Sheriff Sale Notice in Pontotoc County Oklahoma
Notice is given that on June 16, 1941 at 10:00 a m at the south front door of the Ada courthouse the Pontotoc County sheriff will sell at public auction all of Lot in Sunrise Addition Ada Oklahoma to satisfy a judgment in Cause No 15 630 against Home Owners Loan Corporation and others The sale is subject to taxes and costs and is conducted under a court order in the district court. Also notice of administration for the estate of J W McBride deceased with application by Ollie McBride for letters of administration to be granted on June h 1944 in Pontotoc County Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
Pontotoc County
Okla
Oklahoma
District Court
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
F Herrin
Grace Herrin
Clyde Kaiser
W. N. Hughes
Thompson & Braly
Attys
State of Oklahoma
J. W. McBride
Ollie McBride
Notice by Publication in Pontotoc Court Case 1941
In Pontotoc County Oklahoma US District Court notice directs Texas Title Guaranty and unknown heirs of Verner Shultz and M Smith to answer by June 27 1941. It seeks foreclosure of a 2.25 acre parcel in Section 18 Township 4 North Range 4 East and judgment for 848 dollars plus interest taxes costs and fees with appointment of a receiver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc County
State of Oklahoma
H. YD. Parsons
Ve. Co
M. Smith
H. D. Parsons
Oklahoma
Ada
Pontotec County
Towit
Verner Shults
Support Grows for Wheat Quota Vote in Oklahoma
Oklahoma wheat growers urged to vote yes on a national marketing quota to stabilize prices. C D Welker of the AAA warned of a 1930s price collapse without a quota and urged farmers to protect collateral before loans. He noted wartime relief would not aid wheat.
NYA Starts Seven-Unit Shop in Muskogee Project
The National Youth Administration begins a seven unit master shop defense project in Muskogee Oklahoma with a total estimated value of 129 588. The work includes three 40 capacity dormitories an administration building a dining hall kitchen supervisor s cottage and a storage room. The project combines an 85 0 percent all steel shops building and lumber milled and prefabricated in state NYA shows and is expected to take about 90 days. Muskogee city as sponsor donates about 7 000. At peak the shops employ about 120 youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Muskogee
National Youth Administration
Bruce Carter
NYA
Broken Bow Tomat o Festival Expected to Draw 10000
Broken Bow officials predict the 1941 tomato festival on June 28 will attract more than 10 000 visitors from 12 states. The event features an elaborate program including a pageant tracing Oklahoma history from native times to statehood and beyond, continuing a festival begun in 1938.
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Broken Bow
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
May zinc alloy contribution plan for defense use
Washington reports an Office of Production Management request to raise slab zinc output for emergency defense. Producers should contribute 22 percent of April output in June, following a May 17 percent of March production basis. May total was about 12 000 tons.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
American Republics Plan Strict War Export Control
Washington reports that 21 American republics plan universal export controls on war materials to defend the western hemisphere. Negotiations seek continental safeguards, limiting exports outside the continent and banning re export to non American nations to block Axis access. Several nations already enforce controls with more considering adoption.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Western Hemisphere
Britain
Germany
Italy
United States
Kingfisher Pioneer Seeks Oklahoma Oldest Doctor Title
C P Wickmiller 83 of Kingfisher proclaims he is Oklahoma’s oldest dentist and one of the first sit down strikers. He traveled in 1889 to start a drug business still operating. He joined Captain Payne on the boomer trip and recounted standing firm at Fort Reno until soldiers allowed a ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingfisher
Okla
C. P. Wickmiller
Oklahoma
Wickmiller
Kinzfisher
Wick‘ll
Oklahoma To Provide Army Air Cadets Demand 4 000 in State Drive
Oklahoma plans to supply 4000 army air corps cadets before June 30 as part of a national campaign to recruit 110000 extra fliers. Col F H Hollingsworth outlines pay two years college or high school plus exams. Cadets start at 75 dollars monthly, versus 21 for draftees. Local American Legion posts will aid recruiting statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Army Air Corps
F. H. Hollingsworth
Air Corps
American Legion
Germany Mourns Loss of Bismarck and Its Crew
Berlin reports the loss of the battleship Bismarck and its crew after a doomed sea battle. Admiral Guenther Luetjens and officers are also presumed dead. The press notes the ship fought until the last shell and sank to British forces with torpedo damage cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Bismarck
Guenther Luetjens
Luetjjens
Fuehrer
England
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Improve Now Plea Of U S 60 Group
