Ada All Santa Day Pre-Yule Promotion Debuts
More than 35 Ada businesses backed a pre Christmas promotion submitted by the Ada Chamber of Commerce Retailer committee. Ada Santa Claus Day will feature free movies, Santa arrival, a parade, and light decorations. The event includes free movie tickets and parking passes, with participating theaters offering unlimited tickets, plus a free parcel checking service. Extensive advertising is planned with a cost of 12 50 per business.
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Ada
Ada Chamber of Commerce
Ada Automobile Dealer Association
Ada Junior Chamber of Commerce
Finis Stilwell
Ada Weil to Get New Air Service This Friday
Central Airlines will start Friday adding DC3s and Bonanzas to Ada service. The schedule shows four Bonanza visits and four DC3 stops daily with night arrivals for air mail from the north and late-day mail from the south. Routes include Ft Worth Shawnee Oklahoma City Wichita Durant Sherman Denison Dallas Ardmore Tulsa Amarillo and Okmulgee.
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Central Airlines
Ada
Torai
Bonanza
Ft Worth
Shawnee
Oklahoma City
Wichita
Holdenville
Okmulgee
Tulsa
Amarillo
Durant
Sherman
Denison
Dallas
Ft. Worth
DC3
Ardmore
Gainesville
North
Fort Worth
DCB
Fé, Worth
Texas Arkansas Split Two Thanksgiving Days
Two states Texas and Arkansas set two Thanksgiving days this year. Arkansas follows the last Thursday in November for its holiday, producing November 30, while the national date is November 23. Texas Gov. Shivers proclaims both dates to suit banks, colleges, and football games.
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Washington
Arkansas
Texas
Truman
Allan Shivers
Teras
Shivers
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oklahoma Weather Bulletin Night to Friday Forecast
Fair tonight. colder in east and south central regions and warmer in the Panhandle. Lows 32 to 35. Friday fair in east and south, increasing cloudiness in the northwest, warmer in the west and north. High near 65 with strong southwest winds traveling into Friday and fresh southerly winds Panhandle tonight.
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Oklahoma
Panhandle
Empty Rowboat Off Seabrook Sends Search Under Way
Coast guard planes scoured a wide area off Seabrook beach for Frederick H. Ecker wife and James Herd after their fishing boat capsized yesterday morning. Two companions were saved and a shrimp trawler recovered two men. Authorities pressed sea and shore searches as word arrived of Herds father’s death in Shelbyville automAnile crash.
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Carleston
Coast Guard
Seabrook Beach
Insurance Company
Frederick H. Ecker
Metropolitan Insurance Company
James Herd
Shelbyville
Charleston County
Silas Welch
Herd
Tenn
J. Rogers
New York
Mr. Morris
Air Force Men in Cold Canyon Trek Ends Safe Return
Great Falls Montana November 16 two air force men Sgt Thomas Hart Fort Pierre South Dakota and Cpl Calvin Beebe Ceylon Wisconsin lost in deep canyons for three days with only a squirrel to eat found their way back to the Great Falls base last night They followed a stream and, after hunting Sunday with Weekes of Randolph New York, entered a wrong canyon while returning to their car Weekes alerted authorities Hart and Beebe observed military and private planes over the search They survived by eating a squirrel killed Monday and plan to hunt again next weekend
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Great Falls
Mont
Air Force
Thomas Hart
Fort Pierre
S. D
Calvin Beebe
Ceylon
Wis
St. Julian Weekes
Randolph
N. Y
Weekes
Great Falls Air Base
Hart
Beebe
DHIA Elects H Lambert in Pon totoc County
Annual meeting of the Pon totoc County Dairy Herd Improvement Association re elects Harvey Lambert president. W C Story of Fitzhugh named vice president and Claude V Thompson secretary. Renzo Cooper and Sam Dew join the board, joining the three officers. The group commends Virgil Stout for his work as DHIA tester. Dates set for the Central Oklahoma Dairy Show on May 24 25 26 in 1851. Breeders will exhibit cattle in Oklahoma breed shows next year beyond open shows previously held locally.
