Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only minor scratches. They were assisted to the bank by several unidentified men who were fishing nearby. Car Plunges Off Bridge The car landed on the driver`s side in about five feet of water. Most of the last four or five months, the river has been bank-full and has had a swift current. But the last two weeks it had fallen four or five feet. If the river had been at the higher level, several feet of water would have covered the car. Mrs. Thompson said she was driving the car across the bridge, which is about a half mile east of Shawnee. She said the car slipped off the plank runners which are on the bridge flooring. When she tried to bring the car back …

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nineteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Cox of Shawnee, left, made history Tuesday when she became the first young woman to be sworn into the WAVE at the Oklahoma City station."

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

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elmer Harber . . . Likes his Shawnee job."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A printer's idea for reducing costs of complicated bookkeeping forms, and at the same time print them so accurately they'll work on any machine, is expected to create a new industry here at Shawnee."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma can thank Bob and Norma Daughterly for development of another industry . They turned $10 and a hobby of painting emblems on T-shirts into a $50.000-a-year business.."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fads sometimes influence teen-age buying, the survey points out. Two McLoud Future Homemakers examine a rack of "Car Coats" currently a 'must' in the teen-ager's wardrobe. Mrs. Erwane Ferrell, McLoud homemaking teacher, calls attention to the importance of reading labels to Maxine Blake and Edna Mae Williams."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Among weekend visitors in Oklahoma City will be Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Earley and their sons."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Link Cowen, contractor, will head the Shawnee chamber of commerce during the coming year."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Daugherty sketches a design that later will be cut on film. A sheet of this " film" is on the right side of the sketch on which she is working."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Frames for silk screens which play a major part in the Daugherty print business range in size from a few inches to several feet."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "William Epperson, former city editor of the Shawnee News Star, has been appointed Oklahoma Eastern state representative for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Judge J. Knox Byrum / Shawnee"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pfc. Patricia Hill."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ford Music hall at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, is rapidly going up."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's a perfect example of why doctors do all in their power to save the human spark of life. Larry Robert Wiegert, Harrah, Premature."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tecumseh's chamber of commerce and Rotary club combined this week to reward one of the city's leading boosters, and the head of the school there 25 years."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the newest additions to the Oklahoma Baptist University campus picture is the new home for the university president. The presdidentioal mansion overlooking the campus from the north."

Students gathered outside of Oklahoma Baptist University's library.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. F. Erdmann Smith, first graduate of Oklahoma Baptist college when the school was located in Blackwell, joins Miss Eunice Short, alumni secretary at OBU, in looking over the college service roll."