The Ada Weekly News (Ada, Okla.), Vol. 57, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1957 Page: 1 of 12
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By W L KNICKMEYER
A sopping Pontotoc County this
week lifted its head briefly from
the waves shook water out of its
eyes and ears and looked around
— only to see more rain clouds
overhead
The streams ' went out right
down the line: Sandy Blue Jack
Fork Clear Boggy and Muddy
Boggy Spring Brook and Leader
Creek Rain fell in torrents on
the already soggy ground and
with nowhere else to go it ran off
immediately into the stream chan-
nels and then spread out over
practically every acre of bottom
land in toe county
High intensity rains at the end
of last week hurt the whole county
A WEEKLY
TRULY DESIGNED
FOR THE RURAL
READER
57TH YEAR
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Mrs Edna Boren Roll takes a shot In the arm
adults who turned up at the polio vaccinstion cmn
tern will be set up in Stonewall Allen and Hoff
reach all county adults In the 20-40 age group
tor of the local city-county health unit (News S
OKLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY CiMP
STATE CAPITOL
OKLAHOMA CITY OKLA
MINIMMIMIOV
Shot Bridge
This bridge like a number of others around the county nowadays may be accurately described as "shot" High water last weekend
washed out the abutment left the bridge sagging sadly Roads and bridges took a real beating this season as did agricultural lani
all over the area (News Staff Photo)
Damage Mounts Oyer $300 000 As—
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to an extent that can't yet be
accurately estimated Harassed
county commissioners saw bridges
taken out all over the area Abut-
ments were knocked out by the
runaway waters some roads were
cut nearly in two Several roads
were closed (and some of them
haven't been re-opened yet)
And the yellow signs reading
'B ridge 0 u t sprouted over
the area with depressing fre-
quency Road damage alone ran into the
thousands of dollars
Ready To Leave
"We're in the worst shape we've
ever been in" commissioner Bob
Austell commented dolorously
Big Girls Don't Cry
Sopping County Watches Rain (bids
"I'm about ready to leave th e
country"
Yet road damage was the least
of it Hardest hit was the land
itself and the crops growing on
it Total agricultural damage as
estimated by conservationist Byron
Smith amounted to about $300000
— just in that one weekend push
of this Smith assigns $200000
to tin order of importance) sheet
erosion gully scouring and
sedimentation of bottom land
"Loss of topsoil is always the
biggest loss in a rain of this
kind" Smith says "And that loss
is permanent and irreparable"
Another $100000 represents what
might be called "annual" dam
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without a murmur Mrs Boren W113 one of 602
ter set up in Ada Saturday afternoon Similar cen-
within the next couple of weeks in an attempt to
Wirldimr the needle here is Dr K W Navin direc-
taff Moto)
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Combined with The Ado Times-Democrat
ADA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MAY 23 1957
J P Flanagan '
Services Monday
J P Flanagan 7Z of Stonewall
died at a local hospital Sunday at
12:24 am funeral Monday at 2
Stonewall School auditorium Rob-
ert Stallings Frisco cemetery
Criswell Funeral Home
Surviving are the wife Etta:
daughters Mrs Thelma Hobgood
of Fitzhugh Mrs Ruby Ingram of
Tulsa and Miss Marie Flanagan
son Charlie Stonewall brother
Jim Oklahoma City sisters Mrs
Mary Curtsinger of Chattanooga
Okla Mrs D o e Vineyard of
Gainesville Tex 7 grandchildren
5 great-grandchildren
OKLAHOMA CITY IA) — A O-
000 bond issue for the Freedom
School District in Woods County
has been approved by the state
attorney general's office The mon-
ey will be used for building
Polio Cenlers
Set in County
Byron Smith
Leaves Ada
Post June 1
SCS Mon Promoted to
Higher Grade Herb No-
tion Okemah Replaces
Byron T Smith conservationist
for the Ada Work Unit Soil Con-
servation Service will be trans-
ferred to Oklahoma City effective
June 2 The announcement came
Wednesday from Charlie Evans
area conservationist
Smith will work out of Ol:lahoma
City as economist with a flood
control survey party His place
here will be taken by Herbert
Nation now work unit conserva-
tionist at Okemah
The move means it promotion
to the next higher grade for Smith
a veteran of 19 years' service with
the SCS He has held the Ada
position for 13 years
Nation a graduate of Oklahoma
A&M College has been with the
SCS since July 1935 He has been
stationed at Guthrie Poteau
burton and Checotah For 12 years
he served as work unit conserva-
tionist in Rockwall Tex return-
ing to Oklahoma and the Okemah
post in 1954
He is married and as two
daughters
Don't Forget
Stonewall Day!
