Daily newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from McAlester, 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.

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

Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to The Egan Company discussing his book and the final draft.

Letter from C. E. Cupples to R. Lee Kempner discussing the details of repairing or replacing the tv antenna systems on Kempner's house.

A letter written to Hon. Brooks Hays, Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. from T. N. Carswell, dated November 25, 1961. Carswell advises of his privilege to have heard both of the addresses given by Hays during his visit to Abilene and requests a copy of the poem, written by an Australian World War II pilot, that he used at the Hardin-Simmons University address.

Weekly newspaper from the School of Journalism of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma "published in the interest of the newspaper editors and publishers of the state" that includes industry and campus news.

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 the highway at the bottom, a small town at top center, mill and silos, farmland, and more. Backside typing: "Only completed by-pass on IH 40 between Texola and the U. S. Reformatory at El Reno is at Hydro. Aerial view looking from the south."). The small town in the photo is Hydro, Oklahoma.

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."

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man who was taken to jail after admitting being involved in the rape of a mother.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Herb Shriner who comes to Dallas for an appearance along with Marie the Body McDonald.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the high school 4-A quarterfinals football game between the Fort Worth Paschal Panthers and the Woodrow Wilson Wildcats of Dallas held at Farrington Field; Paschal wins, 14 to 8.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the beginning of a Lion's Club pet show at the George Younkin farm.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Jessie Marvin Caraway, who is charged with robbing the Alvord National Bank with 43-hundred dollars taken.

The second segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for November 25, 1961, on WCBS radio in New York.

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."