Sue Mary Entwined in Youth Progress Politics
Sue Mary helps Vera at Youth Progress headquarters typing letters for Fritz’s campaign as she meets Nick and faces new social contrasts. She recalls family history and feels a growing pull toward political involvement amid office tensions and a looming election.
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Sue Mary
Joe
Vera
New York State
Abe Lincoln
Ross Clark, Jr
M. Ross Clark
Young Clark
Harvard
Youth Progress Headquarters
Nick
Saving Native Grass Seed For Dentered Areas
C H Hailey says Pontotoc county farm agent that ordinary combines can harvest seed from grama and bluestems for replanting decimated pastures. Side-out grama yields 40 60 lb per acre. blue and hairy grama 20 40 lb. Seed rates 10 15 lb acre with grain drill. tall grasses timed after fall rains. Leaflets explain combines adjustments.
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C. H. Hailey
Pontotoc County
Hailey
Rizley Polls Seen Favoring Rizley in Oklahoma District
Political advisers say Rizley may gain 5 000 to 10 000 more votes than the presidential ticket in the eighth district. They predict Rizley could upset Ferguson by a close margin, with Willkie strength centered in Kay and Garfield counties while Democratic gains possible in Cimarron Texas Beaver and Woodward counties. McNary’s Enid visit is expected to boost Republican turnout.
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Oklahoma City
Ross Rizley
Eighth
Wendell W. Willkie
Rizley
U. S
Phil Ferguson
Willkie
Roosevelt
Kay
Garfield
Oklahoma
Tulsa County
Cimarron
Texas
Beaver
Panhandle
Woodward County
Ferguson
McNary
Charles L. McNary
Enid
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Oregon
Ferguson Rizley
Woodward
Dutch Leaders Interned in Germany Amid Reprisals
Reports from Amsterdam by Berlin indicate that over 1 prominent Dutch figures were arrested and interned in Germany as reprisal for the internment of Germans in Dutch territories. Included were parliamentary leaders of major parties and the former government press chief.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Germany
Greater returns for amount in vested-Ada News Classified Ads
A classified notice notes higher yields for investments in the vested Ada fund. The item cites improved rates and benefits for participants, urging readers to review terms and consider reallocating funds to maximize gains.
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Ada News
Monroney credited with securing bomber base for Oklahoma City
Officials credit U S Rep Mike Monroney Oklahoma City with landing the bomber air base and a 1 000 000 barracks program. He lobbied for Oklahoma over Arizona for four months and helped recruit over 2 000 air corps enlistees, with the base expected to stay even if Europe peace arrives.
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Monroney
Work Projects Administration
U. S
Mike Monroney
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Air Corps
Arizona
War Department
Europe
Sunray Oil Co to Host Company Dinner in Ada
Sunray Oil Company of Tulsa will host an employee party Tuesday October 8 at the Aldridge hotel in Ada starting at 7 30 p m. Attendees include workers from refining production marketing and pipeline divisions in the Allen district and visiting Tulsa executives President C H Wright Elmo Thompson Harry Mack F L Martin. About 275 people and their wives are expected. Awards will be given to all five and ten year employees. Sunray notes it has operated in the territory for a little over a decade and runs a modern small refinery.
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Sunray Oil Company of
Tulsa
Aldridge Hotel
Ada
Allen District
Pres. C. H. Wright
Elmo Thompson
Harry Mack
October Comes In To Oklahoma Mildly
October enters Oklahoma with a mild preview as temperatures ranged from a 55 to 90 degree maximum. Rainfall totaled three traces since the month began, with a gauge reading of .01 inch overall. Weather observer W. E. Pitt notes the week’s highs and lows from October 1 to 5.
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W. E. Pitt
Francis News Highlights School Activities and Local Notices
The Francis schools report Halloween preparations by grades four to six and room decorations. Seventh and eighth graders study home economics. 4-H club formed October 4 1940 with officers listed. Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Lanier Young noted. Local trips, church events, and CCC and army mentions follow. Melod y Maids arrival, adult study class changes, FHO rally plans, and home economics projects described.
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Hallowe’en
Miss Tuttle
Hailey
Haws
Thelma West
Kenneth Jones
Louise West
Lucille McComas
Louise Chandler
Pauline Sales
Mr. Jackson
Youngs
Lanier Young
Calvin
Ray Thurman
CCC
Colorado
Jack McComas
Aubrey Large
California
Melody Maids
Kada
F. H. O. Club
Healdton
Kathleen Henry
Ardmore
Fifteen year old boy injured by ax cut in Oklahoma
Albert Colvert, fifteen, walked half a mile and drove eight more to a local doctor for treatment after injuring his leg while cutting persimmon bushes near Prairie View. The ax wound bled severely with the bone denting the shoe, prompting medical care Wednesday.
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Tishomingo
Albert Colvert
Colvert
Jeff Hughes
Prairie View
County farm leaders push fight against sleeping sickness in horses
County farm leaders report new outbreaks of sleeping sickness in horses at Coleman Connerville Bullard Chapel and Mannsville. Deaths continue in the second epidemic as County Farm Agent Eddie Whitehead warns no let-up while vaccinations are absent.
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Tishomingo
Coleman
Connerville
Bullard Chapel
Mannsville
Eddie Whitehead
Grigsby Promotes Clarita All Night Singing Event
John G. Grigsby Jr of Clarita visited Coalgate to print circulars announcing an all night singing convention set for Saturday night October 12 in Clarita. Event aims to feature top gospel singers with duets quartets and group singing.
