Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Senate panel unanimously passed a congressional redistricting plan Monday that would make the congressional delegation happy, while the House toyed with several plans that could put it on a collision course with the Senate."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A "cotton module" is loaded on a specially built trailer to be taken to a gin by Altus farmer Eddie Williams."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Altus-Lugert dam and part of Lake Altus full of water."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lake Altus, Quartz Mountain State Park, Greer - Kiowa Counties."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Once the ranch house of the Cross S Ranch, this rock house built in 1892 by two Swedes still stands today."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Joe Hankins Collects firefighting memorabillia."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "PROTOTYPE HOMES being built at Altus through federal financing will test design and construction for residence for low-income families."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A new version of the controversial water transportation bill received a do-pass recommendation Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which first struck the title of the bill to insure it will end up in a Senate-House conference committee."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Carl F. Baswell, left, appointed to the newly-created post of Altus area engineer, goes over some of the Army Corps of Engineers specifications or construction on nine Atlas ICBM launching sites with Capt. John Park, former assistant resident engineer for southwest Oklahoma, who has been elevated top resident engineer to handle Fort Sill projects."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Waterbird" rests on temporary mountings while waiting to be hoisted upright to the word-smeared base at right. "Waterbird" is a "mock Atlas missile," and was America's first missile system capable of carrying atomic warheads anywhere on the planet. It was part of an underground missile silo test at Altus AFB, and will now be put up on display."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SUSPECTED MARIJUANA confiscated from Robert F. Meeks, Tipton, is examined by Jackson County Sheriff's Deputies Bill Smith and Jackie Lednetter."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cave-in in the Altus courthouse square, which revealed an 1889 vintage public water well, is examined by Gene Bryce, left, Jackson County deputy assessor, Bill Neal, Altus, whose parents dug the well, and D. L. Boyer, Jackson County school superintendent."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ripening wheat in fields such as this one near Altus in southwestern Oklahoma may be ready for harvest in early June, crop reports indicate."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wheat, Altus"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two new displays at the Museum of the Western Prairie at Altus include an early settler's half dugout moved from it's original site near Olustee and a water well sith a working windmill."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roy Henry, Altus Civic Trust fund drive chairman, and Alberta Haralson, drive secretary, have extra work this week as a shortage of "red feathers" left Altus with only the turkey variety."