Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two newest buildings on Main Steet at Wakita are the Citizens Bank of Wakita, foreground, and the Postoffice, left background."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ercell D. Tebow, Pond Creek civic leader, is mayor."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Whole new Convention Hall "face" is in the making."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harold D. Reed, banker from Medford, Okla."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First Christian Church of Pond Creek is one of three churches built there in the last 10 years at a cost of $385,000."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ultra-modern, $50,000 City Building at Pond Creek is at souhwest corner of Broadway and Second streets."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Old livery stable on Pond Ceek's Main Street was vital to community life in pre-automoblie days."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Russell Jr., of the Grant County community of Hawley, north of Nash. They are an "unworried" minority, as they are the only black residents of the county, but have "good neighbors" that they grew up with, and no one seems to make any issues of race for the country farmer and his wife."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Historical marker in a lonely woodland southeast of Jefferson designates graves of two men killed by Osage Indians in early 1870's."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three-story Grant County courthouse is one block of main business street of Medford."