Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Anne Corlett, perhaps the most widely known woman in Oklahoma real estate and mortgage loan circles, retired Friday after 29 yeas with Local Federal Savings & Local Association. She was treasurer and assistant secretary."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This Western-Colonial design is nearing completion in the Old Farm Estates developement just south-east of Edmond downtown."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This home is nearing completion in the Ramblewood Hills addition north and west of Edmond proper."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Allen Cromley, Washington Correspondents to Oklahoman and Times"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Allan Cromley Wash. Correspondent for the Oklahoman and Times."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Common sight in Kaw City is abandoned residence with mute "For Sale" sign."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Desolate view of the Kaw City Main St., shows number of business buildings already removed, and grass growing in the street."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Nestled in the trees, this steep-roofed rancher will afford the owners a commodity Oklhomans seem to prize most- privacy."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "S. L. Shofner ran his title string to four in the Missori Valley Openn Junior Veterans tennis tournament Sunday, claiming the men's singles and doubles championsip trophy for the fourth straight time at Quail Creek."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One half of Tulsa Central's double basketball trouble for opponents is 6-6 Donnie McMullen."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New town of Kaw City, when completed, will be on a peninsula extending into the Kaw Reservoir."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cityan Wanda Rhodes successfully defended her title in women's junior veteran singles, sailing past Jo Ann Clugston of Pittsburgh, Kan., 6-2, 6-3."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "No one seems to know when it began - the sudden upswing of interest in erecting a Christ of the Wichitas statue at the site of Holy City, but Mrs. E. M. Smith, resident hostess there, says "Like a miracle, it began to happen." The project failed to attract significant support when first mentioned in 1946, but now more than 20 years later, local school children and their teachers began a ground-roots fundraising campaign, and the effort is growing."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "G.D. Spradlin, having completed what he considers the best part he has had in a film, is, as they say in Hollywood, between jobs."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Devastation in immediate vicinity of blasts is depicted by twisted railroad track and debris remaining of rail cars, above. Wrecked homes two blocks away are depicted above left, while force of explosion is illustrated above right by smashed boxcar, one of five destroyed in blast. (O-8-5-69) Blasted track and box car are shown after explosions."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "We were very, every fortunate and I thank the good Lord more people weren't killed," a Noel firemen who witnessed a disastrous explosion in this Oklahoma-border community said Sunday. Harold Mauck watched a train car blow up 200 yards from his fire truck at 4 a.m. Sunday. it was "a huge orange-red mushroom cloud of smoke, fire and flying debris," he said. The blast - the second and most powerful of two - leveled numerous buildings and "hardly left a business or home untouched," Mauck said. The fireman said he was riding on the back of a fire truck just before 4 a.m. when the explosion occurred. The train was stopped at a crossing and started up just before the explosion, he said. The car then exploded with a "tremendous roar and a force that would have knocked me flat if I hadn't had a good hold on the truck," Mauck said."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Corner intersection on Kaw City's Main St. is being razed."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Devastation in immediate vicinity of blast is depicted at left where ground was leveled while force of explosion is illustrated at right by a smashed boxcar."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State, federal and military investigators sifted debris with railroad officials Monday in an effort to determine the cause of an explosion Sunday that killed two, injured scores and devastated this resort community. Meanwhile, estimates of the damage ranged as high as $5 million as many of the townspeople returned to their homes and businesses facing massive clean-up chores. Some businessmen estimated it will take 2 years to rebuild the town. Virtually every building in the southwestern Missouri community near the Oklahoma and Arkansas borders suffered some damage. Many were destroyed. National Guardsmen denied access to all except residents or workers engaged in repairs. The 125-man guard force was to remain through Tuesday morning. The Missouri Highway Patrol listed 58 business establishments as damaged, with the harm from moderate to total demolished. The patrol said 31 residences were demolished, 58 others severely damaged and 55 damaged to some extent. A spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute in Chicago said a survey showed damage at slightly less than #1 million."