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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5278]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Old and new side-by-side. Three and a half years ago the people of Oklahoma County agreed to share the cost of three new bridges across the Canadian River. About the first of May the fruits of their effort will become a reality. The State Highway Commission has indicated the first of Twin bridges that span the Canadian and May Avenue will be open to traffic in about two months. The second part of the span will open a couple of months later. The existing bridge, now closed to traffic, will be dismantled. When completed, the two-lane May Avenue bridge will carry one-way traffic across the river. The bridge - along with two others - were approved by county voters in a $5,985,000 bond issue in the fall of 1957. The other bridges, now in use, span the river at S Pennsylvania and S Agnew. County residents are contributing 25 percent of the cost of the May Avenue bridge, the state 25 percent and the federal government 50 percent."
Date:
February 9, 1961
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0248]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo looking into a large floor/room, not yet furnished, vents/something out the floor, the concrete piers/columns on the right with tubes and vents, and more.)"
Date:
March 1, 1961
Creator:
Matheson, Mandell
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4364]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Rising in Edmond will be six apartment buildings like the one sketched above. The College Apartments will provide 96 living units at 2 and Rankin, two blocks from Centra State College campus. The first section will offer 32 units."
Date:
1961
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10214]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At right, the first Oklahoma City-made steel is poured into a ladle at the new Hoster steel mill, 1600 S May. The electric furnace, titled far forward, is emptying last of its six-ton load."
Date:
August 28, 1961
Creator:
Peterson, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5905]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Billowing Black Smoke covered vast areas of Oklahoma City Tuesday night as the Rounds and Porter Co. warehouse, 853 NW 2, was consumed by a four-alarm fire. A brisk south wind sent heavy smoke over the entire northwest section of the city. Construction materials stored in the building provided the fuel for the raging inferno. Firefighters battled the blaze nearly three hours before they were able to enter the building and get at the heart of the fire. The picture at left shows an aerail ladder being used to throw water on top of the blaze. At right, smoke billows above the blaze. Firemen were still at the scene late wednesday morning."
Date:
May 31, 1961
Creator:
Matheson, Mandell
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10833]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mammoth Eufuala Dam, under construction since 1956, will impound a reservoir, entirely within the state, that will overshadow even Lake Texoma which Oklahoma shares with Texas. Construction of Eufaula dam is near midway point. Water is to be available for power in 1964 and the lake is to be filled by 1965. Six eastern Oklahoma counties will share a direct benefit from the huge, new reservoir. it will extend into each of them. But the new lake, which will have a surface area 7,000 acres greater than Lake Texoma, presently the state's largest, will be a big recreational attraction for the entire state. Heavy western Oklahoma traffic is expected to be able to zoom to the Eufaula areaon high-speed, four lane I.H. 40 eventually. The first part of the 70-mile per hour freeway already is started. The reservoir will be principally in McIntosh, Haskell, Pittsburg and Okmilgee counties, but smaller areas will touch Muskogee and Latimer counties. Surface of its power pool will cover 102,5000 acres, compared with only 95,400 acres for Lake Texoma......Initial construction on this project to dam the waters of the Canadian between two bluff approcimately …
Date:
August 22, 1961
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8717]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of a multi-story building in a six-sided polygon shape, parking lots and other buildings surroundings, and more. Backsiced handwriting: "Plaza Towers 11th & Shartel.")"
Date:
January 12, 1961
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5203]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is one of the few pictures ever taken of so many members of the Oklahoma City Symphony's "contract orchestra," while in concert performance under conducter Guy Fraser Harrison. Shown at far left is the soloist, Betty Johnson, who sits usually in the principal chair of the bassons. At right in front is Kathryn Rapp Easter, harpist. Between these two, around the rows, are 421 of the 45 contract members who represent many different segments of the community. Only the trombone and trumpet players are missing."
Date:
January 28, 1961
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0468]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charred timbers of the Donald Tuttle home stands as gri, reminders of air age hazards. Four families on Ferguson Dr. were quietly rebuilding their lives Wednesday. The father of a fifth family was in Texas where his wife and younf son are hospialized with serious burns. His other two children died as a result of the crash and explosion of a jet fighter Friday in Midwest City. A ground crater in the backyard of a home at 337, formely occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Foy Hurst and their son Foy jr., shows where the nose of the jet first hit the ground. Two doors away at 325, the plane came to rest in the Donald Tuttle home, exploding in a sheet of fire which killed Tibbie Lynn Tuttle, 2, and caused fatal burns to Judith, 4. The Tuttle house is a skeleton of charred timbers and rubble that was furniture."
