Photograph of SCS Technician Olen Rowlett and Willis J. Sorrells discuss the Great Plains conservaton plan with Mr. & Mrs. Eldred Sasseen. Sasseen is the first to sign a Great Plains contract in Washita County. Mr. & Mrs. Sasseen operate a 1200 acre Hereford ranch.

Photograph of the Great Plains Conservation Program [ 1957 - 1996]. Willis Sorrells, Great Plains technician, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], Clinton, Oklahoma, explains the Great Plains contract with Mr. AND Mrs. Dale Robinson, who sign an application for participation in the program. OK-1615-1.

Photograph of SCS Technician Olen Rowlett, Cordell, Oklahoma, and Willis Sorrells, Great Plains Program Technician discuss the Great Plains program with Mr. And Mrs. Dale Robinson.

Photograph of SCS Technician Olen Rowlett, Cordell, Oklahoma, and Willis Sorrells, Great Plains Program Technician discuss the Great Plains program with Mr. And Mrs. Dale Robinson.

Photograph of reviewing a Great Plains contract and conservaton plan with Mr. and Mrs Eldred Sasseen by Olen Rowlett, SCS Technician, Cordell, Oklahoma. Picture taken in their home.

Photograph of boating and water skiing can be enjoyed on Cobb Creek floodwater retarding structure No. 1.

Photograph of boating and water skiing can be enjoyed on Cobb Creek floodwater retarding structure No. 1.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Perry Hill, 6-6, 195, Soph., Cordell-Grown an inch and gained 10 pounds since freshman year...."

Photograph of J. Hinds and an UNIDENTIFIED brother adding fertilizer to a sprig planter, which they are using to plant certified Midland Bermuda roots on a 35-acre field. Photograph does not distinguish the position of Hinds or his brother. Certified Midland Bermuda roots being planted on 35 acres. GP Contract. J. Hinds and brother adjust fertilizer attachments. 100 lbs. 16-20-0 per acre. Land Class III and IV."

Photograph of land undergoing soil crusting. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Soil Crusting. Land has crusted after rain and prevents Bermuda sprouts from penetrating through the soil."

Photograph of Boggy Creek with flood damage. Hay crop flooded and washed from the field after 5 - 6 inch rain in the Boggy Watershed. Bill Fuller and Harry Schmidt in foreground. OK-1839-3.

Photograph of Girl Scout Troop Number 52 working on projects on a table they made by tying logs together for legs. Camp in shelterbelt above Flood Prevention Site 1, Cobb Creek. In picture are Miss Smith, Joanie Sorrells, Cathy Nail, Joyce ?

Photograph of Girl Scout Troop Number 52 cooking meal around campfire in shelterbelt above Flood Prevention Structure Site 1, Cobb Creek. In picture are Vickie Inman, Jo Ellen Short, Treva Rowland, Debbie Dibler, Cathie McPhetridge, Rita Vandman and Sherre Goss.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The 1.6 Million storage tank, background, is located below the Foss dam, The building in center is one of three pumping plants along the Foss aqueduct, and in foreground is the outlet basin and water control house at the dam, the beginning of the 50-mile aqueduct."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jenks Simmons, with ball, in high school days at Sentinel with teammates (from left) Hub Boggs, Ducy Jones, Elmo Duncan and Erick Smith."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Decked out in the football finery of the 1920s is Jenks Simons of Sentinel who went on to coaching fame at El Reno High School."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Surveying wreckage of tornado-hit Dill City home are two Clinton-Sherman AFB airmen."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cleanup Job is pushed by volunteers at Dill City, where a tornado damaged more than 30 homes last week."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tornado casualties at Dill City included these homes along Rambo Drive which received much of the brunt of Friday night's devastating twister."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "His Home Gone, Luther Black of Dill city looks at the gaping crack in concrete porch caused by force of Friday night's tornado."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ravaged Homes were left along Rambo Drive in Dill City after storm."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "To be guest speaker Sunday at the eighth annual convention of the Oklahoma Chiropractic Physicians Association in th Sheraton-Oklahoma Hotel will be Cordell attorney Jess C. Wesner."