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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1970
Page
5
This piece celebrates crisp weather, outdoor gatherings, and autumn firelight as a season for joy and togetherness across rural and city life. It urges love of the earth, recalls youthful adventure, and contrasts constructive civic discourse with petty quarrels over prices. It also notes a recent debate over customer service and suggests choosing meaningful protest.
Eighth graders join a week long program at Goddard with field trips to a sewer lagoon road side trading post waterfront and fossil area. Teachers Mársy Massey and Benett lead sessions focusing on pollution problems esthetics and land use changing ecologies and conservation. Participants pay 25 for the week with meals and housing provided at the camp and plans for continuing weekly teacher meetings through June.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Clarence Palmby testified before the Senate Finance Committee that U S farm exports for the year ending June 30 would top 7 billion dollars, a new record, aided by strong market development and liberal trade policies. He warned against protectionist actions that could curb exports and hurt American farmers.
Cottonwood jag wood can be profitable but small landowners hold 70 percent of potential forest land in the South. The challenge is convincing owners to invest years before returns. Experts advocate genetic improvement and better marketing as keys to turning idle land into timber production amid rising land taxes and growing demand for timber products.
Two young women were killed in a Wednesday night two car crash at an Edmond intersection. Police withheld identities pending relatives notification. The car they were in was nearly split in half by the collision.
Early text notes spoons crafted from slate wood ivory and flint in ancient Egypt as far back as 400 B C The Bible links spoon making to Moses and the Tabernacle with gold spoons mentioned in its commands
Local society notes list many Ada and Oklahoma City residents visiting relatives and friends across the county. Frequent gatherings include church attendance, weekend trips to Lake Texoma for fishing and camping, and numerous home visits among Crow, Wells, Roberts, Lancaste r, Keeling, Cochran, Rhynes, and dozens of families.
Angela Held Without Bail arrested by police on state charges. U S attorney sources say arraignment kept her in custody for California warrants for murder and kidnapping. Davis, a former UCLA philosophy professor, was sought two months and on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.伴
AP Television writer Cynthia Lowry reports NBC finished remodeling The Virginian into The Men from Lailah with Leeayers as a new Islars. The season features a paroled convict saved from lynching and hired by Stewart Granger, while Granger escorts a tycoon’s daughter on a Cheyenne train as four men plan ransom. The plot remains long and talky with little action.
John Fly son of Claude Fly of Fort Collins abducted by Buerlas in Uruguay Aug 18 may go to Uruguay to offer to exchange himself for his father. He is pursuing possible meetings with President Nixon Secretary Rogers and UN representatives with Gov. Love promising help to arrange talks.
Dozens of underground mine fires burn unseen across the Appalachian region, some for decades, threatening towns near Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. The fires reach scorching temperatures, cause ground collapse, force evacuations, and cost millions to control. Federal and state funds share costs under the 1965 Appalachian Act, with progress hampered by inaccessible fire areas.
An AP report states no police wrongdoing was found in the jail death of Sidney Wade, 15, who was found hanging from his isolation cell door after arrest for sniffing toxic compounds. Police Chief Wayne Lawson says the death could not have been prevented. Separate figures note Kingston Jamaica port cargo up 17 percent over ten years and broader port gains.
London reports British engineers are pursuing futuristic transit ideas to ease traffic. Concepts include a robot taxi called Cabtrack guiding a four passenger car on elevated routes, a jetless air cushion craft, and a moving walkway with fast and slow lanes. The plans promise quieter, safer travel with less pollution, but faces years of testing and costly infrastructure.
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