Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Engineers have been watching this year's heavy rain run down the Arkansas River past the half finished Kaw Dam and knowing it would have filled the lake if their project was finished."

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Most of the women in the Oklahoma Legislature oppose the equal rights amendment."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Highways - State - I 35 Damage"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "He will never win any prizes for his speeches."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Buckled paving on I-35 near Tonkawa remains as mute testimony to the destructive strength of the flood waters that recently swept through the north-central area of the state."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "about his most memorable and rewarding experience, and you get some unexpected answer along with the more predictable ones."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Peyton Brown receives the first piece of cake on his 85th birthday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 17-year-old Ponca City youth Friday was elected governor of a youth legislature and immediately advocated high school courses in basic communism to teach students what America is up against in the world."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Irv Wagner has been promoted from general superintendent to refinery manager of the Continental Oil Co. refinery here, replacing Lester H. Barnes, who has retired."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Geberaks abound at the U.S. National Guard Association's general conference in Oklahoma city this week. Georgia Adjutant Gen. Joel B. Paris III, left, was greeted upon arrival at Will Rogers World Airport Sunday by Brigadier Gen. William L. Youell, assistant Oklahoma adjutant general, and Brig. Gen. Grover Isbell, Air National Guard commander."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The small Kay County community of Uncas lost its last when Mrs. Pearl Stanley shuttered the business she and her husband opened 35 years ago."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Atornado which battered Newkirk left this blacksmith shop building among the storm rubble."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Newkirk residents look over wreckage left by tornado."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Somehomes in Newkirk escaped Tuesday's tornadic winds unscathed, but others weren't so lucks."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kaw Dam, on the Arkansas River, near Ponca City, Okla."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Ponca City Military Academy color guard is made up of, left to right, Sgt. David Smith and Cadets Dwayne Allen, David Duke and Bruce Bridgewater."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Jan Richards checks report on heart condition."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Savage fury of the tornado that hit Newkirk Tuesday is dramatically illtrated by this tree, snapped at its base."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TORNADO TOPPLED debris litters main street of Newkirck in the wake of a twister that left extensive damage to the northern Oklahoma community."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "We've had wonderful support from persons in surrounding communitiess and cities as far away as Tulsa and Oklahoma City," Mayor Charles Houser said at and end of the day's cleanup opreation."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smashed trailer home marks Newkirk twister's path."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jim Withey takes oath as new YMCA youth legislature governor Friday."