Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "He might be called " Mr. Junior College." But Elmer H. Cook, school teacher, principal and junior college founder here would be the last to say the accomplishments were his alone."

Photograph of Cecil Presfield driving amphibious car returning Mrs. Jim Presfield home from work along with the Presfield children and neighbos Dan Condo's children home from school. During floods Sans Bois Creek overflows into the Grassy Lake area cutting off all access roads. They must use boat, amphicar, or horses to cross the 10 to 12 feet of water over the roads. Presfield has 500 acres, most in Sans Bois bottom. He lost 2 calves in this flood. In the last previous flood he lost 8 head from pneumonia after swimming out to high ground.

Photograph of floodwater across Highway 82 on Sans Bois creek south of Stigler, Okla.

Photograph of floodwater from Sans Bois Creek. On Highway OK-31 looking south.

Photograph of Flood waters on Sans Bois Creek looking west on State Highway #9. Highway Department dragline was pulled out of borrow area up on highway shoulder to escape flood damage.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Green Thumb supervisor Ronnie Regland, 22, sits on rock steps and terracing installed by his crew of farmers, all over 60. Fourteen Haskell County farmers spend 24 hours every week in Lake John Wells Park east of Stigler - in the last 18 months, the farmers have given the park a facelifting and have made it a haven for picnickers. The farmers work under the Green Tumb program, a fedrerally financed project operarted through the Farmers Union."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Attaching his deer tag to the buck he killed northeast of Stringtown during the recent deer season is Walker Lemay of Stigler."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lunch break finds Herman Atkinson, left, 66, rural Keota, and John W. Medlock, 65, Stigler, making use of park picnic table."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "H. A. Rhoades, Stigler, said although crop farming is being replaced with livestock in eastern Oklahoma, fertilizer use is increasing every year in the area."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Chips fly as Elmer Butler, 60, of Whitefield, tackles a felled tree in Stigler's Lake John Wells Park."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph of W.R. Stephens and SCS Technician W.J. Fowler discussing planting NK 27 Bermuda Grass seed with culti-packer seeder. Seeding is following land clearing . Seeding rate is 1.5 to 2 pounds of seed per acre. Fertilizer rate is 200 pounds of 10-20-10 per acre.

Photograph of a 280-ton electrically operated dredging machine operated by the Garland Coal Co., 7 miles northeast of Stigler, Oklahoma. The dredging machne bucket holds 34 cubic yards of material. The machine can strip on over-burden to a depth of 90 feet.

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Linus Williams, Stigler News-Sentinel, said he thought the general feeling was that those students who didn't apply themselves in college, didn't maintain the required average, should not receive a deferment."

Photograph of soybeans growing on mapping unit 8. Haskell County SWCD #81