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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1973
Page
4
The piece argues that energy shortages could harm the economy with factory layoffs and reduced hours, cautioning that fuel price hikes would hurt ordinary people. It critiques a proposed gasoline tax as unfair, noting many dependents from ranchers to students rely on fuel for work, travel to medical care, and funerals, urging rationing if supply is tight.
The article surveys Supreme Court rulings on travel freedom and exit or entry restrictions. It notes that historically there were few limits but later cases allowed area restrictions, while others protected the right to leave and to return. It cites a radical group passport denial and emphasizes citizenship inherent rights and presidential foreign affairs powers.
The report highlights Christmas shopping and pecan harvest, merchants still can consign items to the sale and attend part of the auction. The building site is prepared, concrete work will begin soon, and steel is ready for delivery. Boosters see progress on the new county facility. Additional funds beyond $30,000 Revenue Sharing are needed as some cost estimates remain incomplete to define total needs.
The article surveys panic as a strong collective and personal phenomenon, comparing sudden mood shifts to grief and noting widespread worry about jobs, prices, and energy shortages. It cites a businessman’s view that hard times attract little proactive planning and ends with a quip about baling wire as a metaphor for national resilience.
Oklahoma anglers must take fish with a rod and reel and photograph the catch. Weight must be certified by three witnesses and the fish preserved in five weight condition until identified by a department fisheries biologist. Information Education Division of the department serves as the contact point.
Meal ideas from Velma Levingston Celia Heath Minnie Lewis Lydia Stone and Mrs Eugene Hobbs feature weight watcher soup and coffee cake style bake items with tomato soup based soup lemon glaze and cinnamon sugar cake and special K peanut butter bars. Recipes cover soup cakes and a layered pie with simple steps and baking temperatures.
Latta area social notes list gatherings with Mae Rice family visitors including Bud Burnett Ted Cotton and families from Oklahoma City Ada and Tulsa over Thanksgiving weekend. Multiple visits to Lizzie Chapman C E Brady and Edd Henson households are recorded alongside Homemakers Extension Group activities and a quilt prize at the county council Christmas festival.
Mrs. Clay Johnson hosted Thanksgiving guests including Corbin Johnson and family from Houston, Melena a Texas University student from Austin, Kent and his wife from Wichita Falls, and Bill Williams and Fred Clifton families from Roff, who attended a luncheon.
A chain of holiday visits spans Ardmore Hot Springs and Seminole as Mr and Mrs Johnson travel to Ardmore to visit Mrs Jons mother in law Mrs Houser. Nearby Mrs Kestner and Ms Moon ey from Hot Springs dine with Mrs Gus sie Stovall in Seminole. Families from Garland Texas and Richardson Texas join Thanksgiving events in Oklahoma including Mrs Reed and her relatives. Mrs Davis hospital visit notes a broken leg while multiple families share Thanksgiving at Petticrew and Deemer homes in Seminole and Pauls Valley.
The writer of the Gospel of John is selective, not providing a full life story but choosing events with a purpose. He states the aim in John 20 31 that readers may believe Jesus is the Christ and gain life through that belief. Belief centers on a person, the living Lord, not an abstract idea.
There were 33 present for Sunday school at Sunshine and 27 for the evening service. Visitors included Junior Hobgood Fred Gern Floyd Wesberry Mikel Welch and Mark Welch. Thanksgiving visits and dinners were shared with relatives across Ada Pontotoc and Sulphur including the Hewetts Hobgoods and Wingards. Community members attended meetings and events such as the Ada Business and Professional Women’s Club and Eastern Star dinner as Jonce Thomas visits Ada from San Jose California.
Ada area obituaries list residents who died in November including James Montgomery 2% Ada, William Arvel Phillips 63 Stonewall, Linzie Lee Imen son 33 Ada, Cecil Whitaker 67 Ada, Fred Warren Ellis 60 former Stonewall, Reeves S Bigger 66 Wapanucka, Laura Snow 7h Fittstown, Elizabeth Tut 89 Stonewall, Oddis R Tibbs 59 Coal Gate, Rollie Jennings 64 Stonewall, Neva J Gallabar 77 Ada, Donald Bowman 47 former Ada. Funeral services listed with Criswell, Smith and Primrose Funeral Homes.
John Paul Fowler 61 Ada resident died November 24 in Ada. Smith Funeral Home listed as the family contact.
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