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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1951
Page
2
The Red Cross offers a Home Nursing class starting October 3 for three weeks, with sessions 9 to 11 am and 3 to 5 pm on Wednesdays and Fridays. Instruction for home care of the sick is expanding as DoD supports training in every family, with space limited to ten per class. notify the Red Cross office at once.
The Oklahoma County Treasurers association schedules five zone meetings and a state parley in October with Virgil Hunt as president. Sessions will cover tax sales tax rolls and corrections, jury wheel, and penalties to steer nonpayment to be debated. Charles G. Morris will lead a Q and A hour.
Rev L N D Wells led services as revival enters its second week at the First Christian Church. Morning sermon Jesus Came Preaching drew seven baptisms. evening The Twenty third Psalm offered spiritual nourishment. Sunday School night honored church groups with over 300 in attendance.
Pvt Earl L Love leaves for Camp Kilmer New Jersey on September 23 for overseas duty after four months at Ft Knox Kentucky. He is a 1947 Ross High School graduate and the son of Mr and Mrs I E Love of 1028 West Main Ada.
Antlers school announces season football tickets go on sale Monday October 1. Four home games are planned plus an open date counted as a home game for season-ticket holders. Goodland and Ida Bell games will be hosted at local fields with the Indians as hosts when Hugo is away.
Antlers high school band returns to regular practice after years away. Director Fd Earsom leads the revived group with renewed program and student engagement.
Twenty two miles of SH 7 east of Antlers will be reshaped and gravel surfaced by highway department crews per Antlers division engineer John Curry. Six miles of highways west of Antlers in Atoka county will receive the same treatment, Curry said.
Extension forester Lee Clymer says the state nursery will purchase green pine cones at 2.00 per bushel. About 2000 bushels are needed.
D. J. Wesley president of the Pushmataha district council in Antlers announces a meeting in the district courtroom on Wednesday afternoon October 3. Principal Chief Jimmie Belvin of Durant will attend. All Indians of the area are urged to attend.
Antlers business man Foster Berry, a World War I veteran, has been discharged from the army and navy General hospital in Hot Springs after 30 days of therapeutic care and returned home.
Carl Osburn notes the board redirected first bale premium funds to other farming divisions after only four bales were ginned from the 1950 crop in the county. He adds the local cotton industry is no longer an economic factor with the record 1926 crop of 16,000 bales.
Mrs. Clyde Deupree of Hugo has been transferred to the county welfare office in Antlers as a case worker or investigator, announced by Mrs. Laura H. Merriott, the director.
Mr and Mrs Ross R Badgett depart for a week in Glenwood Springs Colorado as guests of the Great Southern Life Insurance Company He is a top Great Southerner in Texas Oklahoma Louisiana and New Mexico earning this trip for outstanding life insurance production He is among 26 to qualify for the Great Southern Leaders Legion 1951 52 These 26 will receive special prizes with a party of about 300 at the home office led by President L S Adams The Colorado trip will be by special train over the Santa Fe lines.
Alta. reports James McRae’s family sees a lynx in the backyard causing alarm. Mrs. McRae speculates the wildcat may have been after chickens, her Pomeranian dogs, or the grove monkeys that escaped from a carnival nearby.
The Ada Insurance board conducts an annual essay contest through Ada high school and Horace Mann. Essays on Fire Prevention in the Home win prizes of 25, 15, and 10 dollars. Entries due by 9 a.m. October 13 with prior winners announced October 16. Essays limited to 500 words and judged by a state fire insurance official.
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved parcel post rate increases averaging about 25 percent. One pound parcels rise from 10 to 15 cents, and 70-pound packages from 64 cents to $1.02. In the far eighth zone over 1800 miles a one-pound rate jumps to 27 cents, and a 70-pound cost climbs to $9.93.
Billy Seyrkles an eight year old Lindsay lad left Valley View hospital polio ward Saturday and returned home. Doctors reported the case definitely polio but the lad was in good condition. The ward then had four patients remaining at Monday morning.
Federal Judge W R Wallace of the eastern district of Oklahoma will hold a civil docket in Ada on Tuesday October 2 starting at 9 30 am. Nine civil cases are listed with three more for pre trial. Ten criminal cases are set for arraignment.
State crime bureau agents conducted five simultaneous liquor raids in Grady County. They seized 181 cases of liquor and arrested five individuals, one at each location. Agent Golden Kennedy led the operation, targeting a Chickasha area restaurant, two service stations on U S 81, a tourist court on U S 81, a Lindsay service station, and a farmhouse near Blanchard.
T/Sgt. Murl P. Lawson, son of Mr and Mrs Lawson Ada Oklahoma, serves as unit first sergeant with the Fifth Air Force 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at an advance airbase in Korea. He supervises squadron duties including correspondence with headquarters and personnel transfer orders. Before this assignment he attended the First Sergeants School in Nagoya Japan.
Pfc. William Robertson of Broken Arrow Oklahoma was kicked in the shin by a horse while detaining a Japanese rider entering his company’s bivouac area in Hokkskido Japan. The rider was released after brief questioning.
Filbert nut derived agents are used to enhance the flavor of American cheese. The additive process aims to boost taste with natural compounds sourced from filberts.
Police records show two cars damaged in a Sunday noon crash at Main and Broadway. Dianna Trippe an East Central State college student stopped at a red light while J H Ramsey of Oklahoma City driving a 1949 Chevrolet said brakes failed and caused the collision with slight damage to Trippe’s car and substantial damage to his own. no charges were filed.
