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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8780]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Blazing all alone on a 24-degree night, these lights on five city tennis courts in the 4000 block of S Walker caught the eye of Times photographer Bob Albright, and doubtless many other taxpayers. How come? Parks director R. R. "Pat" Murphy says the wasted illumination bothers him, too, but there is no easy solution. Murphy explains individual coin-operated light meters were brglarized repeatedly. Then cutoff switches were vandalized so often that they had to be raised out of reach of little people. It's up to the players themselves to use the switches, and when they are absent-minded the lights burn until park rangers spot them on patrolling rounds."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0230]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car Crash Blacks Out City Block: A motorist escaped injury Saturday morning when his auto crashed into a telephone pole in the 1700 block SE 29, snapping the pole near the ground. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. officials said the crash damaged a transformer, and most of the residents in that block were without electric power for two hours before repairs could be made. Officer R. L. Tettleton is shown investigating the accident, He said the car was driven by Dale Lewis Cheek, 22, of 6801 S Genesse."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0414.0219]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Amid preparations for the Wednesday funeral of Oklahoma City Marine Willie Ferguson Jr., his family still held on Sunday to the slim hope that he may be alive. The family was notified in 1968 that Ferguson, then 20 year old, was missing in action and later the same year that he was declared killed in action."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0118]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Now it looks a lot like a wood pile. But, progress is being made toward completing this structure, which will be the NW 39 Expressway bridge."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0480]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Cyclist Hurled 30 Feet in Crash, Breaks Rib L.J. Dahl, 23, route 9. suffered only a broken rib when hurled 30 feet through the air Wednesday morning as his motorcycle struck a car driven by Donald Elmore Jay, 22, route 9, on Se 15, a mile east of Easroern. Above, trooper Gil Dugan of the highway patrol talks to Jay, who was not injured. Dahl hit the car as Jay turned into his driveway. Jay's car was moved 10 feet by the crash."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0423.0215]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A new daily round-trip flight from Oklahoma City to New York will be inaugurated September 4 by American Airlines, it was announced Thursday. Using the speedy DC-7 ship on the route, the airline said the flight will be one hour faster than any existing schedule. Announcement of the new service was made jointly by R. L. Fitzpatrick, American's southern regional sales vice-president out of Dallas, and Stanley C. Draper, managing director of the chamber of commerce who was instrumental in obtaining the flight for the city."
[2012.201.B0415.0160]
Photograph is of two women standing as they put pins on the shoulder straps of his military uniform as he watches them. Caption: "Joe Bryan Ferrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest S. Ferrell, 3505 Marilyn Dr. dons his new gold bars with the assistance of his best girls, Penny Duncan, a WAF from New York stationed at Tinker air force base, and his mother. Ferrell received his commission as a second lieutenant in the air force at mid year military convocation at Oklahoma A&M. Ferrell was commander of the entire cadet division during the 1955-56 Autumn term."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0255]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Another Car Crashes at Hot Corner, R. D. Brokaw, police accident investigator, checks damage to an automobile which skidded 67 feet before crashing into a rock wall at NE 36 and Eastern early Wednesday. Driver of the car, Kirkland K. Hudson, 28, of 442 SE 22, suffered internal injuries, bruises and shock. He was admitted to Mercy hospital for treatment. Maj. Clay Scheid, head of the police traffic division, termed the intersection "very dangerous" and said a department store removed an outdoor advertising sign from the location after cars struck it three times."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0257]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ernest William Fisher, right, was questioned Sunday afternoon by Granville Scanland, left, county attorney,and Sam Oliver, middle, as assistant, about the fatal shooting of his wife, Wanda Lee, 19. Fisher, officers said, admitted the shooting but refused to sign a statement. He told officers he killed his wife defending his own life. He said both had pistols. Fisher, county night club operator,will be questioned again Monday."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0123]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Trestles take on twisting pattern as bridge winds its way."