Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Until he installs a less strenuous system, this is how Earl Burton puts the Neosho river to use. He shovels a hole in the low, earthen dike to release water into a field needing a drink."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The picture at upper right was made behind the boat docks at Lake Overholser and the dotted line shows the normal water line."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "At right: Another boat settle into the dry earth."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The drought has played hob with both Lake Hefner and Lake Overholser."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There isn't enough water in the Lake Hefner boat harbor to wet a duck's foot."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Strange things happen in Oklahoma, such as being able to walk into a boat harbor without getting wet."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It was D-day minus one on the Civic Center starting front Thursday. The super-secret "bird chasers" arrived from Great Bend, Kan., and R. R. "Pat" Murphy, park superintendent, left, above with Turner Van Nort, park engineer, took a first peek at the gadgets."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Among the new residents who have established homes in Oklahoma City are Mr. and Mrs. William J. Harris, 207 NW 18, and their children, Linda Sue, 4; William Vernon, 10, and Randy Harris, 6."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Guy Fraser Harrison, Oklahoma City Symphony conductor, listens to some harmonies produced by tuba player Robert L. Martin and flutist Joe C. Nealey of the Capitol hill highschool band."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The city fire department has a dandy boat harbor at Lake Hefner, but at the moment it is completely inoperative."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ann Minto of Maysville, Okla."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Civic Improvement day at Atoka Monday will Boost the project of the Business and Professional Women's club to build a swimming beach beach at the city lake."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sputh Canadian river crossing at Camargo, Ok."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Even though it's well past the time when weather should be cool, the new cooling system in the county jail is welcome."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "It's wheat to us but "corn" to Maurice Wilson, right, a British farmer visiting the grain exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair Wednesday But both Wilson and Russell Pierson, left, secretary of the Oklahoma Crop Improvement association, agreed that the sample of grain grown by Eugene F. Nicholson, Orientam, deserved top rating. Nicholson's wheat sample won him the state's 1952 "Wheat King" title Sunday."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Daily newspaper from El Reno, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of the KLPR Radio Station area taken as an aerial photograph in November, 1952.

Photograph of the KLPR Radio Station area taken as an aerial photograph in November, 1952.