Photograph of a new Bermuda grass waterway which was sodded using Bermuda roots on February 25, 1953, and planted to corn on March 25, 1953. Cultivation of corn stimulated the growth and spread of the grass which was almost a solid cover when the photo was taken. A fair yield of corn was made. S. E. Jones, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, holds one of the Bermuda grass runners which is around 18 inches long. Class III, Soil Unit 2 BL. See TX-48-593-A. TX-48-593-B

Photograph of a ten acre tract of young pine planted in 1943. Planted in 6-foot rows. Every thrid row cut in the Spring of 1953. A stump of one of the largest trees cut is thinning.. AR-61-861-B.

Photograph of a ten acre tract of young pine planted in 1943. Planted in 6-foot rows. Every thrid row cut in the Spring of 1953. A strand of pine after thinning. AR-61-861-A.

Photograph of Indian grass, little bluestem and other native grasses making an excellent recovery from a drought as growing in bulldozed cedar. TX-48-813.

Photograph of seedling King Ranch [K.R.] bluestem and sideoats grasses making good growth, along with native grasses in pushed cedar. K.R. bluestem, sideoats grama and blue grama were seeded with attachment on bulldozer to drop seed in holes made where trees were pushed out. TX-48-814.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shaping of things to come in 1954 is underway on the part of the street layout for the new $4,745,000 fairgrounds west of May avenur, between 10 and Reno, as heavy dirt moving equipment tears into the preliminary rough grading job. The picture here looks toward the old sandlot baseball park, in the background. First grading and drainage work is being done by Oklahoma Construction Co., Muskogee. Contracts also have been let for paying, sewers and water lines. building construction contracts will come later. The Oklahoma State Fair, which opens September 26 at the old fairgrounds, NE 10 and Eastern, is due to move into its new home next year."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Your television reception go a little bad? Don't worry if you're a WKY-TV fan, because it's only temporary. The station says reception will be better than ever in the next few days. Reception, particularly in the so called "fringe" area of the station's coverage, may be a little poor for a few days because engineers are erecting a "bigger and better" antenna. And to get the job done, they have to use a small, temporary one while the old antenna comes down and the new one goes up........The new antenna, which has been assemled on the ground and will be pulled to the top in one piece, is to increase the strength of the station's new 25,000-watt transmitter which took the place of 16,800-watter. the antenna will multiply the transmitter's strength increasing it to 100,000 watts. raising the new antenna - it weighs five tons - is no small feat. The steeplejacks will use a 45-foot gin pole, similar to ones seen in oil fields, on top of the tower to raise the antenna,."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of river flowing andsnaking through from the lower bottol left to the upper middle right, some dry river bed along the turns, farmland with a barn in the top left, and more.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Doctors and nurses of Central State hospital in Norma help one of 26 tuberculosis patients from an air national guard plane at Norman's Max Westheimer field. Twenty-six patients were flown to Norman Wednesday from Western State hospital at Fort Supply."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the exterior front door of the mansion, people all around the front lawn, plane in the air above it, and more.)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a guy on the middle left looking at and pointing at the river, he is on the bank between to trees, and more. Backside typing: "Water arrived in a foaming hurry at D. I. Johnston point, about 4 1/2 miles upstream in the North Canadian river from the Overholser dam. This pix taken 8:45 a.m. Friday, as S. Karl Beam, water department again (?), pointed proudly to the water.")"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the exterior front door of a mansion, people with their backs to camera looking at the building, plane in the air above it, and more.)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of the stadium full and a game in action, some campus building in sight, housing, parking lots full, and more. Backside handwriting: "OU-Notre Dame.")"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Army engineer authorities here promised Friday to examine red tape which last weekend cost Oklahoma City and unestimated amount of Canton reservoir water. Apparently surprised to hear of unfavorable publicity attending the delay, Col. A. D. Starbird, asssistantchief of civil works for flood control said he would confer immediatley with subordinates. He denied to say wether Col. Stanley Reiff, district engineer in Tulsa, will be given authority to release water from the canton pool for Oklahoma City use when requested to do so......City authorities cooled their heels from Thursday to Monday, when the permission was given here to open the reservior gates. Need for immediate action was due to localized rain and thereforeready to carry the Canton water with relatively little waste from seepage."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Ten minutes made a big difference in the appeance of the North Canadian river between 9:40 and 9:50 a.m. Friday at the catwalk at NW 39."