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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1971
Page
4
A reader recalls visiting Dallas and describes overwhelming urban noise from traffic, horns, sirens, construction, aircraft, and industrial hums. The piece contrasts city sound with imagined natural serenity and laments the lack of birdsong and rain. The column closes with a poem by Connie Nelson urging small acts of cheer.
The text presents a parable of a young man who believes the enemy is external but discovers the real foe is within. It cites Habakkuk 1 and 2 to argue that Israel’s downfall comes from internal corruption, not Chaldean power. The message: our greatest danger is internal weakness and forsaking God.
The piece surveys American life shaped by large supermarkets and department stores, noting benefits of vast stock and convenience while warning specialists may fade. It contrasts city shoppers with farmers lacking one stop stores for farm needs, and highlights rural resourcefulness and dispersed buying patterns.
The article discusses how print size and placement affect policy interpretation. Courts favor clearly inserted language over standard forms, urging readers to read policies fully before purchase and to scrutinize exceptions alongside benefits. A Tampa AP brief notes a theater group sourcing props from a Goodwill shop for a 1945 Georgia home production, including an icebox and double-breasted suits.
A long reader collection presents jokes about sports mishaps, family talks, pets, and childhood mischief. It includes punchlines about a rookie pitcher, a crying gate salesman child, a beagle puppy tale, a stepfather joke, house calls, a bike versus tennis shoes race, TV violence, a morning prayer poem, and reflections on knowledge and travel.
Friday is the deadline for Latta district voters to register for the Latta School bond election set for November 9. Non registered voters must register before 5 p.m. Friday to be eligible, with a $300,090 expansion planned for the consolidated school southwest of Ada. Pontotoc County Election Board clerk Sara McDaniel said extra hours today, Thursday, and Friday will allow non registered Latta voters to register. The office hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
Country and western singer Ray Corbin, 37, was shot through the chest and found at Violet Henderson’s Phoenix home. Henderson, 27, was hospitalized in serious condition with a thigh wound. A .25 caliber pistol was recovered. no arrests reported and investigators noted Henderson could not answer questions.
A campus photo in The Oklahoma Daily showing Gen George S Preston urinating in the Rhine in 1945 draws criticism from state lawmakers and some OU officials while others condemn offense in the image. The piece accompanied by a story defends the decision as fitting the siren of editorial control.
Friday night gatherings across the county include visits among Wilson family members and friends. Local religious leaders Rev. Bert Jones and Rev. Gerald Sutton joined revival events at Wanette Pentecostal Holiness Church, with attendees including Hansel Burk and Charles Craig.
Oakman reports 19 in Sunday school and 178 at the Oakman homecoming. Numerous Ada, Wynnewood, Stillwater, and Wynnewood residents visited family, attended dinners, or renewed ties with the Pendergrass and Carter households, with several trips to Wynnewood and a hospital visit noted.
Local column lists grocery items Kuntry Korner cans tuna cheese and spaghetti. It covers weekend visits among families in Latta Ada and Weleetka, with quilting and social visits to and from Elmer Lee, Zora Lee, Myrtle Smith, Angie Wright, and others. A recipe for pasta with tomato sauce and frankfurters is included.
A home style goulash recipe with frozen tomato sauce and noodles. It instructs to heat tomato sauce with onions and seasonings, simmer beef, cook noodles, toss with butter and seeds, and serve over hot noodles. Makes six servings with a variation using tomato sauce cans.
A home style Tama le Pie recipe uses ground beef tomato sauce and mush slices for a baked dish serving six. The notices recount Henry Houtchings of Tecumseh visiting sister Elmer Crawford and Gerald Crawford with Ada, plus Gerald visiting parents and Harry Ellis and Harry Joe Allen visiting Crawford family.
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