Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of an aera that has a small lake/large pond at center with a plant, large building at top right of it, expressway coming from top right to middle center, expresswau going from right to left interchanging with the other, housing all around, and more.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fire, whipped by 27-mile-an-hour winds, raced through a three-story unit of the nearly complete Ramada Inn Motel on the Northeast Expressway Wednesday afternoon. Damage may run to $100,000. The blaze ruined possibly 31 motel units, plus a large linen room and will delay the anticipated July 5 completion date about 45 days, according to W. W. Stacy, general superindendent for the contractor, Firemen battled nearly an hour to get the blaze under control. Oklahoma City dispatched 10 pieces od equipment to the scene and Nichols Hills aided with two more trucks. Wind and the fact thay hose had to be strung about three quarters of a mile to the nearest water mapered the firefighters, who were directed by District Chief Ben Dancy...The Ramada Inn us a $1.5 million project of 159 rooms going up on a bluff at 1300 Northeast Expressway. The contractor is H. & J. Construction Co. of Phoenix. Owners are Sylvanus G. Felix, Eugene Jordan and Tony Marneres, all of Oklahoma City. Capt. Bert Kuehnert, assistant fire marshall, said the blaze started when a workman, Harvey Davis, route 11, overturned a "salamander" - a kerosene fueled …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A deadly blind spot extends 25 feet behind your automobile. If you're not watching, you could back your car out your driveway and kill a child. The first time you see this child will be after the car has passed over his body. he'll never know you're coming. This month, two children have died under the wheels of automobiles that were backed out of driveways. Both were little girls - one 13 months and the other 18 months old. One of them died just moments after the driver of the death car talked with her in her front yard..........Police suggest the easiest way to see if there is anyone there is to step back there and look before you ever get in the car. Notice all children nearby. Keep them in sight while backing out of the driveway. "You can't be too careful when you're backing," <aj. Clay Scheid, traffic division commander, said. Impossible as it would seem, the driver of this car cannot see, in his rear view mirror, any of the dozen children behind him. And, they aren't paying attention to move if he should start …

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of a housing area wrecked, most deroofed, couple fully wrecked, couple at top left seem untouched, cars all around, and more)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Trail's End drive-in in Sapulpa met the fate of its name in Thursday's Tornado. Twelve customers were uninjured."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Hungry cat nibbles garbage he found in storm's wake."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Gasoline tanker is pinned by the roof of a Sapulpa service station which caved In when hit by a twister."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Tornado-laden skies split open with a vengence Thursday night. When daylight came Friday morning, weary rescue workers counted 28 dead, about 250 injured and widespread havoc in 15 eastern areas. The death-dealing storms struck with little warning although most of the state had been forewarned earlier in the day. The hardest hit was Wilburton, Latimer County, , where howling twister killed 12 persons - six of them in a church - and injured at least 100 more. Eleven dead and more than 100 injured. Homes in a 15-square-block area almost all leveled and property in another 15 blocks heavily damaged."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At least five five persons were nursing injuries here Thursday in the wake of a twister that raked across the northwest edge of Oklahoma City Wednesday night. The storm wrecked 25 homes and leveled 12 while cutting a narrow swath from NW 30 and Council northeastward to Tulakes Municipal Airport. The injured were hurt by flying debris or were knocked down in their homes. All recieved first aid treatment in medical clinics and hospitals after the storms. Police identified them as Donald B. Hammer, 7704 NW 39; his 7-year-old daughter; E. W. Robinson, route 10; Sam Galbreath, route 10; and Mryna Dee Moore, 23, of 25 SE 36. All but Mrs. Moore were injured in their homes. Mrs. Moore, a teacher at Collidge school, was knocked down and blown into some parked cars by strong gusts of wind as she walked along the sidewalk in the 200 block W Grand. She recieved first aid in St. Anthony Hospital. Hardest hit by the storm here was the Woodland Park section, two blocks east of Coucil between NW 36 and NW 39. Giant trees were uprooted and dumped on homes, vaing …

