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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1954
Page
2
Ol Buzz notes sheep and poultry offer cash income through better feeding, disease prevention and market demand. He cites battery-fed broilers, reduced egg prices, local fertilizer from chicken parts, a lone profitable herd, and a store robbery remark about 20 percent markdowns.
Fans discuss Napier squad impact on the Cougar outlook. One says Briggs may return at fullback next fall. Another wonders about adding Langston players at East Central to bolster the team.
The text urges county schools to enhance landscaping without high costs. It highlights vocational agricultural instructors as champions for turf on lawns and athletic fields, native shrubs and trees, and some flowering plants to teach horticulture science.
Planting native shrubs and trees would enhance education through hands on science, helping students identify regional flora, and create lasting memory beyond graphic lessons. A barren school yard hinders young learners as surely as an overstrict teacher.
Mr and Mrs T P Freeman of Lawrence offered a ride to two hitchhiking wives of service members from Ft Sill near Ada. They delivered the women and children to relatives in Sulphur, noting the good Samaritan instinct despite highway cautions.
A man waded through shallow water to deliver chicks, noting the water would have fit in his jeep after he started. He retrieved a towel for his cold wet feet, then continued with his delivery as customers read the Want Ads.
Lee Andrews operates a brooder house supporting five batches of 2000 chicks yearly with a temperature plan from 95 to 75 degrees using a ceiling pulley to raise heat as chicks grow. He uses automatic watering troughs and glass-insulated temps to raise poultry year round, selling eight-week roosters to make room for new stock.
Mr and Mrs Lee Littles of Pauls Valley spent Sunday evening with Mr and Mrs Willie Sutton. Mr and Mrs Paul Gearhardt of Shawnee visited Sunday evening with Mr and Mrs Ralph Kendall.
A church dinner fundraiser will be held at the Pentecostal Holiness Church on Thursday June 3 offering all you can eat for one dollar. The event is sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary and aims to support church activities.
Mr and Mrs Houston Evans and their daughter from Grand Rapids Michigan are visiting the home of Mr and Mrs Ulva Evans.
Ella Mae Gott of California is visiting in the home of her sister Mrs. Oliver Crane.
Ikie Bray of Fort Hood, Texas spent the weekend traveling to see friends and relatives, enjoying time with family and catching up with hometown connections.
Mr and Mrs Junior Willoughby and family visited relatives in Okemah on Sunday.
James Robertson of Nowata is visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Standridge.
Mr and Mrs Cleve Stonecipher of Ada and Mr and Mrs Bill Pierce spent Friday and Saturday fishing at Lake Texoma and Mill Creek Dam.
Mr and Mrs J D Evans and family of Kiowa visited in the home of Rev and Mrs E L Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Baker and family of California and Mrs. W. P. Smith of Oklahoma City visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arlis Upperman Friday evening.
Mrs Arlis Upperman and her daughter Anna Mae spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs W O Nelen in Paden Anna Mae is now visiting at the home of her aunt and uncle.
Mrs Bee Robertson Dorchie Booth and Alene Tucker attended the Ladies Auxiliary Convention in Seminole on Wednesday. Mrs Tucker served as delegate for the Oil Center Pentecostal Holiness Ladies Auxiliary.
Mrs Bill Scates Mrs Betty Hobbs and Bob Cook of Ada shared supper with Mr and Mrs Ray Cook to mark Bob s birthday in a warm family gathering.
John W. Mays known as Rube, 61, died at home 521 West Second Thursday morning. Funeral Monday at 2 at Criswell Funeral Chapel with Rev. Chester Mason. burial Rosedale cemetery. Survived by wife Bertie. daughters Mary Mays Oklahoma City Lois Louis Van Buren Ark Lessie Burnett Virginia Jenkins Ada Flora Ferguson Colorado Springs Bill Pickard Oakland Jannie Hotten Ft. Smith. son J. C. Ada. sister Emily Smallwood Waldren Ark. brothers J. B Tom Portersee to Calif W J Oildale Calif.
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Sybil Taylor of Wapanucka died here early Monday. Funeral services are set for 4 p.m. Monday at Wapanucka Cemetery with Smith Funeral Home in charge. Surviving are the parents, grandmother Mrs Betty Mae Hobbie, grandfather Tom Taylor, sisters Barbara Ann Holmes of Joplin Missouri and Loretta Taylor of the home, and brothers Billy of Bakersfield California and Jimmy and Bobby of the home.
Virgil L. Buchanan died at his home at 111 South Oak on Saturday night at 9 55. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Criswell’s. Lena Buchanan and other relatives survive him.
