Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Present Eagletown post office isn't as fancy as the new one, local residents admit, but it's a whole lot handier."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Workmen clamber through scaffolding on the face of the $3 million Kiamichi Dam being built on Little River."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "View from right abutment of new Broken Bow dam shows face of the 2,750-foot-long structure and, at far end, the massive intake facility."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rising from the bed of Little River in McCurtain County, the new Kiamichi Dam moves toward completion."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Surveying the situation a workman trudges along in front of the new $3 million Kiamichi Dam on Little River in McCurtain Country."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Idabel senior running back Brian Hamilton and arch rival Eric Young of Broken Arrow should provide excitement in McCurtain County."

Semiweekly newspaper from Idabel, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Idabel, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Idabel, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Idabel, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Idabel, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DOUBLE PLAY is scored by Dierks Division of Weyerhaeuser Co. at Wright City in southeastern Oklahoma, where unfinished lumber serves as makeshift flagpole and railroad crossing sign post."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Stuart, H. E. "Snowball" - Idabel, Oklahoma - McCurtain County Deputy Sheriff"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nelly Pierce has one of the most popular attractions in the southeastern Oklahoma town of Tom: "Nellie's Tom Cafe."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A youngster tries his luck fishing on the canoe docks."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The towering pine trees remind you of Colorado."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nelly Pierce prepares food in the kitchen of her cafe in Tom."

Photograph of Don Coffey, District Manager, installing Valliant Conservation District sign along HWY 70 on west boundary of district.

Photograph of Smithville, Okla. Vocational Agriculture class with instructor examining pine tree that should be removed from the forest because it is defective. Small log or pulpwood will be cut from defective trees of this type. A tract of about 80 acres, owned by Story-McKee-Wilson Lumber Company, is set aside as school forest where the Voc. Agri. class study and apply proper forestry practices. Selective cutting has been carried out on 20 acres in the 1955 and 1956 compartment. The high school's senior class receives the net income from this forest project.

Photograph of Glen Scott, Vocational Agriculture student, girdling cull hard wood tree in pine stand. J. C. Brown and Tom Stickler checking girdle to be certain it is wide enough to kill the tree. These boys are studying forestry in relation to soil conservation training. Work and training is being carried on in the school forest. The forest is divided into several compartments to allow study of all phases of forestry.

Photograph of charter member of the Board of Supervisors of the Valliant Soil Conservation District [SCD], William E. Clarkson. Mr. Clarkson pruned all the young pine on his ranch in the fall of 1959 and spring of 1960. It is estimated if all this pine were in one block it would be about 40 acres. Clarkson has shifted from row crops to cattle raising. His overall plan is to shift to tree farming. OK-969-9.

Photograph of an automatic lumber sorter in operation at a saw mill. This sorter conveys and drops lumber in piles according to size and grade. Lumber is sawed at a mill in the forest and hauled to a finishing mil in town. As the lumber is unloaded, it is fed into this sorter which moves it and piles it in the proper place. The lumber is fed into the sorter by two men, thus conserving much time and labor. OK-413-9.

Semi-weekly newspaper from Idabel, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.