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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1957
Page
2
Dr. Sam A. McKeel honors Ada newspaper boys as essential messengers who weather sun and storm. The piece praises sales, credit, and money sense learned by boys, while noting broader lessons in honesty, character, and personal growth through journalism.
After a three year lapse the Christmas portion of Handel s Messiah will be presented in Ada in December. Robert Kaebnick East Central College voice instructor will direct combined choirs of the college Ada High School and community singers. Rehearsals begin Monday Nov 4 at 7 00 pm in the Music Hall at East Central and Kaebnick invites all interested to take part. This year s presentation adds an orchestral accompaniment.
Upstream projects include Cherokee Sandy in planning and Fea vine ready to start. A Tuesday meeting will be followed by a Wednesday tour of a completed Chigley Sandy structure in New Hope Community for FFA boys and leaders. Tour departs Stratford High at 1 pm. Dinner at 6 pm in the high school lunchroom, program in auditorium at 7. Iris Unit of Stratford Garden Club serves dinner. Tickets $1 at local soil conservation offices or First National Bank Stratford. No program charge after dinner. Caskey says the projects will benefit the community and hopes for a large turnout.
The text explains limits on crop planting and grazing for land in the Acreage Reserve. Exceptions exist for harvestable crops in 1958 or later and emergency grazing with Secre tary of Agriculture permission. When a commodity is in reserve but not yet harvested, harvestable land is restricted to the farm acreage allotment minus reserve land.
The weather shift prompts drivers to slow and take caution while pedestrians must stay vigilant. Patrol Chief Rollins notes pedestrian fatalities rise when rural speeds increase, with walkers four times more at risk on highways than city streets. His advice: stay alert, be visible, and make eye contact with drivers.
Mrs L K hosts Latta club session featuring 12 month displays with seasonal decor and a boiling witch cauldron using dry ice for steam. Officers elected after talks by district HD agent Miss Esther Martin, and reports on Farm Home Conference and National HD Council meeting by multiple members. Clubs represented include Allen Byng Colbert Fitzhugh Francis Goodwill Hart Homer Latta Lula McLish Midway Pickett Pleasant Hill Roff Union Valley Vanessa. A nut cracker ad prompts use of screw-type devices to keep walnut meats intact.
Mrs. Della Maddox and baby visited Mrs. Inez Penington Monday afternoon. Numerous locals, neighbors and relatives are listed visiting, meeting, or attending church, with Frank James and Jerry McKinney frequent participants. A Boggy Cow Hungry feature notes a cow bogged five days, then resumes grazing. Factoids include speed of swifts and Newport visits by presidents, and Meg O Day laying 362 eggs in a year.
Rancher Davis, with Walter Woolley, harvested a native seed crop in the meadow yielding 60 acres of grass worth noting. They used a two step method cutting the grass to dry, then combining, which reduced heat damage and kept seed quality high. Grasses included big and little blue stem Indian grass sidecats grama and switchgrass with a 24 percent fill count reported by Neal Stidham.
Local notes record visits among Lightning Ridge residents including Mrs. Clayton Bishop and Mrs. Lloyd Mellroy, with gatherings at the J. H. Stephens home and visits from Ada and Oklahoma City residents. The piece also notes a period of off duty time, family visits, and a remark on trees turning colors after a freeze. It concludes with a furniture drawer shelf feature and a subway ride detail from New York.
U S Savings Bond customers get a new look this month with a punch card bond about the size of a government check and perforated for machine handling. Treasury switches aim to cut handling costs by several million yearly, save storage space, and fit compactly in purses or pockets.
Mrs. Levi Sparks returns to her parents the Blevins family as flu illness spreads. Odus Wiles buys his wife a birthday gift, an automatic shotgun, with Arvel Davis, Opal set to receive an ironing board. Flyers recount hospital stays, flu cases, and family visits across Ada, Elmore City, Fort Worth, and Coalgate. A baby boy born to Bud and Blevins marks a bright note amid illness and travel. A birthday party for LaWilda and Danny is hosted by Ellen Ward with local relatives in attendance. Virgie Rothell plans a winter stay in California while Annie Rose and Jess Ross visit Wapanucka relatives.
Erey Ownbey is recovering well from major surgery as friends visit including Leroy Cantwell Sharon of Roff Virgil Sear berry Everett Summers and many more. The piece lists neighbors and relatives, updates on letters cards and a frost report from Houston with health and travel notes.
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