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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1952
Page
1
The Ada event unites the county free fair and Jaycee Industrial Show with circus and carnival entertainments. The Industrial Show began at two this afternoon and runs through Saturday with both afternoon and evening openings at the Ada fair grounds and Ada armory north of the city.
Jack Durland president of Cain’s Coffee in Oklahoma City spoke at Ada Chamber of Commerce noon meeting outlining markets for output. He urged leveraging expanded industry and cited steel aluminum petroleum gains while noting market opportunities from 15,000,000 Negroes, aging retirees, and a growing women and youth segments.
Leaders of Britain's three million shipbuilding and engineering workers vote to ban overtime and piece work in protest against employers' refusal to grant a wage increase. If enacted it could cripple rearmament and export drives, with government arbitration possible. Members to vote on starting date after cabinet meeting.
Weather forecasters monitor a developing low 260 miles east of Daytona Beach. Meteorologist Allen Marshall notes ships in the area and the system's potential but says it does not look menacing yet.
Okmulgee Oklahoma district court denied a request for a new trial for Robert C. Pruitt a 46 year old case operator convicted of murdering his wife. Judge W H Blackbird gave defense 60 days to file an appeal while Pruitt started serving life in prison.
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with scattered thundershowers in the northwest. Cooler panhandle Friday with lows 65 to 72 and Friday highs near 80 to the northwest and 90s in the southeast.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas and Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr will share a political rally program on September 20 sponsored by the Young Democrats of Muskogee County. Several state Democratic leaders will participate.
Census data show Oklahoma in 1950 with 1,117,796 females and 1,115,555 males. The state had 2,013,620 native white residents and 18,906 foreign born, plus 145,503 Negroes, 53,769 Indians, and 1,019 persons of other races.
Rain sprinkled western Oklahoma with several towns reporting showers including Guymon Gage Altus Mangum Hollis Hobart Lawton and Frederick. Cattle receipts at Oklahoma City market rose to 6 400 for the day and 23 027 for the week as ranchers market diseased or un finished stock amid drought. The Federal State Crop Reporting Service lowered state corn prospects with an estimate of 10 152 000 bushels for 1952 down from a month ago though Sept 1 numbers rose from the prior estimate. Last year output was 21 156 000 bushels.
The League of Women Voters of Ada opens an information booth in the fairgrounds Administration Building on Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Volunteers will explain state election questions and where to register. Registration runs October 5 to 24 for new voters and transfers. changes can be made any time, even election day. Committee chaired by Mrs. Douglas Poe includes several members.
Gov. Johnston Murray rejected former Sen. Elmer Thomas’s suggestion for a special election in Oklahoma’s Second District to fill the late Rep. W. G. Stigler’s seat. A new congressman will be elected November 4 for the re arranged district, with limited service possible between November and January. Oklahoma now has six of its eight allowed congressmen for the year. The late George B. Schwabe of Tulsa died last April while serving from the First District.
Kyodo News Agency reports eight people died and six injured when heavy rains flooded homes in Nagasaki prefecture. Local authorities warned of continuing downpours and urged residents to seek higher ground as rivers swelled.
At two this afternoon the 1952 Jay cee Industrial Show opened in the armory building, part of the Pontotoc County Fair and Southeastern Oklahoma Exposition. New exhibits promise industrial interest with prizes, booth gifts, and stage entertainment creating a festive atmosphere.
Thirteen cases are listed on a docket for Monday September 22 in district court. Judge John Boyce McKeel will preside as the court convenes at 9 a.m. Defendants including R E Dedman, Leroy Collins, Jessie Burris, Lillian Easterling and others are ordered to appear and plead to charges ranging from manslaughter to grand larceny and robbery. The docket lists multiple defendants in joint counts and four bogus check cases against Bertha F Landrum and D P Mandrell.
Pontotoc County Schoolmasters Club opens 20th year with a dinner September 22 at East Central State College Student Memorial building. Guest speaker is Hon. Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma senator and former governor. Dinner at 7 p.m. plates $1.50. Tickets due by noon Monday. Accommodations for 200 persons.
Stillwater Oklahoma plans were revealed to operate a Civil Defense training program at the school last month due to budgetary limitations.
Pontotoc County farmers flood the annual fair as drought dampens crops but livestock entries fill the stock barns. C H Hailey notes cattle entries are being turned away while still allowed in any entry. Home Demonstration and youth clubs prepare displays and foods entries arrive for judging amid carnival midway preparations.
More than 200 students attend the opening of East Central State College's Evening College program. Classes include Heredity Typing Elementary Accounting Elementary Architecture and Rural Sociology with schedules in various rooms and times. Enrollment remains open at upcoming meetings or the registry office during the week.
Oklahoma reports 808 polio cases for 1952, up from 411 a year earlier. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis lists 11 new cases in the 24 hour period ending at 8 a.m. plus 3 additional cases from the State Health Department. A total of 610 persons are hospitalized with 119 in the acute stage.
West central Texas towns in a hill country region faced isolating floods as downpours caused bridges to wash out and power lines to fail. At least four deaths were reported with evacuations completed in San Saba and New Braunfels. Beeville and Kerrville areas issued flood warnings as rainfall totals reached up to 10 inches near the Gulf Coast.
Official figures show more than 43000 saved on the Francis to Allen farm to market road contract let yesterday by the state highway commission. Cohenour Construction of Ardmore won the 10 mile road bid at 203958, 43347 under estimate. Brewer and McMichael of Holdenville led bridge work at 23157, 711 under estimate.
The 57th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U S A refused to seat women as lay delegates to the House of Deputies. Clergymen delegates supported admission by 43 to 26 with 10 divided.
Capetown observers report Professor G. Wilson Knight of Leeds University says a private Cape Town collection has yielded a contemporary portrait of William Shakespeare. The Shakespearean lecturer asserts it is the first such portrait found since the bard died 336 years ago.
In Seoul the Eighth Army reported 200 Chinese dead and 300 more estimated killed after a night of brutal fighting to retake Capitol Hill from North Korean forces. U N bombers and a strong ROK defense pushed back the assault as Capitol Hill remained under South Korean control.
Henri Spaak of Belgium was elected first president of the Schuman Plan General Assembly in Strasbourg with a 38 vote to 30 margin over Heinrich von Brentano of West Germany. The assembly, part of West European coal steel merger efforts, opened its inaugural session at Maison de l Europe.
The Maryland State Board of Censors reluctantly clears The Miracle for Maryland theaters citing a Supreme Court ruling that Sacrilege cannot justify censorship. The board deems the film an obvious indignity to religious beliefs despite approval.
Washington The Bureau of Internal Revenue dismissed 174 employees in the year ending June 30. Fifty three were fired for taking bribes or gifts and 4 for embezzlement. Secretary Snyder notes reforms have strengthened the agency despite staffing lag and a jump in tax collections from 5 to 40 billion dollars during wartime.
The First Holding Company of the Oklahoma National Guard will drill tonight in Ada. Captain Craig McBroom announced a meeting this week for about 70 men released from active war status but still on military rolls. The gathering will take place at Jaycee Hall’s third floor Convention Hall as Jaycees use Ada Armory for their Industrial Show.
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