Horace Peay Receives Wings at Twin-Engine Flying School
Lt Horace M. Peay of Ada Oklahoma earned silver pilot wings at the Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School in Pampa Texas. His parents Mr and Mrs EF C Peay attended the ceremony as he prepares to train further on B 17 Fortresses with transfers to Pyote then Dalhart before deployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School
Pampa
Texas
Horace M. Peay
West 12Th Street
Ada
Oklahoma
EF. C. Peay
Pyote
Dalhart
OUR MEN IN SERVICE PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS AROUND THE PACIFIC
Navy photographer 1st class Mayer Morris, 27, promotion while on active duty in the Pacific. Edwin N. Alderman Jr. begins Army Air Force basic training at Shawnee as he nears Aviation Cadet appointment. Several soldiers named for cadet programs, transfers, or graduations include Hugh Dismakes in Santa Ana, Wallace Grimes at Oklahoma A&M, Ezra Singleton at Camp Stewart, Paul Hickey to Syracuse, Thurman Auld enlisting as Aviation Cadet, Herman Williams and James Welch advancing in training. Certifications include Marvin Cook aviation mechanics in Inglewood, W J Otjen Jr. motor trans school in San Antonio, Richard C. Cope glider mechanics at Sheppard Field, Chester Bumpps Petty Officer training, Wesley White transfer to Columbia University, Lester Penrod private first class in Amarillo, and Sgt Sidney Haynes en route to Camp Bend with engineers corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin N. Alderman
Army Air Force
Air Forces
Shawnee
Edwin
West Twentieth Street
Lester O. Penrod
Army Air Field
Amarillo
Texas
Pfc. Penrod
Vanoss High School
Oklahoma Board Sets Public Service Valuations. Seven Hearings Pending
Oklahoma City May 8 The state board of equalization approved valuations for all but seven public service corporations as protests run 10 days. Railroads Rock Island Frisco M K T and Kansas City Southern await final approval. Hearings scheduled May 22 and May 24 cover several carriers including Kansas City Southern Railway Ark La Electric Vinita Leo Gas Siloam Springs and T T Telephone Kenton with totals rising from 288 million to 312 million in assessed value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
State Board of Equalization
Rock Island
Frisco
M-K-T
Kansas City Southern
State Equalization Board
State Tax Commission
Board of Equalization
Kansas City Southern Railway Co
Valuaton
Ark-La Electric Co-operative
Vinita
Leo Gas Co
Siloam Springs
Ark
T. & T. Telephone Co
Kenton
Kus'and Railroad
Frisco Railroad
Kerr Names New Election Board Chairman Heale
Gov. Kerr announced Elmer Hale of McAlester will become chairman of the state election board effective May 15 or June 1. W. L. Detham of Bristow will join the state industrial commission replacing Paul Puga. John Worley of Chickasha named as fifth member to succeed Wylie Snow on the industrial commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Robert S. Kerr
Elmer Hale
McAlester
State Election Board
W. L. Detham
Bristow
State Industrial Commission
Paul Puga
Kerr
John Worley
Chickasha
Industrial Commission
Wylie Snow
Greater returns for amount in vested Ada News
Classified ad item notes greater returns for amounts vested in Ada News. Details specify investment qualifications and expected payoff. Readers are urged to contact Ada News classifieds for terms and deadlines pertaining to this investment opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada News
Nabors Brothers Promote Army Life From Alaska To Missouri
Cpl. Robert L Nabors 26 has served five months in the army after training at Camp Roberts California and deployment to Alaska The Nabors brothers Cpl Jack Nabors two years in service trained mainly at Camp Crowder Missouri worked in oil fields before enlisting Their mother Mrs Callie Nabors lives in the Fitts town community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L
Cpl
Jack Nabors
Callie. Nabors
Robert Nabors
Camp Roberts
California
Alaska
Infantry
Camp Crowder
Jack
Nabors
Fittstown
Dorsey Family Has Three Sons and a Son-in-Law in Service
Lt Elmer L. Dorsey was commissioned a Second Lieutenant navigator in the Army Air Force at Hondo Texas on April 2 1943. He grew up in Ada and later lived in Oklahoma City before enlisting in 1940. His brother Lt Hermen W Dorsey serves overseas as an observation pilot, formerly with the 45th Division, now a first lieutenant after training at Brooks Field and Harlingen Texas. A note adds Svein Bjoernsson leading Icelandic representatives, followed by the arrival of fourteen ambulances bearing caskets through streets to the cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer L
Buck) Dorsey
Army Air Force
Hondo
Texas
Dorsey
Ada
Oklahoma City
Air Force
Hermen W. Dorsey
Brooks Field
Harlingen
Billie
National Guard
Esler Field
Louisiana
United States
Svein Bjoernsson
Navy Seaman 2c Hook Dor sey Jr. joins service in 1942
Seaman 2c Bill Hook Dor sey Jr. enlisted December 15, 1942 and is now at a San Diego Navy hospital filing department. A graduate of Ada public schools he was an outstanding high school basketball player in 1942. He previously worked at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Los Angeles and is twenty years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Hook) Dorsey, Jr