Sunday's the Day at Stone-
wall The second annual "Stone-
all Day" slated to begin at
norm with a basket lunch on the
grounds of the new Sports
mrns Lake north of town is
eiolcted to draw-- g "-large
crowd of residents and former
residents not only of Stone-
wall itself hut of surrounding
com muni tie s
Everybody Who's ever had
any connection with Stonewall
is invited accordine to Mrs
Anna Young who has been
promoting the affair And a
good many of them have al-
ready signified their intention
of being ton hand
The Frisco Home Demon
stration Club will serve drinks
this year as they did last
So all you need to do is grab
a basket of food and come out
and Join the crowd
Come even if it's raining
Mrs Young says If the wea-
ther's too bad to bold the af-
fair at the lake It will be held
in the basement of the Metho-
dist church
Four polio immunization cen- I I
ters will be established in the
county beginning May 27 with
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one set up in Stonevvall May 28 1
a clinic will be held in Stratford
one in Allen May 31 and in Ruff - '-
t t
June 3
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Saturday 60'2 persons were r
t
vac mated against paralytic polio
in the first round of a county-
wide "vaccinate before too late" i f
program The center IV as held i i l
in the VFW building in Ada ' 2
A staff of Ada doPtors and Red
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Cross assistants again will volun- t- ----
teer their services as they did
in fit
Ada last week Dr Geolge K
Stephens chairman of the corn - -' ' — — 1
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unity vaccination drive said " ' ' 0 4
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the dates for establishing the ad- '---
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center will be determined and I
announced by the community 4 i 1
were set but th- place for the -
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The Salk vatcine is being ad- I 14°' "t4
ministered at the clinic for $1 a t
shot Services of the physicians
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rcsidents under 40 in the county I
with to shots of Salk va i
ccine
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before the polio season" Dr Ste- N f
phens said We are alarmed at ' I
the large number of people of it f 4 t 004! 3 ' N- 404
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ties advised Salk retipients to get
their second shots within two
to six weeks from now as protec- tavern Fishel Coalgate president of the Oklahoma Association of Soil Conservation Districts is shown here as he spoke to a rttic
tion against paralytic polio dur- of about 175 8lue River Hood control backers who met in the Durant city auditorium Tuesday night Harold Wingard director ot t"
ing the 1957 epidemic season i Blue Valley association for the Rolf area represented Jocal interC5i3 at the meeting (News Staff Moto) i
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Blue River Group Meets At Durant
Albert Promises Money When Needed
By W L KN1CKMEVE It
Developing enthusiasm for Blue
River flood control was evident
Tuesday night in Durant when
some 175 supporters of the project
met to hear Carl Albert Third
District congressman and L L
"Red" Males Cheyenne (Okla)
'banker and conservation worker
discuss upstream flood prevention
and watershed protection
The crowd registered strong ap-
proval when Albert told them that
money for the project need not be
one of their worries As soon
as you're ready the money will
be available" he promised
The Blue Valley group took this
statement from the Democratic
whip of the House as equivalent
to money in the bank and burst
into loud applause
Albert remarked that more and
more congressmen are coming to
see the importance of watershed
protection and added: "Congress
has committed itself to go through
with the program"
Pointing to the estimatd S1012
million damage done to state high-
ways by recent floods Albert sug-
gested that tha tmoney would have
paid for ''a lot of conservation"
Can't Cheat
"There's no way of cheating on
the conservation program" he
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Conservationist Byron T Smith leaves Ada—June 2 after 13 years service here
Oklahoma City in a higher grade as economist with a flood control planoing party
here will be Herbert Nation now conservationist at Okemah (News Staff Photo)
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Promoted
said "Either you pay in advance
of trouble or you pay for it after-
ward" Albert outlined the progress of
federal legislation on watershed
protection including the "Eleven
Watersheds" act of 1944 the pilot
creek projects and Public Law
566 as emended last yea by
P L 1018 The Blue River dis-
trict will come under the last of
these
The speaker apologized for cer-
tain controversial provisions of the
law as it now stands
"It was just a practical mat-
ter" he said "It was the only
way we could get the law passed
at all"
He held out s o m e hope for
further amendment of the law to
liberalize it still further
Albert left no doubt as to his
own position on flood control
"I'm for big dams little dams
and middle-sired dams" he said
flatly -
Be went on to remark that the
"middle-sized" part of the pro-
gram has been somewhat neglect-
ed up to now although this up-
stream work "offers more flood
control and more protection per
tax dollar" than any other
Sandstone Story
Featured on the program with
NEWEST-YET
THE OLDEST WEEKLY
IN COUNTY
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He will go to
Replacing him
Albert was L L ''Red" Males
who presented a resume of the
Sandstone Creek project Sand-
stone a tributary of the Washita
River in the western part of the
state formerly alternated between
flood stage and dry stream bed
but with land treatment and struc-
tural measures installed it flowed
steadily through nearly two years
of the worst drouth period in its
history
Colored slides of the Sandstone
watershed and of nearby Rush
Creek (untreated) showed the dra-
matic results achieved by the pro-
gram Males also left his hearers in
no doubt As to his philosophy of
water conservation
"True flood control begins up
stream" he said "—where thEL
water hits the ground"
The meeting was preceded by a
dinner for the visiting notables
and the directors of the Blue Val-
ley Flood Control association -
among whom was Harold Win-
gard director for the Roff area
Wingard reports that petitions
for the formation of a conservancy
district on the Blue River flood
plain will be circulated in the near
future Signatures of 25 per cent
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Knickmeyer, W. L. The Ada Weekly News (Ada, Okla.), Vol. 57, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1957, newspaper, May 23, 1957; Ada, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2110910/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.