Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Trophies for "just about everything" are lined up at Playmore alleys awaiting the fourteenth annual men's city bowling tournament Saturday through February 8."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mike Magdalena - City"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Frank Phillips, Pres. P. Pet. Co., rancher, banker, aviation enthusiast."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's not competition, just wanting the folks to know that the Oklahoma National Guard is back in the same old prewar stand - almost - that caused this big sign to go up, according to Brig. Gen. Roy W. Kenny, adjuant general. What with a new naval armory starting construction nearby and having regained use of about three-fourths of the state armory from the state highway patrol, which moved into it when the 45th division went off to war, the military department though it time to advertise a bit. The legislature overlooked putting the patrol in a new home lasst session, so the answer of the "tenant" is "yeah, we'll move - but WHERE?"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mild alertness, boredom and complete disinterest are reflected by Ray C. Jones, left; Reford Bond, chairman, and Ray O. Weems, corporation commissioners, while attorneys read pages of testimony in the fight over a Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. request for temporary rate boosts in Oklahoma."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. C.R. Rountree"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wayne Rowe Lawton Hereford breeder"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Athel Williams. . . feeds oats to a horse during a rest period of the state field trials at lake Murray State park."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In another few months, drivers along S Robinson may have forgotten they have a big money investment buried underground near Wiley Post park. But now thay can see the treasur being buried. The huge excavation is part of the $9 million sanitary sewer bond issue program. Earl W. Baker, contractor, has crews and heavy machinery at work tunneling beneath S Robinson so traffic won't be bothered as the big southwestern sanitary sewer main moves toward its westward mission of serving Capitol Himm and Stockyard City areas...Space between the sewer pipe and the steel shell then will be filled with concrete."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "No major dust bowls are expected in 1948, experts say, but a minor one is building at Lake Overholser. No water has been received at the lake since July 10 and the water level is nine feet below the full markers. This view, from the east side of the lake looking southwest, shows bare ground all the way to the west bank. Water department officials expect the lake to be filled by the spring rains but admit rationing will be necessary this summer if the lake is not filled before hot weather. Lake Hefner has lots of water, but not enough filitration capacity. (O-12-26-48: 1948 was a dry year. Evidence of it showed up early. This picture looking southwest from the east bank of Lake Overholser was taken February 27. No water had flowed into the lake since July 10, 1947. But later, there was real floods.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Just a month ago Lake Overholser was near the all-time record low level, patches of the lake bed were bare; rubber tires, cans, bottles and other debris exposed. City officials gloomly said water rationing was a summer possiblity unless the lake was filled. Lake Hefner had a three year supply of water, bu inadequate filtration equipment. Old wells were located and pumping equipment lined up. Then the rains came. In a week Lake Overholser gained six feet of water. The two pictures show the before and after comparison of Overholser from the east side of the lake. The expanse of water should relieve at least the immediate threat of water rationing."

Photograph taken during daylight of the smoldering shell of what was once Shawnee High School. Caption: "Only the doorway facing U. S. 270 remained in one piece Saturday morning after a $500,000 fire swept the Shawnee High School, destroying the main part of the building."

Photograph of the front of Shawnee High School with no windows or door and building behind the front facing brick has burned to the ground. There are over fifteen people visible in the photo viewing the remains of the building. The photo was taken in the day time. Caption: "Shawnee High School"

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "At a glance, this looks like just another horse. But to a lover of good horseflesh, it is one of the smoothest riding, top breeds of horses in the country- a purebred Tennessee walking horse."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Cincinnati Reds said Thursday they have acquired 26 year-old catcher Dick Kinaman from the Cleveland Indians."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Beans Marionetti"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The clean-up, paint-up campaign was on in earnest in Oklahoma City Tuesday, and it mattered not where fell the ax of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the drive. Here, left, is E. A. McCarthy of General Outdoor Advertising Co., reluctantly giving in on removal of a sign northwest of Municipal Auditorium on Civic Center, as Pat Murphy shows approval."