In Training Vets Organize Classwork For Ada Program
About 100 men have started the Ada in training veterans classwork with nearly 400 expected. The program requires all workers to complete 100 hours of classes or lose subsistence. J B Watters leads, classes include typing bookkeeping drafting and elementary electricity. Three 25 pupil classes will run nightly to cover the full cohort over the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
J. B. Watters
Ada High School
Watters
Optimism Rises as Seaman Strike Moves Toward Settlement
The Maritime Commission moved to resolve the shipping strike with talks circling a policy stance. AFL CIO leaders report assurance it will enforce agreed working conditions on government vessels, as negotiations continue between shipowners and the unions representing masters mates and engineers.
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Max Hall
Washington
Maritime Commission
Commission
AFL
CIO
Edgar L. Warren
Labor Departments
Labor Department
CIO Marine Engineers
San Francisco
Palestine Conference Adjourns for Indefinite Period
London reports an official say the Palestine conference adjourned today for an indefinite period and Arab delegations will likely return home. Bevin and Hall attended the sixth meeting after a 22 day session. A press conference and communique on adjournment plans are expected tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ernest Bevin
George Hall
Old dynamite blast rattles Chickasha residents
A loud explosion in Chickasha prompted police and residents to search the area before a Borden General Hospital post engineer identified the source as old dynamite he had set off. Army officials declined to move it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chickasha
Borden General Hospital
Halsey Calls for a Powerful Navy Re-Design
In San Francisco Adm. William F. Halsey urged retaining a strong navy and a base network for the atomic age. He proposed a fast, mobile fleet aided by Bikini test insights. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey pressed universal military training as essential for national survival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
American
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Robert P. Patterson
Navy
John L. Sullivan
Omar P. Bradley
Legion
John Steele
Bradley
Blue Cross Report Details Funds Used in Ada
The Ada Blue Cross report shows 320 local hospital cases in 194 year with $14,544.96 paid to hospitals and an average charge of $45.45 per patient. Ada group utilization reached 84.1 percent, and enrollment periods are open in Ada this week at the First National Bank with both group and individual options available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Cross
Valley View Hospital
First National Bank
CofC Committees Report Thursday
The Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular Thursday noon luncheon with committee reports. Secretary Elmer Kenison notes committees were appointed by the president and now the president seeks detailed reports on time money and effort. Ada citizens are urged to attend to learn what has been done during the past year and which committees did not function. President W A Gus Delaney hopes full membership will attend to understand the group’s functions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Elmer Kenison
Ada
W. A. “Gus” Delaney
Giant Tulsa Center Fractured Leg During Scrimmage
Tulsa center Jerry D'Arcy suffered a fractured leg in a scrimmage while the Hurricane prepared for the Drake game in Des Moines Iowa next Saturday night. The University of Tulsa announced the injury today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Jerry D'Arcy
University of Tulsa
Hurricane
Drake University
Des Moines
Bob Hope Seeks Two More Adoptions in Evanston
Mrs De lores Hope wife of comedian Bob Hope appeared in Cook County court and won approval from Judge Edmund K Jarecki for adopting two children from the Cradle in suburban Evanston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Delores Hope
Bob Hope
Cook County Court
Edmund K. Jarecki
Evanston
Greater returns for amount in vested.
