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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1944
Page
7
In Pontotoc County Oklahoma the estate of Chester B Williams deceased seeks final accounting and distribution. The hearing date is October 12 1944 at 16 60 o clock in the forenoon in Ada to determine heirs and approve distribution and discharge the executor. Any interested party may appear and file objections in writing.
Local families report visits and travel across Amarillo Ada Duncan Stratford Vanoss. Mr and Mrs L Jones return from a visit with Mr and Mrs McDonald. Buchanan family plans Ada relocation. Several social calls and weekend gatherings noted, including Johnsons buying Mrs Williams home and moving to Vaness.
Jack W. Dennis as Administrator of James Banke Roberson deceased has filed his final account and petition for distribution and discharge. The hearing is set for Friday October 20 1944 at 10 06 A M in the county courtroom Ada Pontotoc County Oklahoma. All interested parties must appear and show cause why the account should be settled allowed and the estate distributed and the administrator discharged. Judge Moss Wimbish presiding.
Four-month-old twins and three other children under 12 do not deter 48 year old Mrs Burley Burns from joining in eastern Idaho potato harvest efforts.
Washington dispatch reports Donald M. Nelson resigns as WPB chairman to take a high post on foreign economic relations. J. A. Cap Krug steps in as acting chairman and outlines plans to lift production controls by V‑Day, with Nelson staying on briefly.
U S Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma Democratic re election seeks joint debate with Republican W J Otten. Thomas names Oklahoma City as venue and calls for nationwide radio broadcast. Otten accuses Thomas on fourth term voting and Indian affairs reports while Thomas leads the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.
The death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Amanual Deathreage and claimed their baby boy. heartfelt sympathy extended. Numerous local visits and social calls occur as families share condolences and visit relatives across the community.
Residents along Owl Creek and Ada report a busy weekend with family visits and friends. Mrs Bill Bennett and children visit Mr and Mrs Winston Bennett in Carnegie while Scott families from Oklahoma City join Worley Hokett in Fairview. Nanny Barnes plans Beaumont Texas, Lucille Elkins and Hoketts attend Ada preview. Claud Bailey and Ira Rose visit Coffey Townsend’s and Rowe Miller homes.
Mrs. B. takes the twins in a buggy while Ernest Helen and Howard aged nine and eleven join others to pick potatoes, believing potato picking is good for children.
Automobile and truck drivers may obtain 1945 operator and chauffeur licenses at the tag office over the Corner Drug Store, with renewals urged early. The office, enlarged for smoother service, opens renewal Monday morning. 1944 licenses can be bought Tuesdays from 9 to 11 45 a.m.
Glendora California Oct 2 Mrs Alice Cooper aged 93 has completed her 180th pair of socks and twelfth heavy sweater for men in this war She took her first knitting lesson 85 years ago continuing a long running charitable craft effort supported by local community groups and neighbors.
Litchfield Connecticut October 4 The town volunteer fire department responded to an alarm but did not roll out its white pumper as the blaze was contained to an overheated stove on the second floor of the firehouse. Extinguishing quickly, it caused little property damage.
Major George J. Cronin state purchasing agent hires a butter scout to obtain butter for 25 000 inmates of institutions. He says the state advertised for bids in carload lots but received no replies.
Fresno reports Pvt. Lloyd General of Houston Texas serves at the Air Service Command station and performs kitchen police duties and laundry chores himself.
In Salt Lake City on October 4, 46 taxpayers led by J. B. Stone petitioned the city council to prohibit keeping cows hogs and fowls within city limits. They blamed the spread on meat rationing and urged action to curb the practice.
P. Lt. C. A. McEver of San Antonio recounts his most vivid army memory. He describes watching an Arab on a tram in French Morocco who ate a K ration biscuit sandwich with a tube of American shaving cream as a spread.
Miss Emma Leta Compton, 84, invited guests to celebrate the century old Compton house in Kansas City while leaving a for sale sign out front to spark conversations with visitors.
Mrs I H Mallory says she will fill her two WAC daughters request for Christmas packages. Sgt Dorothy and Pvt Eileen Mallory stationed in Italy asked that packages from home include spaghetti.
Attorney General George Neuner said Oregon filed a brief intervening in the Oklahoma community property tax law case now before the U S Supreme Court. Oregon’s 1943 law mirrors Oklahoma’s, allowing married couples to split income for lower tax brackets. The Harmon couple of Nowata sought to use the law. they won in federal court and the Denver circuit court of appeals. The Treasury Department appealed.
In Philadelphia the Red Cross blood donor center thanked Seaman First Class Roy Jackson but declined further donations two weeks after hospital discharge. His first act upon leaving Brooklyn navy yard hospital was to donate a pint of blood in New York.
Chester Pa October 4 Harry Moore a 71 year old maintenance pipefitter at Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock is noted as one of the companys veterans and the only great grandfather on the payroll.
Chinese communique reports a severe fighting near Kweilin and Paoching as the American air force evacuated and destroyed its fourth base at Tanchuk amid Japanese offensives through Hunan and Kwangsi. Fighters continued attacks on Japanese forces in Kwangsi and Yunnan fronts.