Mrs. Bonnie Bailey 58 dies at her Stratford home on Wednesday at 3 45 p m Funeral will be Friday at 2 at Stratford First Baptist Church with Rev Ward Wood Burial in Lewis Cemetery Criswell Funeral Home She is survived by daughters Marie Drake Oklahoma City Rogenia Brown Mozelle Wood Fayrene Jones Dimple Bailey Stratford Sibyl Stowers Campbell California Violet Tabor Byars and sons Joe Duncan Gene Pauls Valley Jerry Tony at home twenty grandchildren one great grandchild brothers Barry Farnham Ada Betro Stratford Pat Lawton Hobson Chisem Mt Olive T J Mize D C Ocean Springs Mike Vicksburg and sister oa Rogenia Buttler Prentiss Miss iss.
William Burl Gillum age 33 born in Gerty died in Kansas City Kansas funeral services were held in Rexford with burial there He had lived in Rexford from 1939 until moving to Brewster last November Surviving are Mrs Gillum and three children and other relatives.
Carrol Embry of Galey spent Friday night in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Robertson.
Rev Raymond Jacobs from Bombay India and now a Southwestern College student in Oklahoma City will deliver the sermon at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at the Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Two county court charges allege worthless checks. William E. Stinson of Sasakwa Route 2 passed a 10 dollar check to the C R Anthony Company of Ada on May 15. Reba Blevins faces similar charges for a 7.64 dollar check drawn on the Oklahoma State Bank of Ada on April 17. Melvin Leflett, local manager, cites merchandise received.
The Pleasant Hill Home Demonstration Club started its money raising campaign with a Friday dinner. Fried chicken and all the accompaniments were served and proceeds will fund repair and upkeep of the club house used as a community meeting place.
The Building Fund Canvass of the First Presbyterian Church reaches $94,000 of a $100,000 goal after Wednesday night’s report. The sum covers about two thirds of contributing families and aims to finish this week.
Edward Clifton Hearn 67 of 321 West Fifteenth died Saturday morning in a local hospital. Funeral plans await arrival of his son with the Air Forces. Survived by his daughter Iea Hearn Mrs Frances Dillman of Oklahoma City. sons sick of Oklahoma City and Lt James A Hearn killed in 1943. T/Sgt E C Hearn Jr USAF of Casa Blanca. brothers Victor of Tuscaloosa and John of Birmingham. four grandchildren.
Mrs. Sarah M. Ramsey 79 died at 713 West Ninth. Funeral Monday at 10 at Smith Funeral Chapel with Rev. Weldon Wood. An early settler south of Elk City then Ada resident since 1911. Survived by husband, children John Howard and Henry Ramsey, sister Mrs. Wallace Daggs, brother Walter Simpson, 14 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.
Austin F Woods age 53 of 504 East Sixteenth died at a local hospital Saturday morning. Funeral will be held Monday at 4 at Criswell Funeral Chapel with Rev James O Michael Memorial Park. He leaves daughters Mrs D D Glaghorn Kilgore Tex and Mrs Ray Howery Kansas City Mo, sons Austin Jr Kilgore and Lindell Healdton, stepson James E Anderson Amarillo, 11 grandchildren, sisters Mrs Ira Sherrill Batesville Ark Mrs Anna Belle Ferguson Kinsley Kas Mrs Ruby Alexander Wichita, brothers James St Louis Herbert Kansas City Rev Woodrow Woods Elm Springs Dr O S Woods Salem Tom Woods Dyers.
Mrs. Mary Arthur, 86, died at her home 700 West Thirteenth Wednesday at 4 p m. Funeral Friday at 2 at Criswell Funeral Chapel with Rev. Weldon Wood officiating. Survived by brother Joe Guest and foster daughter Mrs. Argo Davis. Bearers were J. C. Horton Blen Davidson Lindsey Davidson Raymond Lollar Hayden Bruner.
Edward Clifton Hearn 67 a Pontotoc County resident since 1910 died Saturday morning in a local hospital He was a refrigeration engineer for the Southern Ice Co for many years His son Lt James A Hearn was killed in a 1943 plane crash at Barksdale Field La Also named Ida Hearn Jack and Sgt Hearn and brothers Victor and John survive with four grandchildren
Mrs. Griffith recalls a dense vegetation encounter where a copperhead bit her dog after the dog dragged the snake from the weeds. She treated the dog with kerosene and milk, and the dog survived but remained cross and did not live many more years. The dog belonged to Joe Tom, gifted by Aunt Gladys, a cherished childhood pet who often needed help to stay upright. The tale ends with a moral about staying alert rather than walking with one's head in the clouds.
An editor's aside reflects on balancing ambition with appreciation for stars and beauty. The passage urges readers to pause, look up, and consider where they are headed amid daily bustle. It emphasizes perspective and contemplation.
Theta E. Nothaf is granted a divorce from F. Nothaf. Property settlement approved. Plaintiff restores former name of Mitchell. Defendant ordered to move within two days. Attorney fees of 150 dollars and court costs to be shared equally by both parties.
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