Ada Ambulance Service Faces Looming Funding Strains
Ada area ambulance providers Criswell and Smith Funeral Homes warn of potential service cuts as Oklahoma funeral homes brace for new wage and hour rules. With Feb 1, 1967, looming, they seek clarity from government and plan meetings to decide if continued 24 hour emergency readiness is sustainable amid staffing costs and possible shutdowns in Lawton Durant and other towns.
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George Gurley
Oklahoma
Ada
Criswell Funeral Home
Smith Funeral
J. H. Criswell
Gene Smith
Earl Watts
Feneral
Sive Burden
Funeral Directors of
Lawton
Duncan
Chickasha
Garvin County
Durant
Antlers
Atoka
Hugo
Hartshorne
Madill
Tishomingo
Wilburton
Senior Citizens Eligible For Funds For Pontotoc County Residents
About 200 Pontotoc County residents aged 72 and over will qualify for $35 monthly under the Prouty amendment starting October 1966. Special forms were mailed to eligible Medicare enrollees. others must obtain blanks from the social security office. Payments begin when the application is received, with limits: no retroactivity, no payments to those on Railroad Retirement, state pensions, or Civil Service annuities. If a spouse is eligible, amounts vary by individual. Continued on Page T.
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Pontotoc County
Frances A. Whited
Social Security Office
Oakman School Sold to McCalls for Expansion
McCall's Chapel for Exceptional Children, four miles west of Allen, bought vacant Oakman School to join their system replacing Cedar Grove as the day school. Oakman, annexed to Byng in 1965, once hosted a three year high school and was a key county grade school. The Oakman sale passed 50 to 4 in a special election. Cedar Grove will remain as a recreational center.
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McCall's
Allen
Oakman
Phala Dost
Cedar Grove
Francis
McCall’s
Gorman
District 12
Fhe
Ada
Oakman Sportsman's Club
Care and handling of woolens from 1906 tips
The column offers practical 1906 guidance for woolen care. It explains restoring color with castile soap and alum water, coloring scarlet using cream of tartar cochineal and muriate of tin, and dyeing black with blue vitriol logwood. It notes boiling times and dipping durations for each method.
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Grandmother
Castile
Jury Finds Claude Johnson Guilty of Murder in Mills Case
A District Court jury found Claude Johnson guilty of the murder of Floyd Leon Mills, an Atoka construction worker killed in April. Johnson received a life sentence. The trial opened Monday before Judge Lee R. West, with witness testimony detailing the body found near Center and Mills's gunshot wounds measured as a .22 caliber.
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W. L. Knickmeyer
Claude Johnson
Floyd Leon Mills
Atoka
Johnson
Lee R. West
Northrip
Barney Ward
Mills
Joy Mills
Stratford
Charles Johnson
Ada
Effie Carney
Carney
Herman West
del Rio
Tex
Rodolfo Rivera
Acris
Mexico
Chalmers Herman
Foreign Language Department
East Central State College
Rivera
Pickett-Center School Plans P T A Club
A community club to aid Pickett Center School plans to form a PTA style group open to all residents regardless of children in school. First meeting set for Thursday September 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the school cafeteria with officer elections and committee selection.
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Pickett-Center
Pickett- Center
Jailbreak Fails Moore Boy Goes To District Court
Steve Pryor, 16, appeared in District Court for trial on second degree burglary after a jail breakout Monday night. He cut through a county jail bar, jumped from the courthouse roof into a tree, fell to the ground, and was hospitalized at Valley View before attending court. The alleged daylight burglary targeted Ray Peters at 2420 Woodland Drive on January 12.
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Steve Pryor
Moore
Valley View Hospital
Pryor
Ray Peters
Woodland Drive
Doves Abundant Across Pontotoc County And Oklahoma
The dove season runs through September 30 with a 12 bird daily limit as Wildlife Conservation reports show widespread flocks. Large concentrations appear in the south and southwest, with strong shooting near Fort Cobb Caddo County El Reno Norman and areas from Ada toward the Texas line. Wildlife Director Wendell Bever urges families to join in dove hunting.
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Frederick
Oklahoma
Department of Wildlife Conservation
Fort Cobb
Caddo County
el Reno
Norman
Ada
Texas
Altus
Wendell Bever
Enrollment Decline Seen Across Pontotoc County Schools
The Ada Evening News table shows Ada and Pontotoc County school enrollment fell steadily from 1950 to 1968, outpacing population loss. War baby boom had little impact locally, consolidation grew, with Byng nearly doubling from 401 in 1950 to 816 in 1965.
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Ada
Pontotoc County
Ada Evening News
Oklahoma County
Lone Ranger
Byng
North
Vaness
Latta
Roff
Stonewall
Allen
Sun Ray
Ahloso
Pickett-Center
Pickett and Center
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Oakman School
Ada Ambulance Service
Pontotoc County Fair
Center
Burl Griffin
Robert Sliger
James Branam
Sliger
Ray A. Northrip
Acuna
Ignacio Fuentes
Herman
McLish
Margie Hunter
Vicky Stanford
Kathy Garner
Moore Boy
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