Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Daddy's a Hero - Everybody Knows It Now - Little Cassandra Commiskey, 3 years old, watched in wonder Wednesday as President Truman made a national hero of her daddy, Lieut. Henry A. Commiskey, by bestowing a Congressional Medal of Honor on him."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Only wreckage, Pain Left. Trooper D.R. Stogner, above surveys the damage resulting from a truck-car collision four miles northwest or Moore on SH 74 Friday afternoon. Four persons were injured, one seriously. The truck was driven by Jessie Jack Wilmoth, 28, of 26, NW 11, which pulled off a county road onto SH 74and met a car driven by Jerome Janger, 18, of 800 NE 17. Both men were hurt. Two passengers, below in Janger's car, Thelma O'Brien, 32, of 1315 NW 10, and Virgina Galindo, 31, of 315 SW 11, (standing) were injured. Miss O'Brien suffered serious head lacerations. All, except Miss O'Brien were given emergency treatment at St. Anthony and released. Janger said he was taking his two passengers both employed by a downtown city department store, to Norman where they planned to redecorate a fraternity house. Stogner estimated damage to both cars at $1,000."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "While many humans swelter under Oklahoma's hot sun, the city's chinchilla population never had it so good."

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Caption: "Edward S. Correta, 212 W Kittyhawk, Midwest City, supervisor in an electrical maintenance unit at Tinker Air Force Base, reached back beyond World War I this week to give the children in the neighborhood a tight wire walking exhibition." Man walks on a tightrope while holding a parasol over his head.

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only minor scratches. They were assisted to the bank by several unidentified men who were fishing nearby. Car Plunges Off Bridge The car landed on the driver`s side in about five feet of water. Most of the last four or five months, the river has been bank-full and has had a swift current. But the last two weeks it had fallen four or five feet. If the river had been at the higher level, several feet of water would have covered the car. Mrs. Thompson said she was driving the car across the bridge, which is about a half mile east of Shawnee. She said the car slipped off the plank runners which are on the bridge flooring. When she tried to bring the car back …

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Six southeastern Oklahoma beauties will compete for the title of queen of the annual inside-the walls rodeo at Oklahoma State penitentiary September 6-9."

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All of which give me the general idea the Johnny Creel, his busted wing and his innate sense of humor all were sitting up, taking nourishment through a straw, and had a 50-50 chance of survival."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Feeding a bunch of hungry college students in these days of soaring food costs is a job most people would just as soon pass up."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nineteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Cox of Shawnee, left, made history Tuesday when she became the first young woman to be sworn into the WAVE at the Oklahoma City station."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Upside Down Cake. Two persons were injured, one seriously, Thursday when a baking company truck (above) collided with a Plymouth sedan at NE 7 and Stiles. Walter Earl McNull, 27, of 425 NE 12, driver of the sedan was charged with failure to yield the right of way. Domald Gene Lindsley, 23, of 4217 N Classen, the truck driver, was taken to Mercy hospital with two fractured legs, a fractured left hip and internal injuries. Mrs. Nina May Tate, 75, of 425 NE 12, a passenger in the McNull's car, was hospitalized with a fractured left shoulder, two broken ribs and bruises. J.W. Rankin and R.K. Brikaw, police accident investigators, said that McNull failed to stop at the stop sign."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "C. D. Deal, pointing gives wire check instructions to student Stanley Montgomery, Central graduate who will study radio engineering in college this term."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "University of Oklahoma graduates go places. Take a look at Jesse R. Cornett, 1938 graduate with a major in engineering physics, who is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Cornett."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. G. E. Dubin and children...Awaiting Atlantic hop."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rick Dilbeck, the handsome Oklahoma City stock car pilot with all the bad luck, may have shaken his jinx."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Left, is the Cimse motorcycle act, turning flip-flop high in the air in a whirling trapeze."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 77-year-old great-great-grandmother checked a list of 101 direct descendants here Sunday but shyly admitted she didn't know "all of them"."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "File Photo"

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Francis E. Stone, police scoutcar officer, was suspended from the force indefinitely Thursday for conduct unbecoming an officer following the arrest of a burglar suspect who attempted to shoot H. J. Bradshaw Stone's partner."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After a wedding trip to Colorado , Mr. and Mrs. Mather M. Eakes plan to establish a home at 1803 N. Western."