In Hermosa Beach California 12 year old Charles Pratt found murdered Mrs. Miriam Lake and led police to arrest marine corporal William Rogers Stewart 29 from Stockman Nebraska within two hours. Stewart confessed memory gaps and is held on suspicion of murder. Mrs Lake leaves behind her nine year old son Jackson and husband Jack Lake who is stationed with the air force in Alaska.
Walton Sarrett pleaded guilty to abandoning his wife Mildred and two minor children Janie and Tony. He received five years in the state penitentiary at McAlester with the term suspended on good behavior, and he must pay $50 a month in child support plus court costs. He was held on a $2,000 bond in Ada before District Judge John Boyce McKeel and released after entering the plea. The offense was alleged to have occurred around August 1, 1950, with the complaint filed December 23, 1950.
Floyd Cumby a 40 year old Doenges Motor Company mechanic died in a hospital after being found with a crushed skull in an alley. Police sought a 29 year old former employee who allegedly called the Cumby home twice on Saturday asking for him.
Report from Saigon shows the first large allotment of American Garand rifles arriving to arm four newly formed divisions of the Vietnamese national army. The shipment accompanies France granting Vietnam control over its treasury, the last major internal service still under French authority. The weapons are for operations against Vietminh forces in Indochina.
Loganport Indiana resident Robert Graves found a clarinet and a saxophone in the back seat of his parked car. Police learned Richard Henry of Grand Rapids Michigan had mistaken Graves’ identical model car for his own and left the instruments there.
Vestal Lee Brown, 21, of Wichita Falls Texas, wed Shirley Hawkins, 18, of Ada. The couple’s union was recorded in a local marriage notice.
Mercury completes a full orbit around the sun in 88 days, making it the fastest planet in the solar system. The rapid year contrasts with Earth’s 365 day cycle and affects its solar exposure and surface conditions.
Farmers may borrow up to 7000 dollars as an initial loan and up to 10000 dollars total indebtedness under a new FHA amendment. Pontotoc supervisor Leonard Downing notes higher farm costs and the local committee approves loans, directing borrowers to private lenders if appropriate.
In Ada, poisonings have struck several dogs on west Eighth Street and again on west Twelfth Friday night. Lou Brewer recalls Sandy the dog suffering from poison and urges awareness as others bring in afflicted pets to the animal hospital.
Campers in a woods cabin improvised with mustard to flavor sauces and dressings. They used mustard with mayonnaise for fish, in cabbage dishes, fried potatoes, and a cream sauce for canned tuna or ham. Recipes for Ham With Mustard Sauce and Savory Fried Potatoes are provided.
RIDGELY Tenn Oct 1 A man and a woman died when their car sped off a ferry landing into the Mississippi river. The victims were T L Cook 30 and Mrs Alice Til da Swater 29 both of Dyersburg. Eyewitnesses said the car roared up the landing in second gear and plunged into the river as a passenger screamed for help.
Violent deaths plague American troops in Germany with 11 killed in a single day. A two star general grounded all vehicles for four hours and ordered refresher training after a wave of traffic and other accidents. Over six months 52 soldiers died in car wrecks on autobahns and other incidents.
Faye W Ferguson prominent builder and former state athlete died at age 43 after head injuries from a tennis fall a month ago. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University, coached at several Oklahoma City area high schools, ran his own construction firm, and in 1949 presided over the Oklahoma Home Builders Association.
Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain and Prince Philip will stay three days in Washington as guests of President and Mrs. Truman beginning October 31 after a Canada tour. They will fly in from Montreal aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force plane and reside at Blair House. They will attend official dinners and visit Mt. Vernon and Arlington National Cemetery.
A tip notes that placing an apple slice in a cookie jar preserves freshness. The same method works for cakes when stored in a tightly covered cake dish.
A new line of ceiling hugging fixtures uses Petrastone plaster with textured glass and jute bound wire bases. They offer glare free lighting with broad reflectors and colorable finishes. Patterns include a fluid Grecian leaf, a classic circle, and a fluted edge.
George Hill publisher of The Coal gate Record Register warned Ada Kiwanis members that freedom of the press underpins all rights protected by the U S Constitution. He cited Mussolini Hitler and La Prensa as examples of how press suppression erodes liberty. Community Chest drive chair Bill Gluckman and new Kiwanian C C Buxton were announced, with Ada high Kiwanian Donald Koontz named for October.
AP executive Frank H. King warns winter will intensify suffering of more than 10,000 UN prisoners behind Communist lines. He cites limited access by Red Cross and scarce information from the State Department, noting reluctance to discuss the issue amid Kaesong cease-fire talks.
Claude V Thompson’s Milking Shorthorns led Pontotoc County DHIA September tests with two top cows and a third tied for sixth. The high cow produced 79 pounds of butterfat, second 71 pounds, and a No 3 tied for sixth with 62 pounds. The No 2 Shorthorn will be sold Oct 20 at the Oklahoma Milking Shorthorn Breeders sale.
Paul Johnston and his fall revival schedule at Central Church of Christ Ada. He arrives Monday afternoon and delivers the first sermon Monday at 7 30 pm. Local minister Levi Gentry urges strong attendance during Sunday services at 10 45 am and 7 15 to 8 pm with evening broadcasts on KADA.
The Ada Assembly Order of Rainbow for Girls plans a bake sale on Saturday October 6 at four local stores Dicus Safeway Dutch Boiles grocery and Green Spray Market. Proceeds go to Rainbow benevolence with all cakes homemade per Martha Guinn.
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