Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Once there was a proposal that Oklahoma City get a new federal building that would duplicate the present one. What it would have looked like is shown in the composite picture at right dreamed up in 1936. But, 25 years later when the new building became a reality, the 1961 photo below shows there was little resemblance between today's actual new building and yeasterday's proposed federal court house."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of large business district with large amount of multi-story buildings, "Oklahoma Mortgage" sign of building at bottom left, silo at top left, church at middle right, "Willmont Hotel" at bottom right, and more)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Destined to become a museum piece, this once-steaming 1926 Frisco engine No. 1526, was pulled from Oklahoma City to Lawton Friday morning. The 600,000 pound engine, shining from its recent restoration, will become a permanent fixture in the Museum of the Great Plains, Louis Menk, vice president of Frisco operations in St. Lois will formall present the $70,000 engine to the museum August 6. Lawtonians will welcome the engine Monday, however, by parading it down main street, pulled by two tanks."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Howe residents stand in midst of debris to survey storm losses."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Twenty years ago today it all happened at a place called Pearl Harbor, Chief Petty Officer Raymond L. West, Oklahoma City naval reservist, tells his 5-year-old son Ronnie. The naval reserve was to mark the anniversary Thursday noon when Joe Lawter, Central High School principal and only known local survivor of the battleship Oklahoma, laid a wreath at the anchor in Civic Center."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fury Of The Storm picked up this car of Rev. Ronnie Lewis from the side of the Baptist Church, shown in left photo, and tossed two blocks east of the church into a marshy pond. Similar freak incidents were commonplace throughout the storm-ravaged town of Howe as workmen began cleanup Saturday morning."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Unlce Sam's military planes are sort of like Mac Arthur - they don't die, they just fade away and then return. Proof of this can be seen from Douglas avenue bordering Tinker Air Force base on the east. It's here, in the southeast corner, that obsolete planes are lined up waiting the guillotine. Guillotine in this instance is a huge knife-like chunk of cemente used with a cane to demolish old planes and get then ready for the melting pot. Work is done by the redistribution and marketing service at Tinker. It revolves around the defense effort in that planes are melted down in order to demilitarize them...Once, the aluminum is in ingot form, it is sold to dealers and eventually winds up in new aircraft which is sold again to Uncle Sam. "It's sort of like selling a pig - the only thing we don't sell is the squeal," Lloyd Moon explained..Moon estimated there are about five planes in the 30-feet-high pile of wrecked plane parts. The pile takes up a spread of about a quarter of a block..."Ingots are about 92 percent pure aluminum though," Moon …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Twisting winds at Howe razed the building in the foreground."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Interior of Howe's new Batist Church is a gaping shambles after Friday's storm."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Bear Moving time at the Lincoln Park zoo has Homer Spikes, assistant zoo foreman, trying to convince a Sloth bear it should enter a cage. Two Sloths, Big Boy and Baby, and two Grizzlies, Running Bear and White Dove, had been living together since they were babies. But the bears were getting fuzzy with each other, so zoo keepers gave the Grizzlies a home of their own and moved the Sloths into their own private cage."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a sailor holding his son at the USS Oklahoma Anchor Memorial. Backside typing: "Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Raymond L. West and son Ronnie, 5 yrs. Chief West is a member of C. B. Div. 8-14, U. S. Naval Reserve.")"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "scene of destruction, directly across the street from Howe's demolished Baptist Church, was captured early Saturday morning by staff photographer Dick Cobb. The battered auto was carried several hundred feet before stopping"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Thuderstorms pelted Oklahoma's tornado - shocked southeastern section Saturday morning and the weatherman said they might continue through Sunday afternoon. But no more tornadoes are forcast for any part of the storm-ridden state through Sunday. New rains in the southeast may hamper cleanup work in Howe, Reichert and Hugo. Tornado fury concentrated on Howe and Reichert where 13 persons were killed and 56 were injured. Hugo escaped with property damage on the edge of town. Torrential rains Thursday night dwindled Friday, except for the tornado areas where up to eight inches fell, but flooding rivers closed numerous state roads. District army engineers at Tulsa warned a 10-foor rise is due in Fort Gibson reservoir by midnight Saturday as a result of heavy rains on the Arkansas, South Canadian, and Verdigris rivers. (photo tag: Howe's brand-new Baptist Church lies wrecked on the eve of its dedication.