Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Up she goes. Now atop the tower, the TV antenna reaches up 967 feet."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a view looking north down Robinson from Commerce as the '89er parade approched Capitol Hill."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "After a lot of ado, the twenty-second session of the state legislature, if it hasn't succeeded in passing much important legislation, did manage to get a parking lot near the capitol. But Teusday cars continued to obstruct traffic on the south side of the state building, parking in restricted and no-parking zones, while the new parking lot on the east side of the capitol (above) had plenty of vacant space."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lloyd Palmer, of the Oklahoma City Safety council, took the picture at right for the Daily Oklahoman, showing University of Oklahoma truck, battered but still on its wheels amid the surrounding wreckage of the north base."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of the top piece of a tv antenna being brought up to the top by wires)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This part of the destruction at the Norman north base, shortly after Saturday's Tornado struck. Note the wrecked points."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the famous blue hole in Pennington creek, one of the finest white and black bass fishing spots in the Lake Texoma area. Just beyond the suspension bridge in the background, A. B. Pless of Oklahoma City recently hooked 56 white bass averaging a pound each in just 3 1/2 hours."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Up she goes. Now atop the tower, the TV antenna reaches up 967 feet."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These gates control waters of the North Canadian river at Canton lake. Here a mere trickle is being discharged, but each of the three big central valves are capable of releasing more than 200 cubic feet of water per second."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the way it looks from inside the city's new 5,000,000-gallon water tank being constructed at NW 50 and Meridian. Workers are busy on the overhead girders and will put the top plates in soon. One other tank has been completed. The two elevated storage tanks will be completed and in service by June 16, back-stopping the city's pumping facitlities at Lake Hefner during peak water consumption periods. A third tank is slated for construction in a few years."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These four pictures are proof of the fury of the tornado that injured 40 persons and caused heavy damage on the north campus of the University of Oklahoma at Norman Saturday afternoon. Upper left shows what happened to classrooms that were used by the air national guard."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sidewalk engineers will have a field day Tuesday at 125 NW 1 when the last remaining wall of the Manley Office Supply Co. is knocked down. Charlie Howard, wrecking crewman, says he will knock the wall down with one blow of his clam-shell bucket. He invited sightseers to see the show about 10 a.m. A five-story office building will be erected on the spot of the old one-story structure. Oklahoma Railway Co. said its outbound Robinson bus will be re-routed to turn north on Broadway to NW 1, then west to Robinson and north again."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Profits from a newly-bought grocery store will build a new church for a Guthrie congregation. Faced with need for a bigger church, Assembly of God church members hit on the novel ideaof buying a store and letting the profile do the work. The idea was first suggested a month ago. This week the members bought out Loyd Jay, owner of Jay's grocery, one of the oldest grocery stores in Oklahoma's original capital. Glen Johnson, secretary-treasurer of the young people's group in the church, put on a cover-all white apron and was installed as store manager...............Neither will Lloyd Lindgren, secretary-treasurer of the church. Lindgren, a serious-faced-man, has lived in Guthrie 25 years. He has no idea how far ahead thier financial goal is, but he firmly believes it can be reached via the grocery store. Before Jay bought the store four years ago, the store had been known as the Hirzel grocery for more than 50 years. It is located in the 100 block in N Second street. Rev. W.C. Drain, 42, is pastor of the church. (photo tag: Lloyd Lindgren, Guthrie church treasurer, left, and Glen Johnson, the church's …

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo atop a transmitting tower looking to the ground, a worker's boot on the near left, two workers just below working, and more.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The picture at left, taken through the north base operations building doorway, shows the operations tower."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In the big picture, top center, Owen is seated atop the TV antenna, shooting down at Frank Penturf (left) and William Crane, members of the construction crew. The steel loop, bent in the big air lift, is being replaced."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A building boom in southwest Oklahoma City has teachers wondering how they can wedge more children into classrooms next year. Here is an air view of recent housing developments in that area. Hundreds of new homes are planned for the vicinity of Stand Watie gradeschool, 3517 S Linn. Stand Watie has an enrollment limit of 650. But 877 school-age youngsters will live in that district next year. Lafayette school at 509 SW 44 has 425 pupils. The estimated attendance next autumn is 610. School patrons are asked to vote a $3 millions bond issue Tuesday. new gradeschool classrooms would get first priority under that program."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Upper right is a veiw looking northeast across where a warehouse stood."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of the stadium, the field and new stands being worked/built, other construction, some campus building in sight, housing, parking lots full, and more.)"

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Clouds hovering in the background plus a foreground of trees formed a perfect springtime silhouette study for the photographer when he snapped this picture of the Crestwood Baptist Church, NW 16 and Villa."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wrecking equipment makes way for new building."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the beginning of the pumping station for OKC's new sewage disposal system."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sewage purification isn't exactly what one might expect to see when looking through a "picture window," but the scene is a pretty one to construction men and engineers hereabouts."