Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Some students at Benedictine Heights Catholic school , Guthrie ,come from afar."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harold P. Cook, a leader in the Masonic Lodge of Oklahoma for many years, died today in a Guthrie Hospital."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When the smoke cleared in the future farmers contest at the State fair , there was quiet, unassuming , 16-year-old Donald Coffin .."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fred, who now is managing officer of the bank, also is vice-president and director of the Bank of Crescent, another of Oklahoma's oldest financial institutions."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Queen of the celebration, Nancy Lou Hixon, is shown at the left as she prepared to mount "Pepper" to ride in the parade."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The picture below shows the same spot as it looks today, with the modern concrete span in the background."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Guthrie had one of its gladdest hands out Friday for 89er celebration visitors from Arkansas City, Kan., a main jumping-off point for the run 60 years ago."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Angie Debo, well known state historian, inspects a portion of the voluminous and valuable map collection recently reposed at A&M."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The first Methodist church at Crescent, organized in 1890 as the outgrowth of a Thanksgiving day union service in 1889, will dedicate its new building Wednesday with the assistance of Dr. W. Angie Smith, bishop for Oklahoma and New Mexico."

Photograph of an burning oil tanker on a highway, used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. An unidentified man is on the right of the image, watching the fire. There are crop marks near the top and bottom of the photo. Caption: "A spectacular blaze, which consumed 3,024 gallons of crude oil and damaged a new trailer truck, tied up traffic for more than two hours Tuesday on the Guthrie cut-off near Bradbury corners."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Three Logan county youths whose records in Future Farmers of America and 4-H work won them top honors were awarded special trophies at the second annual achievement program held recently at Crescent."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If you ever buy that mink coat, the mink may be home-grown."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two men were killed in this pickup truck Saturday when it crashed into a semi-trailer truck near Orlando, Logan county, on U.S. 77. Killed instantly was Cecil Humphrey, 2020 NE 16 Terrace. Murray J. Thornton, Albuquerque, NM., his passenger, died shortly after the accident in Perry General Hospital."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One of the few banks in the state which does not destroy its records five years after they are made, the First National bank of Guthrie still has the first checks, deposit slips and ledgers used the day it was founded 60 years ago."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Every boy and girl entering the Logan county junior livestock show at Guthrie will receive a premium this year."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Energy and enterprise went to work."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The career of an early-day newspaper man who came to Oklahoma to cover the original run in 1889 and liked it well he stayed in the state the rest of his life is ended."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A blueprint Siamese female cat, owned by Bonnie Mae Paul, Guthrie, won top honors at the second all breed and Siamese specialty championship cat show as Denver."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "T.M. Roberts, law school's first student, and Dean Jerome Hemry"

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A total of 73 years of service is the record of these three employees of the First National Bank of Guthrie. Rolland Sifers, left, assistant cashier, has worked in the bank 21 years; Fred R. Hirzel, asst. cashier, has 25 years; and Mrs. Helen Coulter has seen 27 years of service at the institution, which claims to be the oldest national bank in the state."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Saturday's tornado struck the Crescent school near Meeker and left this classroom in a shambles."

Photograph of brush control by chemicals. Where selective chemicals are properly used the land cover is not destroyed and erosion is controlled. Leaves, twigs and stems of Black-jack and other oak brush is sprayed with a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T herbicide all accumulated in a mulch on the soil. There was an average of 7,593 pounds per acre of litter two years after the treatment. This mulch conserves the water and makes conditions ideal for the growth of grass. The area on the left was not treated while the area on the right was. The grass is more effective for erosion and flood control than the original cover of brush and grass. There was a 45% reduction in water run off annually from good grass on the altered land than from the adjacent area of brushland. OK-79, 441.