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of a housing area wrecked, at top left is a number of houses just damaged and the rest of the area are gone, railroad track at bottom left, cars around, and more)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "James De Loache searches for dead at Baptist Church at Wilburton. Twelve dead and more than 100 injured. Homes in a 15-square block area almost all leveled and property in another 15 blocks heavily damaged."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Gale wrecked the interior of this house in the 7800 block NW 36."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A tornado slammed at the heart of this mountain town Thursday night but the town didn't panic. Minutes after the ugly brown twister had rolled northward into the Sanbois mountains, rescue teams were formed. Almost the entire male student body at Eastern Oklahoma A&M Junior College turned out to help. teams of five students and a townsman began methodical reasrched of rubble despite the most difficult of conditions - blinding rain, no power, now lights, no communications. Word of the disaster, one of a series of tornadoes which snuffed out 25 lives in eastern Oklahoma Thursday night, was spread in a makeshift manner. State Rep. Jim Cook handed a note to an engineer of a frieght train waiting to pull out of Wilburton. The train made straight for McAlester, 33 miles to the west, to tell the news..."We were waiting for the supper to start," said Mrs. Emma McGill from a hospital bed in McAlester. "We were waiting for the college kids to arrive. There was this awful rain. Then somebody told Brother Phillips (The Rev. R. L. Phillips) there was a cyclone coming." "I grabbed Fred, my …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A Soper dry goods firm on U.S. 70 was knocked flat, along with a home being remodeled across the highway."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Living room of home in 7800 block NW 36 was a sodden shambles after the storm."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of the lake showing the dam, broads, walk way, and more)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Debris is winched loose from the remains of a building at Wilburton, the town hardest hit by Thursday's tornadoes. Rescue workers stand by to aid in cleaning the wreckage."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of LBJ at table with a name tab speaking into a microphone)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Scramble is the word for this big rush to board a plane by Capt. Ray Sturmn, 1425 SW 33; Capt. Bill Noakes, 4114 Reeder Ave. and Capt. Kari Keller, Norman. "Enemy" bombers will roar over Oklahoma during the night, to be met with supersonic jets, loaded and ready with armed "mighty mouse" rockets. It will be another "alert" test of the ability of American defenses to meet an attack......The "mighty mouse" which would be ready for use, is a 2.75-inche rocket, but does not carry a guidance system for direction of flight...It is used on the F-86L. and is secondary arnament on the F-102."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A church hymnal, with pages crumpled, lay before what had been Calvary Baptist Church Friday. It was open to the hymn, "Blessed Assurance." A blood-stained Bible lay nearby, the pages fluttering in the wind that swept over debris from Thursday night's tornado. Eleven persons died in the storm, and more than 100 were injured...A dog whimpered as it ran around a pile of rubble, sniffing at the ground. Its master, Isaac Turnbow, about 70, died in his home. A goat belonging to Turnbow was found uninjured, buried beneath the wreckage of the home. A 13-year-old boy, Johnny Bridges, led the goat away...Fred Stovall, Latimer County Red Cross chairman, said he had just called the highway patrol district headquarters in McAlester minutes before the twister swooped into the town, and had been given an all-clear for the area......Stovall, publisher of the Latimer County News-Tribune, said the storm lasted about two minutes."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At right, an oil center home was twisted and shattered and five persons in one family were injured Wednesday night. Story on Page 1."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Flood water and debris spotted Oklahoma City areas Friday after a double-blow Thursday night. Above, Crutcho Creek backed up two blocks, south of SE 23 on Air Depot. Around the area trees, power lines, sheet metal buildings, oild derricks and shingles littered the landscape. the winds in the two storms reached 85 miles an hour and rain measured from .98 to 1.78 inches at Tinker Air Force Base and the Midwest City area."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fire, whipped by 27-mile-an-hour winds, raced through a three-story unit of the nearly complete Ramada Inn Motel on the Northeast Expressway Wednesday afternoon. Damage may run to $100,000. The blaze ruined possibly 31 motel units, plus a large linen room and will delay the anticipated July 5 completion date about 45 days, according to W. W. Stacy, general superindendent for the contractor, Firemen battled nearly an hour to get the blaze under control. Oklahoma City dispatched 10 pieces od equipment to the scene and Nichols Hills aided with two more trucks. Wind and the fact thay hose had to be strung about three quarters of a mile to the nearest water mapered the firefighters, who were directed by District Chief Ben Dancy...The Ramada Inn us a $1.5 million project of 159 rooms going up on a bluff at 1300 Northeast Expressway. The contractor is H. & J. Construction Co. of Phoenix. Owners are Sylvanus G. Felix, Eugene Jordan and Tony Marneres, all of Oklahoma City. Capt. Bert Kuehnert, assistant fire marshall, said the blaze started when a workman, Harvey Davis, route 11, overturned a "salamander" - a kerosene fueled …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Camera is used by Bill Gober to record debris stopped by a tree before hitting his home in Lincoln Park."