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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1967
Page
4
An article discusses a potential heavy pecan crop in Pontotoc County in 1967 and examines market dynamics, risks, and the broader push for cash crops. It highlights past high sales, the pecan tree as a durable, drought resistant asset, and suggests expanding fruit varieties like raspberries and blackberries as alternative cash crops for farmers and ranchers.
A long reflection on lunch pails, once practical metal black containers, remaining unchanged in shape and color amid colorful new packaging trends. The piece compares design shifts in consumer goods with the stubborn timelessness of the classic lunch pail and muses on fashion, work life, and a future California political scenario.
A legal Q and A explores bailment in shops and clinics. The court denied George compensation for a lost raincoat, saying no bailment since possession wasn’t transferred. It cites a dentist case where implied possession made the keeper liable. It notes that belongings left in dressing rooms may be covered if typically kept there, like cash in a suit pocket, but not always valuables like a ring.
Mainland Britons nickname the Isles of Scilly the Fortunate Isles and the Islands of the Brest. Located at the same latitude as Newfoundland, their climate is softened by the Gulf Stream, making it more subtropical than Arctic.
Ada livestock dealers reported a steady to higher market with 700 cattle sold. Receipts included feeder calves, steers and heifers across weight classes, with bids around 25 to 29 per hundredweight for feeder cattle and calves and hogs and sheep showing smaller, steady activity amid mixed lots and early auction reports.
Ada city council delayed three major items in Monday night sessions. No proponents appeared for a proposed one million dollar parking lot and sales tax plan, so decisions were postponed to future meetings. The airport improvements plea of 32500 was not resolved pending sales tax election outcomes. A land action involving Brockway Glass Co. was also put off after Dexter Pruitt opposed lack of consultation.
Murray County voters approve a $630,000 general obligation bond with $2.5 million in revenue bonds for an industrial plant. Coal County rejects a courthouse repair bond by 24 votes, failing to reach 40 percent necessary for passage.
East Central State College unveils fall night classes for graduates and undergraduates with a broad range of subjects. Enrollment opens Sept 14 at 7 pm in the Student Union Ball Room, with separate times for undergraduate and graduate courses and advisers available Sept 9.
Thomas O Meshen of Wyoming Michigan wed Wanda Ruin Robinson of Holdenville. Jacob L Hargo of Ada married Linda J Grove of Ada. David Householder of Sulphur tied the knot with Susan Kirk of Roff.
Norman state fair highlights a traveling Oklahoma exhibit of 33 American Indian paintings from the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art. The show runs Sept 25 to Oct 1 at the Oklahoma Art Center on fair grounds, with two sculptures by OU graduates and works by notable artists. The collection includes pieces from Apache to Zuni tribes, mostly 1930s–40s, and is tied to OU’s long art history and educator Oscar Jacobson.
A collage of humorous poems and jokes about hardship and daily life. It blends farm humor with wariness of modern gadgets, domestic quirks, and social foibles, delivering light satire and playful moral observations through verses and captions.
Indian squaws in blankets use modern walkie talkies to coordinate the Ash Hollow Centennial pageant staged on a vast outdoor set. Stage director Mrs. Dolores Dailey directs the horseback production reenacting the perilous Windlass Hill descent into Ash Hollow near Lewellen Nebraska.
The New York City Tax Commission lists 826,898 ordinary real estate parcels including tax exempt properties. Total taxable value exceeds 27.6 billion dollars, with utilities real estate assessed separately at about 3.2 billion.
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