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0783]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Triple Death Blow was struck by the twister that level this home near Frisco Saturday night."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0105]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Few days ago Al Whale gave a lovely luncheon honoring a man who had just finished his first year as a member of the University of Oklahoma coaching staff. The fellow was Matt Mann, who now has returned to his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., after coaching the Sooner swimmers one season. He is 71 years young, and after retiring from the University of Michigan after 30 successful years, found himself coaching at OU."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0774]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Grateful Grin is worn by Norman Livingston, survivor of Saturday night's Stonewall tornado."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0776]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Desolate Derbis marks the tornado-stricken garage, barn and home of Dewey Higdon, 60, at Stonewall."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1219.0255]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The last time this quartet was together it was under far different circumstances. Maj. Gen. James C. Styron, left, was commanding general of the 45th Division, and the three Korean officers were with the ROK 9th Div. The allied troops were fighting the Chinese assault on the Korean front. From left are Lieuts. Su Jung Sun; Lee Hyun Duk; and Capt. Yoo Ki Se. They met with Styron last week at their graduation from Fort Sill Artillery School."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6070]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Newman Memorioal Hospital in Shattuck, a major portion of which was destroyed by fire early Monday, was a symbol of the devoted service of its founder, the late Dr. O. C. Newman. Dr. Newman came to Ellis County in 1900 as a 24-year-old physician just one year out of medical school. His work in the county started at Grand, not on current maps of the area, but located about 20 miles southeast of Shattuck in what was then Day County. The young doctor came to the area from Ohio and served as a typical "county doctor" and to supplement his income he was deputy county clerk, deputy county treasurer, worked in (missing rest) Smoke billows from the Newman Memorial Hospital in Shattuck as firemen battle blaze early Monday."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7618]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Earth movers started work this week on the new Veterans administration hospital at NE 13 and Kelly. The 10-story, 500 bed institution will have two basements. Earth moving work is expected to take eat least three months, Keeneth R. Simmons, job foreman for the general contractor Robert E. McKee Construction Co., Dallas, said. Contract of the building is for $6,024,000. Simmons said 90 percent of the labor on the job would be hired from the Oklahoma City area."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0484]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Investigators sift through wreckage of crashe C-124 Globemaster military transpot plane trying to determine why the plane crashed Saturday night. Air force investigators fought knee-deep mud, rain and hailstorm Sunday as they crawled over the wreakage of a C-124 military transport plane scattered over two square miles near the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge. They are seeking clues as to why the giant four-engine Globemaster crashed Saturday night, killing all six crewmen aboard. Eyewitnesses said the craft exploded in the air during a violent hailstorm as baseball-size hail fell from towering clouds. The aircraft was on a flight from Clovis, N.M., to its home base at Dover Air Force Basr, Del."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1437]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Baseball and hopscotch may be the typical youthful pursuits, but 283 students in Putnam City's 10 elementray schools have found a new interest - they are learning to play violas, basses, cellos and violins in the schools' beinning orchestra classes. Mrs. Helen Burnett is sole instructor for the classes, which began in September, and she describes her young students and their parents as "very enthusiastic" about the new program. "We are happily amazed at the reponse we have had," she said. Putnam City's junior and senior high schools have no strings program at present, but classes at the junior high level will probably start next fall, she added. The young musicians will have a chance to show off their new talents in a public concert at Lake Park Elementary School, 8201 NW 30, at 8 p.m. Thursday."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0276B.0260]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Among those planning the events are (left to right) Mrs. Walter J. Stark, 537 NW 37, chairman of the open pairs tournament; Mrs. James S. Cralle, 1227 NW 38, chairman of the teams of four committee; Mrs. James A. Lathrop, 709 NW 30, league secretary and treasurer; Steve Stahl 2109 NW 31, league vice-president; Mrs. R. L. McCormick, 610 NW 20, co-chairman of the teams of four committee; and Ace Gutowsky Jr., 4500 N Steanson drive, league president."