Ada News Want Ads notes improved value for invested sums, highlighting stronger returns for those placing funds in vested offers. With market shifts, advertisers are urged to evaluate option rates and timelines to maximize gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada News
Bates Angus Make Clean Sweep At Muskogee State Fair
Charley Bates Ada Angus breeder swept Muskogee claiming grand and reserve titles with five class firsts. Blue Boy led Bates bulls to five firsts plus grand champion with total ten firsts three seconds and one third. Bates plans to sell 100 animals on Nov 12 as health forces him to retire. his sons will return to farming after college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Bates
Ada Angus
Muskogee
Bates
Blue Boy
Muskogee Fair
Iowa
Davenport
Pontotoc County
Paving Contracts Planned on State Highway 13 and More
The Oklahoma State Highway Commission will receive bids October 15 on eighteen road projects across ten counties totaling about 1.262 million dollars. The largest project is 12.65 miles of paving on State Highway 13 northwest of Ada in Pontotoc County, estimated at 383,515 dollars. An additional project covers one mile of grading and drainage on U.S. 60 east of Bartlesville in Washington County, estimated at 107,756 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
State Highway Commission
Pontotoc County
Ada
U. S. 60
Bartlesville
Washington County
Noted Air Leaders To Attend Aviation Clinic
Oklahoma City reports the fourth annual national aviation clinic October 14 to 17 features speakers including General Jimmy Doolittle Notre Dame President Rev John J Cavanaugh UNRRA director Fiorello La Guardia National Aeronautics Association president L Welch Pogue Civil Aeronautics Board chair James M Landis Piper Cub designer William T Piper Jr and Air Transport Association executive Robert Ramspeck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Jimmy Doolittle
Army Air Corps
John J. Cavanaugh
Notre Dame University
Fiorello la Guardia
UNRRA
New York
L. Welch Pogue
National Aeronautics Association
James M. Landis
Civil Aeronautics Board
William T. Piper, Jr
Robert Ramspeck
The
Air Transport Association
Occupation Children Go to School but Textbooks Are Afloat
In Tokyo on October 2, 220 pupils walked to class under occupation, but most faced a delay as their textbooks remain in the hold of a freighter at sea.
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Tokyo
Chickasha Veteran of Bataan March Will Wed
Fred Phillip La Boon 31 of Chickasha Oklahoma and Helen Jeanette Reed 20 of Vinita Oklahoma obtained a marriage license in San Francisco. La Boon national vice commander of the American Legion and a Bataan Death March veteran and Miss Reed attend the national Legion convention and plan to marry Friday after the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Fred Phillip la Boon
Chickasha
Okla
Helen Jeanette Reed
Vinita
la Boon
American Legion
Bataan
Miss Reed
National Legion
Willis C. Reed
The
Legion Auxiliary
Lenapah Grants 25 Year Public Service Franchise
Citizens of Lenapah Oklahoma voted in a special election to grant a 25 year electric franchise to Public Service Company of Oklahoma. R K Lane the company president said the vote was 153 to 0. Lenapah with about 500 people sits in northern Nowata county.
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Lenapah
Okla
Nowata County
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
R. K. Lane
Senapah
Yugoslav Delegates Condemn U S And Britain Over Trieste
Yugoslavia accuses the United States and Great Britain of betraying the Big Four agreement on Trieste to favor a British American military base. Pijade denounces Anglo Saxon plans as imply a colonial regime and warns of a non democratic outcome if Trieste remains under military influence.
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Trieste
Joseph Dynan
Paris
Yugoslavia
United States
Great Britain
Free State of
Adriatic
Pijade
U. S
Tom Connally
Gladwyn Jebb
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Stenos
Commission
Leif Egeland
South Africa
Free State
Britain
Return of War Dead Delayed Due to Material Shortage
In Indianapolis the Army Quartermaster Corps says the return of American war dead will be postponed to next summer because casket materials are scarce. Col. James B. Colson told the National Funeral Directors association that steel plywood rubber and other essentials are lacking. Contracts for 250000 caskets cost about 35000000 dollars.
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Indianapolis
Ind
America
James B. Colson
Army Quartermaster Corps
National Funeral Directors Association
Association
Col. Colson
Plenty of Beef At Woodward Meet
Woodward Oklahoma hosts the northwest cattlemen’s association meeting over three days starting Friday. About 1,000 stockmen from ten counties attend amid concerns over feed costs OPA meat price controls and a proposed state brand law. Also reports on Hollywood studio violence during a labor dispute with 37 injured and 56 arrests.
