Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ponca City is back in a rut - a pleasant one for coach Wally Smith as his girls tennis team won the class 4 A title again Tuesday at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center ...."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Terrie Crawford of Ponca City clears the hurdle in the girls competition."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Another Committee member, Sen. Roy Grantham, tended to side with Elder."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Accused slayer Richard L. Hager peers from police car."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Museum visitors inspect John Dew's oil recovery project at Oak Ridge, Tenn."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Christie Holliday of Ponca City clears high jump bar at 5 feet, above, then disappears into bed of foam rubber."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Christie Holliday of Ponca City clears high jump bar at 5 feet, above, then disappears into bed of foam rubber."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Richard L. Hager was returned to the Kay County jail in Newkirk late Friday after an alleged kidnap plot seeking his release was foiled by authorities."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jerry Jeffries"

Photograph of the east side of the Marland Mansion in Ponca City, OK. Photo by Bob Westmoreland, Ponca City, OK, c.1976.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leonard T. Ninman turned 90 years of age on September 30, and the veteran Ponca City schoolmaster still can't put away his chalk and eraser after 69 years as a public school teacher. (He substitutes at Ponca City schools.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CONOCO this spring will start construction of a $7 million Continental Oil Co. office building at its Ponca City plant."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Not all the action was on the track Saturday during the Ponca City Grand Prix."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Joining in on the nation's birthday celebration, Oklahoma Dept. of Highways workers from Perry install a sign noting the Bicentennial to accompany the standard "Welcome to Oklahoma" sign on I-35 near the Kansas border. Similar signs are being placed in five other locations statewide: I-40 near Sallisaw; on U.S. 69 / 75 south of Durant; I-40 in Beckham Co. ; I-35 south of Marietta; and on I-44 in northeast Oklahoma, near Miami."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma representatives are cityans Bill Culbertson in the boy's handicap and Aline Cordey in the girls' open, city; John Patrick Sullivan of Ponca City in the boys' and Brewre of Bartlesville in the girls' handicap."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Below, grid marshall Lisa Taylor of Wichita directs the lined up cars onto the track as the race begins."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don Dodson and Orville Bridges help Mrs. Lois Vowell and Mrs. Margarette Blackwell load half of cake."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.