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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1961
Page
4
The Ada Weekly News covers local social visits with the Henson, Bennett, and Summers families, church and school events, and community updates. It discusses regional agriculture, lake construction, irrigation potential, transportation links to markets, and notes residents’ travels and conversations amid mixed weather and fruit growing history.
Sunday afternoon gatherings centered on the Baptist Church with a baptism service in which four were baptized including Mrs Johnie Grove and her daughters Barbara and Patsy. Numerous families from Grove and nearby towns visited, shared meals, and discussed home projects while reporting improving health and travel updates from weeks past.
Ada Civil Defense Unit met to discuss an information program on atomic disaster and fallout procedures. Director Hayden Haynes outlined plans for neighborhood home training and public fallout shelter instruction under Chief Warden Paul Forster. A three member team will assess buildings for shelters and sign capacity. Omer Ensler detailed new monitoring equipment from Oklahoma City, mainly geiger counters, as talks about shelter construction continue with civic and private groups. The group plans to address Ada P.T.A. groups in October.
An Ada precinct note details one collision near Main and Town at 10:50 am injuring no one seriously. James Davis 18 and Margaret Roberts faced fines for driving left of center. additional entries list speeding, public drunkenness, open bottle violations, and licenses while driving.
The speaker urged Ada residents and Jaycees to expand beyond industrial growth toward broader development. He emphasized pride in Ada, urged positive action and community involvement, and handed out small cards for Jaycee project ideas to be included in an upcoming report.
Mr and Mrs Bill Reed s daughter and family plus Mr and Mrs Cecil Morris and boys from California arrived Friday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Ray Magar and children were with them on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Oren Gray and Mrs Nay Garrett attended church Sunday night at Oil Center Pentecostal Church. Mr and Mrs Henry Little visited Sunday afternoon with Ma and Mrs Fred Henson. Vance Pejee visited neighbors Mr and Mrs Fred Henson Saturday night while his wife Hazel and son Charles visited her mother Mrs Price in the hospital.
A nostalgic column laments early September football weather and socialism of fans, describes fashion and floor squeaks in church services, and shifts to Oklahoma rural depopulation. It cites Pontotoc County Ada population declines from 1940 to 1960, noting migration to urban jobs and a later recovery among farm operators amid higher investment and larger average farm sizes.
In a nostalgic Ada column reader Valma Henderson recounts cowbells on cattle and homestead meals, recalls Seminole stamp dances and old traditions, and shares a strawberry pie recipe. Dated memories tie to Ada and Egypt sections with notes from Mrs Loyd Stettler.
A fragmented verse set features Connie Nelson and Simple Simon with playful lines on pie cravings and social observations. It juxtaposes pie imagery with humorous quips about relationships and modern life, reflecting light satire and casual tone. The piece explores appetite, sincerity, polish, and the quirks of contemporary culture.
The article traces the pastor’s emergence in church history, using Titus as a model of a young, capable leader. It highlights that pastors grow from community needs, require tact, sympathy, and leadership, and that churches should cultivate vocations by encouraging youth to listen for God’s call, with Paul mentoring Titus.
The passage notes Oklahoma state population loss averages over 21 percent since 1980 while Jutile exceeds 7 percent. It praises locals who stay to farm and ranch and urges parents to discuss migratory birds with children, inviting insight if a son is a duck expert.
Ada, Oklahoma driver Lloyd Hanks sustained minor injuries after a fall from the top of a gasoline delivery truck at the Champlain station corner of Tenth and Mississippi. Ambulance transport relocated him to a local physician, described as not seriously injured. The report notes Katanga Province agriculture, including cotton, corn, and tobacco, and large cattle ranches on a 6,500 foot eastern plateau.
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