Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Upstream lock gate on Arkansas River navigation system, Lock and Dam No. 13 near Barling, southeast of Ft. Smith, Ark."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The push of a button Saturday at Lock and Dam No. 13 southeast of Fort Smith lowered 100-ton gates into the Arkansas River, linking river navigation facilities between Arkansas and Oklahoma. This will tie Oklahoma trade markets to the oceans of the world."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In operation, 23 years after its authorization, is Lock and Dam No. 13 on the Arkansas River. The opening of river traffic to Fort Smith, Ark., is signaled by he swirl of river waters around the closed gates of the dam. The project is expected to open the way for barge traffic to the Port of Catoosa near Tulsa by this time next year."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Giant gates along the spillway at Lock and Dam No. 13 were lowered Saturday when Mayor Allen Toothaker of Van Buren, Ark., Mayor Jack Freeze of Fort Smith, and Jim Alexander, president of the Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce, pushed these buttons."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "MASTER ARTIST of the Oklahoma Army National Guard, M. Sgt. Jack Clapp of Edmond, puts final touches on sign at Ft. Chaffee's main gate which will welcome visitors to tomorrow's Governor's Day Review."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "William O. Coleman, a native of Enid, was elected a vice-president and promoted to general manager of OG&E's Arkansas division based in Fort Smith."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Aerial view shows completed $13 million Lock and Dam No. 13."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "greeted S-4 John. W. Coleman, Tulsa, this week during Oklahoma Army National Guard summer camp at Fort Chaffee, Ark"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Brassy bundle of trophies was carried off Saturday by Capt. Ray Standifer, Midwest City, commander of El Reno's Battery C, 1st Battalion, 160th Artillery, at the Governor's Day Review at Fort Chaffee, Ark. The unit was awarded the Eisenhower Trophy, right, as top unit in the Okla. Army Nat. Guard, and the Fourth Army Maintenance Award."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Brassy bundle of trophies was carried off Saturday by Capt. Ray Standifer, Midwest City, commander of El Reno's Battery C, 1st Battalion, 160th Artillery, at the Governor's Day Review at Fort Chaffee, Ark. The unit was awarded the Eisenhower Trophy, right, as top unit in the Okla. Army Nat. Guard, and the Fourth Army Maintenance Award."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Keeping Thunderbirds in stitches at Fort Chaffee, ark., is S-Sgt. Tom House of Oklahoma City."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Touch business for S-4 Bill Rankin, canme Tuesday as the Oklahoma Army National Guardsmen carefully backed his jkeep up the ramp of a C-124 Globemaster as part of intensive riot control at Fort Chaffee, Ark., summer camp."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "FORT CHAFFEE, Ark. -- There's one man in the Oklahoma Army National Guard who can't make a mistake -- because everybody sees his work. He is the guard's sign painter, M-Sgt. Jack Clapp, 53, of Edmond."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fort Sill suspects arriving at the Oklahoma County jail Saturday in federal custody were, left to right, Mike D. Jarrel,23, Tujunga, Calif., accused of assault on a federal reservation, and James Vincent,20, Chattanooga, Tenn. ;Ronald Ragen,21, :Lavaca, Ark., and Jerry Jetton,17, Van Buren, Ark."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Straight from the horse's mouth comes the latest gossip for party guests, left to right, Ronnie Schleiff, Fort Smith, Arkansas; Nancy Coates, Marylyn Taber and Sharon Hays, Fort Smith."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Top Grade Trapshooter, Charley H. Young of Fort Smith, Ark., looks at guns in the rack at the trapshoot currently under way at the Capitol City Gun Club."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Brotherhood rally speaker at 7:30 p.m. Monday at First Southern Baptist Church of Del City will be Rev. J. Harold Smith of Fort Smith, Ark."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "FORT CHAFFEE, Ark. - "Hot" units in Oklahoma's 45th Infantry Division can expect to have fewer drills when they return from summer camp. This good news was announced Tuesday by Maj. Gen. Francis S. Greenlief, deputy chief of the National Guard Bureau."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "RODEO WHOOPLA . . .More than 100 businessmen from Fort Smith.,were in Oklahoma City Thursday beating the drums for the annual Arkansas-Oklahoma Rodeo to be held in Fort Smith May 30 to June 4."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "RETIRING to his ranch at Pawnee January 31 after 43 years of service in the national guard and regular army, Maj. Gen. Teddy H. Sanford, commands the XIX U.S. Army Corps headquartered at Fort Chaffee, Ark."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Man of many hats are Thunderbirds in the 45th infantry Division's 45th Aviation Battalion in summer camp at Fort Chaffee, Ark."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Maj. Gen. Fred A. Daugherty inspects troops by helicopter Wednesday."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Saluting as colors pass the 45th Infantry Division reviewing stand Saturday at Fort Chaffee is Gov. Bellmon, right flanked by Maj. Gen. Fred A. Daugherty, division commander, center, and on the left, Brig. Gen. Robert Clarke Dunnington, Cherokee, assistant division commander."