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6044]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Classes will be resumed Tuesday morning at Dunjee School, where a Sunday night fire destroyed the cafeteria and damaged several classrooms. Fred Factory, principle, advised all pupils to bring their lunches Tuesday. He said they will eat in their classrooms. The fire, the cause of which is still unknown Monday morning, wiped out the 200-seat cafeteria and kitchen. In addition, industrail arts and home economics classrooms, located in another wing of the same building, were heavily damaged. Bill draper, assistant superintendent of the Choctaw school system, estimated damage at $150,000 to $200,000. These charred tables and chairs gave a dreary look to Dunjee School's once-busy cafeteria, burned out by fire."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0987]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Susan Worley, 14, was riding in car at left when it collided with a station wagon that hit a utility pole. A 14-year-old Norman girl was killed in a two-car crash in Oklahoma City Wednesday afternoon that seriously injured two other persons. The victim, Susan Worley, died four hours after she arrived at Mercy Hospital (Related News on Page 5) in serious condition. The other driver, Lewis B. Dodd, 56, Harrah, was undergoing treatment late Wednesday at Parklawn Clinic. Police said the small car driven by Self struck the Dodd government-owned vehicle in the SE 74 and Sunnylane intersection. The Dodd auto was westbound on SE 74, the Self auto southbound on Sunnylane, police said. Police said after the initial impact Dodd's station wagon struck a utility pole."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0231]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The North Canadian river flowed bank full under the interurban and Northwest Thirty-ninth street highway bridges Wednesday as a two-foot rise in the level swung down after torrential rains last week in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8316]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A young lady named Lynn literally painted the town pink Sunday to celebrate her first birthday and proved that a girl can have her cake and eat it too. The fridety birthday girl and her 400 little friends lost no time in devouring and sometimes destroying a massive white birthday cake and its dazzling pink icing. Wether they got more in them or on them is to be disputed. Lynn herself set the tone for the pink bedlam, since she demonstrated that there are times when it comes in handy for a girl to have four hands. (photo tag: Lynn is a little chimpanzee obtained bu the Oklahoma City Zoo from Africa through a Florida dealer earlier this year when she was four months old. She celebrated her birthday on the party pavilion at the children's zoo.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10774]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Nichols Hills voters will get a chance to save themselves $25,000 annually December 3. That date they go to the poles to decide on a 110,000 fire department bond issue. Among improvements under consideration is the proposal is construction of a new fire station and purchase of another truck. The bond also include imprivements on the fire department's old truck, purchase of a new hose and installation of two-way radios in both trucks. The radios will be co-ordinated with Nichols Hills police and water departments under the proposal. Town clerk George Bixler explained the water department connection as one of the necessity in case of a large fire...The $25,000 annual savings would come in fire insurance rates. Bixler pointed out that reduction in rates for residents, would amount to twice the added taxes brought about should the bonds pass. (photo tag: Present fire station is in town hall.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7289]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Four hours after the storm, the only people awake in Corn were the outsiders. At colony, a small group of residents watched curiously as telephone linemen set up a makeshift connection attached to a pole at the corner of the town's main intersection. At daylight Saturday, Colony people were lined up on the sidewalk to place reassuring telephone calls to worried relatives and recieve the anxious incomingcalls. It was the only telephone within 15 miles of the storm-damaged area. At both Corn and Colony, the work of shaking loose the debris, sifting the wreckage for personal valuables and making plans to rebuild was the first order of business Saturday as the skies that once frowned now smiled brightly. (photo tag: The tiers of seats belong to Colony's new gym. Only brick walss of the school remain.