Ada gets dial phones with new building and robot switch
The Ada telephone system advances as J J Bollinger Construction wins the contract to build a new dial telephone building in the 100 block of West Fourteenth Street with completion aimed for January 1957. All 7,200 phones will switch to dial, requiring pole and wire rearrangement and staff retraining. rural users will keep local calls.
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Dial Telephone
J. J. Bollinger Construction Company
Oklahoma City
The
Telephone Company
West Fourteenth Street
Bert Roberts
Ada Exchange
Outstanding County 4-Hers Set To Visit American Royal
Pontotoc County 4 H workers head to Kansas City for the American Royal Exposition in an expense paid educational trip. The group includes Frankye Sullivan Fitzhugh Darrel Bryant and two county agent staff members. Sponsored by the Ada Chamber of Commerce and Pontotoc County Home Demonstration Council, selections are based on full 4 H records.
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Kansas City
Darrel Bryant
Byng
James Barnes
Vaness
Bob Austell
Frankye Sullivan
Fitzhugh
Ada Chamber of Commerce
Pontotoc County
Ada
Pecan Growers See Strong Year Across the County
County pecan crops look better than in years with both native and propagated trees yielding more nuts. Nut size is up and moisture helped, says County Agent C H Hailey. Oscar Parker notes uneven loads. some trees heavy, others light, but overall quality rising.
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Pontotoc County
John Skinner
Fittstown
C. H. Hailey
Hailey
Oscar Parker
Allen
Parker
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Ada
R. G. Spears
the Weekly
Teachers Eat Have Fun At Big Banquet
More than 500 Pontotoc County teachers and spouses attended the Teachers Appreciation Banquet at East Central State College’s Student Union. The event honored long service and dedication with humorous awards, toastmaster Harvey J. Lambert, and speaker Louie E. Throgmorton, while sponsors from Ada civic clubs funded each dinner.
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East Central State College
Pontotoc County
Craney Welborn
E W. James
East Central
Ada
Dr. James
Harvey J. Lambert
Louie E. Throgmorton
Texas Insurance Company
Throgmorton
Casper Duffer
Hugh Norris
Norris
Inez Hutchins
Elvan George
Bertha Teague
Lawrence Reynolds
J. E. Teague
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East Central Student Union
Fitzhugh 4-H Winners Take Asa Hutchinson Awards
James E. Lucas 11 and Frankye Sullivan 16 of Fitzhugh win the Asa Hutchinson awards for top 4-H boy and girl at the county fair. Lucas posts 2 grand champions 3 champions 11 firsts 5 seconds 3 thirds 2 fifths with multiple breed and project wins. Sullivan earns 6 firsts in girls competition.
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James Lucas
Frankye Sullivan
Fitzhugh
Asa Hutchinson
James E. Lucas
Fitzhugh Club
Darrell Bryant
David Calvert
Jerald Barton
Mike Lucas
John Boyce Clifford
James EF. Lucas
Hutchinson
Oakman Homecoming Set for Sunday October 9
Oakman community plans an annual homecoming on Sunday October 9 with an all day service and dinner on the ground. Residents are invited to attend and bring a basket lunch.
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Oakman
Davis Wins National NFA Public Speaking Championship
William Ware Davis, a Napier High School senior from Ada, won first place in the New Farmers of America public speaking contest at the national NFA convention in Atlanta from October 3 to 6. His speech title was What the NFA Means to be.
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NFA
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