Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OUT - OF - DATE -- BRITTON'S fast moving bond campaign Monday used this old surrey for a telling point.."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "L. E. Hoecher, 1904 NW 27, 11 cent a month to pay for bond bargin."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "City schools food service deparment, which supervises and does purchasing for all OKC school cafeterias, will have a new director January 1, as Miss Martha Russell, right, recently hired this past summer, takes the place of Mrs. Ruth Heckler, left. Heckler will take a similar position in New Orleans."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Midwest City grew up to the east of Oklahoma City from a developer's plan in 1943 to a sprawling suburb, It took its name Midwest Air depot, which is now called Tinker Air Force Base and is the town's biggest business."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(aerial photo of the base's barracks across the nddle to bottom, other buildings middle, Norman in the background, and more)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The comic and the tragic are blended in the background and different events may spring to different minds with the news the navy will recommission Norman's "south base" January 15. Built in three months in 1942, the naval air technical training center originally cost $12 millions. But when it was given to the University of Oklahoma in July, 1946, the value was set at $25 millions. Three Oklahoma City construction companies merged into one to handle the $21 millions job of building the NATTC plus the naval air station (north base), a big navy hospital at Norman, and the gunnery school at Purcell. There were 52 subcontracting companies working on the project. Peak empoyment on the south base was 9,000. Average was 4,000. The first 60 trainees started school on the south base Sept. 1, 1942......Placed side by side, two stories from the Daily Oklahoman seperated by 20 months in time tell an ironic story. On March 21, 1943, the wonders of a recently constructed auditorium on the base to seat 6,400 with "not stell in it" were told. On Nov. 20, 1944, another story told of fire "gutting …

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of hangers, barracks, other buildings across the middle to bottom, the unoversity across the middle, football stadium at middle top center, Norman at top center, and more.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A city whisky wholesaler was in jail on five charges Saturday night, convinced that a bootlegger's life isn't all "Roses" and Brandy"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Why in the world anybody wants to be president for is more than we can see."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Clarence M. Mills, City, Beaus Arts Ball Gifts Committee."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio had a big day in Oklahoma Saturday, with three appearances in the state."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sen. Robert A. Taft. met aging, grizzled W.H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, former governor and father of Gov. Murray, in the lobby of the Skitvin Tower hotel Saturday and was assured of the elder Murray's support for president."

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: "Guy Fraser Harrison - Director of Okla. City Symphony Orchestra"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Walter Cummings, national president of Future Farmers of America, presents an honorary American farmer degree to Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma at national convention in Kansas City."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Seaplanes are flying off Lake Hefner these days."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the Sorosis club on North Robinson and this is the tree."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Pearl Poole, 404 SW 10, is Oklahoma City's only P-TA president with a great-grandchild in school."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Allie Reynolds, double no-hit hurling ace of the world champion New York Yankees, Saturday was named by the Oklahoma City Quarterback club as Oklahoma's "Sportsman of the Year."