Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Traffic on U.S. 66 will soon be flowing over, around and under this overpass now nearing completion at NW 39 and Grand blvd. This view in picture at right, looking northeast, shows one of two overpasses and part of a traffic circle that form a traffic seperation that ultimately will be part of a four-lane expressway to be developed along Grand blvd. The curving road in foreground is a temporary route for U.S. 66 traffic until the overpasses are opened. In final development, this will be a frontage road leading south through a railroad underpass over Grand blvd. Cost of the overpass and traffic seperation was more that $500,000. This picture at left shows relative position of the two overpasses."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 5 1/2-foot Cuban Boa Constrictor at Lincoln Park zoo's reptile garden is the protective mother of two baby boas born Wednesday. The young snakes, born live, are about a fourth the size of their mother and bulging with baby fat that will support then without any food for as long as six months. The mother snake was free in the Cuban wilds 10 weeks ago when she was captured. She has been at the zoo's reptile garden two months. The gestation period is 5 1/2 months, Bob Jenni, zoo reptile curator, said."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The present and future prospects for Oklahoma City's Main street are visualized by an artist sugessting a face-lifting of the city's downtown store fronts. The downtown Merchants association is offering $14,000 in prizes for best store front remodeling jobs. An artist for Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. took a picture of the city's present Main street and sketched possible achetectural renovation. The picture at top shows present buildings on the south side of Main east of the Robinson corner. At bottom is the artists's vision of the remodeled first story of the section and $5,000 grand prize, will emphasize firt floor remodeling. A committee of the city's Architecture league headed by Lee Sorey, will advise store owners and lessees on possible treatment of new fronts. Copies or contest rules have gone out to 250 stores in the contest area, and competition applications now are being accepted by Sorey and J. J. Boxeberg, associate secretary."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "If Oklahoma City achieves its goal of a 6000,0000 population by 1960, the county planning commission will have played more than an incidental role in that development. Planning and zoning functions of the board will become increasingly important AS CITY BOUNDARIES, CONSTANTLY PUSHING OUTWARD, engulfing new suburban areas...The first step was a land use survey within a 5-mile radius of city boundaries. that is the limit of the area under the county board's jurisdiction......W. P. Fowler, director of the county planning commission, points out that careful planning procedures during the next four years will be an important factor in the city's expansion program......Fowler said the site chosen by Midwest city officials is some 1,300 feet east of the Central Oklahoma Milk Producers association plant. A protest was made by B. G. Graham, manager of the association. A new location for the disposal plant is now being studied, Fowler said."

Photograph of Mission Street after construction completion, Sapulpa, OK.

Photograph of Mission Street after construction completion, Sapulpa, OK.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Making its first appearance in Oklahoma or the southwest, this massive B-52 is just about to touchdown at Tinker airforce base Thursday to dedicate the new 12,199 foot north-south runway there. The runway was lengthened and widened - at a cost of $2,746,000 - so Tinker could handle the B-52, newest front line bomber of the airforce. State and city leaders attended dedication ceremonies for the new runway after the Stratofortress landed."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Junior Symphony, 60-strong, versatile all-around musicians and a sprinkling of "Little geniuses" of which this cross section shows: fromleft in front. Geraldean Evans and concertmaster Nancy Burns; middle row, Mary Evans, Johnna Vogel and Margie Zelinger; at back, Nancy Dyer and Anne Marbury. Some 60 of the state's most promising young musicians will be heard Sunday at 3 a.m. when the Oklahoma City Junior Symphony takes the stage of Oklahoma City University auditorium for its first concert of the season. They have been handpicked in competitive auditions and while most are Oklahoma Cityans, and other commute from Edmond, Yukon, Norman, Guthrie, Chandler, Nicoma Park, Bethany and Moore. They will be playing a program of classics, with a few "pops," chosen by conductors Eric Parham and Everett Gates to give full rein to thier talents and skills. the program shows composers from Richard Wagner to Cole Porter; from Brahms, Corelli and Schubert to Sigmond Romberg. Among the members are contingent who look forward to careers in music, and are engaged in intensive preperation. About a dozen are also members of the OCU orchestra, playing under conductor James Neilson. Charles …

Photograph of part of the Lancaster pond. After four years of severe drought Mr. Lancaster still has plenty of livestock and recreational water. This large pond 12 acres at spillway level, average depth 9 feet, is the principal water source for 150 head of cattle.

Photograph of concrete drop structure below site 16, Sandstone Creek. Farms and steel implace ready for placing concrete up to structure crest elevation looking downstream and across. E. H. Holtzan contractor.

Photograph of graded Border Irrigation System. (4300 Acre). Water is pumped from Verdigris River at N. E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrigation in 1956. The system designed provides drainage as well as irrigation.