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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
6
The notice outlines a spray dilution chart using teaspoon measurements for lead arsenate and Paris green. It urges more feed planting with Sudan grass and grain sorghums as silage sources, and warns of upcoming heat reducing yields. It notes veteran dependents pensions with eligibility rules and estimated annual cost, detailing payments by widow status and child count.
A dipping vat is being built at Vaness to serve area farmers and ranchers. Planned users include Darwin Cummings Tom Gla sow H F Reed C Walford J N Tilley G A Romberg Ezra Holland C A Berger D N Mc Cauley and others. Over 1000 cattle will be dipped to combat ticks and lice. The Sunshine vat is being repaired and will resume dipping soon. A second vat will begin construction at Jessie next week.
Feed Insurance Silage offers essential silage storage for Oklahoma farmers facing weather damage floods and funding shortages. Trench silos protect feed from fires floods insects rains and pests while saving storage space and reducing labor and transport. Experiments show silage yields about 28.97 dollars more value per acre than fodder.
Virginia farmer H. M. Phillips builds a noted Duroc herd in the noss valley area. He bought a registered male near Pauls Valley and has sold breeding stock in the county. He cooperates with the office by furnishing barrows for 4 H club boys to feed for fat stock shows.
The National Wool and Mohair Association will send a representative to Ada on Wednesday May 24 to receive wool. Sheepmen expect a substantial advance and extra money after grading. Wool will be weighed at the Frisco freight office.
A number of dairymen in the county plan to attend the Bilmack Jersey sale in Bristow May 22. This offering will include 115 head of American bred Jerseys all based on imported Jersey blood as represented by two Island breed bulls.
The House approved by voice vote a bill to provide monthly pensions to widows and children of World War I veterans whose deaths are not proven service connected. Current law requires disability evidence at death. Pension amounts are specified in the measure.
War writer Harold Streeter compares New Guinea to a turkey to describe MacArthur’s fast advance from Milne Bay to Wakde and beyond. He notes Japanese positions at Babo and Manokwari, and credits Allied control of the coast with shaping the campaign toward the Philippines.
Washington May 20 The War Department announced promotion of Lem William Shields of Eufaula McIntosh County to major and seven other Oklahomans. Captains Dale L. Merritt of McAlester and Ernest Lloyd Alley of Oklahoma City promoted to major. First lieutenants named include John Lee Campbell of Aline Albert William Fields of Broken Arrow Houston Page Willis of Davis Dean Wood Nourse of Seminole and Charles Alfred Harper of Sperry Tulsa County.
The Eighth Regional War Labor Board permits mercantile and service establishments in Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana to grant weekly paid holidays without board approval. Each employee may receive up to six hours per week, either in one day or spread across the week, and these holidays must be between June 1 and September 15 1944.
President Roosevelt told Congress that lend-lease weapons and equipment are flowing to Britain's, Russia's and other Allied fronts as the United Nations prepare new strikes on Nazi-occupied Europe. The report shows 25.225 billion dollars in aid, with three quarters to Britain and Russia and a surge of air and ground supplies in 1944.
Boatswain John Pennington presented a fur lined storm vest by Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, to launch the 1944 Fur Vest Project. Land kept the vest warm but praised Pennington for delivering goods. the initiative urged women to send fur garments to the Fur Vest Project in New York for conversion to vests for U N merchant seamen.
London crowds miss trains as blackboards show many schedules cancelled without warning. U S Army Air Transport Command reports flying 3 000 air miles daily.
Pontotoc County fixes a total War Loan quota of 1 272 100 dollars. Local citizens are to buy 480 000 in small E bonds 371 100 in other individual purchases and 421 000 through corporate purchases. A. E. Bradshaw outlines the loan's large scope and need at a district leaders meeting.
Americans kill garden moles on sight while France imposes a fine on anyone found guilty of killing one, reflecting the animal's valued role as an insect destroyer.
For thousands of deaf people unable to afford older hearing aids a new lightweight col-plastic device offers a lower cost alternative. The report notes affordability and material innovation as a key factor in expanding access to hearing assistance.
A majority of tree nesting birds that raise two broods in a season construct a fresh nest for the second breeding effort. This behavior helps separate the broods and reduce competition for resources.
Heavy rainfall spread across Pontotoc County with Ada receiving .35 inches late Friday and 1.11 inches Saturday morning, totaling 1.71 inches. A Friday storm caused a power outage in Ada's south area when lightning struck a main feeder line near the standpipe.
