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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1973
Page
12
The piece warns that improved rural roads are not highways and high speed driving creates danger. Drivers encounter narrow lanes, sudden dips, and hidden intersections. Farm equipment livestock and nearby homes raise crash risk unless drivers act maturely and attentively.
A century ago a court voided a life insurance policy after the applicant failed to disclose a aspirin use for a cold. Modern courts uphold claims where a lapse is minor and intoxication lies are treated as inconsequential. Incontestability clauses limit challenges to a two year window. Extreme fraud defeats even incontestability.
The piece argues that people pursue weather observation, TV sports, mysteries, westerns, and political talk as habitual interests rather than true information. It contrasts practical weather forecasters with talkers who merely boast about weather and notes others enjoy fiction or politics for reasons beyond facts.
A collection of kitchen instructions for preparing a pork sausage pie with homemade pastry, a creamy milk and egg filling, a German style tomato soup variant, and a beef or lamb kebob marinate skillet with vegetables. Also included are omelet recipes featuring zucchini, onion and cheddar cheese with bacon.
Death notices for Floyd Mae Trader 70 Tu Pelo resident died Aug 30 Smith Funeral Home A B Erwin 87 Stonewall resident died Sept 1 Smith Funeral Home Buford B Fathree 75 Ada resident died Aug 31 Criswell Funeral Home Thomas A Brown 95 Ada resident died Aug 31 Criswell Clarence Elmer Scott 63 Ada resident died Sept 2 Criswell Funeral Home W C Wigley 61 Ada resident died Sept 4 Stufflebean Funeral Home George Buster Harden 64 Stonewall resident died Sept 5 Criswell Funeral Home
Andrea, known for holding four crowns Miss Grand Lake Miss Northeastern State College Fairest of the Fair and Miss Oklahoma aims to win Miss Tulsa State Fair this year. She plans to sing the Homeland Aria from Die Fledermaus and accompany herself on piano while pursuing scholarships for a BA at Northeastern and a masters in music.
The 57th Pontotoc County Free Fair runs September 12 to 15 with livestock entries on September 12. Exhibits include horticulture crops crafts and women’s displays. New cattle program supports 4-H and FFA youths to raise breeding stock for a sale on September 13.
The parish column lists visitors and relatives visiting in various households over the weekend including Mrs. Mabel Ward Miss Ruth Magar Holdenville and several Klutts and Boles family members in Stratford. It notes trips to nursing homes auctions Sunday dinners and multiple weekend visits among the Law Isaacs Pennington and Nessel families across towns including Durant Wewoka and Kingsville Texas.
Ada City Council authorized pursuing state and federal funds to acquire 50 acres at the north edge of Ada Municipal Airport to expand land and extend the runway. Sam Brown reported airport improvements and a special Sept. 18 service for weather briefings and flight plans from Oklahoma City.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lee of Ada will mark their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a Sept. 9 celebration from 2 to 6 p.m. hosted by nine children and a granddaughter. The couple, born in 1903 and 1909, married Sept. 4, 1923 in Steedman and later settled in Ada with 25 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
An essay contrasts sophros and moros to explain sophomores as wise fools who realize they do not know all. It cites Socrates and Spurgeon on ignorance and wisdom, notes the danger of self deception, and ends with a crow legend about cornfields to illustrate human limits.
The Gaines Dog Research Center offers 1500 in prizes for a dog themed photo contest with 300 first, 200 second, 100 third and three 50 honorable mentions. Entries must be 8 by 10 inches original, five per contestant, mailed to 250 North Street White Plains NY 10625 postmarked by Oct 1 1973. No entries will be acknowledged or returned.
Allen Oklahoma residents will gain the town’s first medical clinic as Dr. John Oglesbee leads construction to finish in six to eight weeks. The project, funded by a Small Business Administration guaranteed loan and local notes, aims to provide front line medical service and may add a second wing if a new doctor arrives.
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