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3685]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The car struck the bridge rail and in a split second plunged 60 feet to the river bed. The driver was killed. The bridge has a nine-inch curb. Above the curb are two paralled aluminum tubes four inches in diameter. The car jumped the curb and knocked out about 150 feet of the tubing. Would that driver have lived had the bridge railing been concrete rather than aluminum? Or would his car have glanced off into another concrete structure across the road? Is there truly a "safe" railing constructure on the bridge? And should bridges with "unsafe" railings get immediate overhauls to make them "safe"? Nobody has an exacr answer, despite the continuing number of cars that crash through state bridge railing. In 1964 Oklahomas' highway department changed the design of bridges railing. The result was a stregthening of the design load of supporting posts and horizontal railings."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4319]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hall Duncan displays and African grade school primer he wrote, illustrated and had published. Oklahoma City's "international tramp" has come to stay. Four 23 years he was jogged through schools in China, England, Ireland, South Africa and Oklahoma. He left to broaden his skills as an artist; he returned a teacher with an international stature in education. Hall Duncan has come home before. The first time it was 1950 and after he survived a voyage from France aboard a tramp steamer, his father tagged him an "international tramp." He outgrew the knickname. Years away from his native city also seemed to have mellowed his enthusiam for globe-troting. First the orient's mystery called him so he left Oklahoma A&M to become the college's first exchange student in China. Boots and a cowboy hat became his trademark. But the Orient whetted his appetite for more strange lands."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0771]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A milk truck driver was critically injured Saturday in a tw0-vehicle crash at NW 23 and Harvey. Billy Gene Wilcox, 23, Norman, driver Townley`s Dairy in the city, was rushed to Mercy Hospital after his truck collided with an auto driven by Frank Conner, 35, Denver. Traffic investigator Clyde McLaughlin said Wilcox was traveling north on Harvey when the Conner car, traveling east on NW 23, crashed into his truck. Conner was treated and released from St. Anthony Hospital. McLaughlin said the impact toppled the milk truck on its side, and traffic at the intersection was detoured for about 30 minutes."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0756]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "An Okmulgee man was fatally injured Wednesday afternoon when his car was crushed by a semi-trailer truck at NE Expressway and Wilshire Blvd. The man, identified as Lawrence Rumple, 67, was pinned in the wreckage of his yellow, hardtop convertible for about 15 minutes, was freed and rushed to Baptist Hospital. The hospital said he was dead on arrival. Rumple retired a year ago as head cook at Oklahoma State Tech at Okmulgee. Since then he has been cook at a nursing home in Okmulgee owned by State Sen. Tom Payne (D-Okmulgee). Police identified the driver of the truck as Boyce White, 41, Oklahoma City. He was only slightly injured. Officers said the large semi-trailer truck was traveling east on NE Expressway when the automobile turned onto the highway from Wilshire."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5278]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Old and new side-by-side. Three and a half years ago the people of Oklahoma County agreed to share the cost of three new bridges across the Canadian River. About the first of May the fruits of their effort will become a reality. The State Highway Commission has indicated the first of Twin bridges that span the Canadian and May Avenue will be open to traffic in about two months. The second part of the span will open a couple of months later. The existing bridge, now closed to traffic, will be dismantled. When completed, the two-lane May Avenue bridge will carry one-way traffic across the river. The bridge - along with two others - were approved by county voters in a $5,985,000 bond issue in the fall of 1957. The other bridges, now in use, span the river at S Pennsylvania and S Agnew. County residents are contributing 25 percent of the cost of the May Avenue bridge, the state 25 percent and the federal government 50 percent."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0471]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An air force B-57 carrying a two-man crew crashed and exploded Sunday morning in a wooded field in Midwest City, killing both men. There were no other casulties as the pilot, in an apperant heroic decision that cost him his life, guided the twin-engine craft away from nearby houses and into the field northeast of Reno and Douglas Blvd. The site where the crash occured is surrounded by heavily-populated residential areas, a shopping center and school. An investigator said the pilot did "a fantastic job" steering the craft into one of only two open areas in the neighborhood, midway between two houses seperated by the 500-yard-wide field. Witnesses said the light jet bomber, loaded with fuel, was headed for a house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Guest, 212 N Douglas, when the pilot "slipped it over" into the field."