Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An enterprising Oklahoma photographer saw this cloud near Pauls Valley. He thought it looked like an atomic bomb mushroom cloud. So he took the picture. The weatherman says the photographer is right. It's a cumulus variety known to the forecasting trade as a "weather factory." It's built just as the atomic mushroom by tremendous heat generated in the center. This causes a big upheval and the cloud build fast. Sometimes they will shoot up as much as 30,000 to 40,000 feet in a few minutes. When the mushroom sticks through into the freeze ceiling, that's when the rains come. it's seldom a heavy rain. More often the rain falls in light showers confined to a relatively small area."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Just a hole in the ground, this is the beginnings of the $600,000 memorial building at OCU."

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The new $175,000 building of the University Place Christian church has been finished and Buford Bryant, new interim pastor who is an authority on Bebrew at Phillips University is serving as interim pastor."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Chunks of ice sliding from at least two downtown buildings Wednesday gave pedestrians a busy time of it for a couple of hours."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The cold front etched this picture across Oklahoma City's skyline as it moved in about 7 p.m., bringing with it cool weather all the way from Canada."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 20-year-old minister's daughter was named Misa Oklahoma City Tuesday night."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Foster, Stillwater, make themselves at home in this trailer being show by the Sharp Trailer Coach Co."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jack Wood"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These are the two patrolmen who early Tuesday captured four youths accused of "carting off" the Leader department store. 2228 Exchange. the officerts said they surprised two suspects looting the store and arrested two others as they drove up an alley in the raer. One escaped amid gunfire, but was later arrested at his home. Part of the loot is shown in the picture. R.C. Sheffield is countying the money while M.L. Wilson looks on."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Work was progressing on the WKY-TV mobile unit to be used in broadcasting on the spot television shows Gene Lyons, WKY-TV field supervisor, is shown placing the public address system in place inside the mobile unit."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Max Chambers, President of Central State College-Edmond."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cars parked across pedestrian walkways have always been a nuisance."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This annoying situation - trapped behind a slow moving vehicle - is banned under the new traffic laws."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Large slow moving trucks are now required to stay 300 feet - about a city block - apart."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THOMAS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NEARING COMPLETION - The Thomas Memorial hospital at Thomas will be completed so it can be dedicated as part of the forty-seventh annual Thomas Anniversary celebration in August."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Folk from all walks of life, rich and poor, famous and ordinary, young and old, gathered Sunday at Ponca City to pay their last respects to Lew Wentz."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sooners traveling U.S. 66 to saturday's Oklahoma Missouri game at Combia, Mo., were greeted by this sign at the highway intersection in Vinita that sends them eastward into Missouri."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of Jenks Simmons' greatest teams was the title quintet of 1949. From left, Kendall Sheets, Gerald Stockton, Leroy Bacher, Dale Crawford; rear, J. E. Simmons and Charles Han. They won 24 games without a loss."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Houston B. Teehee"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Plans are completed for an open house of the new Beta Tau House at Southwestern State College, with opening ceremonies set for Oct. 23. It's the first Greek house on the campus."