Date:
August 30, 1961
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6187]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Large And The Small, the new and the old of the 305th Air Force Reserve Troop Carrier Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base are illustrated here. The large and the new are two C-124's, with which the unit is now being equipped. The old and the small is the plane in the center, a C-119, which the unit has had for some time and is now losing. The 60-man group of 305th pilots in front of the C-119 represents the number of passengers that can be carried aboard the plane; while the two 150-man formations leading to each of the C-124's represent only three-fourths of the passenger load for the four-engine planes. Maximum load on the planes in 200. Lt. Col. Edwin J. Angelo, commander of the 305th, stands at attention in front of his men and their planes, old and new."
Date:
1961
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10910]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo from the house/senate floor with a guy at the podium at middle right, people at desks all aournd, video camera at middle left, people of people in the watchers' level across the top, and more.)"
Date:
June 15, 1961
Creator:
Cobb, Dick
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10835]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of a road with a temporary bridge between the two shores, a car at the right shore, the river running from top left to bottom right, and more.)"
Date:
October 28, 1961
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0234]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Below Left: A hot rod blazes away with special fluid feeding the flames. This and other steps cut weight of car 17 percent during wrecking operation. Below Right: Detachable parts are removed. Workment are Charles Gregor, with goggles, and Grady Sick."
Date:
September 12, 1961
Creator:
Cobb, Dick
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10831]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Panoramic View of work underway on Eufaula Dam is an everday sight to Charles W. Surbey, above, assistant resident engineer on the project. A photographer-reporter team of Bob Albright and Francis Theford has prepared a three-part series of articles on the dam. It starts today on page 11. The structure will impound water for what will be the largest lake in the state when it fills in 1965."
Date:
August 22, 1961
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8245]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First Joint In Atoka-Oklahoma City Pipline goes into the ground at the South Canadian River near Konawa. R. Lewis Barton, chairman of the $65 million trust handling construction breaks the paper plug in the first joint during Wednesday's ceremonies. About 200 citizens from communities between Oklahoma City and Atoka toured the project and visited the Lock Joint Pipe Co. plant at Ada where the 20-foot section are made. the pipeline will bring water 100 miles from Lake Atoka. Completion is scheduled early in 1964."
Date:
August 2, 1961
Creator:
Matheson, Mandell
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2478]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the busiest places in Oklahoma City suddenly stood still Saturday. It was Will Rogers airport, where all but nominal show of activity was suspended. The suspension was called for exercise Sky Shield II - the testing of NORAD (North American Defense Command).......At regional office of the 32nd NORAD, located near Tinker Air Force Base, and under the command of Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Gent, plotters were at work in the giant control room, marketing the progress of each authorized military and non-military flight. (Not dated or confirmed newspaper) Sky Shield II is the latest of a series of such exercises conducted over the few years...Meanwhile, an "attack" force made up of Startegic Air Command B-47 and B-52 bombers operating from offshore bases, with a dozen or more British Royal Air Force V-Bombers, converged on the continent "from all directions," NORAD officers said......."Every," was the word William O. Coleman, airport manager used in his second floor office, just below a silent control tower......"Well, it'll be tomorrow. There's something uncomfrotable about it, something maybe even a little terryfying." Wiley Post and Downtown Air Park were deserted."
