Ada High Honors Honor Society and Perfect Attendance Winners
Ada High School recognizes top 10 percent honor society members for high grade averages and lists names across grade levels. Perfect attendance honors are led by Betty Matthews with 11 years, followed by Annie Mae Hickey and others with 5 to 6 years, including Jack Bailey and Dorothy Warren among many.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada High
Helen Cullins
Ewing Fidler
Margie Higdon
Nora Lee Pulliam
Joy Sugg
Dorothy Warren
Marjorie Dodds
Ray Morris
Clah Mae Fuller
Claude McMillan
Billy Parker
Mary Frances Treadwell
Betty Hughes
Dorothy Cowling
Barbara Key
Shirley Toler
Sue Nell Thompson
Billy Bryant
Talicia Crawford
May Jo Lundgaard
Jean Robey
Betty Matthews
Annie Mae Hickey
J. E. Barton
Paul Jones
Bobby Joe York
Jewell Brazell
Lorene Gulick
Patricia Jeter
Juanita McGee
Betty Jo Tatum
Herman Wheeler
Don Wyckoff
Jack Bailey
Merle Geiger
Ott Reeves
Maxine Robinson
George Woodruff
Christine Richmond
Josephine Williams
Bemis Bullock
Fldon Chowning
Leroy Collings
Kerbie Crosbie
Theda Goodman
Royce Harmon
Deloris Karr
J. D. Keck
Melba Jean Mayberry
UL Montgomery
Charles Neal
Herman Platt
Sammie Poe
John Skinner
Marie Louise Smith
Orel Smith
Bobby Sutter
Mary Treadwell
Wholl Pay County Agents Salaries In Oklahoma
The eighteenth Oklahoma Legislature nears adjournment after a conference bill. Lawmakers split on funding county and home demonstration agent salaries, with 52 of 77 counties unable to contribute after millage cuts. Governor Phillips to decide after Tulsa trip. university budgets pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Granite Reformatory
Lugert Dam
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Phillips
Tulsa
University of Oklahoma
Medical School
Budets
Conferees OK Bill Reducing Oklahoma House Seats
A conference committee agreed on a redistricting bill lowering Oklahoma House members from 120 to 112 for the next session and then counts 111 in the 20th, 112 in the 21st, 113 in the 22nd, and 105 in the 23rd. The Senate would not change its 44 seats.
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John Owen
Oklahoma City
Senate
House
Women Take Over Barber Shop Singing Night
The Hills Country Club hosts a Ladies Night as SPEBSQSA members debate inviting women to join for an evening. Officials say it will be a limited event, not a permanent change, to let wives share in the singing without replacing male voices.
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Oklahoma City
Spebsqsa
the Hills Country Club
Denver Davison
State Supreme Court
Greenland's Mystery Radio Men Revealed as Fifth Columnists
Lloyd Woodrum, March of Time cameraman and correspondent and former Coast Guard member, reports from Greenland on a defector group labeled as Fifth Columnists. The piece includes pictures and is exclusive to NEA Service and The Ada Evening News.
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Greenland
Angmagssalik
Ringsel Norge
Norway
U. S. Coast Guard
Torgilsbu
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Polar Biorn
Rinesel Norge
Carl
Peter
Norwegien
Julianehaak
Cape Farewell
South
America
Lloyd Woodrum
March of Time
NEA
Ada Evening News
Obituary: T. A. Scott 85 dies at Ada home
T A Scott 85 died at his home on Ada route 2 Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services will be Thursday at 10 a m from Criswell Funeral Home chapel with Rev Milo Arbuckle officiating. Burial is in Rosedale cemetery with Masonic honors. Survived by two daughters Mrs Walter Gayne Ada and Mrs Laura Seeley Clear Lake Calif three sons Harry Scott Houston B C Scott Corpus Christi and G H Scott Drumright nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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T. A. Scott
Ada
Criswell Funeral Home
Milo Arbuckle
Rosedale Cemetery
Walter Gayne
Laura Seeley
Clear Lake
Calif
Harry Scott
Houston
B. C._Scott
Corpus Christi
G. H. Scott
Drumright
Oklahoma business improves across February to April
The University of Oklahoma's bureau of business research reports widespread statewide gains in February March and April. After a modest downturn in December and January business activity has resumed a strong upward trend that began in February of last year according to the May issue of the Oklahoma Business Bulletin.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
Bureau of Business Research
Oklahoma
Bureau
Oklahoma Business Bulletin
Higher Oil Prices Lift Crude in Seven States
In Tulsa on May 21 Edward Curtis reports crude oil costs rose by 10 cents a barrel in Oklahoma Texas Illinois Wyoming Kansas New Mexico and Louisiana. The move comes amid a defense program causing transport bottlenecks from the gulf coast to the Atlantic seaboard with tankers requisitioned for British use and more requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Curtis
Tulsa
Okla
Gulf Coast
Atlantic Seaboard
Oklahoma
Texas
Illinois
Wyoming
Kansas
New Mexico
Louisiana
American Petroleum Institute
Veteran Muskogee Printer Deming Dead at 75
Muskogee Oklahoma May 21 CP M E Deming 75 veteran Muskogee printer died of a heart attack last night He worked at the Muskogee Phoenix and Times Democrat for 51 years and led Muskogee Typographical Union No 484 for 20 years He was born in Ohio and learned to stick type in Dodge City Kansas before moving to Muskogee May 1 1890 Surviving are his widow two sons Leo K Deming of Muskogee and Raymond Deming of Chinook Montana and eight grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Okla
M. E. Deming
Deming
Muskogee Phoenix and Times- Democrat
Muskogee Typographical Union
Ohio
Dodge City
Kas
Leo K. Deming
Raymond Deming
Chinook, Mont
Stay Of Execution For Elijah Kidd
The court of criminal appeals ordered a stay of execution for Elijah Kidd 36 of Oklahoma City pending review of his murder conviction for pushing Henrietta Jackson into an oncoming car Kidd was convicted March 8 in Guthrie and sentenced to die May 23 He was said to be beneficiary of a 700 life policy on Jackson and paid the premiums He claimed the two struggled and the victim stepped into the path of the car.