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Coalgate
John G. Grigsby, Jr
Clarita
Lehigh hosts county schoolmasters with Garrett as host
October meeting at Lehigh brought together Coal County schoolmasters. Superintendent Harold Garrett welcomed attendees and shared humorous stories. Rev Argus Hamilton of the Coalgate Methodist church gave the key address urging teachers to show greater enthusiasm.
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Aegret
Oal County
Lehigh
Harold Garrett
Garrett
Argus Hamilton
Coalgate
Antlers prepares for district conference this weekend
Antlers officials announce final arrangements for the third district conference to be held Saturday and Sunday October 12 and 13 in Antlers. Mrs Norris Owen, president of the Antlers Business and Professional Women's club, provided the update.
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Antlers
Antlers Business and Professional Women’s Club
Norris Owen
Scouts honor two boys with camp awards at Camp-O-Bee
Charles Maddux earned a Bronze Palm and Gold Palm while Walter Florence Jr. received the Eagle Scout badge at Camp-O-Bee on Saturday night.
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Charles Maddux
Walter Florence, Jr
Camp-O-Bee
Charles
Walter
Green Lawn In Winter Tips From Hailey
Hailey promotes Italian rye grass as a winter green for brown lawns. Sow in October or November, about one pound per 200 square feet, water in if needed, and mow when late autumn warmups allow. The grass dies in early spring but reseeds itself for years with careful timing and light maintenance.
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C. H. Hailey
Pontotoc County
Hailey
Bermuda
Farm Officials Report Lawton Meeting Outcomes
A group of 60 agricultural leaders and Department of Agriculture officials met at the Lawton Experiment Station in mid August. They cited practices for farmers including planting native grass seed on cultivated land, early grain sorghum plantings to resist chinch bug, a crop rotation of kafir cowpeas cotton and oats, fall plowing with four yearly manures, and cotton planting around May 1 with 44 inch rows and 18 inch drill spacing yielding highest yields.
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Department of Agriculture
Lawton Experiment Station
Hatch to speak for Democrats in Oklahoma eighth district
Oklahoma City reports Sen. Carl A. Hatch will give three addresses for the Democratic ticket in the eighth district as part of a party push against Rep. Ross Rizley and his opponent Phil Ferguson. Hatch will speak in Ponca City Alva and Guymon with dates to be announced.
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Oklahoma City
Carl A. Hatch
Eighth
Sam Battles
Hatch
New Mexico
Ponca City
Alva
Guymon
Ross Rizley
Congress
Letters From Fort Sill Camp Describe Homesickness and Haircuts
Pvt Junior Boyles reports at Fort Sill that boys face homesickness and love sickness while awaiting mail. Some have shaved heads or adopted short military cuts, with Privates Lebow, Rose, Rogers and Scott noted for sleep, longing, cleanliness, and K P duties. Cotton Smyth and Bill Scott cited for appearance and E P service.
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Junior Boyles
Fort Sill
Lebow
Rose
K. P
Herring
Alfred Crow
B. J. Rogers
Leo Scott
Cotton Smyth
Bill Scott
E. P
Okmulgee Editor Heads State A. P.
Okmulgee editor Joe N. Croom was elected president of the Oklahoma Associated Press at the fall meeting in Norman. He succeeds A. J. Strauss of Enid with Budge Welty of Bartlesville named vice president. Governor Phillips spoke on fiscal policy and economy, warning against mortgaging the state’s future.
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Phillips
Oklahoma Parents and Teachers Convention Opens in City
Mrs. William Kletzer of Portland national president and Dr Gregory Cleveland Myers child psychologist will address the Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers this week. The four day convention opens Wednesday with theme The pursuit of happiness. Mrs R V Roabaugh of Tulsa is general chairman.
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Oklahoma City
William Kletzer
Portland
Ore
Gregory Cleveland Myers
Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers
R. V. Roabaugh
Tulsa
Farm Security Admin Lets Health Boost Farm Family Success
The Farm Security Administration reports that good health supports低income farm families. It funds wells cisterns door and window screens and home repairs while tenants and owners commit to growing food improving soil and food supplies. Nearly 3500 Texas Oklahoma farms have benefited from sanitation and access improvements.
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Farm Security Administration
Texas
Oklahoma
Small Texas Towns Have Poorest Diets
Ruth Huey, director of home economics for Texas education, told nutrition experts in Austin that small towns have the poorest diets in Texas, worse than rural or urban areas. She spoke to a group advancing the national defense council food program.
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Austin
Texas
Ruth Huey
State Department of Education
Texas Movement For the National Defense Council
Prolific lioness at Lincoln Park Zoo bears cubs
Oklahoma City report notes queen lioness at Lincoln Park Zoo delivered two cubs today, boosting her prolific tally to thirty ninth and fortieth. Four years earlier she produced quintuplets, a rare event.
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Oklahoma City
Lincoln Park Zoo
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Joan Brant
Society
Mitzi
Father
Miss Brant
Alice Simpson
NEA Service. Inc
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WPA
Ernest M. Hill
Sunray Oil Co
Francis News
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Big Three Home Demonstration Club
Elmer Lowrey
Tommie Cook
Mildred Schaub
Woodward County Home Demonstration
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