The War Department announced 13 Oklahoma soldiers killed in three battle theaters. In Europe Lt. Jack Brandenburg Capt. Victor France Lt. John Calloway are listed, all linked to Oklahoma City. In the Mediterranean several service members from Osage, Atoka, Wetumka, Vian, Sallisaw, Wilburton, and Muldrow are named with family ties. In the Southwest Pacific Pfe John Weaver of Webbers Falls is listed among the fallen.
Jim Lance a Pontotoc county 4 H club member at large has applied with the U S Forest Service for temporary summer work in National Forest Reserves. If accepted he may be sent to Montana or Idaho for the summer ending when school resumes in September. Jim plans a college degree in forestry after high school in Ada. The 4 H project focus is Wildlife Conservation. He notes the Navy’s growth since Pearl Harbor from 324 000 to 2 389 000 by January 1 1944.
Sgt Cleo Tate of the 45th Division is due in Ada today, first Pontotoc county soldier to return home under the new demobilization setup. He earned the Purple Heart for wounds in the Mediterranean, and was at Jefferson Barracks before landing in Oklahoma. Mrs Tate awaits their reunion after three days of hope.
Thirty two Oklahomans who served with the 45th Division in Sicily and Italy begin 21 day leaves after 11 months overseas. The group arrives at Jefferson Barracks for pay and clothing then reports back to Fort Sam Houston for reclassification. Notables include Sgt Millard Hunt of Muskogee who meets his seven month old son and bears a Purple Heart, with other Purple Heart recipients from Tonkawa Wewoka Ada Antlers Pawnee and more.
Mr. M. J. Nelson of Clarita led a winter to spring demonstration on lime and phosphate use under hairy vetch and small grain. Three plots compared lime and phosphate, phosphate only, and nothing, with the lime plus phosphate plot yielding three to four times more than the no treatment plot and twice the phosphate only plot. The land is average black soil in Clarita. Nelson will crop the whole field to cotton and record yields by plot. Also note new shipment of phosphate to Coal County and a 130.5 percent wartime transport increase through May 1944.
New sound recorders weighing eight pounds reproduce sound on hair fine steel wire. They carry over two miles of wire and provide 66 minutes of sound and speech at the war fronts.
The deadline for 4 H enrollment is June 1 1944. Hugh F Rouk assistant county agent states no youth can compete in county or state events without meeting the deadline. Already 555 boys and 513 girls have joined with a total of 3580 projects. Eligible farm youths aged 8 to 21 should contact the county agent or home demonstration agent before June 1.
The article notes redheaded people typically have fewer scalp hairs than others because their hair is coarser. It explains the hair count difference and implies a link to hair texture rather than overall density.
Mrs. W. H. Mundy of Ada Oklahoma has been named alternate delegate from Oklahoma's Fourth district to the Democratic national convention in Chicago in July. The state convention designated two delegates and two alternates per district with 12 delegates at large. alternates attend and share travel and hotel accommodations. Mundy previously served as vice chairman of Pontotoc County Democratic Central Committee before becoming district vice chairman.
Elmer Chandler announces his candidacy for County Commissioner District 1. He cites starting road work on day one in office five years ago, expanding district equipment, building iron pipe bridges, oiling miles of roads, and maintaining two motor patrols. He notes District 1 has the heaviest traffic and more people, with state highway help split with other districts.
May 23 Seattle reports production of lumber, a vital War Production Board material, halted in over 40 plants across the Northwest. Thousands idle, with 13 000 to 15 000 off duty as wage dispute protests spread. Tacoma mills closed, including St Paul Tacoma, affecting about 4500 workers. unrest eyed to widen in Spokane and Oregon. union leader John Christensen notes widespread discontent.
A defense attorney in the mass sedition conspiracy trial told jurors that Communists control the government and the United States is near becoming Communist. He cited Justice Frankfurter, Sidney Hillman, and Harold Laski as key instruments of communism and attacked Jewish leaders, while noting Roosevelt and Churchill in urging a broader political frame. The judge cautioned the jury to disregard certain remarks as the trial enters its fifth week of testimony.
Lt Phillip Sarrett and Ensign Lillian Sarrett children of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Sarrett advanced to commissioned officers in different WWII branches. Phillip joined Air Corps May 1942, commissioned January 15 1943 at Eagle Pass Texas, served in North Africa Sicily and England with Troop Carrier. Lillian joined WAVES July 1942 sworn 1943 trained at Smith College Northampton MA commissioned December 1943. She became a watch officer in the communications department at Hunters Point California.
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