Notice to Sell County Property in Pontotoc County Oklahoma
County Treasurer I Sam Dew announces the sale at 9 a.m. September 18 1944 at the Pontotoc County Courthouse eligible parcels in Original Francis City Lots 1–4 and Lot 6 Block 71 with bids already submitted by W C Scroggins. Purchaser pays cash plus apportioned ad costs. sale subject to Board approval.
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I. Sam W
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma
Anise
Francis City
W. C. Scroggins
Board of County Commissioners
Sam Dew
Notice of Hearing Final Account in Norris Estate
In the Pontotoc County Oklahoma County Court proceedings for the estate of P A Norris the executrix has filed a final account and petition for heirship determination distribution and discharge. A hearing is set for September 21 1944 at 10:90 AM in Ada to settle the account determine heirs and allow distribution and discharge of the executrix.
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Pontotoc County
State OF Oklahoma
P. A. Norris
Ada
Pontotoc
Moss Wimbish
Notice in Pontotoc County Deed Quiet Title Suit
District Court of Pontotoc County Oklahoma issued a notice to known and unknown heirs executors administrators devisees trustees and assigns of Joe Watters deceased and Reuben M Roddie deceased Nadine Payne nee Roddie and Cora Rodlie. Plaintiffs seek to quiet title to land in the Northeast Quarter and Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 20 Township 4 North Range East. Defendants must answer by October 6, 1944 or default judgment will be entered. Court Clerk Della Bedford. Deputy Jewell Ford. Attorneys Thompson and Braly.
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Oklahoma
Reuben MM. Roddie
Nadine Payne
Roddie
Cora Rodlie
W. H. Brents
Pontotoc County
State of Oklahoma
Pontoteoce
State of
Pange East
Joe Watters
Local Visitors Share Sunday Afterglow in OK and TX
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Ragland of Oklahoma City visited Alice Ragland Sunday evening. Ralph McGalliard spent Sunday with Eddie and Dave Fowler. Herman McCarty, baby, and Will Bracken of Maxwell visited Doyle Newby. John Henry Gregory of Asher stayed overnight with Ralph McGalliard. Mrs. T. D. Fowler and children plus Mrs. Buck Fowler and daughter visited Mrs. Mervin Willoughby. Mrs. Lula Davenport and daughters of Texas and Mrs. Mattie Halbrook of Sulphur visited in the E. C. Jamar home this week. Bettie Hughes visiting Luke Ward.
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Mattie Halbrook
E. C. Jamar
Bettie Hughes
Luke Ward
Henry Jamar
Local families host Sunday gatherings in Ada area
Mrs. J R Newby shared weekend visits with Mrs. Cora Danner while guests included Joan Myers daughter of Ada and Mr. and Mrs. Barnes LeForce and children. Bonnie Workman Ruth Wilson of Dallas visited their parents over the weekend as did Maudie Jamar Bettie Hughes with Mrs Bell Peterson. Virgie Hewitt of Laxton joined the Peterson home Saturday night. Sam Newby Dolye Newby and son Darrel plus Allie Ragland attended a Monday luncheon in the J R Newby home.
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Joan
Ada
I. J. Myers
Laxton
R. P. Peterson
J. R. Newby
Cora Danner
Sam Newby
Dolye Newby
Darrel
Allie Ragland
Ada visitors and local moves noted in community column
Mr. and Mrs. Delber Choate of Ada visited her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Toby Sunday. Nickell couple spent weekend with Jack Stokes in Citra. Cricket Brandon of Steedman stayed with Alice Lillard Thursday night. J D Lamb visited Ruth Lillard Monday evening. Lorene Toby and son Phil visited friends Sunday. S I Taylor couple announced moving to Phoenix Arizona.
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A Conway
Delber Choate
Ada
H. P. Toby
On Nickell
Jack Stokes
Citra
Cricket Brandon
Steedman
Alice Lillard
J. D. Lamb
Ruth Lillard
Lorene Toby
Phillip
S. I. Taylor
Phoenix
Ariz
Revival Begins at Oakman Sunday Services
A revival started at Oakman on Sunday November 2 led by Rev J N Caton pastor and Rev Scott Jones of Cedar Grove Attendees urged to join Rev Caton conducted preaching at Oakman Sunday attendance was high Mrs Wright Hart Ada and several Oklahoma City residents visited Oakman area then several local residents were noted in weekend visits and games Elmer Scroggins and others conducted weekend business in Oklahoma City and Ada Oakman and nearby communities featured a softball game Byng beat Oakman 9 to 10 with Oakman earning a close win in spirit of good sportsmanship.