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6301]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stories about everyone being assigned a personal number at birth and using it on every official and semi-official document is becoming less of a joke and more of a reality. The most ubiquitous American identifying number. Nearly every American has his own. The number is so nearly individualistic that it is almost like each person's fingerprints...there are no two alike. The Federal Aviation Agency is now considering using that same number as the key for the automatic data processing of airmen's records. Plans for using such computers at the FAA Aeronautical Center are now being made. Information on all persons certified (licensed) by the FAA will start going on data tapes between July and August of 1963. Jay Moody inspects one of the 25 reels of magnetic computer tape that will replace the estimated half million working files on persons' licenses by the Federal Aviation Agency. In the background are files for about a fourth of the present active file."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0423]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crying into a handkerchief as friends walked by following reburial rites for Chief Quanah Parker Friday is his daughter, Mrs. Wanda Parker, above center. At right is her neice, Mrs. Teresa Komah, Lawton. A solemn, colorful ceremony under blazing mid-afternoon sun marked the reburial of the last chief of the Comanches, Quanah Parker, and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, in the post cemetery here Friday. A crowd of about 300, more than half of them Indians from various southwestern Oklahoma communities, thronged around the burial site near the center of the cemetery for the 30-minute service which started at 2 p.m. Six of the Cmanche chief's seven during surviving Children were present for the ceremony. They, with other relatives and high-ranking Fort Sill personnel, were seated under a temporary canvas shelter for the reburial rites....The reburial ceremony climaxed a stormy family controversy which has made headlines since realitives were informed Parker's body would have to be moved from the old Post Oak Mission cemetery. The old cemetery was recently taken over by Fort Sill to provide for expansion of the post's guided missle program."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0772]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Paul Jacob Vaught, accused of driving a dump truck involved in a fatal accident Saturday night, was named Wednesday in a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident. The charge was filed by D. K. Cunningham, assistant county attorney, who said a probe of the fatal traffic crash on I. H. 40 is continuing. Cunningham and County Attorney Curtis P. Harris said additional charges are being considered against Vaught, 46, who lives in Shawnee. Vaught surrendered to a Pottawatomie County jailer Tuesday night and said he was the driver of a truck that blocked one lane of I/ H. 40 near Westminster Road. The car driven by Clarence E. Burns, 57, of 1511 Hummingbird , crashed into the rear of the truck`s tailgate decapitated Burns. The information filed against Vaught Wednesday listed as witnesses for the state two highway patrol officers who investigated the accident, and a couple whose car also was struck by the flying tailgate, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Earl Boen. Mrs. Boen was hospitalized with severe facial lacerations. Vaught was taken before Peace Justice Jack Freeman and arraigned on the felony charge which accuses him officially of leaving the scene of an accident which resulted in injury to person."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3435]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahomans are accustomed, at least in the sun-bleached towns in the western part of the state, to seeing occasionally an aged Indian on the streets, watching the passing parade through experienced eyes. A universal sadness seems to show through the otherwise stoic faces of the older Indians. Many have, in their lifetimes, watched their people rise from practically the stone age to modern times. This was a rise that was fought fiercely by their fathers - sometimes even by the aged Indians who watched today. They did not want to walk the road of the white man, much as the white man wanted them to. Bit by bit the powerful tribes succumbed...On a bend of the North Canadian river northeast of Oklahoma City - within ten miles of the state capitol - lives such a segment. They are members of the Kickapoo, a tribe of Algonquin stock which formely lived in southern Wisconsin, but which through timewas hustled here and about until many of its member wound up in Oklahoma...Other Indians - Kiowa, Comanche, Soux and Apache - fought the advance of the white man with lances and rifles. The Kickapoo seldom fought any great battles...Last September, several children trudged down a dusty road to the State Center school and enrolled. they spoke only their native tongue...The youngsters listen, sometimes casting long looks down the road that leads toward the path of the white man."