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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
6
A humorous column argues against overusing Diogenes Raleigh and Columbus as speech props in graduation addresses. It notes their flaws and ironies while urging practical focus on work, despite the trio's enduring media presence.
The Agriculture Department reported that most continental European countries have sufficient food to sustain current rations until new harvests replenish stocks. While rations are below normal consumption, serious distress is unlikely. Acute shortages exist in parts of France Belgium and the Netherlands. Further curtailment may be needed before the next harvest. The War Department sees no food crisis ahead for Nazi Germany.
District court denied an injunction against selling 160000 dollars in bonds, clearing the path for Vinita municipal power line construction. Public Service Company of Tulsa opposed, arguing funds would not suffice to build transmission lines to connect Vinita with the Grandview dam project. Judge Lucius Babcock issued the ruling.
Fort Sill Oklahoma May 28 Colonel L Kemper Williams public relations chief for the army morale branch says recreation area camps for soldiers offer clean orderly amusements after a week of training. Soldiers check in and out like a hotel and can catch shows or dances on weekends. He asserts morale work gains equal standing with other army branches and proves enlisted men prefer decent recreation over disorderly dives.
Administrator Ron Stephens announced another June 1 reduction in Works Progress Administration jobs in Oklahoma, the fifth cut in as many months. Total employed falls to 32,900, down from 45,273 in February, with monthly counts shown from February through May. The article notes historical truck figures in 1918 and 1940.
Wilbourn Joseph Willis, 19, and Frances Irene Richards, 17, wed in Oklahoma City after Willis overstayed a Marine leave from San Diego. Municipal detectives and Marine authorities watched as the ceremony proceeded before the couple planned to travel to California to live near his wife. Willis had hoped for a long furlough to marry, but was arrested and the vows went ahead.
Cornelius V. Whitney warns that eight axis dominated airlines operate across 21 762 miles of Latin American routes aided by government subsidies. He cites LATI and Condor as key actors, detailing covert flights and potential military uses, and notes Pan-American and regional lines facing German and Italian competition.
Oklahoma draft director Clive E. Murray estimated about 1,000 Oklahoma college students will enter a year of training in the army at semester’s end. The figure covers the 1-A registrants with orders likely to trigger induction late May or June. Local boards may defer seniors studying for national importance work, with normal work search time before reclassification or induction.
Dr. Grant Foreman, a Muskogee historian, cites a 1857 government report that labeled the Fort Sill region utterly worthless and unsuitable for human habitation. The note suggests earlier attempts to establish an army post in the Wichita mountains before Fort Sill was founded.
Camp in Pryor trained over 1 400 youths since Aug 21 1935 in map making surveying auto mechanics welding and drafting. Camp Superintendent Ray Winters says much of the experience will aid the defense program with many graduates returning home to improve farming practices and soil conservation.
Atoad with a fifth leg was found Sunday afternoon in Ada at Hillard Steel’s home on West Fourteenth Street. The extra limb, attached behind the front leg, is normal length and helps the creature climb in its cage and run. No one recalls saving enough at the store on toothpaste and toothbrushes.
Harrison Forman the explorer and war reporter heads back to the Far East with NEA Service and The Ada News. He predicts an Oriental theater of war and vows to bring readers dramatic photographs and clear reporting from Indo China Shanghai and Warsaw plus the Japanese front. Forman notes his career including Tibet expeditions and his Academy Award experience.
A Sunday gathering at the Luttrell residence west of Ada brought together seven sisters and two brothers for the first time in 32 years. Relatives included Ray Grove Ada Jo Hatcher Manila Arkansas Janie Johnson Roff Ollie Scheibert Oklahoma City Almedia Collins Haynes City Florida Budd Laura Deatherage Bill Luttrell George Luttrell and Jim Luttrell unable to attend due to illness. Also joining were Jimmie Griffis DeLand Otto Ludsky Clifford Simmons Wilma Jean Morgan Jack Morgan Oleta Vinita Bertha Luttrell Leon Ira Deathcrage Elzora Deathcrage Hoyt Rich Lorece Rich Mincel Schiebert and Alvis Grove.
A combined family reunion and birthday celebration Sunday marked G. W. Rea’s eighty eight birthday. Relatives from Ada Sulphur Altus Denison and Platt National Park joined at Buff Springs. A birthday cake crowned the picnic meal and Linda age two offered birthday wishes.
United States Ambassador John G. Winant departed England today heading to Washington to meet President Roosevelt. He expects to return within two weeks.
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