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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1940
Page
3
A humorous column riffs on campaigns and speakers with a mock editor note. It recalls Willkie and Roosevelt signs, lampoons rural political stops, and offers tips on listening and baiting speechmakers. The piece ends by noting forthcoming coverage in the paper.
Posters in the Ada federal building advertise hundreds of defense industry jobs. Mechanics machinists engineers shipbuilders tool fitters and many titles are listed for workers in factories making equipment for air sea and land. The old Uncle Sam wants YOU motto is revived in strong demand for workers.
Alexandria reports the Suez Canal remains open to international shipping including Germany and Italy, with Baron Louis De Benoist stating independence from Vichy and continued facilities for ships of any flag. British losses to Italian seapower cited, including submarines and destroyers sunk, underscoring Allied control of the 1045 mile waterway.
Fourth district conference of B P W clubs drew good representation from across the district Sunday. State officers and chairmen present included Miss Clellax Brady Nowata first state vice president Mrs Lela Mae Gilkison district director at large Mrs Verna De Armand Tulsa past state president Mrs Bell Riedhel Tulsa national finance board Miss Florence Cartwright Shawnee regional chairman Marie Hillis Holdenville state membership chairman Mrs Margaret Jennings Durant representative
The Oklahoma state school land commission voted to suspend three soil conservation camps in Haskell, Wagoner, and Choctaw counties to await a defined policy from the next legislative session. The panel also ordered sale of improved land in Haskell County to test profitability, with Governor Phillips noting curtailment until policy is set.
A Sunday meeting of special attorneys named by the governor will precede a federal hearing on the government's motion to dismiss Gov. Phillips' suit against the Red River dam. Randell S. Cobb said he would meet at Durant with Willard Martin of Tulsa and J. B. Dudley of Oklahoma City.
M F Bayless, a local druggist, found cigar clerks read lids upside down causing cockeyed eyes. He suggested reversing lid orientation to read right side up and prompted responses from two companies plus complimentary boxes. Designers consider the idea as readers hope for clearer labels.
New York reports Mike Jacobs aims to settle the heavyweight picture by January with a clear target for Joe Louis. He schedules Billy Conn vs Lee Savold at Madison Square Garden on November 29 and plans 15 round bouts to pit Louis against rivals including Lou Nova Red Burman and Buddy.
A recent survey named a truck driver as the champion safe driver of the country after he logged 1,222,000 miles without an accident. The report highlights the feat and the driver’s long, incident free career.
Dispatch by Phillip Houston laments war and spiritual desolation. The narrator mourns God’s absence and asks why hope cannot return, pondering faith dying in a restless midnight and the illusion of peace.
Oklahoma City October 22 state draft director Don Welch released appointments of examining physicians and appeal agents for conscription in Oklahoma counties. The list names boards and agents representing the federal government in disputed cases including Pontotoc, Atoka, Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston, McCurtain, Murray, Pottawatomie, Pushmataha and Seminole counties with designated physicians and boards in Ada, Roff, Holdenville, Pauls Valley, Purcell, Shawnee, Tecumseh, and other towns.
Washington story about a draft lottery mishap where a young government employee’s oversized shoes allegedly led to a capsule being dropped from the draft jar. An official cab ride and a discreet handling of the capsule followed, with historians noting private remarks on the incident.
Ada mother learns her seven year old son was knocked down on his bicycle by a driver who fled. The motorist offered 25 cents to avoid reporting the accident as the boy rode to his piano lesson, while the father underscores a code of honesty and questions the driver’s conduct.
Sasakwa farmer J. W. Cox begins an experiment with 11 Alaskan minks in Seminole county. He expects 64 kits from ten females, with early sales of breeding stock and pelts later at $20 to $30. The plan marks Oklahoma as a new mink-raising state.
Hospital attendants reported Tuesday morning that county filling station operator Buster Manley was improving after a last week rail crossing mishap. He had both legs amputated in an effort to save his life.
Of the 74 manufacturers of motor vehicles in the country 22 produce passenger cars and 62 produce commercial cars trucks and road tractors.
Oklahoma officials announce the 1940 deer hunting season begins November 9 in seven southeastern counties including Atoka Haskell Latimer LeFlore Mc Curtain Pittsburg and Pushmataha. Regulations require bright red clothing hunting hours 7 a m to 5 30 p m first foray instructions from a game ranger license fees 7 50 for residents 15 for non residents and ban hunting does and dog use while enforcing tag placement and weapon restrictions.
The 1940 campaign centers on Oklahoma’s eighth district as Republicans and Democrats pour speakers into 12 counties from Enid to Woodward to unseat U. S. Rep. Phil Ferguson. Wendell Willkie and Ross Rizley face off against Ferguson with aid from Wallace, Sprague, McNary, and others in a final drive before the November 5 vote.
Leonard Lee Ennis a 16 year old farm youth six miles west of Coalgate died in Ada hospital at 1 45 am Tuesday after a shotgun discharged while duck hunting Sunday. The charge struck his calf and doctors amputated his leg. Funeral services were set for 3 30 pm at Slater's Funeral Home. Another Ada bookkeeper Tom Groves was wounded Sunday on a squirrel hunting trip near Fitzhugh but his condition was not serious.
The Ada League of Women Voters will hold a three day campaign school October 23 24 and 25 at 10 a m in the parlor of the First Presbyterian church. Topics cover the representative function party role and foreign policy with Mrs Brooks Gall leading the first discussion. League members and prospective members are urged to attend.
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