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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
4
Chief Ed Haley announced Ada fire department now has a modern device combining a resuscitator inhalator and aspirator to treat asphyxiation and drownings. The kit cost about $800 with oxygenator and extras, replacing the old pulmotor for use at emergencies in hospital or home settings.
District Attorney C A Summers disclosed 19 of the 169 defendants indicted for conspiracy to transport liquor into Oklahoma. Names include Gust Mageus Paul Burch Patrick Cowell Sol Auslander Al McAboy George Hardy and several Oklahomans from Tulsa Ada Seminole Muskogee and Washburn. Bond set at 5000 for six company officials.
Plans for the Altus-Lugert irrigation and flood control project totaling 3.61 million dollars were submitted to Washington for approval. Sponsored by the WPA and the interior bureau of reclamation, the project would employ about 804 men daily for three years and be financed by WPA and reclamation funds. The 70 000 acre district spans Jackson and Greer counties and part of Oklahoma.
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma said Roosevelt must decline to be considered or he will be renominated at Chicago. He urged Oklahoma Democrats to instruct their delegation to back a Roosevelt renomination or, if he refuses, to support a liberal candidate aligned with Roosevelt’s policies. Josh Lee urged Oklahoma Democrats to ensure delegates favor renomination at the state convention.
John Rathmell Brooks, a East Central State College student from Chattanooga, seized an unattended college auditorium fire hose during a campus fire. He directed water to a window and into the hall, then aimed at a chandelier before turning the hose back to the fire crews.
Fire gutted the East Central College Science Hall auditorium late Thursday night causing initial losses estimated at 7 500 to 8 000 dollars. The blaze damaged stage fabric and furniture while the rest of the building suffered smoke and water exposure and the college postponed the final band concert.
Jack and Robert Adair were jailed after U S Deputy Marshal Allen Stanfield arrested them in Carter County on a charge of tampering with a government witness. They allegedly attacked a witness in a federal internal revenue act violation case and pleaded not guilty before U S Commissioner W W Potter at Ardmore with bond set.
The Rev W B Harvey of Oklahoma City a state board of education member charged that many schools across the state padded attendance rolls to boost state aid. He cited affidavits and an audit of records at Vaness Consolidated School in Pontotoc County as showing false pupil counts including a girl treated for appendicitis and a CCC camper listed as present.
Local observer W E Pitt reports 1.96 inches of rain on Monday, pushing the month total to 6.04 inches. The week saw highs from 67 to 90 and lows from 46 to 67 with multiple daily readings through Sunday.
President Roosevelt urged immediate action on the Hatch political control bill as supporters prepare a new House push. The measure would regulate state employees paid with federal funds and cap individual campaign contributions at 5000 dollars and national committee expenditures at 3 million dollars per campaign.
Special election for School District 19 to approve a 10-mill levy for Ada with voting at Con ventional in Ada on Tuesday May 7 for a full 1940 school year.
Oklahoma City Democratic state chairman France Paris announced Senator Elmer Thom as keynote speaker and temporary chairman for the June 17 state convention. The move comes as caucuses near with observers predicting county conventions and delegate leanings. Governor Phillips stays neutral while supporting an uninstruced delegation. Robert Kerr surfaces as a possible national committeeman candidate.
Oklahoma filing rush brings 833 candidates for nominations with many names like William H Murray William A Murray Will Rogers and a Brigham Young among others The last day of filings prompted governor and election board comments on shadow name filings and potential election law changes with a filing fee or selective runoff system.
Preliminary steps move forward for a mattress program in Pontotoc County to help families with 1939 gross income 400 dollars or less. 50 bales of cotton expected for the county, 1 500 statewide, 3 000 to 4 000 possible, with 12 states participating.
Pontotoc county commissioners proceed with a spending spree surpassing income. Since January the general fund has denied or deferred medical burial and charity claims. At Monday’s meeting they confront highway claims totaling 14,170.75 against a highway fund of 12,447.40, leaving insufficient funds to pay many creditors.
Eddie Lee Alford, 2 year old in county jail, says the shooting of Ora Lee Hall, 21, was accidental during a street quarrel at Broadway and Fifth. Hall died an hour after being shot, from loss of blood after a bullet wound to the leg. Police termed the incident a street quarrel.
Doris Lee 30 of Fox is charged with murder by automobile in the Ardmore case of Sidney Farris 17 who died after a crash Saturday night involving a car carrying Lee and W A Smith Healdton and a pickup with Ann Anderson Healdton. Anderson not seriously hurt. Lee and Smith detained. Smith released as material witness.
Dick Broyles, escaped inmate from Huntsville Texas, will face trial in Chandler for the armed robbery of a Stroud filling station. He was captured at Dalton after escaping two weeks ago while being taken to Huntsville prison and is held in the Chandler jail.
Dr E A Aisenstadt of Picher wins the grand award for the outstanding exhibit at the eighth annual Oklahoma Philatelic Society convention. Other winners include Billy Bailey Bartlesville junior gold cup and S T Fincher Sinton Tex. Foreign cape convention will close tomorrow.
Oklahoma City May 4 Chairman J. D. Carmichael of the Oklahoma tax commission announced the appointment of two auto license tag agents. F. S. Sorrels Coal Gate will succeed Z. H. Rodgers who resigned and Mrs. Susie Walch Enid will succeed her husband who died recently.
Pontotoe county entries placed seventh in the first annual Oklahoma Lamb and Wool school show held Friday at the stockyards Coliseum in Oklahoma City. Frant Reed of Horse Shoe Ranch earned seventh among 17 counties in 36 pens. lambs sold for 10.75 per hundred with two choice, one good and two medium among five lambs averaging 36 pounds and 49.7 percent dressing. Blaine county topped the show.
Musicians from the area earned honors at the Friday competition of the Oklahoma A and M college statewide interscholastic meet. Notables include Ada and Sulphur entries with superior and excellent ratings in categories such as Girls quartet, Girls Glee Club Stratford Class C, Mixed chorus Sakawa, and individual names Rhetta Nowlin Margie Taylor Lynn Lowman Ruth Lowman.
Colorado Republicans elected an uninstructed delegation to the national convention. Colorado has 12 delegates. John R. Coen withdrew, clearing the way for Charles R. Enos to win re election as national committeeman and avert a potential floor fight and party split.
Estle Henson was fined 10 dollars and costs totaling 31.15 dollars on a reckless driving conviction. A. Oliver, Peace Justice, pronounced the verdict after the prosecution and defense waived a jury trial. Officers said Henson drove over 60 miles per hour down Ada's Main street around midnight.
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