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Pontotoc County
Harvey Lambert
W. C. Story
Fitzhugh
Claude V. Thompson
Renzo Cooper
Sam Dew
Virgil ‘Stout
DHIA
Central Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Bloody Ending for Illicit Romancing
Palm Palatka Florida reports a fatal revenge ending to a clandestine romance involving Jacksonville safety commissioner RB D Sutton and the wife of a trucking firm head. The husband J P McRae, 34, shot them near Suttons lakeside cabin, then collapsed from a heart attack. Sutton and his wife were killed, McRae jailed and later hospitalized under guard. Sutton was married with a son, while Mrs Sutton was away visiting.
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McRae
Sutton
A. G. McRae
Remembered Got Bear at That Spot
WILKES-BARRE Pa November 16 John Prebovich recalls a tale of luck and memory. While bear hunting at the exact spot where he and a companion were lost last winter he tripped on an object in the dark and found a bear instead. Yesterday he returned to the spot and harvested a 450 pound bear.
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Wilkes-Barre
John ‘Prebovich
Prebovich
Probovich
Ada Noisier 43 Years Ago Statehood Day in Ada
Forty three years ago Ada welcomed Oklahoma and Indian Territory statehood with a grand parade led by the Roff band and a proclamation reading ceremony. Local officials and many names from Ada are noted, as the city and county advance on milestone anniversaries.
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Ada
Oklahoma
Indian Territories
Frisco
Roff
JW. Vaden
Rott
William L. Byrd
Howard Parker
Sidney R. Tolbert
J. F. McKeel
F. 2. Holly
W. C. Duncan
J. P. Crawford
J. P. Wood
D. W. Huffar
E. &. Ratliff
Cate Crawford
Nick Heard
M. W. Ligon
Judge Hammond
B.C. King
T. J. Smith
James Anderson
Tom D. McKeown
Grass Fires Dominate City Fire Reports this Month
The city fire department notes November has seen numerous grass fires with little damage. Windy, dry conditions are blamed for most of the reported incidents, totaling 21 fires this month including trash, newspaper, and car fires.
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City Fire Department
Massachusetts lawmakers roam for recess study trips
Massachusetts legislators travel widely on recess commissions studying rail terminals and shore protection. A Miami Beach trip for rail study and a Catalina Island survey spurred questions about purpose and cost. Whittier criticized the travel as excessive while reports show spending totals and duplicated itineraries across commissions.
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Bostor
Massachusetts
House
Senate
Miami Beach
Fla
Miami
House Ways and Means
Chicago
Catalina’ Island
California
Sumner G. Whittier
America
New York
Iron sets blaze and put it out in apartment fire
An electric iron left on started a fire in a Washington apartment house yesterday. Firemen found the iron burned through the ironing board and melted a lead water pipe, but the water spray from the pipe extinguished the smoldering blaze. Damage was slight.
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Washington
Allies Bolster Berlin Power
Western powers sent Hellisty tanks and American troops to Berlin and announced plans to arm West Berlin police with submachine guns and automatic rifles. About 200 American soldiers arrived to reinforce to a regimental level. police will be equipped for emergencies while most weapons stay under allied control.
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Berlin
Sixth Infantry Regiment
Kommandatura
West Berlin
C Ommandatura
Control Council
East Berlin
East Zone
Russia
U.S. High Commission
Allied Control Council
Tire Blows Out Two Are Killed in Marietta Crash
Two out of state tourists died when a tire blew out and the car overturned three times near Marietta on U S highway 17 en route to San Antonio. Mrs Lillian Keller 45 of East Grand Fork Minn and J W Lyons 78 of Grand Fork ND perished. Alfred A Keller 50 was hospitalized in Gainesville Texas in critical condition. Oklahoma's 1950 traffic toll rose to 416 this year. MOSCOW, Nov. 16 The Moscow Press praised the second World Peace Congress in Warsaw and criticized Britain for blocking Sheffield conference.
