Ada Evening News reader letters on animal abandonment
Connie Nelson’s reflections urge rural readers to resist abandoning dogs and cats. The column condemns dropping pets near farms, notes farms face pet overload, and suggests humane options or leaving strays in town for adoption. It also warns about feral cats harming wildlife and ponders moving stray animals to residential areas as a possible remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connie Nelson
Shem
Carl Mayhall Jr
Bang
Bonar
Joe
Bri
Rural Dumpers Face Action to Curb Country Litter
The writer urges enforcement against town residents dumping beer cans leaves bulbs newspapers and junk along country section lines. County Attorney Pat Holman notes laws exist but cooperation from rural landowners is needed to build cases and deter future violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Holman
Quotations and Witty Sayings on Liberty and Life
A collage of aphorisms and jokes from Connie Nelson and others. The pieces poke at religion, education, gender, law, and daily life with pointed quips about truth, freedom, and social norms. A humorous mood pervades as readers contemplate resilience and irony in modern society.
Diligence and Its Meaning in Everyday Work
A devotional meditation on diligence drawn from Proverbs and Ecclesiastes contrasts ants’ industriousness with the lazy. It argues diligence is loving work, not drudgery, and warns against the dangers of the slacker who does nothing, using a bus driver’s retirement chat as a parable. It notes the fire ant’s zeal and the devil’s relentless toil in evil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harmg
Jess
Devil
God
Ecclesiastes
Ada City Council Opens Budget Study For Next Fiscal Year
Ada Oklahoma begins initial budget review led by City Manager J B Davidson. Projected 1961 62 budget sits at 560 500 with potential rise to 603 100 by 1962 63 if revenues improve. A traffic study proposal by Vernon Shipley seeks city participation and possible federal funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gurley
Ada
J. B. Davidson
Davidson
Vernon Shipley
Ada Safety Council
Shipley
Bill McCurdy
Oklahoma City, Traffic Engineering, Inc
McCurdy
It Seems To Me Dear It Seems Your Columns Share History
A reader writes fond memories and household reminiscences from a long ago era. She recalls weather, tornado fears, old fashions, kitchen crafts, and ways families survived before modern conveniences. She asks about eggs, scallop shells, and shared recipes, ending with a recipe for Wheaties Coconut Cookies and a note to Mrs Isaacs.
Beck Takes Lee's Post in Ada Justice Race Change
Ada justice of the peace announces retirement. Wilbur P. Lee ends an eight year term on June 1 and will move to Sulphur. Joe Beck, Ada resident and office supply salesman, replaces him after appointment to complete the term. Bert Ratliff remains the other JP.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur P. Lee
Ada
Joe Beck
Lee
Percy Armstrong
Beck
H. Dorsey Douglas Co
Oklahoma City
Board of County Commissioners
Bert Ratliff
Maylike Weather and Grasshoppers Stir Local Readers
Mrs. Snyder notes cool windy May with many young trees killed by grasshoppers last year. She warns they may be equally destructive to crops and fruit trees this season. Readers mention interlibrary center in Connecticut Valley linking Amherst Mount Holyoke Smith and UMass for faculty research. A remora fish section explains how the fish clings to large sea creatures. Centralia Center history recalls the Illinois Central origin in 1853.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jand Yard
Hampshire
Connecticut Valley
Massachusetts
Amherst
Mount Holyoke Smith
University of Massachusetts
Its The Law column on Oklahoma court rules and justice
The legal column explains that court rules safeguard rights and fair trials. It notes many view procedures as delays but emphasizes rules are tools of justice governing Oklahoma court practice.
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Oklahoma Bar Ascollation
Oklahoma
Long Way to Tipperary Reflects on Heritage and Law
A reflective column muses on the song Its a long way to Tipperary and the pages of memory from World War I era. It weighs patriotism distance and romance while noting local civic matters and a forthcoming sale of a Main Street corner building once owned by an orphanage. It shifts to graduation season and the youth as future builders, then explains substantive and procedural law and the need for fair due process and reform, with a cautionary note to consult attorneys.
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Tipperary
Iretornd
Knockmealdown
Piccadilly
Leicester Square
Good Ale
New York
Wibe
Main and Broadway
Field's
Leader Shoe
Methodist Church
Texas
Oklahoma
Hill Country
Alexander Smith
Allen High selects valedictorian and salutatorian
Janice Carolyn Borders named valedictorian of Allen High School class of 1961 with a record of academic awards and activities. Sandra Louise Eubank named salutatorian with multiple medals and school involvement. Separate note recalls the Continental Congress adopting the Articles of Confederation in York County court houses between September 1777 and June 1778.
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Janice Carolyn Borders
Allen High School
Sandra Louise Eubank
Janice
Truman Borders
FHA
NHS
East Central
Sandra
D. £.Eubank
Farmers State Bank
NAS
York
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ADA Times-Democrat
D. Little
Walt Webster
Oklahones
Pelatlag Co
Pc Corvalidetad
Ada Weekly Democrat
Postoluc County Enterprize
Ave Star-democrat
Tae Ada Times
Pontotoc
Pontoioc
Pasioftize
Ozia
Shrayed
Sean the Herd
Hal Chadwick
H. N. Ferguson
H. Brafard Massey
James M. Bailey
Henry Emerson Fosdick
Ken Kraft
George Moses
Stuart W. Knight
Robert Fitch
Mississippi
St. Bernard
Cas Weth
II Thessalonians
Prass
Dial
State Highway Commission
Bureau of Public Roads
Institute of Community Development
Tle Prlmary
Business District
Faras
SH 12
West City
Central Business
Central Business District
Baby
Sanda
Mes
Isaacs
Ada JP
Mrs. X
W. E. Snyder
Centralial
United States
Linois Centtral
Ol Buzz Alfers
America
Buchan
Oklahoma Bar Association
Janice Borders
Allen High
Janice’ Borders
Sandra Eubank
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