Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Midwest City wrestlers, from left to right Nolan White, Charles Van Cleave and Don Mullican do sit ups one of the numerous exercises required of wrestlers."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "C. D. Jackson of New York, former special assistant to president Eisenhower, testifies today as the first witness before a special Senate subcommittee inquiring into administration policies in the Middle East."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph of gullies to be shaped. The picture was taken before the work commenced. OK-455-2.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Kilns at the United Brick company's new plant north of Oklahoma City daily transform about 150 tons of red shale into 55,000 bricks - enough to build quite a few new homes. Plant supervisor, J. E. Williams, 2700 NW 10, says the huge factory operates 24 hours a day, with 34 employes working three shifts. The plant has been in operation about a month now, since transfering all the manufacturing operations from the old site on NW 10. Business and sales officers are still in the old location. Dominant feature in the U-shaped factory is the largeHaprop car tunnel kiln, a 315-foot long furnace which bakes the bricks at temperatures up to 2,000 degrees. The entire operation, from the ground up, literally, is located at the new site. the Santa Fe railroad runs about 100 yards to the east of the factory. Williams says the firm was fortunate in obtaining a site where ideal Permian shale was available with a railroad nearby...............The second kiln is the giant 315-foot tunnel. Here the bricks are run through at gradually increasing temperalires, until in the center, the temperature reachers about 2,000 …

Photograph of the failure of flood prevention dam no. 7. Looking along centerline of dam which caved in a few days after failure occurred. Water entered dam on right abutment following core trench, then went out around outlet pipe. Dam completed March 1957 and failed May 19 when water was about 0. 5 ft. above crest of emergency spillway. Core drill taking Denison samples to determine cause of failure.

Photograph of soil washing and deposition on good bottom land, Scass II Soil Unit 4. Pot holes, drift wood and deposition from Arkansas River overflow. This land should be retired or it will need expensive leveling and cleaning job to put it back into condition for farming.

Photograph of a pot hole in a cultivated field caused by flood water overflowing good bottom land from high water on Arkansas River. This land should be retired from cropland or will need and expensive leveling and cleaning job to put it back into condition for farming.

Photograph of flood prevention dam failure of dam no. 7. Looking along centerline of dam which caved in a few days after failure occurred. Water entered dam on right abutment followed core trench, then went out around outlet p;ipe. Dam completed March 1957 and failed May 19 wehn water was about0. 5 ft. above crest of emergency spillway. Core drill taking denison samples to determine cause of failture.

Photograph of failute of flood prevention dam no. 13. Looking upstream along outlet structure. Failure occurred when water rose apporximately 4 feet above riser, or 6 feet below emergency spillway. Dam completed in January 1957, failure occurred storm of May 18.

Photograph of failute of flood prevention dam no. 13. Looking upstream from end of outlet pipe. Failure occurred when water rose apporximately 4 feet above riser, or 6 feet below emergency spillway. Dam completed in January 1957, failure occurred storm of May 18.

Photograph of floodwater retarding structure 22, complete except for part of riprapping.