Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sometime in 1972 motorists will be able to drive across Oklahoma on I.H. 40, from the Texas line to Arkansas. Until then, the highway will be one of the biggest patchworks on an interstate route in the country. I. H. 40 roughly follows U.S. 66 from Texola, on the Texas line, to Oklahoma City. on east, it will be south of and paralled to U.S. 62 to Henryetta, then south of and parallel to U.S. 266 and U.S. 64 to a point near Fort Smith, Ark. When completed in 1972, I H. 40 will total 330 miles and will have cost more than $208 million. Just how much more is anybody's guess. Within six months, the western leg - U .S. 66 - will be four laned from Texola to the U.S. Reformatory at El Reno, including stretches through Weatherford, Clinton, Elk City, Canute, Sayre, Erick and Texola.........Widening of U. S. 66 to four lanes was started from Texola in 1955, before the interstate system was created by the federal government. Using old U. S. 66 - jammed up against the Rock Island tracks - as the north lane, …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Looking northeast at Weatherford, lack of by-pass construction is shown on I.H. 40. Four-lane highway swings, upper center, through business district on Main Street. Bridges in foreground carry I.H. 40 over S.H. 54."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Construction west of reformatory ends abruptly."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of a highway under construction, a large pond, a building/machinery with a stack letting out smoke, other equipment, and more. Backside typing: "Aerial view of surface processing plant beside IH 40 near Bridgeport.")"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo looking east with farmland all along, a railroad underpass near the bottom, a mill/big building with other building in the far, and more. Backside handwriting: "I.H. 40 Looking East a weather fork."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A speedy guard. Bill Stephens of Tulsa will be one of the top three reserves for Oklahoma City University's basketball team this season."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bruce Sexton was appointed Oklahoma City personnel director Saturday to replace Jack V. Boyd, who resigned Wednesday. Sexton, 38, is former owner of Commercial Employment Service."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Calvin Spivey, postal official, locates the Santa Claus mail which postmen gathered up in Friday's Freedom parade."