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Woodward
Okla
Northwest Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association
S. Department of Agriculture
Federal Experiment Stations
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
OPA
Hollywood
AFL
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Sheriff's
Conference of Studio Unions
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Latse
Roy Brewer
Los Angeles Central Labor Council
CSU Carpenters’ Brotherhood
M-G-M
Roosevelt
CSU
Plane wins dogfight with rattlesnake
Great Falls Mont. pilot Robert A Blair co pilot O R Fos sum and flight engineer S P Mossback on a C 54 Skymaster maneuvered to avoid a rattlesnake on the runway. A second pass struck the reptile, smashing it as the aircraft taxied.
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Great Falls
Mont
Great Falls Army Airfield
Robert A. Blair
O. R. Fossum
S. P Mossback
Atoka votes down water bond for filtration plant
Atoka Oklahoma voters rejected a proposed bond issue of 223000 dollars for a new city water filtration plant and other waterworks improvements in a special election held yesterday by a wide margin of 282 to 18.
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Atoka
Okla
Tickets On Sale For Navy Band Concert At Norris Field
Tickets for the U S Navy Band concert at Norris Field stadium Sunday at 2 30 p m are available at O Neal Jewelers The Blue Lantern Gift Shop and Gem Credit Jewelers. East Central State college arranged the event directed by Lt Charles Breadler. Adults pay one dollar and children fifty cents with all taxes included.
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U.S. Navy
Norris Field Stadium
O'Neal Jewelers
Blue Lantern Gift Shop
Gem Credit Jewelers
Navy
East Central State College
Charles Breadler
U. S. Navy
N.B.C
Mutual Broadcasting Systems
Rishman Aims to Collect Millions for Goat Island Claim
Dublin attorney says Goat Island in San Francisco Bay should yield between 4 and 8 million dollars from the United States for use as an American Naval training base. He claims the island was taken from the Dowling family without compensation in the 1800s. In Oklahoma City, the Anti-Saloon League plans a reorganization with a program to push scientific temperance education and oppose repeal efforts.
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Dublin
Thomas J. O'Donoghue
United States
Goat Island
Thomas Dowling
San Francisco Bay
O'Donoghue
Dowling
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Anti- Saloon League
W. J. Herwig
Washington
Herwig
Germanys 11 War Criminals Face Clemency Appeals
Lawyers for 11 condemned German war criminals prepared appeals to the Allied Control Council to switch death sentences from hanging to shooting if clemency fails. The executions are set for Oct 16 in Nuernberg, with plans to move seven prisoners to Berlin for imprisonment.
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Thomas A. Reedy
Muernberg
Germany
Allied Control Council
Hermann Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Martin Bormann
Four Power Commission
Allied Council
Nuernberg
Hjalmar Schacht
Franz von Papan
Rhine
Hans Fritsche
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Fritz Sauckel
Britain
France
Russia
United States
U. S
International Military Tribunal
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Wilhem Keitel
Ernst Kalter
Slight Decline In Farm Prices In Mid September
Oklahoma City report from Oct 2 notes a small drop in the general price level received by farmers compared with the prior month. Prices fell for all meat animals except sheep with corn down 15 cents a bushel, grain sorghums down 20 cents per hundredweight, wheat up 3, rye up 10, oats unchanged at 88 cents, eggs at 40 cents a dozen, and butterfat up six cents per pound while butter held at 67 cents. Hot on the same page Caserta reports most German POWs back at work in Italian base installations.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
United States Department of Agriculture
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Seaman
Palestine
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Radio
Culver City
Calif
NEA Telephoto
Halsey
Hershey
Cofc
Tulsa Center
Bob
Bates Angus
Muskogee State Fair
S.H. 13 Paving
U.S
Maurice Couve de Murville
Hans Fritzsche
Franz von Papen
Hjalmary Schacht
NEA Radiotelephoto
Woodward Meet
Columbus
Ohio
Australia
Port Columbus
E. W. Ewen
C. O. Navy Air Reserve
Glendale
E. P. Rankin
W. S. Reid
R. H. Tabeling
Thomas Davis
Adm
Ewen
NEA
Rial
Perth
Navy Band
Rishman
Island
Caserta
Italy
United States Army
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