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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1963
Page
2
The passage records social visits and family news from Latta and surrounding areas. It notes a death in Oklahoma City, hospital stays, church attendance, and multiple visits among relatives and friends, reflecting a local community roundup.
Sunday visits and family news fill Oakman and surrounding towns with reports from Lubbock Duncan Ada and Oklahoma City. The column lists dozens of relatives friends church members and local residents visiting traveling moving and attending events across the region with notes on hospital stays funerals and weather impacts on ponds.
Stonewall residents shared family visits across Missouri and Oklahoma with relatives in St Louis Muskogee and South West City. The town’s Nazarene Church reported 61 attendees as basketball teams prepared to open the winter schedule November 8 against Caney at Stonewall.
Fire crews battled several grass and timber fires across eastern Oklahoma and nearby states amid a severe drought. A Delaw are County blaze threatened homes near the Arkansas line while others burned along the Will Rogers Turnpike near Vinita and near Wilburton. Rain and snow began easing drought in New England and northern states, but drought damage lingered in Virginia and Louisiana with large crop and livestock losses.
Alligator article details a Caton family scene with an alligator on its back and stomach rubbing to induce sleep. The piece also mentions a parakeet and several neighborhood dogs observed by Albert during a recent outing.
The state legislature appropriates funds for teachers and settles, with Settles among eleven teacher-legislators affected by the ruling.
A historic 1683 mill between Salzburg and Berchtesgaden produces finely veined marble balls as keepsake souvenirs, drawing visitors to watch the grinding process and purchase small crafted items.
The program awards bonds and certificates across counties and areas. Points come from workbooks, stories, meetings, and other 4-H achievements. Last year Pontotoc County winners were Carol Howell and Don Yeargan Roff. Special emphasis focuses on grooming appearance health expression manners self understanding and relationships with others.
Practice ten lists names and subjects across towns including Rose Emerson Gardner Sasakwa Coalgate Raymond Doyle Stewart Wilson Ann Russell Tugman Mann ford with first place notes plus several students from Elmore City Holdenville Konawa Latta Ada and Poteau across diverse subjects.
Ada Okmulgee English speech Donna Sue Park Maysville second. Maysville Sharon Kay Whitaker Paoli business home ec Marie Elaine Woods Wayne McAlester Donna Raigh Burris Hartshorne sixth Lindi ll Faye Christian Stuart English business Larry King Dow economics business Robert Schwartz McAlester first. Okemah Mary Ratliff Okemah biology chemistry. Pauls Valley all from Pauls Valley but Doris Winchester Maysville home ec Tony Aguillar sixth Janet Allsup fifth Mary Evelyn Cochran third Linda Ladd English Betty McGee English Lou Ann Pybas business Judy Diane Williams fourth. Roff Johnny Fennell Roff fifth sixth seventh. Seminole Ronald Jared Allen music inst Bill Rodebush Seminole biology industrial arts. Stonewall LaVetta Crawford Rt 1 Stonewall English business Leon Dennis Stonewall Milburn English speech Charles Pace Stonewall shop history Jerry Stotts Ada math. Stratford W B Shi Stratford English history. Sulphur Pat Lawson Rt 1 Roff business third Joe B Medlock Roff English speech Frank Sass Sulphur sixth P E Sandra Sass English fourth. Tishomingo Glenna Dean Graham Milburn first Betty Green Mannsville fourth. Vanoss Joy Roberts Vanoss industrial arts P E Weleetka John M Baker Weleetka history art Dan White biology P E general science Wynnewood Anetta Marie Cornelison Wynnewood fourth.
The sale featured horses including trell, Bill Layne, G. W. Good and R. B. Ashley. Though not the largest, it is considered the most successful for the Quarter Horse Associations with a strong turnout and satisfied consignors and buyers. Jared stated both sides left with what they came for.
Dr John T Pettit of the University of California Los Angeles Institute of Geophysics reports the average earth tide at Los Angeles surges around eleven inches. The note appears in a local science context with ad copy appended.
Mrs Myrtle Evans Mrs Nora Roper Mrs Sible Collins and others from Sulphur visited Mrs Clinnie Crow Monday afternoon. Dinner guests for Mr and Mrs George Lewis included Floy Burk Thelma Garrett Myrtle Evans Willie Lewis and Minnie Lewis. George Lewis recently ill had X rays and a physical checkup Monday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Frank Roberts visited the Lewises Saturday. Allie Roberts visited the Lewises Monday.
Mrs Lizzie Roberts and Frank Roberts visited Mrs Floy Burk Sunday. Aunt Lizzie will soon be 92 and still active, able to wait on herself. Her mother Mrs Mary Roberts lived to be over 100.
