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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
6
Rural Ada area notes show strong Sunday turnout for church and Sunday school with many families visiting relatives and attending services. Acknowledges upcoming church program and youth union, alongside local social visits and shop activities across multiple communities.
Sunday attendance was strong at Owl Creek preaching and Sunday School. Local folks visiting relatives include Rev. and Mrs. Joe Laffoon with the Couch family, Len Cecil of Ada with his mother, and Richard Mullins and wife visiting Williamson family. 4 H club outing to Ada occurred, and several locals spent time with friends and relatives across the community.
Old Midland scene lists local residents recalling Easter weekend visits. Nathan Ragland of Fort Sill spent time with his mother Mrs. Mary Ragland. Families including the Ughey Loren clan and the Chamberses enjoyed Sunday gatherings. Various neighbors visited relatives and attended religious services at Gaar Corner.
An advertisement invites ambitious individuals to join a Rawleigh route with promising sales growth this year. No experience needed and steady work for the right man, address Box GEE-3-2, Memphis, Tennessee. The snippet also recalls local social notes mentioning visits, illnesses, weekend trips, and community events in Centralahoma and nearby towns.
Colagar hosts its 50th anniversary celebration featuring broncs, frog jumping, trick riding, roping contests and a chuck wagon lunch. A 100-mile horse race begins from Will Rogers ranch with riders including schoolgirls, boys, polo players and cowboys. first leg to Nowata, then second and third legs starting and ending there.
May 10 Logansport IPL Walter Betaner a 35 year old blind pensioner enters the fourth day of a hunger strike demanding a raise from the Indian Public Welfare Department. He says 16 dollars a month is insufficient and would rather starve than live on the present aid.
Gustave Blair, a 69 year old carpenter, won a superior court verdict declaring he is actually Charles Brewster Ross, the four year old abducted from Germantown, Pa. The judge said the legal identity is effective and would be recognized. The Ross family did not contest the suit.
Moscow studies the British proposal for Soviet participation in a British French backed coalition while mystery remains over Soviet foreign policy. A note to Premier Foreign Commissar Molotoff from Sir William Leeds is said to convey counter proposals to a British French Russian security plan. Britain reportedly favored Soviet aid to western border states with Britain and France offering aid if involved in conflict. The Moscow foreign office proposes a British French Russian guarantee to Baltic and Black Sea states.
In Washington on May 9 the senate clashed over a proposed cotton export subsidy amid approval of a farm aid package. Sen Bankhead led a group to add the subsidy to a large agriculture bill, while southern allies including Smith and George prepared to oppose it. The plan would cap subsidies at about 10 dollars per bale for up to 6,006,000 bales shipped abroad as part of broader farm funding measures and parity payments totaling over 225 million for multiple crops.
W W Graves 78 died at home 311 West Sixth Saturday funeral Monday from Keith's Chapel with Rev C Morris officiating burial in Memorial Park. Surviving: three daughters Della Page Girtha Harris Ester Graves. three sons Will Ishmael John Graves Ada. Jackson 54 died May 7 at home. funeral May 9 from Criswell Chapel interment McGee Cemetery. Survived by wife, brother Frank Jackson, sisters Eula Bureh Shannon and Lovie Yoakum. Hagar infant daughter of Eugene and Mrs Stratford died May 8. funeral May 8 from Criswell Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery.
A district report notes that aerial photographs now cover almost all of Konawa Soil Conservation district in Seminole county with two small blocks in Pontotoc and continues to be used by soil surveyors under Dr Mark H Brown. The effort favors group farmer applications over individual filings as planning proceeds. The report lists the conservation survey team and cooperating agencies. In a separate item a youth returns stolen money to Mrs Inkelas after snatching her purse.
In Clinton May 8 a Concha Indian school program featured Roland Sundown singing the Navajo rain chant once used as drought relief. As the chant ended, rain began to fall on a drought-stricken day, the first shower in nearly a month, amid an audience of locals at the high school auditorium.
Wilburton May 1. Specials I have bought a farm and want help planning a five year pasture and livestock program. J P Hamrick of Limestone Latimer seeks terrace lines and pastures. F L Linville Boggy wants a pasture setup. James Davis Red Oak seeks purebred beef bull. D P Whitesides Rocky Point asks soil test and field review.
Muskogee May 10 A long retelling of Prohibition history in Oklahoma notes that since 1433 Congress moved to tax and restrict Indian access to strong liquor. It states prohibitions grew around Indigenous people as white authorities aim to bar alcohol, while newer laws require importers for medical or scientific use to obtain permits.
War news from Bogumin frontier railway station reports a German and a Polish loudspeaker canceling each other. Polish press accused Germans of propaganda. Poles built an equally loud device. Citizens in Bogumin hear only discordant noise as Warsaw bans German speaker.
In the parish room of the Church of the Blesset Sacra ment at Coalgate Judge G. T. Ralls chaired a court of honor session awarding badges. Altar society members served refreshments to scouts and guests. Two tenderfoot boys received badges, and Scoutmaster Bonino was praised for prep work. Troop 40 adopted a budget plan. contacts were made with troops in Stonewall Tupelo Centrahoma and troop 16. Coal county scouts set camp for June 15.
May 10. Negotiations to purchase more land at the damsite of the $20,000,000 Pensacola hydroelectric project were halted by the Grand River Dam Authority to allow restudy of land department appraisals. R W L Wright indicates all appraisals without signed contracts are withdrawn. The authority plans $2,000,000 in bonds to fund continued work at the project within a few days.
Washington May 10 (AP) President Roosevelt stayed away from the White House to doctor a sinus cold, the third such illness in recent months. Officials said it was not serious and that he had no fever.
Washington May 10 The House banking committee heard Rep Stegall advocate extended use of the gold hoard to broaden currency and curb fears of a broke nation He floated resuming the old standard of 4010 1 while noting foreign owned gold and treasury reserves under stabilization funds.
In Wheatland Pennsylvania Anthony Kesey returned home after 31 years away. He left at age thirteen to run a store errand for his mother Veronica Kesey and vanished. He later worked on farms a circus wrestler and abroad before deciding to return and meet family. His father had died during his absence. In Ponca City Oklahoma the city commission appointed Fr Wilson as city attorney and Steve McCerty as fire chief replacing resigned Miller and ill George Brown.
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