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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1965
Page
2
A compilation of visits and gatherings in Stonewall and surrounding areas. Families including Williams, Newberry, Ganns, Creech, Lilley, and McCullar share events, dinners, and church services. New babies, weddings, enrollments, and travel between Ada, Stratford, and WeWoka highlight a busy community week.
Freshmen fill East Central campus with orientation testing and activities as enrolment nears. Students line up at the finance office to pay for rooms and board while staff plan in campus counseling and new facilities. Dr. Charles F. Spencer outlines a new closed circuit TV system and reliance on 3 M audio visual aids as part of teaching expansion.
Nancy Jane Waters age 77 of 1004 West 13th died Thursday at her home. Final arrangements will be announced by Criswell Funeral Home.
County Election Board offices will be open fulltime until Sept 3 for registrations and transfers before the Sept 14 special election on State Question 430. Hours are 8 to 12 and 1 to 5. Absentee ballots must be in the office Friday before Election Day.
A visit by Air Force officials to Altus AFB was arranged to explore expanding base facilities. Democratic Oklahoma lawmakers Senators Monroney and Harris and Representative Jed Johnson Jr. requested the survey and planned talks with base officials and Altus civic leaders.
The text notes industry and speculative demand pushing silver toward scarcity in coin use, with a current price of 1.293 dollars per ounce and discusses the metal's elevated value impacting its circulation as currency.
Jack Bullard and daughter Candice of California visit his brother Cecil Bullard and family in Stonewall while the men also see their mother Ruby Bullard in Wis'er this week.
The House Public Works Committee approved a bill authorizing Army Engineers water projects totaling about 2 billion dollars. Oklahoma includes Lee Creek Watershed Shidler Dam and Reservoir Waurika Reservoir Crutcho Creek Grand Neosho River Verdigris River and Arkansas River navigation projects with listed costs.
Mr and Mrs Byron Eppler were injured in a three car collision at Spur Texas while en route to Hobbs New Mexico to visit a son They were taken by ambulance to Methodist Hospital Lubbock with lacerations and broken bones Both were reported in surgery and expected to be all right One other person was hurt in the pileup
In last season’s Big Eight, the top four finishers all lost to the team ranked just below them. Nebraska beat by Oklahoma, Oklahoma by Kansas, Kansas by Missouri, and Missouri by Oklahoma State. Colorado, seventh, defeated Iowa State 14-7.
Mr and Mrs Grover Coffey Lavera Lavern and Wanda and Fred Coffey of Tulsa visited Mr and Mrs Otis Coffey Tuesday. Ed Coffey and sons visited them Tuesday. Grover Coffey Lavera spent Thursday night with Otis Coffeys. Lavern and Wanda Coffey stayed with Ed Coffeys. Ed Coffey Dan and Dennis were in Oklahoma City Saturday. Mrs Perriman returned home with them after visiting a week.
Cindy the raccoon owned by Tommy Roberts wandered into town with Mrs. Roberts and rode in a car to Roy Willard's repair shop. After escaping and visiting again, Cindy was found five miles east in a neighbor's field and returned home to a relieved family.
A tunnel deep in rocky hills is part of the National Palace Museum under construction near Taipei to house priceless treasures from mainland China. The bomb proof tunnel will be 480 feet long eight feet wide and nine feet high. The four story museum opens on Sun Yat Sen’s birth anniversary November 12 marking the centennial of his birth.
Thursday evening Mr and Mrs Boney Cantrell visited Mr and Mrs Miles Kimmel. Mr and Mrs Junior Kimmel and children Bristow spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Miles Kimmel.
A string of visits to the Cantwell home includes Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Cantwell with children, Mrs. A J Belcher from Kansas, Mrs. Willie Melican from Stratford, and others such as the Briggs families. Patti Ann stays with grandparents Roy and Cora Cantwell as Patty Ann visits. Bill Briggs is ordained a deacon, and several parties attend a watermelon feast and church services at Campground Free Will Church.
Mr and Mrs Wendel Stewart Beth and Kathy and Mr and Mrs Clint visited the zoo in Oklahoma City last Sunday. Beth and Kathy visited his parents Mr and Mrs Clint Stewart Saturday. Beth and Kathy spent the night with their grandparents. Mr and Mrs Bill Nelson visited in the Clint Stewart home Saturday. Mr and Mrs Clint Stewart visited Mr and Mrs Tom Price Friday night. visited Mr and Mrs Jack Roberts Sunday.
Ada residents hosted relatives and friends over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Murphy and others dining at the Cox home. Ada guests Rev F M Wood and Mary Ellen Ward joined activities at the Cox residence.
Mr and Mrs Leroy McDaniel and others from Ada visited the Dees and Linda Wednesday. Dees hosted Cannon family guests in Ada Friday. Saturday the Dees visited the McDaniels and Alvis in Ada. Sunday the Dees called on A Q Sutton in Oil Center and Orlan Dees’s father Henry Dees.
Mr and Mrs Marvin McCurdy visited Tom Phillips in Valley View Hospital on Sunday. They also visited Mr and Mrs Bob Satterlee in Chickasha. Melvin McCurdy and Donna from Oklahoma City were guests at the Satterlee home.
Mr and Mrs Stanley Kon spiski and Debbie of Oklahoma City visited Mr and Mrs Alva Pennington on Wednesday. Milo Pennington and family visited Thursday. The Penningtons hosted visits from Neville Pennington Karl Wade and others Thursday. Pod Law and Frank James called on Saturday.
The Garner family recounts a three week East Central tour visiting Detroit's auto plants, Chicago museums and lakefronts, Springfield Lincoln sites, and Oklahoma scenery. They note pride in American industry and concern over commercialization and preservation of historic places, ending with a sense of family departure and unique memories.
East Central announces multiple faculty changes with new staff in history English sociology mathematics music and physics. Notable hires include Ganthho Gavriloff from Bulgaria joining government history, Phillip Briggs and Murriel Gilliam joining mathematics, Ira Jean Snow joining music, and Donald Kellogg in physics.
A wry remark notes that a man with two wives may not be a bigamist, but merely has a son who has married. The line highlights social perceptions of marriage and kinship in a humorous way.
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