U. S. Navy
San Diego
California
Filing
Navy
Hook Dorsey
Ada Public Schools
Hook
Douglas Aircraft Plant
Los Angeles
Cpl Dallas Coggins Smith Serves in Signal Corps
Cpl Dallas Coggins Smith husband of Ona Smith and son of L T Coggins of Arkansas City Kansas serves in the Signal corps in the Middle East war theater. He entered Army service in March 1942 and earned Technician Fifth Grade June 1 1942 at Camp Crowder Radio School. He left the United States in October 1942 and is attached to a 300 watt radio station. He is twenty nine years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Dallas Coggins Smith
Ona Smith
W. G. Dorsey
Signal Corps
Middle East War Theater
Camp Crowder
United States
L. T. Coggins
Arkansaes City
Kansas
Cpl. Smith
Taps Sounded For General Andrews In Iceland Burial
Taps sounded as 14 caskets were lowered at the American cemetery in Reykjavik for Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews and Bishop Adna Wright Leonard and others after a fatal plane crash. Flags flew at half staff as the national funeral drew top U.S. and Allied officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reykjavik
Iceland
Pas
Frank M. Andrews
Adna Wright Leonard
Thi
Vlare
Charles H. Bonesteel
Leland Morris
A. C. Bennett
United States
Former Adan’s Son Commissioned as Army Lt
Aviation Cadet Robert Holliday Wessner Jr., son of R H Wessner longtime Western Union manager in Ada, completed training at Napier Field Alabama and was sworn in as a second lieutenant. He enlisted January 21 1941 and became aviation cadet in July 1942. Wessner Sr. lives in Lawton. He is nephew of Mrs Earl McKendree of Ada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurman Tauld
Army Air Forces
Earl A. Auld
Robert Holliday Wessner, Jr
R. H. Wessner
Western Union
Army Air Force Advanced Flying School
Napier Field
Dothan
Ala
Wessner
Earl McKendree
Ada
Armed Service
Lawton
Mexican Army Major Seeks Heroic Valor Decoration
Maj Eleuterio Escutia claims the Heroic Valor decoration for an act during Mexico's revolution. He says eight federal soldiers held 400 rebels at bay to defend a Guadalajara train. the case is now before the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
Defense Ministry
Eleuterio Escutia
Guadalajara
Supreme Court
Lallathin Receives Marine Corps Pilot Assignment
Laverne Artell Lallathin son of Mr and Mrs L Albert Lallathin Ada Oklahoma graduated from the Naval Air Training Center in Corpus Christi on April 28 and joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve He completed flight training after volunteering last May and had about 500 flying hours at graduation His mother visited him in Corpus Christi he is the first in his group to finish Marine pilot training He was Eagle Scout at fourteen and active in Ada High School East Central College bands and the National Guard band He was ordered to the Naval base at Jacksonville Florida after graduation Also noted are wartime automotive industry savings in materials and new methods reducing copper and other material usage and improving production efficiency and safety in aircraft cannon assembly and fighter training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laverne Artell Lallathin
L. Albert Lallathin
East Seventh Street
Ada
Oklahoma
Naval Air Training Center
Corpus Christi
United States Marine Corps Reserve
Lt. Lallathin
East Central State College
Dallas, Texas Naval Air Station
Navy
Lallathin
Laverne
Ada High School
East Central
National Guard
Naval Base
Jacksonville
Florida
Sweet Potatoes as Insurance Against Potatoes Shortages
Instructional note urges planting early sweet potato slips in May or June to supplement scarce Irish potatoes. Recommends certified seed slips Porto Rico varieties Nancy Hall and Improved Porto Rico, spaced 12 to 14 inches in rows three feet apart. Harvest begins around October and cured storage extends into winter and spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Nancy Hall
Oklahoma
Airport Addition Bids Received No Announcement
The CAA received bids in Fort Worth for Ada airport additions and changes. No word had reached by late Saturday on successful bidders. Officials often take several days to announce results. Work includes paving new runways and lengthening existing ones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CAA
Fort Worth
Ada
Preserving Peas For Year Round Use And Spinach Freezing
County agent Mrs. Jessie Morgan explains preserving peas by canning or freezer lockers using young pods, washed, properly sized, and not crowded. Instructions cover precooking, packing liquid, processing times, and safer methods. Also notes spinach freezing after blanching and rapid cooling. A second item reports Arthur Paul Weaver, 28, killed in a dynamite explosion at Evans Wallower mine shaft 8-B.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Morgan
County Home
Arthur Paul Weaver
Picher
Evans- Wallower Lead and Zinc Company
Explosion Kills Two Oklahoma Miners in Separate Accidents
Two lead and zinc miners died in separate dynamite accidents in Oklahoma on May 8. D Davidson, 36, of Picher, was killed at the Lula Dell Mining Co. Anna Beaver No 1 shaft when a dynamite charge he was preparing exploded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Okla
