Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WEDNESDAY WAS a day for signing Douglass high School basketball stars to letters of intent as 6-2 Michael Johnson signed up with Kansas State and 6-4 Marvin Rich with Oklahoma City University."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jack Hartman . . . heading for O-State ?"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Alma Gideon a psychiatric social worker."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City Goodwill Tour members are greeted on arrival at first stop today in Shawnee."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Manning Com-Drill, Inc.'s first computer trailer unit is John H. Brewer, senior engineer for the newly organized drilling service firm in Oklahoma City."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "APPOINTED senior engineer for Com-Drill, Inc., newly organized drilling service firm in Oklahoma City, is John H. Brewer, 1203 Larchmont Lane."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. J. W. Dyche was presented the Oklahoma City Pan-Hellenic woman of the year award."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Named to received the third annual Oklahoma Home Economics Association Professional Award is Mildred R. Clark, Tulsa"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leading the morning session was Mrs. Alice Kimball of Boston, Mass., who is national president of the Unitarian Universalst Women's Federation."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "For example-and on outstanding example-take Leona Mitchell."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Charles Nesbitt (right), Corporation Commissioner and Fred Williams, Shawnee (right)--(center unknown)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Walter Bendorf, left, and Rabbi Joseph Levenson, unroll torah scroll."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Melvin Sires, member of the district attorney's staff in Shawnee, will become the first graduate of the new St. Gregory's College police science program Sunday."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Henry Parker directs rescue workers Wednesday after collapse of the 4-story Empire Building in the 100 block W Main."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Firemen carry body tentatively identified as a Bob Dyer, last of three victims found, to an ambulance."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workmen did through rubble where three of Stone's co-workers died when the Empire building crumbled."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Contractor Henry Parker of Parker Wrecking Co. mounts wall to direct rescue bulldozers in rescue operation."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SEARCHING FOR VICTIMS of Wednesday's collapse of a downtown building, are Patrolman Donald Landes and his police dog"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Excitement is growing among Pottawatomie County health authorities as their new $269,000 county health facility nears completion in Shawnee."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "E.L. Bud Stewart, federal co-chairman of the Ozarks Regional Commission and potential candidate for the U.S. Senate, said Tuesday that America is struggling under a burden of bureaucracy and that revenue sharing is one answer to the dilemma caused by red tape and an overload of officialdom."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Ozarks Regional Commission Wednesday approved more than $400,000 in grants for the development of eastern Oklahoma. Meeting in McAlester, Arkansas Gov. Dale Bumbers, Missouri Gov. Warren Hearnes and Theodore Sanborn, representating the ailing Kansas Gov. Robert Docking, heard Gov. Hall ask funding for a wide range of projects. He appealed for $150,000 to finance a survey of the state's eastern coal deposits, $30,000 for the development of tourism and leisure industries in the Kiamichi Economic Development District of southeastern Oklahoma, and supplement funds for water and sewer projects in Chandler, Sallisaw and Atoka, as well as a feasibility study of the possibilities of developing new communities in eastern Oklahoma...Hall told the governors, assembled for their quarterlyh meeting in place of their representatives who do the detailed planning, that the Oklahoma coal survey was necessary to supply information to Gulf General Atomic Co., commissioned by the state Monday to make a $300,000 study of the potential for installing a coal gasification plant in the area."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dotted line in picture at left shows where Bert (?) day when he felt the wall start to collapse. In Picture at right, workers gaze at the collapsed side of the Empire Building which toppled in 1971, killing three demolition laborers. The dotted line shows where a fourth worker jumped to safety as the wall gave way. Last two bodies pulled from hotel rubble."