Public hearing on extending Ada zoning authority set
The September 28 public hearing will decide extending the Metropolitan Area Planning and Zoning Commission into the urban area up to three miles beyond Ada city limits. County commissioners will vote after the hearing. The board includes city and county representatives and has backed street plans and land regulations. The program aims to protect property values and guide future development near Ada. Local residents outside the city are urged to attend and discuss with urban planner Bob Lehr and commissioners. Pie suppers face scrutiny as some treats may be store bought. organizers urged to label pies as home made or purchased.
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Metropolitan Area Planning and Zoning Commission
Lee County
Worner Peay
Oae
Ada
Bob Lehr
Aquila and Priscilla: Tent-makers and early Christian teachers
The piece portrays Aquila and Priscilla as a unified, influential couple who hosted Paul, taught the Christian faith at home, and led a church from their house. It emphasizes their partnership, hospitality, and quiet, effective teaching without seeking pay, illustrating how they shaped early Christian communities.
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Aquila
Priscilla
Rome
Corinth
Paul
Apollos
St. Luke
Remembering seeds and bread from Oklahoma days
A nostalgic letter from Velma Henderson recalls planting onion seed for sets, childhood bread memories, corn shocks, and garden joys. She notes Mrs Snyder's surgery, praises teachers, and shares stories of Seminole County life and local wildlife encounters near Frisco and Ada.
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Mama
Velma Henderson
Oklahoma
Velma
Lown
Linyd Stettler
Strayed From the Herd And Musings On Living And Dreaming
A collage of aphorisms and reflections mixes quotes from Swift and Marcus Cato with lines on dreaming, happiness, and resilience. The text contrasts vision with daily pain and musings on civilization, statues, and human endurance.
Gloria and Clock Watcher Whistle Listener Exchange
Gloria asks about another win while noting some do both. The dialogue contrasts clock watching with whistle listening as a preferred inside work focus.
Platt Park Visitors Week At Platt National Park
Platt Park Reports a week of visitors at Platt National Park in Sulphur with 38,600 visitors and 3 3a campers from Aug 27 to Sept 2. August totals reach 218,652 visitors and 26,844 campers. yearly totals stand at 988,759 visitors and 80,782 campers. Rainfall totals are 0.06 inch for the week, lifting the year’s rainfall to 18.06 inches.
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Sierra Leone
Wassehseille
Helen
England
Teacher's Not Idle After All Just Divided
Mrs. Viola Elliott is seven tenths of a teacher at Homer School. Ada school approved Supt. Rex Morrison's recommendation to name Elliott a temporary third grade teacher at Washington School through Nov 1. Homer schedules align with other county schools with no summer session. Elliott works seven tenths at Homer and seven tenths at Washington, then becomes a full teacher.
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Viola Elliott
Homer
Ada
Rex O. Morrison
Elliott
Washington School
Lonnie Abbott
Abbott
Washington
Football, hay fever, and school return mix in lively column
A humorous newspaper column blends personal reflections on morning looks with seasonal football anxieties. It touches on hay fever, crowded school reopens, and a playful call for commencement drill. It also recalls Ely and McPherridge’s canyon lion hunt and hunter anecdotes from Pontotoc County.
Loyd McCabe dies in Pittsburg Oklahoma heart attack
Loyd McCabe 43 died in Pittsburg Oklahoma reportedly of a heart attack. He is brother to Ada resident Mrs. Dora Manuel who has lived here 95 years. Survived by wife Margaret three daughters one son and mother Mrs Sallie McCabe Kiowa. Three brothers Willie Dock Floyd and three sisters Annie Wilson Isabella Prince Lillia Hancock Dora Manuel. Services held in Kiowa September 5 with burial here.
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Loyd McCabe
Pittsburg
Okla
Dora Manuel
McCabe
Margaret
Lovington
N. M
Sallie McCabe
Kiowa
Willie
Fresno
Calif
Dock
King City
Floyd
Coalinga
Annie Wilson
Calvin
Isabell Prince
Anadarko
Lillia Hancock
Hinton
Ada
Sherman L. Everett Konawa
Sherman L. Everett
Alla Richards
Wattette
Route 2
Pottawatomie County
Everett
Magnolia Oil Company
St. Louis
Wanette
Vaughn Production Company
Cloverdale Church of Christ
Watts Funeral Home
Royce Shan Non
E. d. Kime
Napa
Pliney Everett
Wilmington
Sherman Jr
Shaw- Mee
Ada Richards
Marriages Listed for Ada and Tulsa Residents
Terry James twenty of Ada wed Natley June Upton twenty of Tulsa. W. C. Martin eight dollars Ada married Agnes Patsy thirty nine Ada. Edwin Schelling twenty four Ada joined Rozine Sates twenty Ada.
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Terry James
Ada
Natley
June Upton
Tulsa
W. C. Martin
Agnes
Patsy
Edwin Schelling
Rozine
Six-Guns Duel Among Choctaws and Grass Widows
A first person reminiscence recalls life in a rough frontier area with Choctaw rivals and a grass widow. A tense confrontation ends in dual bravado and a haystack firefight, leaving two men dead and a community talker in shock while the narrator and a friend survive to joke about the duel later.
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George
Charley
Chacloy
Tam
Rome
Old Stack-A-Lee
0. S
South Town
Mountain Lion Hunts End After Eight Mile Pursuit
Harper and George McPhetridge trail a mountain lion for miles along canyon ledges above Boulder Creek. The cat crouches on a spruce limb. Ely shoots with a Winchester 243, killing it as dogs wade to tear at the body. Camp celebration follows the long hunt.
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Page
Younds Isd
Jeep
Harper
George McPhetridge
McPhetridge
Boulder Creek
McPherridge
Ely
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