Date:
October 14, 1961
Creator:
Traverse, Austin
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0155]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Another new bank for Oklahoma City, the Grant Square Bank & Trust Co., SW 44 and Pennsylvania, will be opwned for business about June1. Another new bank for Oklahoma City, the Grant Square Bank & Trust Co., SW 44 and Pennsylvania, will be opened for business about June 1. Organizers announced that it will occupy a new $250,000 building for which plans have been completed, and will have an initial capital structure of $500,000. W. D. Rycroft, former vice president of the First National Bank of Moore, has been named the president and managing officers. Rycroft said the new bank will have all modern service features including adequate free parking and at least three outside drive-in windows.......Organizers of the bank include Kenneth A. Cramer, of Nicholson, Cramer and Miller, mortgage bankers; H. R. Empie, president, and R. Y. Empie, vice president, of the Stock Yards banl; Hugh L. Harrell, vice president, and C. A. Vose, chairman of the board, of the First National Bank & Trust Co., and Edgar R. Oppenheim of Leo Oppenheim & Co. The bank has been granted a charter by the Oklahoma State Banking …
Date:
1961
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5700]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This tent was blown down by 50-mile-per-hour wind an hour before a revival began Sunday at SW 36 and Newcastle Rd. High winds and blowing dust trailed a cool front across the west and central portions of the state Sunday. Skies were mostly fair. Westerly winds gusted as high as 50 miles per hour. A considerable amount of dust was in the air. In Oklahoma City, a 3,000-capacity tent was torn and retained poles pulled down about an hour before a revival was to start at SW 36 and Newcastle Road...Evangelist Gene Ewing, Fort Worth, was preparing for the revival about 1:30 p.m. when the winds hit. Several persons inside the tent escaped unhurt. Rev. Ewing planned to continue his revival series with open-air services. The tent was declared a total loss."
Date:
May 14, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1888]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "On October 24, Oklahoma City voters will be asked to approve a $39,850,00 bond issue. Included in this package proposal is $7 million for storm sewers to serve areas termed "critical" by the city engineering department. "Probably the most critical from an overall stand-point is for the deepening, widening, straightening and rip rapping of certain major drainage tributaries serving large areas of development," W. W. Baker, city engineer, said Thursday. Baker said he refeered specifically to project 28 on Lightening creek; the improvement of Twin creek between S Portland and S May north of SW 58, and project one which is an extension of the recently constructed Deep Fork project. Included in the bond issue will be 55,330 feet of open ditch rip rap construction. There will be 5 sewers that will require construction of reinforced concrete boxes............(huge list of locations, what to be added/made, the cost, and more.)"
Date:
1961
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5707]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This tent was blown down by 50-mile-per-hour wind an hour before a revival began Sunday at SW 36 and Newcastle Rd. High winds and blowing dust trailed a cool front across the west and central portions of the state Sunday. Skies were mostly fair. Westerly winds gusted as high as 50 miles per hour. A considerable amount of dust was in the air. In Oklahoma City, a 3,000-capacity tent was torn and retained poles pulled down about an hour before a revival was to start at SW 36 and Newcastle Road...Evangelist Gene Ewing, Fort Worth, was preparing for the revival about 1:30 p.m. when the winds hit. Several persons inside the tent escaped unhurt. Rev. Ewing planned to continue his revival series with open-air services. The tent was declared a total loss."
Date:
May 14, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5213]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Work is ahead of schedule on the Bethany-Warr Acres plant located in an undeveloped area of northwest Oklahoma City."
Date:
December 19, 1961
Creator:
Traverse, Austin
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2963]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What could make a 38-year-old insurance executive give up a $25,000-a-year job to start a home for friendless boys and girls? It just seemed to need doing, says Bob Stanley. And he says the rest of his life, and all his possessions, belong to the Miracle Hill Home and School for Boys and Girls, six miles north of Wewoka. "And maybe to other Miracle Hills," he says, if things work out. Because he expects his newly-formed home to be handling its capacity of 200 by a year from now...The motto of Miracle Hill: "We'll never turn a child away."...After four weeks of operation, Miracle Hill had a staff of 12 adults and 24 children, not counting nine children belonging to members of the staff.....But the events that led Stanley to the top of the hill north of Wewoka go back much futher than that decision last December. they go back to a broken home and an unhappy childhood...The next month he and his wife attended a Bible conference at Myrtle, Miss., with other members of the Crutcho Church, including Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kidwell. There they met Tom Kirk, …
Date:
July 19, 1961
Creator:
Matheson, Mandell
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7362]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Mollie Cartwright sits disconsolately on bathtub - only undamaged item in her Konawa home."
Date:
February 18, 1961
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0106]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo looking into a large floor(?) length room, not yet furnished, many lighting lines, something coming out the floor, and more. Backside handwriting: "IRS - 1st Floor Showing floor outlets for phones & office (?).")"
Date:
November 24, 1961
Creator:
Cobb, Dick
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History