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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1969
Page
3
A Kountry Korner baking feature offers drop cookie recipes for end of school celebrations. The column lists Chocolate Hermits, carrot molasses cookies, and coconut cornflake cookies with ingredients and methods, including mixing steps, chilling, and moderate oven instructions.
Around The County reports numerous local visits and gatherings across Sulphur and nearby towns. Families from Ada McCurtain Moore and Enid share social calls with Elmer Cochran, J. W. Kirkes, Elmer Newby, and others. Community events include church attendance, baccalaureate, alumni meetings, and birthday gift exchanges, plus recipes for corn bread and hush puppies.
A mixed page item combines a corn bread and yeast bread recipe with a long list of local social notices. The bread section details scalding milk, cornmeal, baking soda, eggs, bacon drippings and oven times, yielding 8 servings plus variations for a quick loaf. The social notes record visits, church events, graduations, and a county community gathering, mentioning residents such as Lynda, Mike, Mrs George Morgan, Fitzhugh, Nora Lancaster, and several families across Tishomingo and Vaness.
A fragment lists visiting families and individuals including Mr. and Mrs. J. Car roll, Mr. and Mrs. Don Henderson, Olen Henderson, Horace Golden, Cub Biggs, Tom Agee, Velma Henderson, Burl Lane, and others in Seminole and Arkansas. It then provides several corn bread and muffin mix recipes with ingredients such as cornmeal, flour, eggs, cream, baking powder, sugar, and buttermilk, plus baking directions and yields.
National Association of Wheat Growers urged slowing aid to poor countries and boosting purchasing power instead. E. L. Hatcher of Lamar Colorado said the Food for Peace program should drive development while expanding U S wheat exports. Robert G. Lewis hired to lead the campaign.
The nations wheat stock totaled 1.112 billion bushels on April 1, up 32 percent from last year and 59 percent above the same date in 1967. The Crop Reporting Board noted the first post Oct stocks in farms, private trade, and government stockpiles. Officials put October-March wheat use at about 566 million bushels, down from 720 million a year earlier.
A flurry of visits reported as Roy Hendersons and various families tour centers and farms. Joe and Rita Henry with others attend FFA officers installation in Vaness, while Billie Adams and relatives join gatherings at several households including Allen, Rhynes, McAnally, and Johnson families in Ada and Richardson.
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