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Oakman
J. N. Caton
Scott Jones
Cedar Grove
Wright Hart
Ada
Clyde Kaiser
Pernie Lillard
Oklahoma City
Pearl Simpson
Bonnie Bryan
Walie Leeds
Juanita Ausmus
Oma Jean
Cecil
Elmer Scroggins
Mark Raney
Donnie Joe Leeds
Ola Anderson
Glen Jay
W. D. Timmons
Connerville
Inez Hobbs
Eugene
Ben Walling
J. T. Walling
San Francisco
Calif
Evelyn Scroggins
Roger
Juanita Kaiser
Patsy Bryan
A. M. Cecil
May Shockey
California
Bernard Shockey
Alvin Summers
Allen
Jess Berryman
George Carter
Eula
Juanita Foxx
Billie Bryan
Virgie Massey
Sharon
Pauline Kaiser
Putney Lillard
Geraldine Kaiser
Pauline Lillard
Jim Cat
Rusty Kane Working Out With Pro Team Giants Practice
Ada high school star Rusty Kane, now with the New York Giants, was pictured at Bear Mountain during the season’s first sessions. The former all state tackle and guard from Ada, now listed at 230 pounds, is shown as the Giants’ sixth man from the left in a preseason workout photo.
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Russell
Rusty
Kane
Ada High School
Oklahoman
New York Giants
Bear Mountain
Eft
Ada High School Announces Annual Football Ticket Sale
Season ticket sales for Ada high school football are organized by a Lions club committee with high school clubs aiding. Six home games are listed with adult tickets at 3.05 dollars total and student tickets at 1.65 dollars. Tickets available at Ada high school or Lions committee with a season valid for six games.
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Ada
Lions’ Club
Ada High School
Lions’ Club Committee
Purcell
Durant
Pauls Valley
Ardmore
Wewoka
Seminole
Henroyetta
McAlester
Holdenville
Open
Parents urged to guide children from cradle to school
A reader in The Ada News letters section endorses C. E. Faires call for parental action. The writer urges Christians to model honesty and virtue for their youths, noting the need for early, ongoing involvement as parents and children grow.
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C. E. Faires
Ada News
GOP Governors In Election Pleas
Three Republican governors urged voting for Thomas E. Dewey for president in a coast to coast Mutual broadcast. Governor Edge of New Jersey, Langlie of Washington, and Kelly of Michigan warned against Truman’s leadership and faulted the Roosevelt era as a political administration. They argued longer under current policies would harm peacetime progress and democratic unity.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Arthur B. Langlie
Washington
Harry F. Kelly
Michigan
Mutual Broadcasting System
Dewey
Philadelphia
Republican National Committee
Edge
Atlantic City
Harry S. Truman
Roosevelt
Kelly
Lansing
Deel
Langlie
Olympia
Brownell Claims Sufficient Electoral Votes for Dewey-Bricker
New York Sept 6 JP Herbert Brownell republican national chairman says canvass shows enough electoral votes to elect the Dewey-Bricker ticket with a few to spare. He spoke at a press conference after returning from Chicago where he attended a national committee meeting and cited encouraging reports from New York and Missouri.
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New York
Herbert Brownell
Dewey-Bricker
Chicago
The
National Committee
Brownell
Missouri
Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Liberated Nations To Pay For Their Own Relief Work
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration officials say liberated France Belgium and Holland will finance their relief themselves using foreign exchange resources. Norway may need UNRRA help. UNRRA acts as agent for western Europe while eastern Europe will be funded from a common UNRRA fund based on member nations’ incomes.
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James D. White
Washington
France
Belgium
Holland
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United Nations
New York Giants
UNRRA
Atlantic City
Norway
Europe
People of London Still Winning
London has fought through air battles from 1940 to 1944 with flying bombs, and Home Secretary Herbert Morrison declared the city’s people have won. He cited Hitler’s attempt to knock London out as failing, noting Londoners did not squeal despite intense bombardment.
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London
Herbert Morrison
Hitler
Famous Inn Destroyed by Robot Bomb Hit
A direct hit by a robot bomb damaged Staple Inn in London facing High Holborn. The medieval half timbered houses suffered considerable damage, once praised by a chronicler as the fairest of vines of Chancery.
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London
Staple Inn
High Holborn
Chancerie
Nutmeg Necklace Believed To Guard Against Colds
In certain regions, necklaces made from nutmegs are thought to shield wearers from colds and chills, reflecting traditional remedies and cultural beliefs.
