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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1947
Page
7
A lengthy legal notice details a tax sale and foreclosure in Pontotoc County Oklahoma. It lists specific parcels in Fore County and identifies the owner GT Otis Garrett as holder of tax sale certificates. The notice outlines redemption periods of 20 and 60 days, identifies the sheriff Clyde Kraisor and attorney Roy F. Lewis, and sets the public sale date and terms.
Statewide notice to heirs, executors and trustees about a partition suit over Maude Chapman and Harden Chapman real estate in Pontotoc County Oklahoma. Defendants must answer by November 13 or risk default judgment. Property described as 10 acres of Lot 1 Section 6 Township 1 Range 3 East of Indian Base and Beach. Case follows Oklahoma succession law. DELLA BEDFORD, Court Clerk. Postoffice County, Oklahoma. Also mentions Northeastern Oklahoma A and M College sponsored choir group organized with Kenneth B. Richards directing.
A garbled district court notice from Penn ofac County Ohio outlines a state related action involving the Commissmears of the Lama and parties Pallites. The fragmentary text references litigation between multiple defendants with unspecified claims and court actions.
Court papers reveal a mortgage foreclosure action in Pontotot County Oklahoma seeking satisfaction of indebtedness totaling $796.00 plus interest and attorney fees. The filing names Yok and others, with a sale of the described property unless the debt is fully paid, and includes notices of potential foreclosure for the estate matter and divorce proceedings involving the Summers family.
Notice is given that Grant Whintle execut or of the estate of M Belle Sperry deceased has filed a motion for the final accounting and distribution. A hearing is set for October 13 before Judge Brita at 10 oclock in Pontotoc County Courthouse Oklahoma. All interested persons may appear and show cause why the account should or should not be approved and the estate distributed and executor discharged. Dated September 26. TOM P. MOTEOWN County Judge Pontotoc County Oklahoma
Notice to the creditors of Catherine Bytda deceased, with details on claims and filing, signed by Carrie M Walker and others. Local social notes record visits and events from Ada and Stillwater residents, followed by a report on Oklahoma City textbook committee efforts to control school book prices and related proposals by General Williamson.
Five railroad brotherhoods representing engineers firemen conductors trainmen and switchmen filed formal wage demands seeking a 29 percent increase with a minimum daily boost of 3. The action prompts nationwide bargaining talks under the National Railroad Labor Act as carriers warn of higher costs while considering proposed changes in 44 working rules.
Mr and Mrs Casey Temes and Roy Childress of Chishoma City are out Sunday with Mrs Adelis Lorwed visiting relatives and enjoying a quiet afternoon together.
The former U.S. Naval Hospital at Moorman Oklahoma will be completely redesigned into a 50 bed Veterans Administration hospital for neuro psychiatric patients. Army engineers announced the project and bids for 17 VA hospitals will be advertised by year’s end. Lt. Gen. Wheeler led the plan as chief engineer. An Oregon man was jailed after a strange incident involving his missing wife at restaurants.
Ada to host a cancer symposium organized by state health and medical groups including the American Cancer Society Oklahoma division, Oklahoma Medical Association, and Oklahoma State Dental Society. The event runs October 16 from 2:30 to 9:00 with lectures by a nationally renowned cancer expert on malignancies of the mouth breast chest and radiology related topics.
In Los Angeles on December 1 inaugurations began the world first regular helicopter airmail service. Miss Helicopter actress Vivian Blaine and Canadian Edwin Canton join Postmaster Michael D. Fanning for the shuttle from airport to downtown terminal annex. Shipments include greetings from Portmaster Geers Robert Hannogan.
German police ordered hundreds of officers to the Czechoslovak border after reports that 6,008 armed members of the Ukrainian Resistance Army were preaching a U.S. occupation. Sirens sounded in Hof, and Ukrainian guerrillas claimed battles with Soviet and Polish troops during their flight through Poland. American authorities interned the combatants and police prepared to reinforce border patrols with trucks and cars, uncertain if a clash would occur at the frontier.
Henry Wallace argued that pleas for food conservation fail without action on prices from the administration. Speaking before 7,000 in Boston and 800 at Lynn, he urged bold controls to ensure equitable distribution and food for all Americans. He condemned talks of a third world war and criticized U.S. foreign policy as leading toward war while advocating decisive domestic policy in peacetime.
Oklahoma City details show Governor Turner silent on State Senator C Nance's plan to add seven new Public Welfare Commission members. Nance, president pro tempore, suggested reshaping the panel to influence agency appointments. The report notes the proposal clouds governance and narrows focus to the governor’s existing and new picks.
Gen Lucius D. Clay said reparations would involve plants valued around 1 million dollars and complete separations in western Germany. He indicated that further plant dismantling would come from current production, with U S and British authorities intending to remove surplus plants despite German objections.
Washington report outlines a plan to provide inexpensive foods to hunger areas abroad at cut rate prices. The committee says the plan could save 650 million dollars by buying foods at market prices and selling them to counties at affordable rates. Government agencies favor subsidizing state foods over relying on grain alone to meet foreign needs.
Northrop’s tailless YH 49 jet bomber is taken from its hangar for public inspection in Los Angeles. It will not fly today. first test flight is planned for October. The craft has eight engines delivering about 72 000 horsepower before transfer to the army for further testing. In Oklahoma City Roy J. Turner plans a tour with the State Turnpike Authority to discuss extending the Federal Reclamation program to the Arkansas and Red River watersheds in Oklahoma with President Truman.
New York dispatch reports the 16 000 per month freight car program is failing, with October as a target missed by 2 008 to 3 000 cars. The Transportation magazine warns the industry is deteriorating as cars retire faster than replacements, dating to war days. Discrepancies and unbalanced inventories hinder progress, and no single group bears full responsibility for the shortage.
New York Governor Thomas E Dewey proclaimed Poland Day in New York praising Polish fighters in the American Revolution and World War II era. He urged American relief for Poland to aid peace and criticized wartime betrayals by Russia and others while praising Pulaski and Kosciuszko for standing with Polish cause.
Fourteen West Side youths formed a youth club named All-Americans Clit in a concrete courtyard. Harold Ducksman, age 10, sergeant at arms, says members have not fought since starting the club. The piece notes broad hopes for unity among Roowners as clubs grow. In a separate grand tally, 50 persons killed and 1,090,000 injured in U S motor vehicle accidents.
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