Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "No chance of a headon collision on W Main after the graders went to work on the sleet."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Lake Hefner's boat harbor will have an unloading rack for boats which will permit big boats to be rolled into the water on a narrow gauge railroad track, or rolled down ramps to be lauinched from automobile trailers. The picture above shows the rails in place, one ramp at left constructed of reinforced concrete, and forms in place for other concrete ramp to be poured as soon as the weatherman can provide 48 hours of frost-free weather."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is a general scene of the governors' conference being held in the house of representatives' chamber at the state capitol. Shown above, left to right, are Governor Kerr, Governor Matin of Pennsylvania, chairman of the cofernece, Governor Davis, Louisiana and Governor Thye of Minnesota."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of nine garbage trucks lined up a long the curb outside of a large building.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "To care for a huge increase in air traffic through Oklahoma City the municipal airport terminal building is getting its face lifted as well as several additions. At the left end of the building on the lower on the lower floor is the new Sky Chef café and across on the right will be new offices and frieght and baggage storage space. Those additions on the second and third floors will be used for office space."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rescue Workers expected to find additional bodies in this wreakage as they clear away the damage done by Monday's tonado at Pryor. This is all that was left of the Safeway grocery. The entire building collapsed at a busy shopping hour. There was no estimate available on the number of people in the store and no check of those who may hace escaped."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Just a month ago Lake Overholser was near the all-time record low level, patches of the lake bed were bare; rubber tires, cans, bottles and other debris exposed. City officials gloomly said water rationing was a summer possiblity unless the lake was filled. Lake Hefner had a three year supply of water, bu inadequate filtration equipment. Old wells were located and pumping equipment lined up. Then the rains came. In a week Lake Overholser gained six feet of water. The two pictures show the before and after comparison of Overholser from the east side of the lake. The expanse of water should relieve at least the immediate threat of water rationing."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A soft Oklahoma breeze fanned the assembled flags of the United States at the south entrance of the state capitol Monday morning as these visiting military dignitaries approached the entrance to attend the opening session of the governor's conference. The delegation was led by Maj. Gen. B. B. Miltonberger, Washington, chief og the national guard bureau. Accompanying General Miltonberger were Brig. Gen. M. R. McLean, adjutant general of Kansas; Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, adjutant general of Maryland; Brig. Gen. W. H. Abendroth, adjutant general of Idaho; Col. L. B. Weeks, Washington, D. C., chief of the organization and training bureau of the National Guard Bureau; Col. John Hayden, Washington, representing the army ground forces; Col. W. A. R. Robertson, Washington, chief of the aviation division of the national guard bureau, and Maj. C. H. Amyx, representing the national guard bureau from Washington. Maj. Amyx is a native of Frederick. Inside the capitol military delegation sat in a body during the opening speeches."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of the building at the antenna with the antenna behind it, standup letters of "WKY-FM" and "WKY," body of water across the bottom, and more)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In another few months, drivers along S Robinson may have forgotten they have a big money investment buried underground near Wiley Post park. But now thay can see the treasur being buried. The huge excavation is part of the $9 million sanitary sewer bond issue program. Earl W. Baker, contractor, has crews and heavy machinery at work tunneling beneath S Robinson so traffic won't be bothered as the big southwestern sanitary sewer main moves toward its westward mission of serving Capitol Himm and Stockyard City areas...Space between the sewer pipe and the steel shell then will be filled with concrete."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is the way searchers sought bodies left in the wake of the Tornado at Pryor Monday. Under wreckage that once was the walls, floors and roofs of homes and business buildings they found a score of dead and injured. The search will not be complete until ever piece of wreckage in moved."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This auto not only had a flat but is flat. Hundreds of cars parked in street by defense workers were smached."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton, southwest Oklahoma's largest city, has emerged from the war with a stable population of about 30,000 and ambitious improvement plans for the future. Retail sales the first half of 1946 were more than $1,000,000 ahead of the same period for 1945. the housing shortage is acute, but about 100 new homes are under construction and three new subdivisions are planned. An industrial site of 120 acres is being developed and the Rock Island has already put in two spur tracks to serve it. Plan are well advanced for a modern, 8-story hotel to cost $1,500,000, and an elaborate civic center is to be developed. A number of new commercial buildings are going up, and a lot of established businesses are modernizing or enlarging quarters. Work on a municipal airport likely will get started late this autumn. Fort Sill's war-swollen population is drastically reduced, but many army wives who came to lawton during their husbands' training period elected to stay on when the men shipped out. A lot of them are still in the city. Lawton's civic growing pains are pronouced, but there flow of material and supplies won't …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's not competition, just wanting the folks to know that the Oklahoma National Guard is back in the same old prewar stand - almost - that caused this big sign to go up, according to Brig. Gen. Roy W. Kenny, adjuant general. What with a new naval armory starting construction nearby and having regained use of about three-fourths of the state armory from the state highway patrol, which moved into it when the 45th division went off to war, the military department though it time to advertise a bit. The legislature overlooked putting the patrol in a new home lasst session, so the answer of the "tenant" is "yeah, we'll move - but WHERE?"