Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Proctor Heinold City- Golden Gloves boxer"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Proctor Heinold City- boxer (Golden Gloves)."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first all-American raid on Wilhelmshaven and Emden last week meant a real thrill to Mrs. A. L. Gray, 2937 Northwest Twenty-second street, because her son, Lieut. Robert A. Gray, 26 years old, was the bombardier on the Flying Fortress "Carter and His Little Pills," which shot down two Nazi fighter planes."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Salvage of USS Oklahoma BB-47, at Pearl Harbor 1943-43. Ship rotated to an angle of about 30 degrees, on March 29, 1943. N. A. S. Ford Island is in the background."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "L-R, Kathryn "Kittie" C. Sturdevant, Oklahoma City, attorney; Jessye Arnett, Oklahoma City; and Una Lee Roberts, Oklahoma City."

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 Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "LeRoy "Ace" Gutowsky, one of Oklahoma's greatest football players when he started for Oklahoma City University in 1929-30, was inducted into the Army Thursday and will report to Fort Sill after a seven day furlough."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mayor Hefner, left, and H. E. Bailey, city manger inspect the first of 85 new sign post which will be erected at city street corners."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The news paper president and general manager of the Oklahoma National Stockyard Co., Oscar L. Holderby, was getting acquainted rapidly Thursday with his co-workers at the yards."

Photograph of H.H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, and F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], examine an improved pasture on the farm of C.B. Ritberger. Ritberger says carrying capacity of this 88 acre pasture has been doubled since he improved it with the addition of hop clover, white Dutch, yellow hop and lespedeza. Ritberger first came to this 200acre farm as a tenant in 1928, he rented the farm for $700 from F.S. Hurd until 1938, when he bought the farm, paying $8000 cash. Starting with 2 cows in the diary business he has increased the herd to 40 Jerseys that average 20 pounds of milk per day, the year round. He also has 20 white-faced Herefords. His 92 acres of cultivated land are terraced and tilled on the contour. He has 12 acres of bluestem meadow and 2 acres of post lot. OK-8546.

Photograph of P.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris's Soil Conservation District [SCD] and H. H. Bennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service examine some native little bluestem in the 12 acre meadow of the C.B. Ritberger farm. This meadow land is contributing a large amount of run-off to streams was formerly waste before Ritberger developed it under a plan worked out with the aid of technicians of the Soil Conservation Service assigned to assist the district. Grass today is helping to hold most of the rain on the land. OK-8548.

Photograph of H.H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, and F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], examine an improved pasture on the farm of C.B. Ritberger. Ritberger says carrying capacity of this 88 acre pasture has been doubled since he improved it with the addition of hop clover, white Dutch, yellow hop and lespedeza. Ritberger first came to this 200acre farm as a tenant in 1928, he rented the farm for $700 from F.S. Hurd until 1938, when he bought the farm, paying $8000 cash. Starting with 2 cows in the diary business he has increased the herd to 40 Jerseys that average 20 pounds of milk per day, the year round. He also has 20 white-faced Herefords. His 92 acres of cultivated land are terraced and tilled on the contour. He has 12 acres of bluestem meadow and 2 acres of post lot. OK-8546.

Photograph of F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], and H. H. Bennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service examine some native little bluestem in the 12-acre meadow of the C.B. Ritberger farm. This meadow land contributing a large amount of run-off to streams was formerly waste before Ritberger developed it under a plan worked out with the aid of technicians of the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] assigned to the district. Grass today is helping to hold most of the rain on the land. OK-8548.

Photograph of hauling in Alfalfa hay. Total acres in farm: 200; pasture, gg: cultivation, 92, native meadow, 12; post lot, 2; farmstead, 2. Ritberger signed a cooperative agreement with the Arkansas Verdigris SCD July 25, 1940. Farm owner (on top of wagon) and Claud Ritberger, son, are hauling in alfalfa hay from the 10 acre field that produces an average of 4 tons per acre annually. Some sheet and gullly erosion were active on this field before alfalfa was establsihed in cooperation with the district. Superphosphate and lime were applied to this field before planting alfalfa.

Photograph of cows on the Ritberger farm (remainng text to blurred and faded). OK-8547.

Photograph of the St. Louis and Santa Fe railroad tracks that were washed 200 feet from the railroad during recent record-breaking floods on the Verdigris River. These tracks washed from the roadbed and completely across Hwy 66 before lodging against the trees. Most of the rails are bent out of shape. Photo shows Verdigris River between Tulsa and Claremore. OK-8543.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "On the basis of a 40-hour week - although there is well-founded information that American fliers don't demand that kind of working schedule - Captain James D Harden, Oklahoma City, has spent five weeks flying time in the air, fighting the enemy in the middle east."

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

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