Ada 4-H Corn Show Friday brings 30 ears per boy
Pontotoc County Agent C H Hailey announces the Annual 4-H Club Corn Show in Ada on Monday at 7 30 p m. 4 H members should bring 30 ears of selected corn for exhibition and judging by Wesley Chatfin with judging criteria including ear shape kernel color and true type. Local livestock buyers and breeders attend regional sales in Oklahoma with Pontototce county buyers purchasing top registered cattle and hog stock as winter pastures are noted.
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C. H. Hailey
Pontotoc County
Ada
Ada Kiwanis Club
Wesley Chatfin
Extension Service Agronomist
Stillwater
Winter Pasture and Dairy Heifer Breeding Guidelines
The article discusses using winter pastures to supplement feed shortages, highlighting protein-rich crops like winter small grains rye grass and clover for 120 to 150 grazing days. It notes rye’s wide adaptation, advises considering soil type and adaptation before planting, and mentions seeding small amounts of lawn clover in permanent pastures. It also covers dairy heifer breeding ages, recommending Jerseys bred at 16 months or older, Holsteins 18 to 20 months, and adhering to sponsor contracts for approved sires, with 4-H club guidance on breeding timing.
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Pontotec
United States to Supply World with Glass for War-Damaged Repair
A United States Tariff Commission summary notes American window glass production remains at peak capacity and must rise further to meet global demand brought on by war. Exports could exceed 50 million square feet annually as Europe and Asia rebuild, with cars and mirrors driving continued consumption. Walters reports city manager Harry W. Gardiner will resign November 1.
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New
United States
United States Tariff Commission
Walters
Harry W. Gardiner
Farm-Market Road Work Not Due Until July of Next Year
Oklahoma City Oct 10 7H E Bailey state highway engineer said farm to market road construction will not begin until July next year as tax money earmarked by the last legislature will not accumulate enough before then. He noted the fund began accumulating last July from an extra one cent a gallon gasoline tax and is expected to total 5 348 600 dollars by Dec 31 1946 sufficient for three farm-to-market roads per county. Next July funds should start two thirds of construction with the remainder in 1947 while the Oklahoma farm to markets road association led by Wilson Wallace pushes to start work immediately from state general revenue.
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Oklahoma City
E. Bailey
Bailey
Highway Department
Oklahoma Farm To Markets Road Association
Wilson Wallace
Carter County
Film strike spreading expands mass picketing in Hollywood
Hollywood October 22 mass picketing expanded to three studios as producers chief Eric Johnston admitted failure to achieve aims. AFL conf union leader Herbert Sorrell said 800 pickets were assigned to data mounting and 710 to RKO with 1,600 at Warner Brothers, where action would continue. Kerr road commission to tour Panhandle Oklahoma. Bathing season ends in most sections unless dad uses a leaky pipe in the basement.
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Tounston
Hollywood
Eric Johnston
Herbert K. Sorrell
AFL Conference of
Studio Unions
Warner Brothers
Se Kerr
Road Commission
Panhandle
Woodward
Okla
Robert S. Kerr
State Highway Commission
Oklahoma Panhandle
Camp Fire District IV Meets at Biltmore Oklahoma City
Ada delegates led by Joyce Miller and Lowrey Harrel join council presidents and guardians in a Camp Fire executive committee meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in Oklahoma City. Miss Alice Collins outlines district plans, Dallas spring meeting, new field worker, and staff workshop topics.
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Camp Fire
Couneil
Biltmore
Oklahoma City
Ada
Joyce Miller
Lowrey Harrel
Gene Gulick
Ix. Gulick
Lease Banfield
E. M. Gulatt
C. # Miller
C. H. Cales
Jack Martin
Keefe
Alice Collins
Camp Fire Girls
Dallas
Harriet Dively
Claiie Barricks
Collins
Bates Angus Farm Shows Well Intra Show And Sale
Buyers from 11 states purchased purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle at the Southwest Regional Show and Sale in Tulsa last week. Charles T. Bates & Sons of Ada area sold 13 of nearly 100 animals at strong prices, a zm vine cow brought 1050 dollars, and other prices ranged from 285 to 186 dollars. A Will Knight cow from Shreveport sold to Wisconsin for 2000 dollars, another from Summittee Missouri bought by Angus Valley Farms of Tulsa, and the grand champion bull went to Ralph L. Smith Farms of Chillicothe Missouri for 2100 dollars.
