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

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

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only minor scratches. They were assisted to the bank by several unidentified men who were fishing nearby. Car Plunges Off Bridge The car landed on the driver`s side in about five feet of water. Most of the last four or five months, the river has been bank-full and has had a swift current. But the last two weeks it had fallen four or five feet. If the river had been at the higher level, several feet of water would have covered the car. Mrs. Thompson said she was driving the car across the bridge, which is about a half mile east of Shawnee. She said the car slipped off the plank runners which are on the bridge flooring. When she tried to bring the car back …

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William F. Durham, Shawnee Early Day state legislator."

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Orena Herd, left, Gordon Cooper's grandmother, and Mrs. Hattie Cooper, his mother, will watch Thursday's launch on television in Mrs. Cooper's Tecumseh home."

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

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

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

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Main hospital building at Shawnee Indian Hospital is familiar sight to motorists traveling S. H. 18 between Shawnee and Tecumseh."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "for Mrs. Hattie Cooper, right, who joins her mother Mrs. Orena Herd in Tecumseh to view the birthday cake adorned with 22 candles and a rocket, as she holds a bouquet of 22 roses."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "has been erected in Tecumseh behind the home of Mrs. Hattie Cooper mother of astronaut Gordon Cooper."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Workers remove wreckage from an eight-vehicle pileup near Shawnee that killed two persons."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gregg Byram of Norman , named to both the football and basketball All-state team, was honored as the state's best high school senior athlete.."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Home cooking in a "home-made" house is a combination hard to beat."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here are the officers of the Trade and Industrial Clubs of Oklahoma. Left to right, standing are Barbara Parker, Capitol Hill, editor; Heidi Heiden, Vinita, sergeant-at-arms; Carol Stout, Okmulgee, secretary-treasurer; Buel Morris, Henryetta, alternate vice-president; and Carol McAnulty, Capitol Hill, historian. Dick Coleman, Shawnee, state president, is seated."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "will shrink to this scene when he thinks of home during his eight days of orbiting."

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

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Newsmen wait at backyard gate of Mrs. Hattie cooper in Tecumseh as Walter Fruland, right, sent by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to help Mrs. Cooper, unlocks gate for them."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A transplanted New York City Irishman who carried a Sousaphone down Fifth Ave. in four St. Patrick's Day parades will be wearin' his green but that's probably all the observin' he will do today."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Claud Klutts- (101 yrs. old) a (delegate) is greeted by other members of constitutional gathering."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Claud Klutts, 101-year-old. Shawnee, (We the people 2000 program) claims hi great, great grandfather was a signer of original constitution."