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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1941
Page
8
The article traces dancing from ancient mimicry to modern folk forms, highlighting Oklahoma square dancing revival. It notes lively calls, steps like circle eight, up the center and around the world, and Do-C-Do, performed to fiddle, guitar, and banjo. Prominent attendees include a gubernatorial candidate, an Ada civic leader, and a leading oil executive.
Washington reports Wendell Willkie plans active participation in the 1940 off year elections to back Republican candidates who support Roosevelt's foreign policy. He aims to help campaigns of Senators Ball and Bridges and other backers of administration policy.
The article traces American dancing from English origins to distinct forms in the United States. It notes country and square dances, Virginia reel, Morris and sword dances, and the barn dance as purely American creations, plus animal and ritual dances like the Snake dance, ghost dance, and dream dance among various tribes.
The Oklahoma state corporation commission voted to keep the 1941 42 cotton ginning rates at 2 1 2 cents per 100 pounds for cotton and 2 1 2 cents for bellies and approved an increase in bagging and ties from 1 40 to 1 75 due to higher material costs. The decision followed a request from the Oklahoma Cotton Ginners association for higher rates and from farmers unions seeking changes in the split between picked cotton and bellies. Chairman Reford Bond said the commission rejected a five cent raise as insufficient to aid small producers. A prior letting was delayed to October due to budget rules and highway costs from heavy rains and maintenance.
Oklahoma City, Sept. 13. Chairman Sandy H Singleton said the highway commission would have $8 million in projects under contract this year despite lettings delays from a budget balancing amendment. Governor Lips will confer Monday on an October letting likely for $1 million, with more than $5 million already contracted and another $3 million to be added by year end.
The wreckage of Thomas H. Smith's baby clipper was found in western Newfoundland. A note in the cabin read Walking out to avoid freezing showing the airman understood his possible fate. Smith, 24, son of Harvey F. Smith, Clarkburg West Virginia, vanished with no further trace.
Eleven year old William Paul Bass of Hope Arkansas died in a hospital in Eufaula Oklahoma from injuries from an automobile crash near McAlester last Sunday. His father P T Bass aged 30 was seriously injured while his mother and sister were also hurt in the collision when their car struck a tree after failing to negotiate a curve.
H. C. Olson of Oklahoma A and M college cites higher quality dairy products raising consumption and prices. A test with high quality butter doubled intake at a boarding house, and Olson urges milk as a low cost diet, noting national low south central consumption and military dairy inclusion.
Funston F. Gaither teacher and director of Oklahoma University school of education receives Mary E. Fletcher fellowship at Stanford for research and teacher education. He accepts and leaves this week for Palo Alto to pursue his doctorate. he is a graduate of East Central College, son of O. A. Gaither of Roff and brother of Mrs. Bruce Ligon of Ada.
Robert Strow of Ada was elected August 1 to a Brown University fellowship in mechanics worth 900 dollars. He will reside September 15 in Providence to pursue advanced study after earning a Master of Science in mathematics from Oklahoma A&M College. The award cites his strong graduate record. At Brown he will research defense related topics for industry and government.
Stillwater Oklahoma September 13 Special guidance from Oklahoma A and M College home economists on packing nutritious appetizing lunches. Suggested meat substitutes include meat sandwiches or hard boiled eggs, with vegetable rich salads and whole cereal bread. Include fruit, hot soup in a thermos, waxed paper wrapping, daily washing and airing, and compact packing to avoid shifting.
A Oklahoma agricultural note advises pruning old canes after harvest to ease next season’s picking. Horticulturist G F Gray explains berry shoots live one season, bear fruit next, then die back. Removing dead canes reduces obstruction and helps prevent entanglement for new growth. Burned old stock kills insects and diseases.
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