Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton fire fighters cruise through town on their 1923 Stutz fire engine which took 500 off-duty hours to bring back to life."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton's urban renewal continues as workers remove a brick structure that housed a jewelry store from the 300 block of C Avenue."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton's new sewage treatment plant is scheduled to be completed and opened next year."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Open ceremonies are planned for the new City National Bank building at Lawton."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nearing the first operational stage is the $13.4 million sewage treatment plant south of Lawton near Cache Creek."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Solid as the forces that battled during World War I, this monument to the armistice of 1918 is examined by Maj. (Ret.) Jack Lindstrom, president of the Comanche County Veterans Association. Ground from a 40-ton boulder found in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, the memorial will hold bronze plaques honoring nation's five branches of military service. The monument stands in the southwest corner of the city library plaza in downtown Lawton."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lawton's Montego Bay Motel will become the White House on Friday when President Ford visits."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Veronika Bolin, New Brighton, Minn., and her dog 'Tag' take advantage of a special pet park provided for visitors at the state's visitors information center near downtown Lawton."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Open air escalator was removed from downtown Lawton Tuesday by a demolition crew that earlier demolished the C. R. Anthony store."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Matriarchal head of the descendants of Quanah Parker, 92-year-old Nora Parker, a sister-in-law, is surrounded by great-grandchildren of the last Comanche tribal chief. Some 60 family members attended a Labor Day reunion Monday at Lake Quanah Parker in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge northwest of Lawton."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Maneuvering her wheelchair through doors that open outward poses a problem for Mary Hannah and her daughter, Tami. An Army Community Service volunteer, the young Fort Sill wife began writing articles last summer on the problems she shares with handicapped people in the Ft. Sill-Lawton community. The outgrowth from this effort, and some frienships and relationships forged, resulted in the Problems of Architecture and Transportation to the Handicapped (PATH) group."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FT. SILL-" One minute it seems like minute everything's the world is falling quiet, and the next apart," says 22-year-old Margaret Poe, the Ft. Sill Military Police Station's first woman desk sergeant."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Raising a family today is easier, said Mrs. Carrie Quetone Sahmaunt, Oklahoma's Indian Mother of the Year, who remembers cooking over a wood stove and churning milk when her 10 children wwere growing up on a farm."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With the help of a rope, Greg Forrest, an 11-year-old student at Woodland Hills Elementary School in Lawton, learnscreative dance movement from lisa Roll."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Earl Simmons"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Identical twins Mark, left and David Thompson have drawn more than a few double takes among the ranks."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Maude Smith stands in an alcove of the Wichita Wildlife Mountain Refuge."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Christ of the Wichitas, in the Wichita Mountains near Lawton, will be the focus of attention at Easter Sunrise Services there April 18. The 8,000-pound marble statue stands 24 feet tall with its natural stone and concrete base, and was dedicated last November."

Portrait of Jeanna Ezzell, Miss Lawton of 1976.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tangle, tangle, tail and macrame," witch Vicki Viginton might comment at Southwest Repertory Theatre's current "Macbeth" production, which includes its run at 8:15 p.m. Sunday and Thursday."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A herd of buffalo roams in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Longhorn cattle, part of a herd of 300, return the stares of passing visitors in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ft. Sill Santa in the person of Sepc. 4 Phillip Chauffepied, Marksville, La., works repairing donated toys in the Toys for Tots project at the Lawton Army post."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Former OU footballer Terry Webb has moved away from the spotlight, into a much more "private" life in the Army at Fort Sill."