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2933]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Midwest City's burgeoning school district which has expanded to the state's third largest in 11 years, faces growing pains of a different sort this autumn. More than 200 students who live on the fringes of the 36-square-mile district want to attend Midwest City schools for various reasons, but can't. They live just outside the district boundaries in Crooked Oak, Star and Barnes school districts on the west, northeat and southeast sides of the Midwest City area...This put an added burden on the 7,700-student Midwest City system. Superintendent Oscar Rose pointed out......The only solution Rose can see is transfer of the pupils or annexation of the territory. Either issure to draw opposition from with-in the districts involved. (T-8-10-54: Map Shows Growing Pains of School Districts - Four school districts east of the city are facing a problem. pupils from Crooked Oak, and Star Barnes who live near the boundary, want to attend schools in the big Midwest City district. Concentration of students are shown by cross-shaded areas on the west and north, while others are scattered along the south side of Star district and on the west side of Barnes district."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0755]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An Okmulgee man was killed Wednesday afternoon when his car was nearly flattened by a truck at Oklahoma City`s I-35 and Wilshire Blvd. intersection - near the spot a truck crash killed a Wichita boy six weeks ago. Lawerence Rumple, 67, pinned in his car for 15 minutes, was dead on arrival at Baptist Memorial Hospital. The semi-trailer driver, Boyce White, 41, Oklahoma City, sustained a head injury but was not hospitalized, police said. Police said the truck was northbound on the expressway when the automobile turned onto the highway from Wilshire. The truck struck the car, rolled over on the auto and mashed the sports coupe to a height less than three feet in spots. Witnesses, fearing fire , attempted to remove Rumple, but were unable to help him. Police said the truck driver was not at fault and was traveling "less than the speed limit" when the crashed occurred. Speed limit at the site is 45 miles an hour and heavy traffic signs recently installed to warn motorists. On June 26 a car-truck crash claimed the life of 9-yeay-old Rodney Munoz. The youth passenger in an auto which left the road slammed into a ditch after being struck by a truck, police said. Rumple`s death was Oklahoma`s City year compared to 47 a year ago."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0986]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Victim's car on pavement, background, after crash. A young Yukon woman was killed late Friday when her car crashed into a station wagon at a lonely intersection on Oklahoma City's extreme western edge. Dead on arrival at Baptist Memorial Hospital was Mrs. Annabell V. Bishop, 18, Route 3 Yukon, She died apparently of massive head injuries after being thrown from her 13-year-old car. Seriously injured was her only passenger, a brother-in-law, Logan O. Bishop, 15, of the home. He was admitted to Baptist Hospital. A late-model station wagon, driven south on S-92 by Mrs. Jo Ann Wyont, 43, of 2132 SW 76, was struck broadside by the death vehicle when the latter failed to stop at the Reno and S-92 intersection, police said. Mrs. Wyont, her mother, Mrs. Katherine Harwood, 67, of 5024 N Grove; a nephew, John Peoples, 10, and a young daughter and son, all were en route to a lake near Hinton for a weekend outing police said. Accident investigator Jim Jackson said the young Wyont children escaped injury. Late Friday night the grandmother, Mrs. Wyont and the nephew all were being checked at Baptist Hospital. Their conditions were believed good. To date, 34 persons have been killed in Oklahoma City traffic accidents compared with 28 at this time last year."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6272]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Christmas came 10 days early for aviation enthusiasts here Tuesday as they prepared to take the wrappings off the city's new $283,000 terminal building at Tulakes airport. At least 125 persons were expected to turn out for a high-noon ceremony to see the fancy brick-and-glass structure dedicated and officially opened for business. William O. "Bill" Coleman, airport's manager, was to head up a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony, with Mayor Norick doing the honors, followed by a $2-per-head luncheon in the sparkling new terminal restaurant. The ceremony, promoted by the aviation committee of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, will officially christen the 3-story-high installation which was built with funds from the city's $7.5 million airport bond issue...In a landscaped setting on the city's "No. 2 airport," the new terminal features a full utility basement, and a main floor which includes a restaurant and lobby area, offices for the airport supervisor and quarters for a crash-fire rescue team which will be stationed at the airport. On the second floor is located the new office of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) district safety office, which is being moved to Tulakes from Will Rogers Field. On the third floor will be the office of the chief FAA traffic controller, and in the tower above will be the controllers themselves...Opening of the terminal building is expected to attract a good portion of the small private plane traffic now operating at Will Rogers Field. Gateway to the futuristic new terminal building at Tulakes airport stood ready for its public showing here Tuesday."