Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jovial Ralph Parkinson of Wichita Falls is one of the standout stockcar pilots who will be in action Tuesday at 8 p.m."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Johnston Oil Field Service Corp. is increasing its operations in Oklahoma and has launched a program of selling its services through an air-conditioned suite during this hot weather."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Arlene Preble, far left, of the Women's Air Force, city, Army-AirForce recruiting office"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cowboy-crooner Ray Whitley gives out with a little of "Lonely River," for the benefit of his wife, Kay, and daughter, Judy Kay."

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Public welfare leaders who spoke Monday before the southwestern conference of the American Public Welfare association here. left to right: Miss Loula Dunn, director of the APWA."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At St. Anthony hospital Mrs. Howard W. Murray and her 7-day-old daughter, Diana Jean, are "sweating" out progress of current Korean peace negotiations."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Donalene Young, editor of News from home, employee magazine pyblished by the Home State Life Insurance Co., Oklahoma City, has been elected 1951-52 president of the central Oklahoma chapter of the Society of Associated Industrial Editors."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Joe Buck, former Oklahoma Aggie baseball star who recently signed with the Boston Red Sox organization for a reported $20,000, is visited at his Mercy hospital room by Miss Alice Florey of Tulsa."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A change in interpretation of rules by judges of the national speech tournament at Pepperdine college, and a local eliminations contest to determine a third contestant Wednesday had Classen senior Kon Keesee on a bandwagon headed for California."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Four hours after the storm, the only people awake in Corn were the outsiders. At colony, a small group of residents watched curiously as telephone linemen set up a makeshift connection attached to a pole at the corner of the town's main intersection. At daylight Saturday, Colony people were lined up on the sidewalk to place reassuring telephone calls to worried relatives and recieve the anxious incomingcalls. It was the only telephone within 15 miles of the storm-damaged area. At both Corn and Colony, the work of shaking loose the debris, sifting the wreckage for personal valuables and making plans to rebuild was the first order of business Saturday as the skies that once frowned now smiled brightly. (photo tag: The tiers of seats belong to Colony's new gym. Only brick walss of the school remain.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Corn tornado left behind the freak wreckage that people have come to associate with Oklahoma's twisters. The home shown above was on the edge of a residential area that was completely leveled. The house lost the roof and the front wall. The organ shown in the room at the right still holds an undistrubed sheet of music. The chairs in the room were still sitting naturally around the table, but the house losty an entire wall only a few feet away. Forty other homes in the city were wrecked."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The church bus, or what's left of it, shown in the background above was parked in a garage 1 1/2 blocks away from its presents location when a twister hit Corn shortly before dark Friday. In the foreground is all that's left of several homes in Corn's southwest residential section."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a destroyed home/building with just the foundation and some of the concrete of the concrete walls still there, an organ/piano at middle left torn apart, and more)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This striking aerial view at Lake Overholser is actually more practical than artistic. It shows eight new fire department 500-gallon pumpers meeting the exacting perfornce rtests demanded before their acceptance. Manufactured locally, all machines met the gruelling standards, and have been approved. Each one can pump 500 gallons a minute under 150 pounds of pressure. three went into service as replacements and five are being held for use in new bond issue stations."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Below is one of the old style oil field pumps that still draws the black gold out of the Osage hills near there."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Portrait of Mrs. Virgil Browne" by Claude Montgomery, nationally recognized artist, has been selected as the "Masterpiece of the Month" at the Oklahoma Art Center."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Officers from the county sheriff's office Wednesday night padlocked three beer and bookie joints on Broadway."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Civitan club members have invited their wives to dinner at 6;30 p.m. Friday in the Sky room, Oklahoma club."

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. Caption: "Julia Calkins, left, of 1435 NW 40, is a little reluctant to try on a German Tyrolese hat brought home by Joe F. Hackett."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "James Robert Hall, 30, a former convict shown below, is being sought by police in connection with the shooting."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Virgil Henry, City"