Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "State highway director Frank Lyons was one of the featured speakers Wednesday at ground-breaking ceremonies for new twin bridges across the South Canadian River on U. S. 62 and 277."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Federal Judge Ross Rizley Monday rapped two convicted narcotics peddlers with sentences of 20 and 15 years in U.S. prison."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Checking weed patch is Grady County Sheriff Emmett Watson and Grady W. Glazner, head of the state narcotics bureau."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nominee of the Alex FFa chapter during the State FFA Sweetheart contest will be Sherry Kay Potter, 16, a junior student at Alex."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Checking the program of the fall session of the National Federation of Music Clubs are Mrs. Clifton J. Muir, left, national president, Coral Gables, Florida, and Mrs. Randolph Riley, Chickasha, Oklahoma, president."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Snapshots of Billy Gene Rodgers, Alex's only Vietnam war casulaty."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "CAMPUS WONDERLAND is presented on stage at the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts, Chickasha, "Alice in Wonderland" will receive full production treatment in four performances at 8 p.m. Saturday matinee."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Alice, Mary Ellen Bowman, in college wonderland."

Photograph of Watersheds-Washita Valley Flood Control Council Meeting held at Chickasha, Okla., in Chamber of Commerce office each year. All districts give a progress report on flood prevention easements and construction. Dick Longmire, L.L. Red Maples, and L.L. Humphreys are checking a progress map of the Washita River.

Photograph of Watersheds-Washita Valley Flood Control Council Meeting held at Chickasha, Okla., in Chamber of Commerce office each year. All districts give a progress report on flood prevention easements and construction. Dick Longmire, L.L. Red Maples, and L.L. Humphreys are checking a progress map of the Washita River.

Photograph of Washita Valley Flood Control Council meeting held at Chickasha, Okla. , in Chamber of Commerce office each year. All Districts give a progress report on flood prevention easements and construction. Dick Longmire, L. L. Red Maples and L. L. Humphreys are checking a progress map of the Washita River.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "NAMEDdistrict judge for Caddo and Grady County Friday was Sam M. Williams, Chickasha Democrat."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The representative of the 4-H will be John Hancock from Chickasha."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Myron M. Kinley, legendary oilfield firefighter, had gone from his Chickasha headquarters to Houston to accept Japan's Fifth Class of the Order of the Rising Sun. The family celebrated at a Houston club Friday night ... at the party's height, the phone rang. Imperial Oil Co., Montreal, Quebec, needed Kinley right away."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "It was cool in the cokler at Wilson & co. Wendesday as these 4-H girls, Pamela Chiles, Charolette Selzer."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Larry Vermillion Football Player for Oklahoma"

Photograph six of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 6, following one flooding period of twenty days (May 4 - 24, 1964). See OK-2334-3, dated 07-08-64, for list of grasses. Severe killing of big blestem, knotroot, bristlegrass, smoothbrome, western wheatgrass, read canary grass, Virginia wildry, and Kentucky fescue occured below a 4 foot depth during this period. OK-2134-8.

Photograph five of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 5, following 2 periods of flooding for 20 days each (March 23 - April 12 and May 5 - 25 , 1964). See OK-2134-3, dated 07/08/64 for the list of grasses [i.e., prior photo--2019.061.B2.03454; photo 1 of 6]. Very little damage occured during the March 23 - April 12 period. Severe killing of big bluestem, knotroot bristlegrass, smoothbrome, western wheatgrass, reed canary grass, Virginia wildrye and Kentucky fescue occured below 4 foot depth during the May 5 - 25 period. OK-2134-7.

Photograph four of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 4, following 2 periods of flooding for 10 days each (May 4 - 14 and June 9 - 19, 1964). See OK-2134-3, dated 07/08/64 for the list of grasses [i.e., photo--2019.061.B2.03454; photo 1 of 6]. Moderate suppression of growth with partial killing of a few plants below the 4.0 depth during the May 4 - 14 flooding: big bluestem, Indian grass, knotroot bristle grass, smoothbrome, western wheat grass, reed canary grass, Virginia wildrye and Kentucky fescue. Severe killing of big bluestem, Indian grass, smoothbrome, prairie cord grass, western wheat grass, reed canary grass, Virginia wildrye and Kentucky fescue. occurred below the 4 foot depth during the June 9 - 19 flooding. OK-2134-6.

Photograph one of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 1, following 3 periods of flooding for 5 days each (March 26 - 31; May 8 - 13 and June 11 - 16, 1964). Grasses include big bluestem, Kenlow switchgrass, indian grass, knotroot bristle grass, Florida paspalum, smoothbrome grass, prairie cordgrass, western wheatgrass, reed canarygrass, creek willow, Kentucky fescue, Virginia wildrye and knotgrass. The majority of grasses swuffered very little damage as a result of any one of these three floodings. OK-2134-3.

Photograph three of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 3, following 3 periods of flooding for 10 days each (March 23 - April 2; May 6 - 16; and June 10 - 20, 1964). See OK-2134-3, dated 07/08/64 for the list of grasses [i.e., photo--2019.061.B2.03454; photo 1 of 6]. Moderate suppression of growth with partial killing of a few plants occured during second flooding. Severe killing of indiangrass, smoothbrome, prairie cordgrass, western wheatgrass, reed canary grass and Kentucky fescue 4 foot depth during the last flooding. OK-2134-5.

Photograph two of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 2, following 2 periods of flooding for 5 days each (May 7 - 12 and June 10 - 15, 1964). See OK-2134-3, dated 07/08/64 for the list of grasses [i.e., photo--2019.061.B2.03454; photo 1 of 6]. Majority of all grasses survived with little or no damage. OK-2134-4.

Photograph of Arnold Davis, left, and his brother Orvis checking their stand of alfalfa on their farm along Little Beaver Creek in Grady County. The meadow averages a 200-bale annual yield.