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Oklahoma City
Criminal Court of Appeals
Elijah Kidd
Kidd
Guthrie
Henrietta Jackson
Three Injured In Crash Near Antlers
A Antlers Oklahoma high school bus returning from a commencement program swerved to miss a stalled car and was struck by an oncoming truck. Passenger injuries included a severely injured arm, a crushed arm, and a broken arm among three aboard. Neither driver was blamed.
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Antlers
Antler High
Vial
Clifton Vial
Miss Caufman
Steffens Dairy Honors Workers for Safety Awards
At a county judge’s office meeting in Ada, Steffens Dairy employees received safety awards from Highway Patrol officers Melvin Robertson and Ralph Mussen. The program included three safety films including What to Do If It Happens. Awardees and their accident free service: Drivers Dwight Davis 11 years James Young 6 Roy McGalliard 2 Kenneth Fox 1 Albert Peniston 1 Eugene Fields 1 Malcolm Fox 1 Plant workers Vestus Morris 5 Edwin Bryant 1 Edwin Callahan 1 Johnnie Leonard 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Employes of
Steffens’ Dairy of
Ada
Melvin Robertson
Ralph Mussen
Dwight Davis
James Young
Roy McGalliard
Kenneth Fox
Albert Peniston
Eugene Fields
Malcolm Fox
Vestus Morris
Edwin Bryant
Edwin Callahan
Johnnie Leonard
Laseman Trial Delivers Jury Qualification Issue In Ada Case
In Ada the Laseman murder case moves forward after County Attorney Free man failed to qualify a prospective jury for returning a death sentence. Laseman allegedly killed Hughes, a local fruit merchant in 1937, with testimony tying a McAlester convict to the shooting. The prior district court jury could not reach a verdict and was dismissed after lengthy deliberation.
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Fayette Drake
Crawford Martin
Rube Peterson
K. V. Coover
J. L. Bracheen
S. M. Baublits
Howard Dennis
Fred Upton
Oscar Rankin
Ross Cummings
W. L. Brandon
T. A. Miller
Li Freeman
Laseman
Hughes
Ada
McAlester Penitentiary
Balduff Accepted by Royal Canadian Air Force
Marion Balduff, 30, of Ponca City Oklahoma, was accepted by the Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa on May 21. He had been mustered out of the U S Army Air Corps after having five dependents, the youngest daughter born just three days before his departure.
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Ottawa
Marion Balduff
Ponca City
Okla
Royal Canadian Air Force
Baldruff
U. S. Army Air Corps
Negotiations Break Down Over Coal Contract Terms
Direct talks between southern soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers CIO collapsed amid name calling. The dispute over terms was referred to the national defense mediation board for settlement, with a meeting planned in Washington Friday.
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New York
Southern Soft Coal
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
National Defense Mediation Board
Washington
Fridey
Navy man J. E. Henninger returns to San Diego after 30 days
J. E. Henninger of the United States Navy comes back to San Diego from a month long visit with relatives and friends in Oklahoma City. He will sail soon for Pearl Harbor Honolulu where his division is stationed. Miss Fanny Mae Cunningham is summoned to Oklahoma City Tuesday night due to the death of John J. Craig.
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J. E. Henninger
United States Navy
San Diego
Oklahoma City
Pearl Harbor
Honolulu
Fanny Mae Cunningham
John J. Craig
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Barber Shop Singing
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Idris Traylor
Pontotoc
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Atoka
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Johnston
Pushmataha
Tom Anglin
Paul Ballinger
Hughes County
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R. R. Owens
Textbook Commission
Lloyd Wooodrum
NEA Service
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Hollywood
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High Command
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Lycaoa
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Steffens’ Employes
Charles
Poncan
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