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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1944
Page
3
County Agent C H Hailey reports 4 H club boys will attend a crops judging school in Ada on Wednesday September 13 with Roy Ellithrop of Stillwater in charge. The notice also gives instructions on tree treatment timing and soil conditions for mound removal and fertilization.
Soil samples were taken from the Carl Browall and J. E. Craddock farms as alfalfa acreage expands. The TB test has run for a second week with 880 cattle tested so far and September 16 set as the final filing day for applications.
A. P. Young builds a straw loft poultry house using jointed timber method. Joe Chivers and Harmon Ebey order large hops of yellow clover seed to overseed pastures and boost carrying capacity after liming the land.
Sixteen head averaged 106.50 with four head bought by county residents. Leslie Brantley, Earl Parker, and Sam Dew each purchased a bred heifer. The Ada event showcases local breeders and farming activity.
Committee awards 180.70 in cash prizes to winners at a district fair held at the school. More than 690 attended the Thursday events with a carnival helping raise funds for prizes. Ezra Holland family led with the most exhibits and Thurman Holland earned 15 prize money turning crops and livestock production into top honors.
Pic. Devil V. Hallum, son of Mr. and Mrs. W D Hallum living east of the City, trains in San Diego and has been overseas seven months. He first landed at New Caledonia and then fought on Guadalcanal and in the invasion of Guam.
Mullins brothers Ray C. Mullins and Arthur D. Mullins are serving overseas. Ray, a rifleman in an infantry company in France, has eight months overseas and five years in the army after training at Ft. Sill. Arthur D. Mullins, in the South Pacific, has three months overseas and two years in service. They are sons of Mrs. Gladys V. Mullins of 723 North Townsend.
Capt. Edgar A. Hambleton received the Air Medal after 65 combat missions and 275 flight hours with the air forces in the South Pacific. The citation credited meritorious achievement in aerial flight from December 5, 1943, to May 15, 1944, for participating in bombing missions against enemy shipping and four supply bases on occupied islands. Hambleton, a Ada High School graduate (1937) and Oklahoma University attendee, earned recognition for his service.
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