Mrs. John Stinson and Nova Gray hosted visits on Friday with Friday night gatherings. Robin Murray spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Steve Gray. In Shawnee I met Mr and Mrs Oris Roberts and Uncle John Roberts, recently out of a nursing home and living with his son, about 86, doing fine.
Mr and Mrs Walter Lewis greeted guests when a large spreading adder approached their garage on Saturday. Bryan Thomas assisted in removing the snake. Local residents Mrs Clareta Gray and Mrs Nova Gray gathered pecans.
Mrs Willie Lewis leaves Wednesday afternoon for Harriman Tennessee after spending two weeks with Mr and Mrs Frank Lewis Mr and Mrs George Lewis and Mr and Mrs Walter Lewis.
Oakman misprint acknowledged by Ila Pevehouse with a correction about last week’s Oakman homecoming items. Mrs. Leon Anderson is referenced in the notice.
Mr and Mrs Maurice Current and Lonnie Current with Judy Brandon of Byng spent Saturday evening in Pauls Valley with the Currents daughter and family Mr and Mrs Jerry Balthrop and Tracy. Maurice Current and his son Gerald with Wayne Biggs and Harold Hanks of Ada returned home after a week of deer hunting in Colorado. They saw one deer. Gerald shot it but it was very high in the mountains. A jeep was needed to reach it and carry the deer out.
Mrs. Wib Scroggins and Linda and David are back home after two weeks with Ira and his wife. Wib hunted deer in Colorado and returned home over the weekend. He killed two deer during the trip.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Harber of Roff visited his sister family the Floyd McNeill clan. Sharon Wynn and Donita McNeill students at Byng High joined Byng girls basketball squad in Commerce Texas where they faced the 1962-63 Texas state champion girls team and won 59 to 40.
Mrs Flora Carter visited her ill mother Mrs Olive Summers in Ada on Monday. Mrs Summers spent Thursday with Mr and Mrs George Carter. Also visiting were Otis Light of Ellinwood and his wife, Ellinwood natives, and Sunday guests included C L Davis Nellie Massey and Murray Smith with Zora Lee.
Visiting last week at the home of Mrs. Elvie DuVall were her nieces Mrs. Esther Love of Houston Texas and Mrs. Joy Hemphill and daughter Lissa of Oklahoma City. Visiting Monday through Thursday was another niece Miss Cuba Roberts of Sherman Texas.
Mrs Effie Tharpe spent last Monday morning with Angie Wright. Monday afternoon Mr and Mrs Carey Davis Ada visited Angie and she accompanied them to visit Mrs Gussie Lillard. Mrs Elvie DuVall spent Saturday with Angie Wright and Mrs Leona Price Ada spent Sunday afternoon with her.
Miss Vera Lanham Anders and Mrs. Margret Boles from Pittsburg visited Mrs. Rae Garrett on Thursday after lunch en route to a teachers meeting in Oklahoma City. They joined Mrs. Garrett and her children for a visit before returning Saturday morning.
Mrs Floy Burk and Mrs Thelma Jean Garrett visited Shawnee and Oklahoma City with family members. Sondra returned home Saturday. Betty Price visited her parents and relatives. The Wallace family hosted and visited several neighbors. Tressa Crookham and Everett Escue spent time with local families. The Grove and Reed families attended church and hosted relatives during the weekend.
Bro Carl Denham and his wife visited his mother Mrs Le Ola Denham in Vaness and attended Sunday services where he serves as pastor. A revival reportedly began in his church Saturday night with their participation.
Mr and Mrs Fred Henson went to church Sunday morning at the Free Holiness Church according to local society notes. The entry records their attendance as part of community church activity.
Mrs Jewel Smith called on Mrs Rae Garrett Monday morning to see if she had something to take wallpaper off the walls as they planned to paper their house.
Sympathy extends to the Jess Daniels family as Ed Bevel, brother of Mrs. Daniels, died last Saturday in a local hospital. Born in Wewoka on September 23, 1905, he had lived in Ada for years and leaves a wife, a stepson in Colorado Springs, three grandchildren, three sisters Bessie Chandler Rachel Tanner and Elizabeth Smith, a brother Harold Bevel in Compton, California, and twenty nieces and nephews.
The community mourns Mrs. Virginia Lee Shaw who died in Ada hospital after a long illness last Monday. She came to Byng in 1942 with her husband W. G. Shaw and worked as a bookkeeper for F W Woolworth in Ada. Her strong will kept her active until just days before death. The Byng School year closes a four day break as teachers attended the Oklahoma City state teachers meeting headlined by Irving Stone’s address.
A sharp cold front moved into the state Sunday night, leaving residents unprepared. The reporter describes waking Monday morning to frigid conditions and grogginess, with more details promised on page three.
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