Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Optima Dam begins taking shape along the North Canadian River near Hardesty."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nearly completed outlet works for Optima Dam on the North Canadian River are shown in the photo which looks downstream."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Five times Hardesty had made it to the state tournament and gone home empty-handed."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lieutenant Colonel James B. Ellingsworth is shown having his "eagles" pinned on his shoulder that promotes him to Colonel."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Judge Wallace Hughes, Texas County Rep. Okla."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The message, 'Land with a Dream,' decorates the window of the Texhoma Museum."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Natalie Rapp - freshman - Hooker"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MISS PLAINSMAN, Candi Rhoton, center, will represent Panhandle State College in the Miss Oklahoma Pageant at Tulsa in June."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Guymon will soon be hosting a Pioneer Days of No-Man's Land celebration, May 1 and 2. They are crowning a Pioneer Queen, and Mrs. Myrtle Salter Roach, 71, a pioneer Guymon resident was named to hold the crown last week. Up to 25,000 people are expected to visit Guymon during the celebration."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Another step in the industrial world has now been taken in the once called "No-Mans Land."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Steve Lee, 20, Guymon mounts treadmill for cardiac tolerance test also taken by Times reporter."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Mildred Moore, of Guymon, has been confined to a wheelchair for 10 years by arthritis, but that hasn't kept her from teaching piano."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gov. David Boren and Georgia LaMar, chairman of the state Department of Libraries Board, spoke at the library building dedication Thursday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This porker isn't in a poke still it is and abandon basement and apparently has been there 10 weeks. Harold Palmer of Tyrone, believes the pig has been i the basement since December 4 when a truckload of pigs overturned on U.S. 54 near Tyrone. Another pig, apparently not as hardy was found in the same excavation. Here at the left is Arnold Stevens and his son Lloyd Wayne and Palmer who is feeding the pig."

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: "Dave Story"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Texas county courthouse, Guymon Oklahoma."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "While most of texhoma lie on the Oklahoma side of Texhoma, the stat line instersects the north bin of one of the community's elevators."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Augustine Livestone commission company's plant in Texhoma."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gusty onslaught toppled construction barricade in the unit block NW 5."

Photograph of bank erosion on Cold Water Creek, with heavy damage to farmstead imminent. The edge of the bank is 500 feet from the house shown in the photo. OK-370.