[Photograph 2012.201.B0311.0304]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "On a tour of Public Health Service Indian facilities are shown to Chetram Singh, British Guiana hospital administrator, and his wife by E. V. Downing (right), executive officer of Indian health."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0167]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Getting speeches down pat are Mary Garrett, left, and Elouise Norris."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0285]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Herb Dunham was back home in Dallas Monday with the 58th Trans-Mississippi championship, but he wasn't taking a day off from golf."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1270.0204]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Frank Lester Sutton, returned to Oklahoma City by law officers late Thursday to face a murder charge, was arraigned Friday before Justice of Peace Mildred Boyer."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0320]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State amateur champion Jim Wright of Enid has turned professional and will tackle the tour in about six months."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1380.0064]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Broken arm won't keep former bandsman Hampton Lawter, left, out of the 45th Infantry Division band, agrees Maj. Erman Winner."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1231.0225]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mary Schmidt poses with Cessna 150 she'll fly."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0470]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the crash scene with a jet engine(?) up against a car that is heavly burned with white fuze and broken parts, a standing house in the background that is still steaming, and more.)"
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8284]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of the lake and dam across the center, cleared land all around, buildings on the left, vehicles on the road, and more)"
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0464]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A pilotess F-100 jet fighter loaded with fuel crashed and explodeed Friday in Midwest City, killing one child and causing injuries to at least seven other persons. The pilot bailed out shortly before the blazing plane hit the 300 block of Ferguson Dr. about 3:45 p.m. Eight homes were wrecked and burned after the explosion spead flames along the block. the plane had just taken on 1,800 gallons of fuel at Tinker Air Force Base. Killed was Tibble Lane Tuttle, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Tuttle, 325 Ferguson Dr., whose home was directly hit. Mrs. Tuttle, with two other children, Judith, 4, and Donald Ray, 6, were admitted to the Tinker base hospitakl suffering from serious burns. A Tinker policeman and three air force base fireman suffered lacerations while fighting fire at the scene. Treated and released from the Tinker hospital were James Davis, 1117 Bell Dr., policeman, and fireman Leo C. Wilson, Roger Bamford, and Carl Chambers. Air force authorities identified the pilot of the fighter as 1st Lt. W. H. Barbour, 27, attached to the 352 Tactical Fighter Squadron, Myrtle Beach, S.C., and enroute …
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0466]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wide Crater caused by Friday's crash of an air force jet in Midwest City is surrounded by Burned houses. Two children of the Donald C. Tuttle family died in the crash."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0465]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A flaming jet fighter spread fire and grief through a peaceful neighborhood on the eastern edge of Midwest City late Friday afternoon. The suburban section, lying under the flight pattern of big Tinker Air Force Base, was rocked by explosion and flames when an unmanned F-100 Supersabre jet fell. Flames swept nearly a city block. Mrs. Janet Jackson, 3412 Holman Ct., said she heard the plane when it flew over her house at a low altitude. "I've lived around jets a long time," Mrs. Jackson said. "and it was easy to tell this one was in trouble. It was making a fluttering noise when it went overhead. I told my children it sounded like it was going to crash.....Mrs. Jean Wingate, 28, who lives on the untouched east side of the street, was in the house when she heard the explosion and saw the fire. "I heard a woman screaming," she said, "and saw Mrs. Don Tuttle run from her house. her hair was on fire. She was screaming her three children were still in the demolished house. Mrs. Tuttle, however, was wrong. her two older children, Donald Ray, …
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1271.0105]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harb Durham of Dallas (right) had to go two extra holes before edging Matt Taber of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1-up on the 38th, for the Trans-Miss title."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0405.0010]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eclipse of Moon"
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0405.0017]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thousands of Oklahomans saw the moon "disappear" Friday night in a near-total eclipse lasting more than four hours."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0467]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A preliminary inquiry has absolved 1st Lt. W. H. Barbour of any blame in Friday's tragic crash of an air force jet fighter in the midst of a Midwest City residential area, Brig. Gen. Gilbert Myers said Saturday. Two children, both members of the Donald C. tuttle family, were killed as a result og injuries caused when the F-100 Supersabrejet careened into their home at 325 Ferguson dr. Four-year-old Judith Tuttle died in Tinker Air Force Base hospitak of burns. Her 2-year-old sister, Tibbie Lynn, was killed when the plane hit. Gen. Myers, commander of the 354 Tactical Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach, S.C., said the preliminary evidence in the air force investigation indicates Narbour, who parachuted safely seconds before the plane hit the ground, made every effort to avoid the residential area and bring the plane in safely from a landing at the air base......Capt. Joe Balazs, pilot of another plane which followed Barbour's descent, confirmed the pilot's report..."Lt. Barbour did what he was suppose to do," Gen. Myers said."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0469]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's Sen. Mike Monroney and Rep. Carl Albert were expectred to introduce a special bill in Congress Monday in connection with last Friday's jet crash tragedy in Midwest City. Monroney and Albert landed at Tinker Air Force Base Sunday on a tour of state bases and made a first-hand inspection of the disaster area in the 300 block Ferguson Dr. Crash of the F-100 Super Sabre Jet plane Friday afternoon destroyed seven homes, claimed the lives of the two daughters of Donald C. tuttle and left his wife and son critically burned. A Tinker spokesman said Monday any claim over and above $5,000 will require an act of Congrss for payment. "In fact, we can only approve $1,000 payment from here and a claim above that has to go through the Secretary of the Air Force," the spokesman said. "It is absolutely necessary because these people lost their homes. The bill give the air force full latitude to pay maximum worth of the property," Monroney said, He said legislation will cover loss of life as well as loss of property. "We hope to prevent years of delay caused …
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8290]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Interesting Web of cables and steel struts in created by workmen raising framework for surge tower which is being constructed as part of the Elm Creek Reservoir section of the Atoka water pipeline project. Towe, similar to the one at Lake Hefner, is designed to protect water line and future Capitol Hill water treatment plant from water-hammer damage. In event of pumping failure valves, in line would open, allowing water in the pipeline to flow into elevated tank, thereby controlling enormous built-up pressure."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9986]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Pledging their lives to service in the Camelite Order of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus are these three novices in the Roman Catholic mother house here. The three kneeling sisters are taking their second vows, binding for 3 years, on the 7 1/2-year route to becoming full nuns. Another girl, after serving a 6-month postulancy, was invested in the brown and black habit; another made her vows, and two took final, binding vows. two other members of the order celebrated their silver jubilees, after 25 years. Nuns in white manties flank the novitiate members, who must wear white veils until final vows."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History