Sulphur High damaged by record rainfall and floods
A seven foot flood swamped Sulphur High School auditorium and grounds. Buses and equipment were ruined as Rock Creek rose after Platt National Park received 12.63 inches of rain. Parks, roads, bridges and campgrounds suffered extensive damage with no deaths reported.
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W. L. Kenickmeyer
Ogan
Sulphur High School
Rock Creek
Calvin Agee
Platt National Park
Junube-Senior High
Platts Park
U. S. 177
Travertine Nature Center
Travertine Creek
Arbuckle Recreation Arez Tg
Sohne
Donald W. Pledger
Pledger
Park Service Regional
Kerr-McGee consolidates farms chemical units into new subsidiary
Kerr-McGee Corp. consolidates chemical, fertilizer and non-fuel minerals operations into Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. D. A. McGee announces the move with James J. Kelly named president and CEO. The new entity absorbs APC and Wilson & Toomer Fertilizer and includes vanadium, potash, heavy minerals and Florida phosphate properties with five divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City — Chemical, Ferttver
Kerr McGee Corporation
Consolidated
Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp
D. A. McGee
James J. Kelly
American Potash & Chemical Corporation
APC
C. Kerr
Aqricultural
Whittie's Wins National Merchandising Merit Award
Whittie's Furniture in Ada received the National Merchandising Merit Award from Berkline Corp of Morristown Indiana. Jim Whittle accepted the plaque from Carl Pearl the Berkline regional salesman. The award honors outstanding Oklahoma dealers as Berkline recognizes dealers annually. Whittle's has served Ada for over four decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittie
Whittle's
Ada
Rogers' Home Becomes State Historical Site
The Indian Territory home where Will Rogers was born will be dedicated as a state historic point at a new site near Oologah Oklahoma. The two story 1870 structure was moved after the Oologah Reservoir began filling. The Blacks of Tulsa rebuilt it as it stood in Rogers childhood with land deeded by the Rogers family.
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Oologah
Okla
Indian Territory
Will Rogers
Army Engineers
Oulogah
Willi Rogers
Claremore
Robert Black
Tulsa
Oklahoma Industrial Development and Park Department
Rogers
Morrell
Tahlequah
Will Rogers Jr
Clem Rogers
Coffeyville
Kan
Ft. Gibson
John Boot
Humility in English teaching urged by speaker at Ada event
James Elliott, East Central State College English instructor, urged humility in teaching humanities to about 70 attendees at an Ada High School language arts workshop. He criticized excessive focus on rules and demanded greater sensitivity in literature instruction, calling teachers professor tyrants rather than professors.
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East Central State College
James Elliott
Ada High School
Elliott
OBA
East Central District
Ada
Oklahoma Education Association
Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Eoglish
State Department of Education
Theda Calvert
Ada High i
Eliott
Ajax
Rex
Tyrannos
Eliliott
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Platt Park
Wild Water Swamps
Are
Agee
Roral
Vocational Agricultural Shop
Fice
Santa Fe
Lake of the Arbuckies
Loree
U.S. 177
Buckhorn
Arbuckle Lake
Goy Sandy
Sulphur
Suphur
Lons
Sulphur High
Kerr-McGee Farms Chemical
Saudi Arabia
Wanda Jones
First National Bank and Trust Company
F.d.ilc
National Bank Fada
Oklahoma
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