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo looking up the sidewall of at least a eight-story building with a large pipe running up along, and more. Backside: Wells-Roberts Hotel)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Firemen battle a two-alarm fire at the Broadway Lumber Co., 2220 N Broadway. Another picture, Page 8."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a group of beds, most of them with men in them, a corner in rear with windows all around, and more)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(O-9-29-46) Imagine every resident of this city, Ada, being injured. (T-12-7-60) Imagine every person living in Cordell suddenly being maimed for life. Picture the entire population of Gage wiped out. Try to figure the cost in pain and money of all 16,000 residents of Ada were injured. This is the toll - not counting heartache and property losses - of a year's traffic tragedies in Oklahoma. So far in 1960, 615 lives have been wasted on the state's streets and highways. Still the toll climbs daily. By year's end, it probably will go well beyond the population of Gage, 648...These involved long, painful hospitialization, and many also prove to be crippling injuries. (T-1-5-61) 9article) An early-morning fire swept throught the heart of Ada's business district Thursday. Early estimates indicate loss will exceed $1 Million. It was the costliest fire in Ada's history. A pall of smoke hung over Ada through the morning hours as firemen continued fighting the blaze. The fire was under control by 9 a.m., eight hours after it started, but streams of water were still pouring onto the smouldering ruins. Flames Spread The fire was discovered …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It takes a heap of concrete to build a sewage treatment plant and it goes into the forms for the massive tanks 1 1/2 cubic yards at a time at the city's new southside plant. Workmen shown above are building the bottom of eight "sludge digester" for the new plant. The digester, huge tanks, will hold the waste until action of bacteria makes it harmless and useful for fertilizer."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Drawing/negative picture of the U.S. flag on a pole being held by a guy wearing a hat pretty much out of picture.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The county seat of Cleveland county and home of the University of Oklahoma, Norman estimates it population today at 18,000 with an additional 10,100 students attending the university. The university city became the hub of the navy's training program in the state during the war, with two naval bases and a hospital unit located within the immediate area of the city. A portion of the North navy base has been taken over by the University and is known as the North campus. The city is governed by a commission system and directed by a manager elected by the commissioners. The city operates its own water company but is served gas and electricity by private utility companies. The city is located on US 7, SH 74 and SH 9, 18 miles south of Oklahoma City on the Santa Fe and Oklahoma Railway Co. lines. A new municipal hospital with 65 beds was opened June 1. There are five elementary schools, one junior highschool and one senior highschool in the city's school system. The Central Oklahoma hospital, with 3,211 mental patients, is another state institution located in the city. Though the …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's just a small portion of the 130,000 people who have visited the "Made In Oklahoma" show this week at the Municipal Auditorium. The big fre manufacturer's exposition is meant to show the people what Oklahoma roduces and people are throning the building for a look. With Saturday and Sunday to go, the show has already broken all previous attendance records at the auditorium."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "They've got to tell their mother that Lester wont be home. J. E. Taylor worked all night as a first aid worker in the Pyror tragedy believing his 17-year-old brother, Lester, was injured slightly and under treatment in a Muskogee hospital. Tuesday morning searchers removed Lester's body from the debris. J. E., left, and his brother, Clifford, are shown weeping as they sat on a culvert a block and a half from fearing to break the news to their mother, Mrs. Rosie Taylor, an invalid for eight years."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 38-year-old man, formely a prosperous San Francisco businessman, plunged seven stories to his death from the Wells-Roberts Hotel Tuesday afternoon. A moment after he leaped, the hotel switchboard lighted up, and a woman's voice asked to speak to "905." Following a brief pause, operator Agnes Ward told the caller, "He doesn't answer." The woman hung up. Hotel assistant manager Jack Briscoe identified the dead man as Lowell Burton Brown. He said Brown signed the register early Sunday, giving Augusta, Kan., as his home. Briscoe said a woman had been calling Brown all day, but Brown wouldn't answer the phone. At 2 p.m. Brown called the switchboard and told the operate to call a doctor to "pronounce me dead. I'm going to jump." He named a city physicians as the one he wanted called. He Falls About 90 Feet "I figured it was just another drunk with a stunt. but thought I'd better check. I found the engineer and we went up there," Briscoe said. "Just as I opened the door, he yelled, 'I want you to see this.' Then he sort of squatted down and plunged right out …