The U S Highway 60 association adopted a resolution at its convention calling for immediate steps to improve the highway. Leaders Singleton and Meacham said $127000 had been set for eight miles near Seiling but was eliminated by the bureau of public roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairview
Okla
U. S
Seiling
Bureau of Public Roads
Cartwright
D-Okla
House Committee On Roads
Federal Bureau
State Highway Commission
Carl Hinton
Amarillo
Tex
National Association
Wade Brymer
Rural Union Hill Community Notes and Social Get Togethers
Daily life notes from Union Hill detail visits among McAnally For tenberry Archer and Rich families, church plans, a baby born to Roy Bivins, a death in the community, prayer meetings, singing gatherings, school activities, and shifts of residents between Ada and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Hill
Walter McAnally
Jean Fortenberry
Nellie Roddy
Velma Scates
W. O. Yancy
Byars
George Archer
James Rich
Oren McCloud
Texas
Alford Rich
Konawa
Roy Bivins
Melindia McAnally
Clara’Corbin
Ector Yancy
Leonard Archer
Henry Norton
Velma Lamb
Andrew Ray
Ada
Eveylane McAnally
Webster Rich
William Henson
Abilene
R. H. Palmer
Bee Yancy
Miss Campbell
Bill Blackburn
Jack Brumley
Charles Rushing
Community notes of visits and illnesses
OWL CREEK Gardens thrive as families visit from Ada Stonewall Tupelo and Wilburton. Mr and Mrs Sliger and relatives report measles illness while others travel to see kin and attend church. A work horse loss and various weekend visits round out the local social calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owl Creek
Joe Laffoon
Wilburton
Jack Laffoon
Orel Leslie
Maude Mandrings
Tupelo
Couch
Bill Hall
Ada
Rebel Sliger
Stonewall
H. D. Wieldman
Henry Odom
R. A. Sliger
Eldo Whipple
Patsy Gene
Wanda Joe
Gentry
Ahloso
C. H. Martin
C. C. Couch
Martin
Reverend Brooks
Burt Capps
Jim Odom
Corpus Christi
Ruby Leslie
Cecil Mandrings
Lon Cecil
L. V
Oakman Pentecost Day and community notices
Announcements note Pentecost Day at Oakman Pentecostal Holiness church on Sunday June 1 and an all day missionary meeting the Friday before the second Sunday in June. The report lists sick lists and visits, local visiting families, church events, and a new gym project at the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakman
Oakman Pentecostal Holiness Church
Buckalew
Freewill Baptist Church
H. H. Allen
Roxie Jane Smith
Ada Hospital
Jackie Kelly Emerson
Manhattan
Kan
Oklahoma City
Arbara Jo
Eula Fox
Tex
Centrahoma
Jerry Crownover
Jimmy
Allen
George Smith
Colbert
Juanita Caldwell
McDonald
Pernie Lillard
J. F. Lillard
Marion Caton
Lamoine
Merilyn Lee
Mary Katherine Cramer
George Carter
William
Murray Smith
Messrs
Roy
Ab Mounger
Norma Lou
Ruth Lamar
Lilla Lamar
Pauline Kaiser
Essie Lou Dunazan
Elverita Caton
Virgil Hunt
Zora McGehee
Vaness
Elmer Lee
Berrymans
Homer
Morton Phillips
Phillips
Oakman Baptist Church
Roy Coffee
Jess Berryman
Phyllis
Stanley
Jimmy Sweeney
Man builds combined drilling machine cuts time and cost
Pawhuska Oklahoma May 28. Tom Dietle a Pawhuska machine shop owner developed a combination rotary standard drilling machine after two years of work. The device mounted on a rubber tired carriage lets rotary bits replace cable tools with a lever pull. Dietle spent 2000 dollars and unknown time to complete the model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pawhuska
Okla
Tom Dietle
Dietle
Cil
Hostak Battles Zale in Chicago Rematch Tonight
Al Hostak the Seattle fighter with fragile hands faces Tony Zale the National Boxing Association middleweight champion in a 15 round Chicago Stadium bout. Hostak previously broke hands in the 1930s title era and seeks a comeback against Zale who holds a 16 month prior decision over him and a knockout victory last July in Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
al Hostak
Seattle
Tony Zale
Gary Ind
National Boxing Association
Hostak
Solly Krieger
Brooklyn
They'd Still Be Limeys, Yankees
Clarence Zellars of the Canadian forces told Vinita VFW members that Americans would still be Yankees and Britons limeys if they fought together. He noted prior World War I frictions and said about 6,500 American flyers trained in Canada for the Royal Canadian Air Force with eight of ten RC Air Force members being U.S. citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinita
Okla
Clarence Zellars
Canadian Fighting Forces
Veterans of Foreign Wars Organization
Zellars
England
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
United States
Capitol Office Building Nears Completion in Oklahoma City
May 28 Oklahoma City reports the new capitol office building expected to finish by September 1 Roy W Cox of the state board of affairs says the partially occupied structure will house the tax commission highway commission and corporation commission. Legislature allocated 67000 for completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Reford Bond
State Corporation Commission
Roosevelt
Roy W. Cox
State v Board of Affairs
Tax Commission
Highway Commission and Corporation Commission
First Atlantic nonstop flight by Alcock and Brown
Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown became the first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1919, accompanied by two black cats aboard their aircraft, marking a historic milestone in early aviation.
