Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Drivers Tom Blaney (left) and Leroy DeShields prepare for Friday's stockcar race."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sophomore race driver Roy Givens has his own good luck emblem for the 1954 stock car races in Taft stadium which get underway Tuesday at 8 p.m."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Winner of one 25-lap feature and currently third in points standing"

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The finished product has been test-hopped by veteran Oklahoma City driver Carl Ferguson , right."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Checking over the scoring in early action of the men's state boawling tournament here Saturday are three Tulsa entries, left to right , Carl Martin, Harley Wiggins and Walter Jenkins."

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

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

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

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

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Controversial Sen. Joseph McCarthy roared into Oklahoma City Saturday, and the Republicans celebrated Lincoln's birthday on March 20."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Funeral sevices for Oklahoma City postmaster Fred M. Shaw have ben tentatively set Monday at 10:30 a.m. in Westminster Presbyterian church here."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Big Russ Burns, the Oklahoma City Indians' heavy-hitting right fielder, limbers up prior to the Tribe's exhibition opener against Dallas Saturday."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "WARMING UP his big bat which walloped in 124 runs for Oklahoma City last year in Russell "The Muscle" Burns, Indians right fielder who will be seen in action here Saturday and Sunday afternoon against Dallas in a Texas league spring exhibition series."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ray Lavely, City, Racing Promoter"

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

Weekly newspaper from the School of Journalism of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma "published in the interest of the newspaper editors and publishers of the state" that includes industry and campus news.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mathilda the hippo . . . portly but pampered."

Photograph is of three men, tow on a firetruck directing a stream of water from the truck's ladder onto a roof of a single story metal building. The other man is walking away from the truck while observing the fire. Smoke is rising from the roof of the building and much of the roof has fallen into the interior of the building. Caption: "A pumper unit and hook and ladder wagon direct a stream on the roof during its collapse Monday as the Chickasha Cotton Oil Co."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "John Horwitz, 415 S Western, of the Horwitz Pipe and Steel Co."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Meeting to discuss plans for 1954 are the recently named officers for 1954 of the Oklahoma Ministerial association. Rev Darrel L. Slack, president, minister of the Bethany east Side church of the Nazarene."