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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1938
Page
4
Essay notes varied school priorities from parents favoring manners to social acts, argues governors need honest leaders, praises Music Week growth, laments alfalfa seed discrimination, promotes flood control via watershed ponds, questions hourly wage cuts, and observes campaign hospitality contrasts in Oklahoma politics.
The May 15 lesson based on Mark 10:17-31 contrasts the rich young ruler’s attempt to gain eternal life with Jesus’s call to sacrifice and stewardship. It discusses wealth, ambition, and personal priorities, then notes Oklahoma students leading in speech work, praising East Central State Teachers College’s sustained emphasis on oratory and college preparation.
Oklahoma City May 11 Report by federal crop statistician K D Blood predicts a 69,719,090 bushel wheat crop for Oklahoma but rust diseases threaten yields. Black stem rust and orange rust affect Bl Ren n Clinton Adarko Chickasha and Lawton areas. Warm dry weather needed. abandonment low except in Texas and Cimarron counties. Rye 460,000 bushels. peaches 28 percent normal. potatoes 73 percent normal. yield about 13 bushels per acre, down from last year.
Chicago May 11 Baby Helaine Colan shows alert, recovering from removal of left eye to treat retinal glioma. Surgeons say vision loss limited to left eye may be saved from total blindness. eye nerve examined, other glioma cases studied. State Rep Wandward says newborn screening bill planned.
In Stilwater on May 11 a parade of Oklahoma A and M college students faced a Payne county grand jury investigation into reports of regular voting in the last city election. Thirty of sixty seven subpoenas were read yesterday while the rest sought to set up a kangaroo jury in corridors. The grand jury sessions continued with real questioning today as ballot stubs remained in the hands of the county attorney Leon York.
York aimed to finish the student voting investigation today but a grand jury had routine matters. Several candidates favoring keeping students at work on a Stillwater water park project won the council seats, while losers claimed many students voted illegally.
The White House said President Roosevelt could not settle the helium sale controversy to Germany. Ickes refused to approve a contract without guarantees against use in foreign military operations. The export requires unanimous consent of cabinet officers on the national munitions board, with Ickes as a member. The president met with Ickes, General Malin Craig, Admiral Leahy, and Solicitor General Jackson after briefing army navy and interior officials.
Governor Marland granted a temporary parole to Mike Collins of Grady county on condition he finds employment and pays a $100 fine. Collins was fined for second degree manslaughter and has served costs. he agrees to repay the fine if allowed to return to work.
Governors and local leaders gather at Ada Oklahoma for a two day range program conference under the federal soil conservation act. Delegations from Konawa Pontotoc County and 16 southeastern Oklahoma counties participate with authorities Ted Johnson Ray Penn and Sam Durham directing sessions. Attendees tour Pontotoc ranches to view soil erosion dam construction and range program benefits for Monday and Thursday meetings.
NUMBER SIX said that the states are capable of handling their own affairs. Waste of our natural resources is a matter of nations concern and federal control was onee seriously threatened in the interest of the consuming public. The interstate oil compact was organized in the belief states could handle production to prevent waste of oil reserves nationally feared. Bond and Walton deserve great credit for meeting the situation promptly. Below April Oklahoma's present allowable is 460,000 barrels a day, a reduction of 15,000 barrels below the April figure. Art Walker, secretary of the interstate oil compact commission, announced other states would follow Texas in sharp production cuts. Texas reduced its allowance by 10 to 22 percent. New Mexico agreed to cut 10 to 23 percent and Kansas might consider an emergency reduction. Colorado is already below the bureau's figures. William Bell of Illinois said production there slowed with no fear of the situation.
R H Chase Sr 65 father of Seminole mayor R H Chase Jr died in Seminole from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered Sunday. A former state senator in 1915 and contractor he owned properties and made a fortune in oil. Services set for 2 30 p m at Municipal Auditorium with burial in a Seminole cemetery. Survivors include his widow a daughter Mrs Murray Gordon Oklahoma City and two sons Virgil Chase Shawnee and Dr N Chase Oklahoma City.
Snyder pitched four innings guiding Fittstown to a 9-1 victory over Clarita. Fittstown hitters collected 12 safeties with LeFlore Lane and Herndon each contributing two.
The senate Indian affairs committee reported favorably a bill allowing Seminole Indians of Oklahoma to sue in federal court to determine title to 320 acres of oil lands. The land once housed the Emshaka Seminole mission school and was sold to a white buyer for 27 280 dollars, with 6 820 paid previously. The chief did not sign the conveyance, prompting the interior secretary to deed the land. Seminoles argue it remains theirs.
In Tulsa Oklahoma May 11 intense interest in petroleum problems was shown by a large registration at the eleventh annual convention of the Natural Gasoline Association of America. The gathering precedes the International Petroleum Exposition opening Saturday. Speakers included J W Newton Magnolia Petroleum Beaumont Texas and J L A LaFortune Warren Petroleum Tulsa president of the association. Tomorrow about 505 oil scouts meet for the fifteenth annual convention of the National Oil Scouts Association of America in a three day session.
A Wednesday sighting shows a rainbow encircling the sun, prompting many earth-gazers. The phenomenon, likely from ice or mist in the atmosphere, presented a novel spectacle as sunlight refracted into a ring above the horizon. A Canadian artist is credited with painting the world’s smallest portrait on a bloodstone tiny at one eighth of an inch.
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