Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Long Line of stone marks a astrudy wall rising at St. Patricks Catholic Church, NW 19 and Portland. Workers were spotted Saturday by Times photographer Bob Albright, who "figured they must be volunteers, because they were working so hard!." About 50 to 60 men in the parish are contributing labor. They are directed by Floyd L. Mays, a professional brickmason. Working since early June, they have quarried about 250 tons of the donated rock at the Cecil Schweitzer farm between Calumet and Okarche, hauling it to the site. The wall is to screen off St. Patrick's grade school from traffic noise."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hot Weather Craw; of asphalt paving under heavy city traffic is responsible for wavy pattern of pedestrian lane lines, above, at NW 23 and Classed, says James H. Robinson, city traffic control director. In making fast starts, modern autos with heavy horsepower and automatic transmissions literally shove the pavement aside. The problem becomes worse under summer heat, and traffic crews find it virtually impossible to keep the lane lines straight at some locations, the traffic offical said."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma City's newest motel, the 75-unit Suntide Inn at 3200 NW 39, will throw open its doors for public inspection between 2 and 5 p.m. Sunday. The public showing will climax three days of open house held by owner Lyle Overman, who currently is national president of the American Motor Hotel Association. Friday night about 150 members of the press were guests at the swank new hostelry, and Saturday night Miss Oklahoma, Kay Creed, was special hostess to several hundred visitors from the city's business community. Miss Creed and Mayor Norick assisted in a ribbon-cutting ceremony......He has added 55 brand new units to go with 20 units remaining from an original 43-unit Major Motel."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Keeping step with its sales that have swelled from $1 million on its first year here in 1941 to more than $34 million in 1959, the Oklahoma Division of the Fleming Co. is adding another 72,105 square feet to its wharehouse and offices at 3501 N Sante Fe. In addition, shown above and to the right of the dotted lines, will expand to 192,577 sqaure feet Fleming;s facilities for supplying IGA Food Stores, a voluntary retail group. Fleming was established here in August 1941 when it purchased Carroll-Brough-Robinson, wholesale grocery firm at 3 E. Main. Fleming moved to its present locations in 1944 and now has 175 employes as compared with 50 in 1941."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Although damage is estimated in the millions, it could have been worse had this farm of propane tanks ignited after two railroad cars exploded early Sunday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City really isn't a "club minded" town, says George Rupe, a man who ought to know. He's manager of Lake View Country club, NW 63 and Portland. Before moving to Lake View in July he'd been with the Beacon Club and the Oklahoma Club…….The dream belonged origanlly to the late Frank Wilton Jones, attorney, president of a man's club that wanted its own building. The idea blossomed into meetings in 1953 to see what could be done about it. In the card room at Lake View hangs a picture of the original 20 who underwrote a modest stock subscription. Among them were Jones, Henry Benedict, Harry Schwartz and Keith Harris, who is now club president,...Construction on Lake View's 25-acre site started in 1955 and the facilities opened for use in September the next year.......""This is one of the finest clubs around," says the Lake View Manager. "Of all our assets, we're proudest of the people who make up the club."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An oil well being plugged as no longer productive blew out Wednesday in the old Edmond field in a display reminiscent of early day gushers. Gas, water, and oil shot 200 to 250 feet into the air under heavy pressure. One oil field man watching the spectacular geyser estimated the pressure at 6 million cubic feet. There was speculation the blow out might point to a new pay zone in the Edmond field, which was developed in the mid 1930s and which has been a prolific producer. The uncontrolled well, the Suneram B-4, blew out as a crew of the Bill Hannum Casing Pulling Co. of Oklahoma City pulled 7-inch casing from the hole. The casing was being pulled from 6,700 feet. Hannum said the blow out came at about 5,200 feet. He said none of his crew was injured when the well went wild. The blow out apparently was caused by freeing of an accumulation of gas when the casing was pulled. The well, located three-quarters of a mile east of May Ave. and a mile south of Edmond Rd., is on Tennessee Gas and Oil Co. lease. …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "No. 1 among Oklahoma City's country clubs - historically, in prestige and in size - is the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club. This Tudor-style clubhouse is part of a Nichols Hill property with a conservatively estimated value of $4 million, including a fine golf course and bigger than Olympic-size swimming pool. The club has 80 regular employes and up to 100 during the summer season."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a room with a sink, guy shown through the door on the middle right leaning on a counter, and more. Backside handwriting: "Tinker Branch.")"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Photograph of African American adults and children conducting a civil rights sit in at a department store in downtown Oklahoma City.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of an oil well pump station pipes blowing out oil, shack at right beside it, a few barns and houses in the background, and more)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the plaque with "The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Oklahoma City Tinker Area Branch 1960" that also has lists of name for the "Metropolitan Board Of Directors" and "Tinker Area Branch Board Of Management.")"