
Wanda Parr
Larry Heard
Sheila
Jeanette
Joy
Bucky Pendergraft
Ka Heard
Danny Parr
Neighborhood News From Center and Ada Families
Center Oklahoma reports visitors and family gatherings at Rae Garrett and Bill Reed households. Trips include McAlester visits to Buddy G Garrett and relatives in Fort Worth Ada and Del City with fishing and church revival travel noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tip Vandever
Rebecca
Oklahoma City
Rae Garrett
Leon Garrett
Pug Garrett
McAlester
Buddy G. Garrett
Thelma Jean
Kansas
Delmer Reed
Ada
Elmer Reed
Fort Worth
Tex
Bill Reed
Beckie Robinson
Kenith Grove
Roff
Kenith
Nancy
Janie
Ruby Lane
del City
Terri Gray
Connerville
Kenith Cole
Homer Juanita McNeill and Ada area social notes
Mrs Daisy Cooper and relatives extend birthday greetings from California. Numerous visits and church events weave through Ada and Homer communities with the Coop ers Bratcher and Looney families noted. Becky Hutchings and Sonya Sloan walked twenty miles. new member welcomed to Rebekah Lodge. many errands and visits across towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daisy Cooper
Lucille Flowers
Ada
Bryan Cooper
Earl Cooper
Buck van Seckle
Jenna
Charley
Ronnie Burnett
Vennell
Denver
Keith Flowers
Allan Jenkins
Dale Cooper
Gwen Blay
Fred Blay
Oklahoma City
Mildred Harber
Ronnie Bratcher
Mark
Lesia
Chickasha
Goldie Looney
Sonya Nell Sloan
Homer Baptist Church
Ron Hutchings
Lula Mae Ring
Lee Looney
Becky Hutchings
Davie Downing
Thomas Ring
Jean Hopps
Idanell Evans
Hayward
Clair
Lillie Hutchings
Juanita McNeill
Ada Rebekah Lodge
Lonnie Shamlee
Ora Stokes
Thelma Whitwell
Gladys Sawyer
Homer Slocum
Mildred Auten
Nora Childress
Thelma Hart
Edna Soloman
Edna Mae Hart
Flo Mitchell
Eva Greenlee
Beaula Hathaway
Esther Hatchett
Minnie Slaven
Ruby MecNinch
Vera Grindstaff
Oleta Pate
Vivian Crank
Bart McNeill
Floyd McNeill
Revival at Lightning Ridge Stirs Congregation Despite Storms
The Lightning Ridge revival led by Rev. John Allen and Don Newby drew many from Oak Avenue Church Ada and local families. Nightly specials featured soloists such as Don Newby and Anno Griffith with Mrs. Auti McCullar at the piano. Seven baptisms occurred as attendees praised, with church members traveling from nearby towns and a large post revival dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lightning Ridge
John Allen
Oak Avenue Baptist Church
Ada
Don Newby
Aun McCullar
Mack Summers
Auti McCullar
McCullar
Arno Griffith
Bobby Cravens
Newby
Oak Avenue
Holman
Fred
Donna
Diana
Leroy Holman
Fred Holman
Jan Gibson
Bill Gibson
Shirley Dobbins
Gaylen Summers
Woody
Johnny Webster
Kathy
Stephen Newby
Lloyd Ray Lamb
Lightning Ridge Church
Joe Maddox
Nettie Ownbey
Margie Ownbey
Lewis Powers
Ector McCullar
Oklahoma City
Kenneth Stanfield
Valley View Hospital
Roy — Laxton
Lighting Ridge
Leo MeNinck
Roy Laxton
Marvin Clay
Vaness
Stratford
Clay
Mr. Clay
Joe Summers
Pickett
Gertie Summers
Paul
Latta Extension Homemakers Hold May Day Luncheon and Activities
The Latta Extension Home makers group met at Cumberland Presbyterian Church for a May Day luncheon with decorated tables and prayers. Members reviewed Indian culture programs, noted State Extension Homemakers week plans, and announced a Grove educational tour on May 15. A baby Valerie Lee Lovelace was born to Larry Lovelace and family, with baby showers and gifts at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Latta
Marvin McCurdy
la Royce Brown
Mississippi
Oklahoma
State Extension Homemakers Week
Grove
Calvin Grace
Ray Walker
Henry Patrick
Grace
C. E. Brady
Wesley Brantley
Cal Acord
Moreau Dew
Ann Carpenter
Lelan Stephens
Ruth Upton
Georgia Evans
Juanita van Bebber
Haskin Hill
Bob Mayberry
Charles Floyd
Vertie Glover
Ralph Taylor
Leland Scott
Brantley
Garvin Glover
Brady
Kindrick
McCurdy
Brown
Walker
Larry Lovelace
Ardmore
Valerie Lee
Joe Lovelace
Victor Vallery
Ada
Valerie Lee Lovelace
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Randy Davidson
Danny Lovelace
Delbert Akin
Ronnie Davidson
Wesley Brantley Jr
John Kerr
M. L. Stegall
Clinton
Flora Lovelace
Wesley Brant
Herbert Cooper
Delia Kirkoff
Cooper
Oklahoma spring turkey season opens across western half counties
The season opens May 11 in 50 western counties with good prospects for trophy toms. Opening weekend yielded varied results as hunters flocked to public PHAs at Fort Supply Ellis Canton and the Black Kettle grasslands. Rio Grande and other gobblers were seen across southwest districts amid windy, tornadic conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Game
Talihina
Heavener
Tulsa
Lloyd Bitzer
Oklahoma City
Dale Patrick
Oklahoma Waterfowl Sportsman’s Society
Ducks Unlimited
Department
Fort Supply
Fort Supply Pha
Ellis County
Pha
Upland Game
Dale Curry
Canton Phas
Black Kettle
Roger Mills
Lexington
Hickory Creek