Fifth army infantry gained slight ground on a 20 mile front as stiff German defense and deep mud slowed advances along Apennine valleys toward the Po valley. Brazilian division kept pressure along the front while Eighth army patrols probed the flooded Fi umicino river area and British forces held Borbhi. In central Italy US troops moved near Boschi south of Bologna and advanced toward Imola.
The War Production Board reports September production of long range bombers as the greatest single month yet. Details on B 29 and B 32 totals withheld for security. Overall aircraft output reached 7 598 planes, 98 percent of schedule, with August at 7 939. B 17s and B 24s were on schedule, while other tactical programs ran slightly under.
Woodward Oklahoma October 2 Visitors will see experiments at the Gradingfield station open house October 7. Demonstrations cover harvesting grass seed and beef production on native pasture for visitors and local farmers.
RAF heavy bombers attacked German submarine pens at Bergen Norway in daylight. One escort group failed to return. Bergen ranks as the main U-boat base after losses in France with pens still under construction and fires started. A large surface ship was hit. The 1300 mile round trip was among the longest daylight raids by four engine bombers.
Nine days remain for overseas Christmas mail. The period runs from Sept 15 to Oct 14 with last day for packages on Oct 14. Send early to avoid jams and ensure delivery to soldiers and sailors. Pack securely with proper size weight limits and fill gaps to prevent movement.
The Petroleum Administration for War drafted a 27 000 well program for 1945, including 5 000 wildcats, up from 24 000 in 1944. J R McWilliams director of production told about 300 contractors at the American Association of Oil Well Drilling Contractors meeting in Fort Worth Texas. The PAW expects the target to be reached.
J Edward Wray 71 year old sports editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the lone voter to pick both league pennant winners, now predicts the Browns will win the World Series four games to two over the Cardinals in St. Louis.
Two dozen professional women bristled over nylons at an advertising club cocktail party when a man announced he would give away 24 pairs of nylons. He tossed the boxes into the crowd as 104 women fought to grab them, injuring one contestant.
Kan dy Ceylon Oct 4 Lt Gen Stopford says the 33rd Indian corps has killed 9 716 Japanese and captured 450 in six months as it advanced 295 miles from Dimapur toward Tiddim in western Burma with the Fourth corps. The unit has liberated over 1 000 inhabited localities.
An Ada area family remembers Cpl. Buel Bray a Shawnee Marine who died on Guam during a four hour stand at Chonito Ridge. The account notes seven Marines with one carbine held a foxhole against heavy fire enabling relief troops to advance. Bray and a lieutenant died in the foxhole. Bray worked at Winchester Arms in New Haven before the war.
Gov. John W. Bricker spoke on NBC from St. Louis on October 4 criticizing federal financing as he campaigned across the West. He warned the national debt would reach about 250 billion dollars postwar and urged opposition to continued New Deal policies.
American airborne forces in Holland involved about 6 000 aircraft and gliders with losses under 3 percent. Nearly 6 million pounds of supplies and equipment were delivered to American and British troops, including ammunition jeeps artillery and motorcycles. The report notes 160 pounds per parachutist and glider infantryman landed.
Russian machinegunners in American jeeps, guided by Yugoslav partisans, advance westward along the Danube within 20 miles of Belgrade. Tito's forces ferry scouts to assist, as Red Army pushes through northern Transylvania toward the Yugoslav capital. Clean sweep of German resistance reported east of the Danube. Meanwhile Govorov's Leningrad army seizes Hiiu island in the Baltic as German forces withdraw from Saare.
From Moscow Oct 4 reports say intra Polish quarrels over the Warsaw uprising wreck any chance of a united provisional government this year. Mikolajczyk’s moves, including replacing Sosnkowski with Komorowski, fail to win the Lublin committee, while Britain and the US coordinate policy. Diplomatic observers note Mikolajczyk remains acceptable to all sides yet the Lublin faction demands dissolution of his exile regime. The outlook for Polish political peace remains grim.
Five weeks of school completed with students Wylete Lane Donald Choate Harold Lee Love Theron Simpson Glenn Love Carol June Humphrey Bobby Bowerman Joy Lane excused. Weekly Tuesday assemblies. this week Mrs Evans room program, next week Mrs Simpson’s room. Visitors included Betty Blackman Paul Duncan Doyle Choate Sonny Bowerman. Attended state fair last week were Ula Evans family and others. Wanda June Bowerman reporter.
Pvt Lorena Angelly stationed at Lubbock Texas visited Mrs Dorothy Hallam Sunday evening Mr and Mrs Arthur Lamb visited his parents Will Lamb Mrs Grady Smith made a business trip to Ada Tuesday Mrs Lois Lamb shopped in Ada Tuesday
Monterey served as the capital of California under Spanish Mexican and American rule, reflecting a sequence of governance from colonial to territorial and state periods. This status marks the city as a central administrative center across multiple political regimes.
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