Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "route 3, box 211 El Reno,Okla"

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wreckage of a Benson Gyrocopter in which an Oklahoma City swimming pool firm executive plunged to his death is shown where it crashed near Cimarron Field. A 38-year-old Oklahoma City business executive plunged to his death Tuesday near Cimarron Field in Canadian County in a gyrocopter he built himself. Witnesses said Robert D. Paddock, a partner with his brother, John, in Paddock Pools, was killed when his Experimental helicopter-type aircraft went into a steep dive, causing the rotor blade to disintegrate. The craft plummeted into a field just north of the Cimarron runway two miles south of Banner. A spokesman for Paddock's family at the home, 4801 N Byron Place, said Paddock had been constructing the Benson Gyrocopter craft for several weeks as a hobby. The spokesman said Tuesday's fatal flight was one of the first, if not the first, that Paddock had made in the ill-fated plane, The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported the accident occurred at 6:05 p.m. after the one-man craft had made a circle over the airport."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "of the Oklahoma Dog-of-the-Year Club, left to right, are: Jim Simmons, president; Jess Cook, Vice president and Ray Platt secretary."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Korean War army surplus ambulance will soon see duty again, if the plans of a Yukon radio club succeed."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The entrance of El Reno's 575,000 municipal hospital now under construction."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The lights seemed a little brighter on the Crandell Christmas tree Sunday after word arrived that the father, Charles Crandell Jr. had been freed form North Korean captivity."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A heavily - loaded semi-trailer truck was slashed in two Saturday by a Rock Island railroad passenger train locomotive at the U. S. 66 crossing at Yukon."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Beverly Clary, queen of the Yukon Czech Festival, smiles at a merry crowd of parade watchers."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oil well presents stark contrast to Union Equity's towering wheat elevators but both represent economy of the Enid area and both are a part of the co-operative's enterprises now."

Photograph taken during daylight of structural wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Twisted metal and smoking debris is all that remains of Calumet's only feed mill"

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Complaints of high ad valorem taxes in Mustang have sparked a controversy which has brought a promise of action by Canadian County Assessor Gene Dozier."

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

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "FIRST 'FLOOD' in the new courthouse office building happened Thursday, in the district attorney's quarters."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "None of the presents under the Crandell Christmas tree in El Reno can match the big one, release of Charles Crandell Jr. with the other 81 crewmen of the U. S. S. Pueblo .."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Retired former County Judge M. B. Cope recalls a 1908 Democratic meeting in which a flight broke out and Canadian county State Senator W. H. Johnson had then Lt. Governor George W. Bellanmy momentarily bent over the railing of the open rotunda (shown in background)."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Canadian County Commissioners J. E. Robinson, left, and Floyd Palmer, inspect the plaque in the new courthouse annex."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Courtroom at El Reno shows effect of many years of use."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Watch out below! These men had to stay on the big beams because the ceiling was rotten."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Southwest Home Builders Association officers check work on an upcoming showcase home."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "What was only a month ago a sign of turn-of-the-century grandeur has rapidly become a pile of debris beside a gutted building."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Foundation and floor structure of new courthouse."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Finishing touches to walls are made by Robert Jolliff."