Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The elite of our feathered friends was roosting in Oklahoma City's Municipal Auditorium Tuesday waiting for the judges to decide which are the fairest of the foul."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Missouri man of letters who has been specializing in the art of outlawry, is off a reform binge."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tom Hamill"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Jess Horn, a native of Germany now living in Oklahoma City, puts a garnish of hard boiled eggs on a spinach dish that is served often in her country."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The long search is over, Mrs. Leola Jones had juvenile officers check train schedules Tuesday night before she left for Culver City, Calif., to bring her 13-year-old daughter back home."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OFFICERS of Jordan chapter, Order of the Eastern Star' were installed following the recent constitution ceremony for the chapter."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jesse Dale Bird Jr., 1123 NW 46, took two friends out for a drive in his new car Sunday morning and this is the way it looked following an accident at SW 44 and Western, in which James F. Plumlee, 69, of 331 SE 49, was killed. Inspecting damage is Harrell Crockett, 504 SE 30, wrecker firm employe. City Man Killed in Intersection Crash: Three More Die in State. State Traffic Deaths. 1952 to date, 461; November, 8. 1951 to date, 455: November, 1. Death continued to ride Oklahoma highways Sunday as a Camp Chaffee soldier, an elderly Oklahoma City man and a Guthrie were killed in traffic accidents. A fourth fatality was chalked up when a Seminole teenager died from injuries received in crash early Saturday. Dead were: ORVANCE ROLLA COE, 44, Guthrie. ABRAHAM L. PARKS, 26, a soldier at Camp Chaffee, Ark. JAMES FRANK PLUMLEE, 69, of 331 SE 49. ANN MARIE OWEN, 16, Seminole. Plumlee was killed at the intersection of SW 44 and Western when his car collided with a vehicle driven by Jesse Dale Bird Jr., 20, of 1123 NW 46, a student at …

Caption: "Tiny, one of the performance camels in the Polack Bros. Shrine circus, get a new hairdo from Glen Hickman, Kansas City, Mo., groom." Man stands in between the heads of two camels.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A heavy crane on the highway atop giant Denison dam, above, eases a truck-load of rock down the steep up-stream side of the dam ass if it were a toy."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oscar Monrad, vice-president of the First National Bank and Trust Co., will speak at the banquet Monday in the hotel."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Shrine Circus moves back into town this week."

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 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: "At right: Another boat settle into the dry earth."

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 Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The drought has played hob with both Lake Hefner and Lake Overholser."

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 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 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. 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: "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."