Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Surprise field promotion transforms Oklahoma City attorney James F. Davis, center, from the rank of private first class to first lieutenant during annual unit training with the 95th Division at Fort Chaffee, Ark."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JUST A PIPE DREAM - Bob Burns, the sage of Van Buren, Arkansas, takes the edge off of radio's intensive activity with a short nap in his specially-built "lounger's model" done up in white leather. Burns, funny enough to warrant the front page of his home town paper, is heard with Bing Crosby on the Kraft Music Hall every Thursday at 10:00 p.m., E.D.S.T., over the NBC-Red Network."

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a recent photo form files of Hazel O'Leary, excutive vice president of the Minneapolis-based Northern State Power Co."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Learning American games is one of the daily activities for day school youngsters at the Ft. Chaffee, Ark., Vietnamese refugee center."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "VIETNAMESE REFUGEE youngsters at Ft. Chaffee, Ark, . flock to a Salvation Army retirement unit from Oklahoma as cookies and soft drinks are distributed."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Braxton B. Sawyer, the Arkansas radio preacher who fought a one-man war against Oklahoma nudists in 1954 and 1955, has a new crusade."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Brassy bundle of trophies was carried off Saturday by Capt. Ray Standifer, Midwest City, commander of El Reno's Battery C, 1st Battalion, 160th Artillery, at the Governor's Day Review at Fort Chaffee, Ark. The unit was awarded the Eisenhower Trophy, right, as top unit in the Okla. Army Nat. Guard, and the Fourth Army Maintenance Award."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dr. Braxton B. Sawyer"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Benjamin Spock works out in his racing shell near his new home on Beaver Lake near Rogers, Ark."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Spock enjoys a disco dance at the age of 75, during birthday party in his honor."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Spock and his wife Mary Morgan."

Copy of transcript for a letter from Robert Crittenden to Stephen F. Austin, in which Crittenden provides a reference for the son of Col. John Allen.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Thomas Eads to Emily M. Austin Bryan discussing his move to Arkansas Territory.

Transcript of a letter to Charles B. Moore from J. S. Rucker discussing local politics and news from the area. Two of the local elections he wrote about were for the positions of constable and squire.

Transcript of a letter from Jo S. Wallace to J. C. Moore regarding Wallace's difficulty finding an engineering job in California and other news. Charles Moore has written an addendum to the letter and sent it and another letter onward to Ziza Moore and Josephus.

Letter to Charles B. Moore from J. S. Rucker discussing local politics and news from the area. Two of the local elections he wrote about were for the positions of constable and squire.

Letter from Jo S. Wallace to J. C. Moore regarding Wallace's difficulty finding an engineering job in California and other news. Charles Moore has written an addendum to the letter and sent it and another letter onward to Ziza Moore and Josephus.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Joseph R. Bertig discussing Mr. Bertig's recent sickness and hospital visit. Mr. Kempner tells him not to worry about work and to focus on recovering. He then informs Mr. Bertig that Mrs. Kempner and he will in Plantersville until Monday.

Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.

Interview with Geralene Young about her experiences as an employee of the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Young discusses hiring and promotion practices, relations between male and female workers, social activities, and the social and economic effects of the depot on Texarkana.

Letter from William L. Gatz to Daniel W. Kempner enclosing a check covering his shares of a stock and wishing the Kempner family a merry Christmas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between the University of Texas and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.