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Alcock
Brown
Atlantic
Wild Turkeys Use Volplaning for Swift Descent
A wild turkey can reach about a mile per minute through volplaning, gliding with extended wings to quickly cover ground when escaping predators.
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Hoyt Driskill
BUSBY
Harrel & Trice
Petitioner
Pella Bedford
John W. Hunt
Harrell & Trice, Attys
Cas
Walker
John Carl Sefcik
Callie Haston
C. M. Haston
Danville
Arkansas
W. B. Morrison
East
Eighteenth
Mr. Sefcik
J. F. Sefcik
Prague
Ada News
Sale
Army Air Cadets
E—Wt
State Cotton Co-Op
H. G. Bennett
Oklahoma A. and M. College
Clahoma Cotton Co-operative Association
E. M. Jones
A. F. Duke
Marlow
P. F E. Harris
J. D. Douglas
Association
Wilburn
Bell
Mr. Allen
Henry Britt
Joe Bell
End
Allie Lilley
Jewell Philips
Pauline Meridith
Kaufman
Pete Allen
Lawton
Elmer Ellis
Dortha Rains
Pauline Mer
Cedar Grove
Mearl Wilson
Happyland
Wesley Price
Thelma
Nadine West
Black Rock
Virgie Chandler
James
Ellen Ridway
Othaline
Tantha Rainbolt
Henry Ridway
Pearson
Norma Jean Baker
Jay Norris
Clellen Scroggins
Henry Jones
Wildhorse
Ca? West
T. A. Sammons
Lewis Baker
Elmer Chandler
Elmer, Jr
Healdton
Patricia June Ridway
Clyde Akins
Union Valley
Ladies Club of
Bynman
Simpson
R. E. Selph
A. R. Selph Sundey
Georgie Smith
Byng
Bobbie Balthrop
M. M. Summers
Babe Balthrop
Richard W. Selph
Duncan
Bodie Pettigrew
Evelyne
J. J. Simpson
Wanda Chapman
James Bray
R. B
Edward Tarwaters
Latta
Lorene Hammond
Baltora Balthrop
Cleo Smith
Jones
Herman Jones
Dallas
Ella Balthrop
Milton Balthrop
Madill
Luke Ray
Ethel Ogg
Dan McCurry
Grace Ray
G. L. Woods
Wesley Simpson
Bedie Pettigrew
Evelyne Pettigrew
Clarence Simpson
Shawnee
John Woods
Clovis Balthrop
Jake Balthrop
Balzara
Bobbie
Lavern
Doris Crane
Clyde Chapman
Lula Henry
Uth Stout
Vennie Woodruff
B. M. Stephens
Benge
Chicsasha
Willie Warn
Stratford
Wilda Stephens
Mother
Jeff Byrd
Melba Lois Sparks
Wilma Ruth Walcott
Porter
Maloy
Mr. Maloy
Gerty, Okla
Kathryn Stephens
Arthur Grisso
Novello Hall
Ruth Stephens
Lequita Hampton
Avanell Hampton
Flora Hampton
Roff
Anna Dell Walling
East Central
Laura Dryden
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Elmo Coventon
Benton Crawford
Deborah
Dewey Hitdon
Marlene
Mary Katherine
Merilyn Lee Cramer
Lea Carter
Harold Roy Carter
J. L. Crownover
George Allen
J. H. Crownover
Seminole
Pearl Shockley
Mrs. Coffee
France
NEA Telephoto
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