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Highway department crews from Antler went to work before dawn Saturday on Howe's storm wreckage. Half of the town was leveled."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With scores of helping hands, residents of this tornado-racked LeFlore County city Saturday took the first steps on the road to recovery. Howe, with its Lake Wister neighbor. Reichier, saw 13 men , womne and children killed and 59 wounded in 10 seconds Friday night. The twister wrecking half of Howe was the 500-population community's worst disaster since its founding as a mining center in 1890. And Howe residents lead the list of 1,000 Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas persons affected by the current tornado and flood bombardment……As an example of the pooled forces: food furnished by the Red Cross was cooked by LeFlore County home demonstration club members in a field kitchen set up by Co. D, 2nd Battle Group, 180th Infantry. The guardsmen commanded by Capt. Marvin Oldham, also guarded all approached to Howe, turning back the sightseers who had begun to block the emergency vehicles. Officals spent hours checking losses, while rescue crews picked through wreckage to make sure no more survivors were trapped. Marion Wise, of Poteau, LeFlore County Red Cross chapter chairman, said the preliminary damage estimate at Howe is $275,000, with 50 house wrecked …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Mud, rain-soaked chickens roost amidst Howe's wreckage."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Frisco engine No 1526 gets ready to leave Oklahoma City yards on its final trip-to Lawton. Shown, left to right, are Hayward James, Frisco assistant trainmaster from Tulsa; Marvin Tong, Lawton, director of the Museum of The Great Plains; Jack Darling, vice president of the museum, and George Clinkenbeard, assistant Frisco superintendent, Oklahoma City. A brief picture from the past was unvieled along the Frisco railroad tracks from Oklahoma City to Lawton early Friday morning when the old No. 1256, a steam locomotive started on its last excursion. The 600,000 pound engine, gleaming from its recent restoration, rolled proudly toward ists destination - the Museum of the Great Plains at Lawton. there, it will become a permanent fixture The engine will be formally dedicated and presented to the museum August 6 by Lewis Mink, vice president of Frisco operation is St. Louis....Marvin Tong, museum director, explained the date was chosen for the dedication because it is Lawton's 60th anniversary. The engine was built in 1926 by Baldwin Locomotive Works and sold to Frisco for $70,000. But its scrape value, the restoration work and the expense of moving it to …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Debris Draped Tree stands as a mute sentinel to testify the fury of Friday night's storm that devasted the LeFlore County town of Howe. This tree remained standing near the former site of a demolished house on the southwest edge of the tornado impact area."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A Delegation of five Negroes and one white Catholic priest held a brief meeting Monday with Mayor Norick, but failed to receive the official statement they sought favoring restaurant integration. Instead, Mayor Norick told the group he would not interfere with public enterprise. the group is shown here in a city hall reception room shortly before the brief meeting in the mayor's office."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Storm Winds ripped the roof and one wall of this Howe home Friday night, exposing the interior to fury of wind and rain. Over half of the LeFlore County town was destroyed."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Death Dealing Winds that ravished Howe Friday night killed 13 persons, injured 56, and leveled half of the LeFlore County twon. Fury of the storm is shown by the wrecked Baptist church, which had just been completed and was to be dedicated Sunday. Victims said the tornado lasted only 10 seconds."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sandwich meat is weighed and packaged by women workers at the Wison & Co. plant here."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Architect's sketch of new Northwest Presbyterian Church."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Name of the 10-story Braniff building NW 3 and Robinson will be changed August 1 to the Oklahoma Mortgage Building"