Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "I lost everything I had and I’ll never get it back," sighed Mrs. Viola Mae Matthews as she watched her apartment home go up in huge black clouds of smoke. "I worked a lifetime for what I had, now I have nothing except what I'm wearing," she said, brushing back tears forced from her misty eyes by ugly, biting smoke from her blazing home. As one who had just escaped with her life from an apartment house blaze at 24 NE 2 wednesday afternoon. Mrs Matthew's expressed the feelings of each of 15 families who lived in the fire-gutted structure. All were thankful that everyone go out without a scratch, but each was mourning the loss of his belongings. Not a single soul in the two-story brick building saved so much as a scrap of paper from the blazing dwelling. As Mrs. Calvin Fowler said, "nobody anything out...we just ran for our lives." Smoke and flames billow from an burning Oklahoma City apartment house as firemen fight to bring it under control."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Weary Oklahoma City firemen battled their second major fire in 14 hours Thursday morning as flames gutted the First Nazarene church santuary, NW 6 and Francis. Thirty firemen - including city manager Bill Gill jr. and assistant fire chief Jake Amberg - narrowly escaped death or serious injury when the roof collapsed. Balcony Saves Them Gill and Anberg were diredting three hose crews fighting the raging blaze inside the sanctuary when the roof "popped." All ran for cover and were protected by a balcony when the roof caved in. Neither the pastor of the church, Rev. R. T. Williams, nor fire chief G. R. McAlpine could give and immediate damage estimate...The pastor - who ran into his offices underneath the sanctuary and brought out valuable church records - said the church was built in 1928 at a cost of $25,000, but "couldn't be nearlyreplaced for that." One estimate set replacement cost at $100,000. Three alarms were sounded - bringing 19 fire companies to the scene. Most of the firemen had only a few hours of rest after battling a stubborn blaze in the unit block NE 2. This …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The only church in the city to sport an escalator. Its at the east entrance."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Test loading Douglassstadium with 103,400 pounds of sacked cement was a heavy, sweating job in 102 degree heat Wednesday. A crew of highschool boys worked all day stacking the 20-sack crane loads upon the center tier of centers. The test is designed to show wether the stadium can support added concrete and a crowd, too. If the stadium passes the engineers' test the boys will spend Thursday taking the cement again."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City celebrated its first public showing of the movie, "Oklahoma!" with street dances and songs downtown Tuesday night. As some 3,000 persons watched, Indians danced in from of a tepee erected in front of the State theater. Costumed square dances whirled through their steps. The audience tapped its toes as it listened to Oklahoma City's own Surrey Singers handle the famous "Oklahoma!" songs. The festivities preceded the premiere of the movie which is now becomes a fixture downtown. The movie features the new Todd-AO process. A capacity crowd, which paid $5 a seat, viewed Tuesday night's premiere showing of "Oklahoma!"...Many in the crowd wore western costumes. one family, Mr. and Mrs. David Butler of Pauls Valley and their five daughters, Lind, Barbara, Carolyn, Ann and Neva, was picked as the family wearing the best western costumes and watched the premiere as guests of Cowboy Hall of Fame. Oklahoma's beauty queen, Miss LaDonna Kramer of Kingfisher, rode to the premiere in a horse-drawn surrey with a real fringe on top. Lieut. Gov. Cowboy Pink Williams and his party arrived at the premiere in another surrey."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This modern dining room will seat about 600 persons."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "West entrance to the $1,350,000 First Christian church."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Army helicopter square dancers do-si-do, sashay and right-and-left grand. "Swing your partner, pass her on the head. If she don't like biscuits, feed her cornbread." They bill it as "just an old-fashioned square dance." But it's a bit different from what Oklahomans have seen. They do it with helicopters...The four H-19 helicopters are decked out in colorful square-dance costumes-two of them corn-cob pipes as "Hank" and "Henry" and two others as "Hattie" and "Harriet."...On equal billing with the square dancers is Bozo, the helicopter clown - piloted by W-O Eldred Bourne of Jackson, Miss...The yo-yo trick will be performed for the first time before the public at the airshow......A mock battle also will be staged, with 90 heli-troopers being flown in by giant Vertol helicopter to seize Will Rogers field in a 20-minute battle-with all the fireworks...The Oklahomans in the group are W-O Alva Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Anderson of Pyror, and W-O Bert E. Ratliff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ratliff sr., of Ada."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "National Aircraft Show grounds at Will Rogers field are taking shape for the Saturday, Sunday and Monday showings of the parade of America's defense airpower. The airforce, navy, marines and army will unveil many of their latest air weapon systems along with helicopter and transport demonstrations. A total of 25 tents will be on the field, while the air national guard and civil aeronautical center hangers will house static displays. Here can be seen part of the tents, along with the frames for the box seats and the fenced off area for reserved seats. The site is on the west side of Will Rogers, facing the terminal building and Oklahoma City to assure the sun being to the back of the spectators."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Storm sewer construction on SW 54 near Klein is shown in progress above."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Face Of Main Street is undergoing drastic change as the First National bank's new parking building reaches upward."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "First National's new Parking building."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "OCU's new Loeffler industrial arts structure is in left background next to new heatingplant."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Best artist is still Mother Nature when it comes to pleasing pictures. Our photographer caught this unusual shot of the Morning star gleaming near the waning moon above a downtown building before dawn."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Right picture shows the city university's new heating center"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Heading Toward Completion is the new home of the Oklahoma Medical association at 601 NW Expressway."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These August days are real warm and these men stop the new First Christian church, NW 36 and Walker, really have a hot job."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "More water for Oklahoma City will be furnished soon by this new pipeline from the Lake Hefner filtration plant."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bigger than a barrel, these sections of 48-inch cast iron pipe will carry 34,000,000 gallons of water daily to thirsty Oklahoma City when the new bond issue line, extending eastward from Lake Hefner filtration plant to N Broadway in Britton, is completed."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "B.L. Semtner Jr. adjusts the Fife Web Guide"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "First National Parking Bldg."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Big Jim Owens, one of the finest ends ever to play under Bud Wilkinson at Oklahoma U, has been visiting here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Owens of 1704 Westminster Place."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Steel girders form framework for a second story on the telephone company's west central office at N 23 and Portland."