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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1968
Page
1
Growers in upland cotton counties will vote May 13 through May 17 on transferring 1969 cotton acreage allotments by sale or lease to farms in other counties within the same state. A two thirds approval in a county allows transfers. no transfers to other states.
About 416 Oklahoma girls will attend Girls State at East Central State College Ada from June 1 to 8. The event, moving from Chickasha to Ada for the first time, features staff of 50 led by state and college officials and will include a mock trial and elections to attend Girls Nation in Washington.
Dr Bill Tillman dean at East Central State College will speak at McLish High School commencement at 8 p m May 16 in the school auditorium Bob Yelle is valedictorian Madonna Whittington salutatorian 23 graduates also 17 eighth graders with Laura Paxon valedictorian and Sheila Uhlich salutatorian Eighth grade baccalaureate is May 12 at the auditorium Rev A Boeck to deliver sermon
Ada post office retiree Barnett Barney McCollum was honored with a retirement party at East Central Student Union after retiring effective April 26. He began as a substitute clerk carrier in 1923 earning 60 cents an hour, witnessed major shifts from rail to air delivery, and served as civil service examiner for about 20 years with 46 exams in 1962 and 103 in the prior year.
Oklahoma Gas and Electric breaks ground on the $45 million Seminole Generating Station near Konawa with a first unit due in 1971 and a second planned for 1973. The project totals $80 million for the station and lake development on a 3,000 acre tract, with four turbines totaling more than 2.5 million kilowatts. Governor Bartlett unable to attend. Sen. Al Nichols lights the explosive charge at the ceremony.
Mrs. Inez Richmond ends a 38% year Ada High tenure with a career spanning Coalton Schuster Sasakwa Stuart Cairo and Ada. She flunked geometry then majored in math and history earning a master in European history. She taught French math world history and journalism and has seen three generations of students pass through her classrooms.
Byng High School outlines the seven lamps of wisdom theme for the May 14 commencement in the gym. The program opens with invocation by Paul Milligan, welcomes by Sharlet Shope, and speeches by Doris Wilson, Roger Bates, Cathy Hutchins, Sandra Lance, Anita Norris, Barbara Engel, and Endie Watts. Valedictorian Karen Phillips delivers the valedictory. John Deatherage gives the summary. The 58 member class includes Bates, Reeves, Hutchins, Norris, Phillips, Shope, and others. Baccalaureate services occur today at 2 p.m. with pastoral sermons and a boys quartet.
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