Private Planes vs Cars in 1941 Ownership
By 1941 end private plane owners in the United States reached 24 124 while privately owned automobiles numbered about 27 million.
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U. S
Oradour village massacre by Das Reich division described
Edward Kennedy reports the 10 June massacre at Oradour sur Glane where 1200 to 1500 villagers including many women and children were locked in church and school and killed by the SS Das Reich battalion. Only 17 escaped and seven survivors reportedly sane recount the horror.
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Oradour-Sur-G Lane
France
Oradour
London
Limoges
Glene
Pars
Marchel
Pierre Milord
Das Reich
Pyrenees
FFI
Omer
Gestapo
Normandy
Future Airplanes To Be Much Safer
De signs for airplanes to reduce passenger injuries in crashes are being drawn at Randolph Field Texas for the Army Air Forces and soon for civilian flying. Maj. George M. Haas reported studies on stresses on humans and aircraft to the Aero Medical Association. Structural redesigns could cut fatalities in crashes from heights up to 500 feet. parachutes remain the only safeguard above that.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
ST. Louis
American Air Forces School of Aviation Medicine
Randolph Field
Texas
Army Air Forces
George M. Haas
Aero Medical Association of the
United States
Kerr to Speak in Boston at State Convention
Governor Kerr says he accepted a keynote invitation to address the Massachusetts State Convention on September 23 after arranging with the War Production Board to discuss flood control material priorities for Oklahoma. He praises Concord Cambridge Harvard Revere and historic figures at Boston and hopes to visit Bunker Hill.
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Boston
Massachusetts
War Production Board
Washington
Oklahoma
Concordis
America
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Charles River
Concord
Cambridge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Longfellow
Harvard
Revere
John Harvard
Harvard University
Paul Revere
New England
Warren
Bunker Hill
Hospital bed costs in fever hospital in normal times
In normal times London spends over 70 dollars weekly to maintain each bed in its fever hospital.
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London
Processed Food Items To Leave Rationing Sept 17
Washington announced on Sept 6 that several processed foods will be removed from rationing on Sept 17. The items include fruit spreads canned vegetables and related products with specified blue point values, reflecting a government move to ease wartime restrictions.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Mobilization
Toy
Byrnes
Office of Price Administration
Marvin Jones
Bishop James Cannon Jr dies aged 79 in Chicago
Chicago reports the death of Bishop James Cannon Jr a 79 year old Methodist leader famed for anti liquor work and for his role in the 1928 defeat of Al Smith. He fell ill last week while in Chicago for an Anti Saloon League meeting and had long clashed with liquor interests and political figures over morality and party ties.
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Chicago
James Cannon, Jr
Alfred FE. Smith
Wesley Memorial Hospital
Antisaloon League
Cannon
al Smith
Smith
Carter Glass
Virginia
John J. Raskob
Tammany Hallard
Democratic Party
Tax leaders react to postwar tax plans and Twin Cities proposal
Washington September 6 congressional tax leaders gave mixed reactions to a postwar tax plan proposing a sharp cut in corporate income taxes and exempting stockholders dividends from the standard tax. The Twin Cities plan favored by Minneapolis and St Paul businessmen also urged incentives for risk capital while keeping some corporate taxes. Fort Sill notes: the artillery school graduated its 25,000th officer candidate, Clifford L. Mondart Jr. of Baton Rouge, La. received commission as second lieutenant.
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Francis M. Lemay
Washington
U.P
Committee For Economic Development
Doughton
D.N
House
Ways and Means Committee
Knutson
R.minn
Ways and Means
Twin-cities
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Fort Sill
Field Artillery School
Clifford L. Mon- Dart, Jr
Baton Rouge, la
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Poxtotoc County
Willie Brumley
Ford
Della Bedford
Jewell Ford
Thompson & Braly Attorneys
Henry T. Young
Elma Young
18Th St
Crables
Administratrix
Jeck Beller
Lee Hall
Dollie Arter
L. G. Hooser
Johnny Wayne
Ed Roundtree
Vermel Shumard
Clint Steward
Lovelace
Knox
Sammie Kay Blankenship
Dora Price
Dewey Stone
Marzell
Lella Fay Vanshaver
Sweet
Eual Gurley
MicAllen
Rofs
Schofield
Ben Gurley
John Dunn
Roff
Beulah Mae Deatherage
Rusty Kane
GOP
Paris
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Nantes
Kennedy
Brooklyn
Rome
Cairo
Budapest
Balkan
Greece
Africa
Italy
Kerr
Bishop Cannon
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Rock
Lowell
Holmes
Leif Ericson
Columbus
Atlantic
Oklahoma Forest
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