Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This stretch of US 77 in Noble County, above left, southwest of Marland, became SH 156 in 1965. The federal highway today goes through Tonkawa, instead of Marland."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An old section of U. S. 77, above right, south of the Kansas state line in Kay County is no longer used."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jack has been a fireman for 37 years"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wilson, Howard - Blackwell, Oklahoma - Attorney - (Roy Cox) - 1958"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Robert M. Young, 17, Ponca city, is youth governor during annual Hi-Y legislature."

Caption: "College Night Tours are scheduled next Tuesday night of Northern Oklahoma Junior college's new library administration building."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Officials from five Indian tribes and the Narconon drug treatment center celebrate the center's opening Saturday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "PRIMED FOR ACTION during spring football drills at the University of Oklahoma is Delbert Long, sophomore halfback from Ponca City."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rough Rider needs spurs and George Lessert, Osage County farmer rancher, presents Trooper Taylor Lain a pair to go with the Trooper's new campaign hat while Lain is patrolling rough and narrow U. S. 60 in Osage County."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The big noise at Ponca City this weekend? It is caused by the entrants in the annual Oklahoma state trap shoot being conducted there, and above are shown several of the participants."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Robert Kerr-Gov. & Gerald Honick, Blackwell 4-H Club"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New addition to the Ponca City Hospital, left, was constructed at a cost of $2 million."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "James S. Hutchins Memorial Building in Ponca City ."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A member of Mike Mercer's pit crew waves the checkered flag as the Denver, Colo., man takes a victory lap after driving his Lotus across the finish line first in the F Production of the 18th annual Ponca City Grand Prix."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The meeting was at Ponca City's celebration of the opening of the Strip."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ponca City, July 17-(Special.)-Dedication of the new state administration building of the American Legion has been set for Sunday, July 27."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma soil experts made a clean sweep of top places in the second annual National Land Judgeing contest, which drew nearly 2,000 contestants and observers from 15 states here Friday. Sidney Spore"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leaning against a tree, Milo Muterspaugh of Colorado Springs, Colo., who led the F Production, confers with the corner crew after a lost wheel knocked him out of the Ponca City Grand Prix event Sunday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Corb Sarchet of Ponca City pours coffee from a coffee pot that has served since her early years of marriage."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Joining in on the nation's birthday celebration, Oklahoma Dept. of Highways workers from Perry install a sign noting the Bicentennial to accompany the standard "Welcome to Oklahoma" sign on I-35 near the Kansas border. Similar signs are being placed in five other locations statewide: I-40 near Sallisaw; on U.S. 69 / 75 south of Durant; I-40 in Beckham Co. ; I-35 south of Marietta; and on I-44 in northeast Oklahoma, near Miami."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Larry Lee Smith stands outside the American Legion Children's Home in Ponca City. As a youngster, he couldn't wait to leave the home, running away a dozen times in five years, but now, as an adult, he appreciates the care and guidance he received there. Now Smith is executive director of the home - the only one exactly of its kind in the nation - and efforts are being made to raise $4 million to renovate the 61-year-old facility."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A lone car passes a road plow on the snowy U.S. 60 just west of Tonkawa Tuesday."