Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City officers take Paul Donovan into custody. The longest police chase in Oklahoma City history led to the arrest of a Del City man Wednesday night."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Suspects in the $6,700 robbery of the First National Bank of Terral Wednesday, Tommy Ray Higdon, 22, and Wife Iva Lee, both of Dallas, enter federal building in Oklahoma City for arraignment."

Caption: "Oklahoma City, smoking more and enjoying it less the last 48 hours, punned its way, lacking anything that really worked, to a make-believe pollution today." Smoke and hose in aftermath of fire.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Second Lt. William Reinhard, McAlester, marched up to a senior officer, saluted, and said "Sir, we're ready to move off and find something new."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SPEAKING at the 5 p.m. Wednesday session of the Oklahoma City Desk and Derrick Club, meeting in the Beacon Club, will be Edward C. Borrego international oil consultant."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sgt. Tony Basolo demonstrates handiness of Nichols Hill police gun."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Yearbook queen candidates at Conners State College are, standing from left, Sharon Harrison, Loretta Thomas, Cindy Vanderpool, Vicki Townsend, Karen Haggard, Gracie Brumfield, and sitting from left, Debbie Rowland, Sue Ferguson, and Carolyn Gouthier."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "For a guy who didn't start out as a gung-ho Bif Red football fan, Dick Crum has seen a lot of Ou's ball games."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A walk on the moon's surface wasn't exactly what J. Cooper Burks had in mind 16 years ago when he tested the first full-pressure space suit."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Harry Birdwell, 20-year-old Oklahoma State University junior from Fletcher and national president of the Future Farmers of America, doesn't live on a farm."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Assigned as sales supervisor in the J&L-Jetco Chemicals section of Jones & Laughlin Supply Division in Tulsa is Carl Bates, who joined the company in 1955."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "All tied up Christi Brownbeck of Fort Cobb goes down while trying to take the ball away from Depew's Sharon Miller."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An Oklahoma City man, now serving as assistant director of elementary education, will replace the present director who is retiring in July, Dr. Bill Lillard, superintendent of Oklahoma City Public Schools, announced Monday."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "GOV. BARTLETT and other state and local dignitaries helped dedicate a $1. 3 million carpet plant in Bristow Wednesday."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "State FFA president Harry Birdwell and Gov. Bartlett discuss FFA Week at the state capitol."

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The rev. O Marlin Goller celebrates Holy Communion this morning."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "C.E. Waddle of 920 N Meridian built his own shortwave radio set, and he will never see his work."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Waddle and shortwave set."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "it goes from Chicago to LA, more than 2,000 miles along the way. "Get your kicks on Route 66." "Main Street of America"-will cease to exist. It will live only in the memories of two generations of cross-country travelers, or in the words of Bobby Troup's song, composed as ne motored along the route in its heyday. West of Oklahoma City, U.S. 66 has almost disappeared. In most places, its name has been changed to I-40 and in another five years, the tranformation will be complete. To the east, U.S. 66 still meanders toward Tulsa and up into Missouri, but turnpike-hugging travelers choose to ignore it. California-bound Okies are on the interstates now, their chrome-trimmed pickups and red convertibles and sleek sedans gliding 70 miles an hour into the future. They don't remember the mud and gravel and detours that their predecessors encountered. They don't know the hazards of suddenly rising rivers or sand that could swallow a car until even mules strained to pull it free. To turn the clock back, a curious traveler need to go no farther than Bridgeport, a tiny farm community west of Oklahoma …