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Ardmore
C. Co. Buxton
Horse Shoe Ranch
Lester Blair
Blair
E. P. Larsh
Roff
G. W. Johnston
Tulsa
Charles T. Bates & Sons
Ada
Bates
Will Knight
Shreveport
Wisconsin
Summittee
Angus Valley Farms
Ralph L. Smith Farms
Chillicothe
Pontotoc County Cotton Crop Expected Smaller This Year
Report says Pontotoc County will harvest about one third less cotton due to heavy rainfall and poor weather. Acreage matches 1944, but production is down and picking is incomplete with much cotton still in fields. Some bales have been picked in nearby counties, but none in Pontotoc yet.
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Pontotoc County
Pontotoc
College Men Form Quartet On Ada Radio Show Wednesdays
East Central State College hosts the Fentem Hall Quartet on KADA radio in Ada Oklahoma. The group performs weekly at 7 30 p m for 15 minutes with Soprano Eddie Moore and bass Bob Pinezaddleby among the members. Listeners may mail song requests to the quartet at Fentem Hall East Central State College Ada Oklahoma.
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East Central
Fentem Hall
Ada
Bob Pinezaddleby
Dan Sahmount
Rudy Har- Taye
Eddie Moore
Aritone
Severa
East
East Central State College
Okla
A. L “Dad
Fentem
Pecan Grove Home Demonstration Club Leads Fair Return
Unusual interest in Home Demonstration work marks renewed community activity as Pecan Grove wins top booth at the county fair. Officers elected for 1948 include President Mrs. Nelly Dew and Vice President Mrs. H. V. Burrough. A planned Hallowe'en party and biweekly meetings aim to boost club participation across Union Valley Owl Creek and Upper Corner communities.
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Iar
Fecan Grove
Remerka
Pecan Grove
Oklahoma
Petan Grove
Pecan Grove Home Demonstration Club
Nelly Dew
H. V. Burrough
Eva Mae Richards
Mae Martin
Cnre
Hallowe'en
Home Demonstration
John Boren
Union Valley
Union Valley Club
School Ouse
Mia
Addie Maloy
Maloy
C. H. Boyd
Eliene Boyd
A. W. Oliver
Fittstown
J. L. Delaplain
Harden City
W. P. Starks
Ed Stephen
W. W. Fuller
Ruth Stout
Ellera Boyd
Owl Creek
Owl Creek Home Demonstration Club
A. E. Parker
Alma Bennett
Eric Duvall
Grandagi
Scott
Mra
D. M. Flanners
Eva Rose
Uast
Gaar Corner
Edyth Jackson
Fred Barker
T. E. Jones
Jesse Wall
Helen Turner
Teporter
Charter members maintain longtime club work since 1914
The text notes charter members who have continued club work through the years since about 1914. Three new members were accepted from the Center community: Mrs. Jesse Wall, Mrs. Horton, and Mrs. Blair.
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Center
Jesse Wall
Horton
Blair
Red Cross Seeks Help for Soldiers Christmas at Fort Sill
Southwestern Red Cross council at Fort Sill seeks 615 hospital patients’ holiday cheer. Volunteers and organizations are urged to supply decorations gifts stockings and baked goods. Donations of wrap paper cord fruit cake cookies apples pecans and oranges are requested with early notice to Mrs. J Hugh Biles Pontotoc County committee chair.