D. Davidson
Picher
Lula Dell Mining Co
Lefty Williams Dies After Three Months Illness
Lefty Williams died Saturday at 3 p m in St Marys hospital Shamrock Texas after a three months illness. He was born in Fitzhugh and grew up in Ada where he began his baseball career before joining minor league clubs and later major league play. He retired years ago and worked for an oil company in West Texas while in hospital care. He leaves two grown sons one in the armed forces and he was brother in law to W D Fine of 217 South Stockton Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy
Lefty” Williams
St. Mary’s Hospital
Shamrock
Texas
Lefty
Fitzhugh
Ada
West
W. D. Fine
South
Stockton Avenue
Defendant seeks jail painting during sentence in Salt Lake City
A defendant facing sentencing before Judge J Allan Crockett asked to paint the county jail during his term. The judge granted the request. This is not the first time the defendant has painted the jail, having done so during a prior term last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
J. Allan Crockett
Soldier's Hobby Collects 806 Army Insignia in Salt Lake City
Private Jack F. Straub of Indianapolis stationed at the Salt Lake City air base has an army hobby of collecting insignia. He now owns more than 806 items and is the son of Col. Elmer F. Straub, former Indiana adjutant general and a member of General Eisenhower's staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Jack F. Straub
Indianapolis
Salt Lake City Air Base
Elmer F.straub
Indiana
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oil Operators Favor Ickes Price Control
The Independent Petroleum Association of America urged Congress to shift crude oil price control from OPA to Harold L. Ickes after Prentiss Brown rejected a 35 cent per barrel ceiling increase. They also opposed Brown's subsidy idea and asked Ickes to modify well spacing rules. Senator Moore criticized government mismanagement, warning of an oil shortage and urging clearer government limits on industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Congress
OPA
Prentiss Brown
Harold L. Ickes
Brow
Ickes
Association
Brown
E. H. Moore
Republican
Oklahoma
Moore
Petroleum Association
Washington
Tomatoes Produce More After Pruning
Gardening guidance on pruning and staking tomatoes discusses timing, required time, and materials. Benefits noted include earlier fruit, larger and more uniform yield, easier harvest, and reduced soil rots, with training two stems on a five foot stake and regular tying.
Kerr Honors Wife and Mother as Honorary Colonels
Oklahoma Governor Robert S. Kerr announces a Mother's Day tribute sending his wife and mother honorary colonel commissions. Kerr calls the gesture a tribute to mothers everywhere and to them personally. His mother from Ada and his wife will receive commissions during the week and tomorrow respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
May
Robert S. Kerr
Kerr
W S. Kerr
Ada
Sweden forms committee to aid Polish children
A Swedish committee organized to aid Polish children, led by author and feminist Marika Stjernstedt, emphasizes Sweden's friendship with Poland and states that ways to send aid exist despite difficulties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Poland
Sweden
Marika Stjernstedt
Odd Facts From Anatomy And Microbiology
The article states that an electron microscope magnifies objects 30 000 times. It notes fifty kinds of harmless bacilli live in the human mouth. It claims a mouth width roughly equals the width of the eyes and that an adult has about 222 bones on average.
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Horace Peay
Advanced Training
Frank W. Zatzke
19Th
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Peay
E. C. Peay
Mayer M. Morris
Morris
O. L. Morris
West Sixth
Pvt
Hugh E. Dismakes
Santa Ana Army Air Base
Field Artillery
G. B. Dismukes
Pomona
Wallace K. Grimes
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Grimes
Robert W. Grimes
West Fourteenth Street
Ezra C. Singleton
Camp Stewart
Georgia
Paul L. Hickey
Army Air Base
Syracuse
New York
Hickey
H. B. Hickey
West Nineteenth Street
Herman C. Williams
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command School
Gulch Field
Miss
Private Williams
Ambrose Williams
James J. Welch
E. M. Welch
Roswell
New Mexico
Marvin Cook
North American Aviation
Inglewood
Martha Cook
W. J. Otjen, JR
Motor Transit School
San Antonio, Tex
Eatenant Otjen
T. B. Blake
Richard C. Cope
Sheppard Field
C. S. Cope
North
Turner Avenue
Chester Lee Bumpers
Wesley Kendith White
Andy White
Midshipmen’s School
Notre Dame University
Columbia University
N. Y
L. J. Penrod
Vanoss
Sidney Haynes
C. L. Bonar
East Fourteenth
Fort Leonard Wood
Camp Bend
Oregon
Sgt. Haynes
The
Engineers Corps
Equalization Board
New Election Board
Heale
Robert L. Nabors
Elmer L. Dorsey
RAF
Herman W. Dorsey
Bill Dorsey
Dallas C. Smith
General Andrews
Adan
Lieut
U.S. Marine Corps
Mary McMillen
Enid
Garfield County
Delmar
Eagletown
McCurtain County
Stillwater
Mary
Jersey
Delmer
Henry Wolf
Dustin
Hughes County
Salty Johnston
Red Oak
Rt. 1
Latimer County
Bobby Nance
Rt. 3
Pontotoc County
Juanita Floyd
Holdenville
Lefty’ Williams
Shamrock Hospital
Gov. Kerr
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