Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Arranging a detour through Nichols Hills is not the easiest job in the world. The fact has been noted during construction work on a 3-lane widening project in the community on N Pennsylvania. The widening itself is within a few yards if being done, and some resurfacing work is all finished up. All that'll remain after that is to "even up" the streety in a spot or two. But The Project was done despite the fact that Nichols Hills is not exactly built in such manner to facilitate setting uo alternate traffic routes. The widening is the second stage of a county bond issue project, and this stage takes care of a mile of widening street from NW 63 to Wilshire Blvd...When Nichols Hills was built, the planners had in mind a lovely community, with winding streets, spacious lawns, big trees, and a park-like atmosphere...Nichols Hills toke a dim view of this at first and set up stringent regulations (20 miles per hour, no passing, no trucks). As has been pointed out, this is the rule all over the community. It's just emphasized on Pennsylvania. (photo tag: This …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen worked in sub-freezing temperatures as the fire raged out og control. Traffic was snarled in all direction as fire hoses and equipment blocked the surrounding streets."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of LBJ at table with a name tab speaking into a microphone)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fifty firemen and 16 fire rigs were called into action to combat the blaze. This fireman manned a high pressure hose from the aerial ladder in vain effort to squelch the interior fire."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A two-alarm fire sent up towers of smoke from Louie's 29 Club Thursday morning, and caused damage estimated at $80,000. For a time several nearby buildings were threatened. The two-story private club at 2929 SW 29 was empty when the fire broke out. Fourteen firefighting units battled the blaze, believed to have been caused by an overheated motor in an ice-making machine. Louis Strach, owner, said the club had been remolded recently at a cost of $15,000. He said insurance will cover only $25,000 of the loss."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A spectacular tow-alarm fire destroyed Louie's 29 Club, 2929 SW 29, Thursday morning. Only the white-painted stone walls of the landmark night club were standing when the firemen brought the blaze under control about 9:30 a.m. Louis Strauch, 59-year-old owner, tearfully looked over the ruins of the establishment, now liscensed as a private club, and said, "I'm not going to ever reopen." 50 Battle Blaze Fifty firemen and some 16 pieces of equipment were rushed to the scene on a second alarm call about 8:30 a.m. as the fire spread quickly out of control. Flames shot 50 feet into the air as firemen poured on water from several different directions. Billowing clouds of smoke poured out windows and were fanned southward by a stiff north breeze. Strauch told firemen that just before closing the club at 3 a.m. an emplye had smelled smoke. He said it seemed to come from an overheated electric motor. Don't Find Source Unable to find anything, employes went home, Strauch said. A fire inspector said, "If he had called us last night and let us look, this might not have happened." While watching …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fire Chief Haskell Graves says citizens don't have anything to worry about as regards firefighting equipment. This is a despite the fact hoses that leaked like sieves were used in putting out the fire at Louie's Club 29 Thursday. "You'll expect to see that sort of thing at fires," the chief explained. He added that he wasn't at the Louie's fire and so he didn't se the leaky hose. One that attracted most attention was one which wound, snake-like down SW 29 from a main on S May. It looked like a mighty hurt snake. Club a Total Loss On another occasion at this same fire, a hose burst at an inopportune time, shooting a nice geyser all over the street, and left the fireman at the fire standing there with a dry hose in his hands. Other lesser leaks sprayed from smaller holes in many of the hoses that were used to combat the 2-alarm blaze...............New hose is purchased from an annual allocation. This year's till comes to $7,500. Hose isn't replaced until it fails the test. "We have some hose that has been in service 17 …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Outside walls going up and construction is running five percent ahead of schedule at the new federal building on NW 4 between Robinson and Harvey. This photo shows the west side of the structure. Dow Gumerson, architect, reported it is hoped the project can be finished next spring. the schedule calls for completion in November, 1961. Extreme cold last winter and heavy rains put the project behind schedule, but Roy Cole, construction superintendent, and his men have overcome the time deficit. The general contractor is J. W. Bateson, Construction Co., Dallas. Gumerson and Benham Engineering Co. are architects and engineers on the $7 million job. The construction contract was let to Bateson on a $4,463,300 bid last July."