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What some folks have already heard about atomic energy and its related scientific effects would make a person's hair stand on end-but Galen Philips, University of Oklahoma electric enginnering major, found a literal example at the atomic energy display at the Oklahoma State fair. He put hand on a small model of Van De Graaf electrostatic generator, was charged with 250,000 volts and felt his hair rise up, but the low amperage prevented him from being needled any more than a machine in a penny arcade would do. Carried to millions of volts such a machine could smash an atom. Phillips is one of the 35 science majors at the university who are acting as demonstrators and guides at the atomic energy display this week at the fair, in the old "baby building" at the northwest corner of the grounds. The science services of the university , direscted by Dr. H. H. Bliss, was instrunmental in getting the exhibit here from Oak Ridge, Tenn, W. C. Rinearson accompanied the display here, it is a free exhibit."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "From a "cow path" to a super highway will be the story of this stretch of the Turner Turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa within the next two months. This picture of 10 early four-footed users of the toll road was taken on an upgraded section og yhr highway northeast of Bristow. In the background, heavy roller smooths out the sub-basesoil in preparation for paving crews. On April 17. the cows and the roller will be replaced by the first automobiles to use the finished turnpike. Although Turnepike service stations will be in operation for the highway's opening ceremonies, there will be no retaurants or permanent rest room facilities. the Turnpikes authority learned last week that contractors will not be able to complete that work before the opening. (T-3-13-58-NW: Cows to cars could be the title of these two pictures dramatizing the changes that have been made since the Turner turnpike was laid through peaceful pasturelands five years ago. The cow walk has become a modern motorway, leading thousands of tourists to the bypass. Tourists rang up about $2 million for bypass business tills last year."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of three guys across the bottom left foreground to the middle right, they are looking at the small amount of water flowing, still dry areas of the river bed, and more. Backside typing: "Water inched over the cracked soil of the North Canadian river floor at this point, about 3 miles upstream from Lake Overholser Friday morning. Waiting fishermen speculated on the 'big ones' the river flow will yield.")"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of a portion of the lake, river snaking through from top left to bottom right, boat docks at bottom middle, roads, and more)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Water was pouring into Lake Overholser Friday from the North Canadian river, fed by a steady flow through the gates of Canton dam where army engineers are releasing 6 1/1 billion gallons to boost Oklahoma City's municipal supply. Frank S. Taylor, city water superintendent, said the level of Lake Overholser will be raised about three feet, then the canal gates above the NW 39 bridge will be opened and the remainder of the heavy flow diverted into Lake Hefner, northwest of the city.........By Sunday, city water department engineers estimated, the level of the Canton reservoir will be pulled down to 1,592 feet elevation - the mark where it stood before the July emergency release. The flood control dam gates then will be closed, but the flow in the river will continue for six or seven days. Amount of water going into Lake Hefner will depend upon the total flow arriving here after river losses. Engineers have estimated about half the total release will reach here, with river sands drinking the matter."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jammed to its capacity, Owen Stadium in Norman presented this picture to low-flying airplanes shortly before the now-classic OU-Notre Dame game got underway Saturday afternoon."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The beauty of the Oklahoma City University campus was heightened Monday when this procession filed into the school's new Gold Star Memorial library prior to its dedication in memory of 1,100 Methodist war dead. Dr. W. Angie Smith, bishop of the Methodist church in Oklahoma and New Mexico, delivered the principle address."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Grading outlines the curve of Oklahoma City's new U.S. 66 bypass that swings south from the urban bypass at Belle Isle lake *water in the foreground) to join NW 39. Workers have been putting down drainage lines and more grading will raise the level of the road near the lake. this bypass section is the second major project in the Oklahoma City urban express program. First was the north bypass, shown across the lower part of the picture, which links Northwest highway with the Turner turnpike."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo a half(?) full flowing river, two guys standing on the rocks along the right bank looking at the river, more guys at the top of the bank and along a bridge on the upper right looking at the river, and more. Backside typing: "Anxious fishermen and just-plain-onlookers were on hand to greet the first Canton water north of the NW 39 bridge at 9:45 a.m. Friday when it arrived.)"