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9479]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City's $2 million Lincoln expressway Thursday was branded a "terrifying experience." That's the opinion of a throng of motorists who daily fight their way scross the fancy, six-lane boulevard north of the state capitol. Target of their collective criticism is a single intersection at Lincoln and NE 50 - a heavily traveled corner partially blinded by a steep road grade and a hill to the north. "It's so bad that residents in the neighborhood have asked me to circulate a petition for a traffic light on that corner," director Archibald Edwards, 5631 N Kelly, who makes the harrowing trip down NE 50 and across the 103-foot wide boulevard twice a day. "I can tell you it's a terrifying experience," said Edwards, adding that there just isn't any safe, sure way to get across Lincoln on NE 50, protected only by the two stop signs at each side of the intersection........City traffic engineer, Jim Robinson, who admits he's had his share of compliants on the corner, explained that speed limits are not generally set on a new or improved street until the traffic can be checked to determine how fast a new artery can handle its movement with safety...Robinson disclosed he already has asked the state highway depoartment, which handled the project, to erect a signal at the corner on a share-the cost basis. (photo tag: There's little margin for safety at NE 50 and Lincoln blvd. as a car tops the "blind" hill and comes roaring down on two motorists who are attemptiong to cross the fancy ne expressway north of the capitol.)"
[2012.201.B0051.0184]
Military plane crash landing at Tinker Air Force Base. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Plane Flies Here for Crash Landing. A Tennessee Air National Guard C-97 transport crash landed at Tinker Air Force Base Tuesday. The six-man crew scrambled safely out of the plane after it stopped skidding along one of the field`s secondary runways. Maj. John L. Wade, 38, Murfreesboro, Tenn., commanded the plane that landed on the runway, partially covered with foam by the Tinker crash-rescue crew. Shortly after taking off from Blytheville Air Force Base, Ark., around 10 a.m. the crew learned the the right landing gear was not operating properly. In landing at Tinker, Wade gently let the left gear hit ground first ... then the nose wheel. Smoke puffed out as the wheels touched down. Wade held the hanging right wheel off the ground as long as possible. Then he let it lightly touch the runway. For nearly 2,500 feet the plane, with all wheels on the ground, rolled down the runway in a normal manner as crash trucks and ambulances raced toward it. Suddenly, the right gear crumpled. The right wing fell down. A propeller blade was torn off when it struck the ground and thrown nearly 200 feet into the runway. Dragging the one wing, the 97-C swerved to the right before coming to a full halt. Crash crews began spraying the plane with foam as the plane stopped and the crew scrambled to safety. There was no fire. The crew took off from Nashville at about 7 a.m. and flew to Blytheville on a transition flight."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1149]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Part of Gary Coleman's motorcycle lies beneath the 25-ton road scraper which struck and killed the boy Monday. TEEN HIT BY SCRAPER, CYCLIST DIES IN CRASH, State Traffic Toll, 1973 deaths to date: 367, 1972 deaths to date: 406, 1973 deaths under 21: 97, A 15-year-old Oklahoma City boy was killed Monday afternoon when his small motorcycle was struck by a 25-ton road scraper, police said. Dead is: GARY COLEMAN, 15, of 3125 SW 47. Coleman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Coleman, was hit by the scraper near the intersection of SW 36 and Independence, Officer Seth Owsley, accident investigator said. Owsley said the scraper, owned by the Nineteenth Seed Co., 4110 S Woodward, was being used on the construction of I-240 just south of the intersection. The driver of the scraper, Randall Harris, 22, of 3712 Newcastle, told Owsley he was leaving the construction site when the accident occurred. he told the officer two flagmen were blocking S Independence and he was driving the scraper down a 2-degree grade. Coleman, Harris told the officer, turned south on S Independence from the westbound lane of SW 36. Witnesses estimated the boy was traveling about 45 m.p.h., Owsley said. Harris said he pushed the brake pedal and dropped the scraper blade trying to stop the machine, which Owsley estimated was traveling about 40 m.p.h. Owsley said the scraper knocked the youth 77 feet from the point of impact and dragged the motorcycle several feet beyond that before stopping. Coleman was pronounced dead of massive head and internal injuries on arrival at South Community Hospital."
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