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The Federal Aviation Agency's first high -altitude, jet navagational check labatory was completed and rolled out of the hangar here Wednesday morning. The laboratory, which will be used to check ground navigational facilities across the nation and in other countries, is a converted KC-135 jet, in-flight, refueling tanker purchased last fall through the air force. The huge, 600-mile-an-hour labrotory was modified at the FAA center here at a cost of $250,00 excluding cost of equipment, FAA officials estimate. The plane, orginally built as a tanker or cargo plane, has been equipped with special electronic gear to enable an in-flight check of ground stations sending out navigational radio beams. Previous to the conversion of the mammoth jet, the high altitude checks have been accomplished by smaller jet crafts. The KC-135 will check VOR (very high frequency omni directional range) facilities and TACAN (tatical air navigation to see if the stations are sending out directional headings within prescribed tolerances, Bob Ashby, project enginerr on the KC-135 modification, said. The TACAN and VOR stations give directional aid to military and air line pilots as well as the smaller craft..........The all-jet labroratory …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A spectacular tow-alarm fire destroyed Louie's 29 Club, 2929 SW 29, Thursday morning. Only the white-painted stone walls of the landmark night club were standing when the firemen brought the blaze under control about 9:30 a.m. Louis Strauch, 59-year-old owner, tearfully looked over the ruins of the establishment, now liscensed as a private club, and said, "I'm not going to ever reopen." 50 Battle Blaze Fifty firemen and some 16 pieces of equipment were rushed to the scene on a second alarm call about 8:30 a.m. as the fire spread quickly out of control. Flames shot 50 feet into the air as firemen poured on water from several different directions. Billowing clouds of smoke poured out windows and were fanned southward by a stiff north breeze. Strauch told firemen that just before closing the club at 3 a.m. an emplye had smelled smoke. He said it seemed to come from an overheated electric motor. Don't Find Source Unable to find anything, employes went home, Strauch said. A fire inspector said, "If he had called us last night and let us look, this might not have happened." While watching …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Overcrowding of University Hospital's nursery and obstetrical facilities raised fears Wednesday of a "staph" infection outbreak. Officials reported the hospital's newborn nursery, equipped for a maximum of 30 infants, has had an occupancy of 50 to 55 the last two weeks. Record Month Raymond Crews, superintendent, said August was a record month for deliveries in the University and the birth rate so far this month is exceeding it. The baby census in the newborn sursery alone range between 40 and 44-a-day from mid-august to September, then hit the 50s......Crews said overcrowding newborn and obsterical services has been a factor in severe outbreaks of phylococcal infections in other hospitals. Doctors Alarmed Doctors and nurses at University were reported alarmed for not being able to give patients proper care. Crews warned mothers will be delivered in beds because delivery rooms won't be available and they will be cared for by untrained people because of a personnel shortage...The problem is not confined to the newborn nursery. the premature nursery and children's nursery has had a capacity census of 13 infants the last two months. (photo tag: Some of the babies overcrowding …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "There was a hot time at Louie's 29 Club, 2929 SW 29, Thursday as fire gutted the landmark night club. Damage was estimated at $80,000 to the newly remodeled structure."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Highway sign has lost its lisp since the picture of SE Fifty-first street sign (top) appeared in the Times feature section recently."

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Up ahead of Thanksgiving are downtown Christmas decorations."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The intricacies of organ action are mystifying to the uninitiated, but simple as ABC to a builder like Otto Hofman, who is constructing this new tracker organ for the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and St. Therese, 1125 S Walker."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Federal bureau of roads Wednesday approved an over-estimate bid on approaches to Oklahoma city's new may avenue bridges."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Science and Physics class rooms and laboratories share space with approximately 12,000 books at Oklahoma Military Academy's Science Library."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "William H. Alexander Youth Center"

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "N. Winston Yeager, 2420 NW 55, has been named vice-president in the correspondent bank department of City National Bank & Trust Co."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Monty and Pat Williams, Alva, have taken the long way around, but they are back in a field that has fascinated them since they were young boys, diesel machinery."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Street scene in Meeker: Mayor Lester Curtis, a service station operator; Banker U. S. Russell jr., and school superintendent Smitty Williams ponder question: "What if a disaster killed all of Meeker?"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Talent Show participants at Putnam Hieghts school rehearse for the PTA fundraising night.. ."