Hulah
Texoma Phas
Tillman
Greer
Jackson
Harmon
Oklahoma hunting season hearings set for May across eight cities
Public hearings to gather data for the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission begin May 22 and run through May 29 at eight locations. Sessions start at 8 p.m. with input from citizens, and officials will compile data for fall hunting season decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma Wildife Conservation Commission
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Department
Commission
Territorial Surroundings of Lesotho and Madagascar
Lesotho, once Basuto land, lies entirely within the Union of South Africa. The Malagasy Republic on Madagascar is entirely island bound by surrounding sea water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lesotho
Basutoland
Union of South Africa
Malagasy Republic
Madagascar
Deaths in Ada and Allen Areas
Infant Brandy Michelle Ott daughter of Manuel and Grace Ott dies May 1 at Criswell Funeral Home. Grace Brown Brunson 81 former Ada resident dies May 2 at Smith Funeral Home. Ollive Summers 92 Ada resident dies May 4 at Criswell Funeral Home. Mary Ann Levin 84 former Allen resident dies May 4 at Criswell Funeral Home. Maggie Bell Moore 83 Allen resident dies May 5 at Criswell Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandy Michelle Ott
Manuel Ott
Criswell Feneral Home
Grace Brown Brunson
Ada
Smith Funeral Home
Ollive Summers
Ada Res
Criswell Funeral Home
Mary Ann Levin
Allen
Maggie Bell Moore
Sounds to Them Like Dark Ages at Terra Linda High
Albert H. Leigh, a World War I Signal Corps veteran, spoke to Terra Linda High School students about WWI life 58 years ago. He described the blinker light on a gun base for dot dash messages and acid battery radios used by signalmen as aircraft spotters for American artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terra Linda
Calif
Albert H. Leigh
Signal Corps
Panel Finds Chloroform in Water May Link to Cancer
A panel of scientists told the EPA that consuming chloroform in drinking water could pose a cancer risk, though the effect is uncertain due to limited data. In a worst case scenario, chloroform might account for up to 40 percent of liver cancers, but real-world impact is likely much smaller or nil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Boren to Name Altus Rancher to Oklahoma Highway Commission
Gov. David Boren is expected to appoint Altus farmer Glen Southall to the eight member Oklahoma Highway Commission. The move completes a reorganization as Southall replaces Robert Kerr of Altus and leaves only William Nash of Tulsa as a holdover from the Hall administration. New appointees Stanton Young Ada Martin Clark Ada and others shift several seats with J. C. Kennedy Lawton becoming chairman and others filling posts in Lawton McAlester Tahlequah Muskogee Enid and Shawnee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Altus
Glen Southall
David Boren
Southall
Robert M. Kerr
Boren
William Nash
Tulsa
David Hall
Highway Commission
Nash
Stanton Young
Smith Hester
Purcell
H. E
Gene’’ Rainbolt
Shawnee
Martin Clark
Ada
Clark
Senate
J. C. Kennedy
Lawton
Charles D. Payne
W. E. Allford
McAlester
B. L. Klutts
Poteau
Bertha Parker
Tahlequah
D. K. Swan
Muskogee
James H. Gungoll
Enid
Wilbur G. Whiteneck
Woodward
Oklahoma wildlife panel weighs deer herd cuts and brainworm issue
The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission discussed reducing deer numbers at Cookson and Pushmataha to curb brainworm outbreaks detected by a study team from the University of Georgia. Fawn doe ratios and annual monitoring were cited as tools to gauge success while noting no cure exists for brainworm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Cookson
Pushmataha
Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission
Hammond Eve
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study Center
University of Georgia
Eve
State Wildlife Department
Oklahoma
Kim Erickson
Lake Thunderbird
Canton
Lem Due
Hugo Reservoir
Game Division
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Department
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Commission
H.B. Atkinson
Tombstones Epitaph Survives via UA Student Effort
Tombstone Arizona’s Tombstone Epitaph, once near obit, survives with help from 13 University of Arizona students and professors. The paper, renamed through a local Chamber office setup, runs biweekly with free distribution and limited classifieds, funded by department grants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tombstone, Ariz
Tombstone
University of Arizona
Chamber of Commerce
Tucson
University Journalism Department
Journalism Department
Phil Mangelsdorf
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Nature Center
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