Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Canton Reservoir Manager Earl Rodkey watches water flow down spillway."

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.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Water that's about as near instant as man can make it began flowing toward Oklahoma City Wednesday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Colonel C. H. Chorpening, District Engineer, Tulsa District, Corps of Engineers announced that work on the Canton Dam, North Canadian River, Oklahoma, is now approximately 50 percent completed."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Earl Rodkey, Canton Reservoir manager and assistant resident engineer, pushes the button to start electric motors which operate gate ."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leonard Thompson checks depth of North Canadian at gauge on riverbank below Canton Dam as fishermen, bather have a ball."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The new Assembly of God church at Geary is taking from as members of the congregation donate labor."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Blaine County hopes to finish the 4-H club-Future Farmers of America building at the fairgrounds at Watonga before September."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A purple martin house erected in the yard of a home near Geary makes a snug accommodation for these parents and their brood of nestlings, safe from prowling cats and shaded from the Oklahoma summer sun."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "O. E. Durham, Okeene, Democratic elector."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Queen of the Chickasha Roundup Club is Anita Winham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Winham, Rush Springs."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "S / Sgt. Glen G. Zimmerman, Company L, 179th infantry, Watonga, could have spent most of the 19 years he has been with the 45th division to grow this handlebar mustache."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Smith of Geary are pictured with seven of Mr. Smith's 29 sons and daughters (16 by his present wife) . David, 5, is on mom's lap, while Smith holds Carl Joe, 3, on his lap. The girls are, from left, Nadine, 10; Lilly May, 7; Linda Fay, 9; Emma Gene, 15; and Jewel Dean, 13. These are seven of the 10 kids still at home."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's 69th birthday party was climaxed Tuesday night as eight new shining stars were added to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame's noted galaxy."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "James Franklin Smith, right, 77, has been helping the "Smith" clan for 56 years. The salty native of Arkansas has fathered 29 sons and daughters, outliving three of them, and says he is not through yet. He is shown at his home in Geary, Okla., with his 46-year-old second wife, Arvelia, who has 16 children with him, 10 still at home. He and his first wife, Ida, were married in 1898, and he said he never gave a "big family" any kind of thought."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oscar P. Ruth gets up with the sun each moring to check the past day's rainfall... ."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Leo scott, left, reclainm their car in Weatherford. A texas kidnaper used it four days after leaving the Scotts barricaded in a shed southwest of Watonga. Their son, Tommy, 17, stands beside the car."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "And carefully enters the total in his records day after day."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eighty-one ears ago, on March 4, 1868, Jesse Chisholm, Cherokee , a trail blazer, sickened and died."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ice look over the old family Bible and the birth dates of their children . . . Ray, Norma, Laura, Joe."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ben Ice, 74 . . . never much on getting something for nothing."