Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Serena Hansen of Oklahoma City tries to wave a prospective customer nearer to her baseball pitching game stand at the Peach Festival in Stratford over the weekend."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Donnie Blankenship of Vanoss holds his entry in the turtle race Saturday at the Stratford Peach Festival."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Don Biffle and his wife Jerry, of Pauls Valley, do some cattle trading Thursday with one of a dozen commission firms which are completing business transactions from makeshift desks and tabletops."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Armt Pvt. David Lane of Pauls Valley takes a nap Wednesday at Will Rogers World Airport."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Some people may be only too happy to get rid of old 'junk' but not (Viktor K. "Joe" Turner) Joe Turner who says he picked up this ancient wooden plough after it had been discarded."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The second annual Oklahoma-Texas all-star high school girls basketball game is scheduled at 8 pm Saturday night in Lindsay."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. C. "Dick" Longmire was fighting air and water pollution in Oklahoma 33 years ago."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles Burnett - Elmore City East Coach"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "World War I veterans from Pauls Valley watch as patient Howard Niyah works on a copper tooling."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jeanne Dowd - Pauls Valley -winner of Cornell Univ. Nat'l. Scholarship"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. E. Carleton, superintendent of Pauls Valley schools, who will receive the George Wacker Award."

Photograph of Lowell Caskey and Walter Hart discussing organic matter and soil fertility. This field has had a crop of vetch in rotation every year since 1936, the oldest vetch planting in the country.

Photograph of US Highway 77, 6 miles south of Pauls Valley Okla. The Washita River channel completely destroyed approximately 300 feet of the highway and embankment. $625,000 has been appropriated for a new bridge at a new location.

Photograph of US Highway 77, 6 miles south of Pauls Valley Okla. Severe channel cutting occurred during the storms received in April and May 1957. This highway was completely destroyed. Plans are to build a temporary road to this bridge. $625,000 has been scheduled to relocate this bridge and highway.

Photograph of channel cutting by the Washita River. East of river bridge. Note corn field being destroyed by Washita River channel cutting. Two days after this picture was taken, approximately 1/2 of Washita River bridge on Highway 77 was destroyed. The channel cut 50 additional feet at this location where telephone pole is standing in this picture. Approximately 2,000 acres of valuable Washita bottomland were destroyed in April and May 1957 by channel cutting.

Photograph of the Washita River channel cutting at U. S. Highway 77 bridge 3 miles northwest of Pauls Valley. It was estimated that the Washita channel widened 100 feet in 112 river miles from Lindsay, Okla. To Arbuckle Mts. Approximately 2000 acres of valuable Washita bottom lands were destroyed in April & May of 1957 by channel cutting. Note the gas line being uncovered by channel cutting. Irrigation pump and motor were moved from stand pipe in background. 200 acres are irrigated on the Longmire Farm from this location.

Photograph of aerial view of flood water, sediment, and scour damage along Washita River, vicinity of Pauls Valley.

Photograph of aerial view of floodwater, sediment and scour damage along Washita River, vicinity o f Pauls Valley.

Photograph of aerial view of floodwater, sediment and scour damage along Washita River, vicinity o f Pauls Valley.

Photograph of aerial view of floodwater, sediment and scour damage along Washita River, vicinity o f Pauls Valley.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Irwin Tucker, of Wynnewood, told about it here Thursday. Tucker is the man who established a little shrine in his filling station for the use of himself and his men "who needed God's help." and found he had filled a need for hundreds."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dedicatory rites for the $30,000 St. Peters Catholic Church will be held March 13."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The two best 4-H club meat judges in Oklahoma-which means they can identify, select and probably cook any meat better than most housewives in the state--are Yvonne Scally, 16, Pauls Valley."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "St. Catherine's Catholic church in Pauls Valley and the new rectory will be completed in June."