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The fall program of the new $250,000 Tinker area YMCA will start Tuesday with more than 16 courses available to youngsters and adults. A special swimming period for handicapped children will be each Friday from 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Learn to swim lessons for boys and girls from 8 to 17 will be taught from 4 p.m. until 4:45 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Other courses will include instruction in swimming , open fun swim and swim team. Game room activities will include chess, checkers, ping-pong and reading......Informal classes in bridge, oil painting, water colors, ballroom dancing, public speaking, home decorating, and others will be taught for eight weeks. The new YMCA, dedicated last week, features club rooms, administrative office, and swimming pool. (photo tag: Heated for year-around use, the pool is 25 by 75 feet.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Founding fathers of Hillcrest Country Club had a membership mainly from Capitol Hill in mind when they started organizing in 1952. But they must have underestimated the scope of their club's appeal, for nearly a fourth of Hillcrest's stock members have north side addresses. This is the payoff from what club president Melvin W. Jones, insurance man describes as "a good well-balanced program around which a family can plan all its recreation."This family appeal has been Hillcrest cornerstone right from the start, says Jones, a former Oklahoma State University professor....Manager Jerry Corsi, one-time University of Colorado gridder, admits it taxes his ingenuity to keep the schedule booked with things new and different...Hillcrest's location at 6501 Country Club Drive also helps make it a popular spot for Capitol Hill businessmen's luncheon appointments. There are 615 members, a number of them from the Federal Aviation Agency center, with 250 owning stock. A share in Hillcrest these days sells for about $480, when avaibable. Dues are $24.40 a month...The 18-hole course has an adjacent driving range and a putting clock. the swimming pool is "near Olympic size." Parking space was doubled several …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twin Hills was strictly stag when it got its start as a private golf club back in the 1920s. But as founder Dorset Carter sr. once explained, "We finally had to give in to the women." It's a good thing, too, today's Twin Hills members might say, for as manager John Atwood points out, the country club's families count some 1,200 children among them. "This is strictly a family club," Atwood can now declare with ample reason......"It's an improvement program, to bring the club more up-to-date, rather than an expansion," explains the president, R. L. McCormick, Oklahoma Paper Co. executive......Twin Hills also has about 140 social members. there are 50 doctors on the club roster, plus a big representation of the city's lawyers, as well as businessmen. Members pay dues of $27.45 a month. (section that goes under the photo: The Twin Hills clubhouse is cramped and due remodeling, but members of the northeast Oklahoma City country club are proud of their golf course, called the best in the state by some experts, and of their well-appointed swimming pool. Twin hills, unofficial "No. 2 club" hereabouts, gets a heavy …

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a straight line and many mini lines in the air during the night/in space. Front page handwriting: "Bottoag.")"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Downtown merchants generally are outwardly calm, but in many cases are individually resentful at the "lack of discrimination" shown by Negroes who Monday started a boycott of downtown stores. None would talk for the publiccation. And no merchant, either publicly or privetly, would hazard a guess on what the eventual effect of the boycott may be on business. Hurt Cause? But, privetly, one businessman declared Negro leaders "may be hurting their own cause by their seeming inability to face up the to the facts."...Major fear in some business quarters is that all downtown business is that all downtown business may suffer from customers both white and Negro might, staying away because of the possibility of trouble. (photot tag: Boycott pickets head for the downtown area.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The notation "Member FDIC" underneath the Capitol Hill State Bank sign never looked so good as it did Monday to 11,5000 depositors of that now-defunt bank. At least 600 customers were on hand when the institution's doors opened at 9:30 a.m. Monday and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. began handing out checks to those whose money was on deposit when the state bank commissioner ordered it closed July 29..........Parking could not be found for blocks around the bank. Every available spot on the banl parking lot was gone by 8:30 a.m., and so was all curb space within a 4-block radius. The line of people encircled the intstitution by 9 a.m., and stretched for about a half-block in either direction along SW 29. (photo tag: Lines formed early Monday morning as FDIC officials started to pay off depositors.)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a room looking into another room through sliding windows and more. Backside handwriting: "Tinker Branch.")"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a room, chair circling in a moon form, windows at top of back wall, and more. Backside handwriting: "Tinker Branch.")"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "New mosque for the Oklahoma City India Temple Shrine covers 48 acres and includes a 10,000 square foot stable, 1,600 square foot air conditioned club house and a lake. Move to the new home from the Shrine at NW 4 and Harvey and Shrine owned barnes at NE 35 and Grand Blvd. will take years, E. Phil Allen, illustrious potentate, estimates. The new tract is located north of Memorial Rd., and east of Eastern."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workmen can be seen putting finishing touches on the new Plaza Tower Hotel as it is readied for opening next Sunday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Officially opening Meridian Lanes are (left to right) Dan Allison, Dave Baldwin and Chris Cramer."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Four-way stop lights and concrete replace Capitol Hill's muddy streets."