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Associated Prom
Marietta
Lillian, Keller
East Grand Fork
Mfinn
J. W. Lyons
Grand Fork
N. D
Oklahoma
Radio troubles in Ada linger after division move
Ada highway patrolmen report radio copying difficulties with Durant station after headquarters moved from Coalgate. Ada police relay via Durant to obtain patrol information while awaiting new equipment expected to boost service, with Antlers Hugo and Tishomingo noted as improving after the change. Equipment shipments are in transit, some already arrived for installation alongside future arrivals.
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Ada
Durant
Durant City
Oklahoma City
Adam
McAlester
Coalgate
Antlers
Hugo
Tishomingo
Radar Screen Proves Self Tests West Germany Radar Net
A secret American radar system with jet patrols reportedly passed its first test in western Germany. Communist planes en route to a Warsaw peace congress were tracked as thirty nine unauthorized eastern European flights crossed into the area. Soviet protest over a hospital flight near a Soviet facility was noted, while officials demanded planes notify air headquarters of arrival and identity.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Europe
England
Communist Line Peace Congress
Warsaw
Maurice Thorez
Moscow
Vassily Chuikov
Soviet High Commission
East Germany
U. S
John J. McCloy
West
Red Agents Given Plans Back in 42
Atom spy Harry Gold testified that Abraham Brothman gave complete buna S synthetic rubber plans to Soviet agents in 1942. He described 25 to 50 blueprints and at least 200 pages of description, with data on equipment, high octane gasoline, turbine engines, and early jeep models. The meetings began in 1941 and included a meeting at the Hotel New Yorker.
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New York
Atom
Harry Gold
Abraham Brothman
Gold
Philadelphia
Brothman
Miriam Moskowitz
Srothman
New Yorker
Red
Soviet Union
Oklahoma Auto Dealers elect officers at Tulsa convention
Adan Is district auto dealer w D Dysart Tulsa was reelected president of the Oklahoma Automobile Dealers Association at its first convention in its 17 year history. District vice presidents chosen were R T Scott Oklahoma City Cal Newport Homing J Richardson Ads Gordon Stephens Duncan and Fred Boston and Henry Coffeen Oklahoma City was elected secretary and treasurer.
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Tulsa
Okla
W. D. Dysart
Oklahoma Automobile Dealers Association
R. T. Scott
Oklahoma City
Cal Newport
Homing
J. Richardson
Ads
Gordon Stephins
Duncan
Fred Boston
Henry Coffeen
Resistance Gains Across Korean Front With Mixed Opposition
Allied forces pressed the North Korean front from the Manchurian border to the Changchon area as U S and South Korean troops reported mixed resistance. U S th and 17th regiments advanced through frostbound hills toward the border while other sectors saw near light opposition and several miles of gains. Naval guns aided the ROK against northeast Reds and Marines clashed in the peninsula center, with several miles advanced near Pakchon and Yongbyon.
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Seoul
Pungsan
U.S. First Corps
ROK
U.S
Changjin
Republic of Korea
Pakchon
Changchon River
U. S. 21Th
Sui
Yongsong
U. S. First Cavalry
Yongbyon
Tokchon
Accuse Owner in Tenant Slaying
Wagoner Oklahoma November 16 A land owner Edward L Jenkins is charged with murder in the slaying of tenant Bethel Cullins. County Attorney John J Moss says Jenkins admitted shooting Cullins in self defense after a dispute over fence conditions on the farm. Cullins died from two chest wounds and a leg wound.
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Wagoner
Oklo
FPA Wagoner
John J. Moss
Edward L. Jenkins
Bixby
Moss
Jenkins
Bethel Culling
Cullins
Culling
Limited Offer As Car Sale Comes With Free Tombstone
A quirky promotional message claims the iarp Motor company will include a rice sized pure granite tomb stone with every new car. The text also quips about a traveling salesman's wife never complaining about towels.
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Iarp Motor Company
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