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Southwestern Council
Sgt John Baxter Returns Home After Overseas Service
Sgt John Baxter, long stationed in the Pacific with the 13th Army Air Forces, is home after 35 months abroad. An aircraft electrician, he earned five battle stars and leaves with 128 points. Son of Mr and Mrs S M Baxter of Cromwell. He has a brother serving in the Pacific and is a father of one child.
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John Baxter
Pacific
13Th Army Air Forces
Baxter
S. M. Baxter
Cromwell
Francis
LaVern G. Baxter
Sgt. Baxter
Army release for Lt Chester L. Taylor at Sheppard Field
Lt Chester L. Taylor of Ada has been honorably discharged from the RAF at Sheppard Field Texas after three years service He attended pilots training and aviation machinist schools worked in an oil field before entering service He is married and the father of one child Patricia Ann aged five.
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Chester L. Taylor
Ada
RAF
Sheppard Field
Tex
Taylor
Patricia Ann
Horn to Return Home for Overseas Army Discharge
Cpl. Horn son of Walter Horn of Route J Allen will soon be discharged from the army under the Adjusted Service Rating Plan with 87 points. He serves as a medical technician at the 8th Station Hospital, Camp Huckstep near Cairo, Egypt, after 38 months overseas visiting Cairo, Alexandria, and Palestine. His return depends on transportation from the Middle East.
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T/5 Horn
Walter Horn
Middle East
Cairo
Alexandria
Palestine
Chinese Cadets Refuse to Surrender as Reds Invade
In Peiping region witnesses report 200 men seized Chin Ho military academy near the city before Oct 8 and ordered cadets to join the communist eighth route army after disarming. A general melee ensued, with multiple barracks set alight and fire opened. Ten cadets burned to death, 20 killed, 30 to 40 wounded. Invaders withdrew with unknown casualties.
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Peiping
Che
Chin Ho Military Academy
Eighth Route Army
FFA Outlook Highlights Pontotoc County Activities
In the October issue of Future Farmers Outlook, Pontotoc County receives front page coverage for its dairy Improvement Program within the 4-H FFA. The piece notes Bates Field Day at Bates & Sons Angus farm near Ada, plus Turner Field Day stories and pictures. Tahlequah FFA member Roy Powell features with a steer from Likins Flying L Ranch near Davia. Summers activities of Antlers Konawa and Vanessa chapters are briefly listed.
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Pontotoc County
Future Farmers’ Outlook
FFA
Bates
Charles T. Bates & Sons
Angus
Ada
Turner Field Day
Roy Powell
Tahlequah
Likins
Davia
Antlers
Konawa
Vaness
Renewal of excise tax cuts eyed by Senator Georgy
Washington Oct 20 Senator Georgy predicts the drive to cut heavy wartime excise taxes will be renewed in the senate next week despite the finance committee maintaining them. He says several senators will seek to restore prewar rates by July 1, as House action originally provided, while the government still needs the revenue. Frances Farmer to leave hospital and not resume acting. Seattle Oct 22 Frances Farmer, once a rising film star, will leave Western State hospital today and may take a typing job, avoiding a return to Seattle or acting for now as doctors advised.
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Washington
Georgy
D-Ga
Senate
Finance Committee
George
House
Frances Farmer
Seattle
Western State Hospital
Steilacroom
Wash
Lillian V. Farmer
Rainfall Averages For Pontotoc County Shifts In 1945 Record Year
Pontotoc County soil moisture records show 1945 as an extraordinary rainfall year with nine months counted yet yielding 54.97 inches. The 20 year average from 1835 to 1944 stands at 38.52 inches, while long held estimates of 32 to 36 inches appear low. Monthly patterns reveal droughts in 1936 and 1939, with 1943 notably dry in May, and two months with no rainfall in Ada Greenhouse gauge during 1943.
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Pontotoc County
Weather Observer
Ladbes
Catia
Ada
Pitt
News of our new women in uniform highlights service details
Seaplane tender USS Hamlin hosts Wright and other service members as World War II winds down. Lt. James B. Richmond earns an honorable discharge after 13 months overseas, with 36 combat missions. Other Oklahoma veterans like Woodred Mears, Everett Langston, Patrick Hall, and Ronald Blevins are cited with medals, transfers, and postings. Navy Day observances loom as sailors and soldiers return home, while U.S. senators press for a unified armed forces department and faster demobilization.
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Army Air Forces
James B. Richmond
North Constant
Army
San Antonio
Texas
L. G. Holbird
Everett D. Langston
Rt. 1
Ada
IAAF
Patrick Hall
Coalgate
Rutland
First Cavalry
Tokyo Bay
Superintendent At St Louis Offers Bait To Hire Teachers
St Louis Oklahoma schools superintendent T L Womack seeks two teachers offering living quarters and salaries above the state minimum. He wants a math and science teacher and another to handle music and a small beginners band. Womack is at St Louis hoping housing and pay attract candidates soon.
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T. L. Womack
St Louis
Oklahoma
Womack
Seaman Houchen Sees Wonders of Pacific Islands
Seaman 2/c Charles D. Houchen of the Third Fleet in the South Pacific has seen many wonders and taken part in action but longs to return to the States. He last reported to Japan, with uncertain duration, after Latta High School enrollment and Navy enlistment on Sept 27. He is the son of Mr and Mrs J H Houchen Route 1 Ada. He trained at Farragut Idaho and served at three bases before his overseas tour. He recently saw cousin Ens E J McClendon in the South Pacific.
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Charles D. Houchen
Third Fleet
South Pacific
Pacific Islands
Japan
Seaman Houchen
Latta High School
Navy
J. H. Houchen
Route 1
Ada
Farragut
Idaho
Ens. E. J. McClendon
Lt Riddle Placed On Inactive List
Lt Hansel K Riddle of Stone Wall has been placed on the Navy inactive list at the New Orleans separation center Louisiana. He entered service January 12 1943 and served as a flight instructor. A graduate of Oklahoma University he was an oil operator before joining the navy. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W R Riddle of Stone Wall.
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Hansel K. Riddle
Stonewall
Navy
Rcans, la
Oklahoma University
Riddle
W. R. Riddle
Stonewal
Ritchhart Serves In Manila In Army Role
John Ritchhart Jr of 15 North Francis serves as administrative non commissioned officer in personnel with the Ordnance Section in Manila. Overseas since May 1943, his Asiatic Pacific ribbon bears two stars for Kavieng and Luzon campaigns.
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John Ritchhart
San Jet
North Francis
Ordnance
Manila
Army
East Central State College
War Department
Tulsa
Ritchhart
Luzon
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NEA
Ada News
D. C
Colton
Fentem Hall Quartet
Tipton
Jess Grubb
Europe
Ted
Jessie An
Red Cross
Ft. Sill Hospital
Sgt
Chester Taylor
Buenos Aires
Edelmiro Farrell
Juan Pistarini
Argentina
Juan Peron
Col
Bartholome Descalzo
Amaro Avalos
Jose Astiqueta
Pedro ‘Marotta
H. O
Fritz) Crisler
University of Michigan
Bey Horn
News OF
MEW
See-Cifford
Wright
Hamlin
Armel
Pic. Woodred L. Mears
Camp Chaffee
T. L. Woodward
Rt. 4
States
Ronald C. Blevins
Rt 2
Allen
Jescort
U.S.S. Nehenta Bay
Ominato Naval Base
Honshu
Thomas A. Parnell
USS
Steete
Joe M. King
Robert Thompson
Ark
Thompson
180Th Infantry
W. R. Dean of Allen
U.S.S. Minneapolis
Jinsen
Korea
Caettatcecal
Armed Forces Department
Austin
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Gurney
Hevercomb
R-W.va
St. Louis
James U. Mayes
James U. Mayes, Jr
Pilsen
Czechoslovakia
Mayes
Fern Ma
Sanger
California
West Third
Lt. Riddle
UM Pressient
Detroit
Bethe Ou
General Motors
Trueman, Sre
Wilson
Truman
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