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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6018]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 16-inch natural gas pipeline exploded south of Tuttle early Thursday night, shaking the countryside and prompting reports of as airplane crash. Flames were visible at Oklahoma City, 25 miles away. No one was injured by the explosion, which ripped a crater 50 feet wide and 20 feet deep in a pasture on the Earl Conner farm. Cause of the blast was not determined late Thursday. Location of the explosion was seven miles south of Tuttle. The pipeline, operated by Cities Sevice Gas Co., carries gas from the plant ar Cement to an Oklahoma City junction with Cities Service main line system...The explosion occured at 7:45 p.m., according to Art Latham, who lives five miles south of Tuttle. He said it appeared to be about two miles south of his home...A Mistletoe Express driver, Leonard Martin, 5430 Brookhaven, was driving east from Union City on SH 41 when the blast occured. "It lighted the whole country side," Martin said. "It was bright as day." He thought the explosion had happened in Tuttle itself. First report of the blast came from an Oklahoma City scoutcar policeman who radioed to the dispatcher that an airplane had crashed in the souithwestern part of the city."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1285]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the "Armour and Co" brick building under fire with flames coming out windows, six firemen looking at the building, one in front of the back five looks to be spraying the building, and more.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1206]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Death scene is inspected by firemen Friday night at the Forest Park home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W. O'Keeffe. Mrs. O'Keefe perished in the master bedroom, just behind and left of firemen. Undamaged clothes hang in a closet, right. Fire officials estimated to the two-story home and its contents at $53,000."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1122]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo from a side view of a worker on a tower/crane attaching/checking a safety light, the worker with security/safety belt around him and on the structure, vehicles, and more.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3737]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State Fair access should be improved this fall with completion of the new West Bypass. Looking north from I-40, this aerial view shows the fairground, near center of photo, and the new expressway as it snakes towards NW 39."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7682]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a couple with their dog out on the sidewalk's wall in front of their two-story home. Backside handwriting: "Historic House 211 NE 4 Built 1899 by Andrew Goodholm Bought in 1977 by Fentrise Sound Co. In pic. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Earsly Dog - Buster.")"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9708]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Looking for a way out of trouble is Sam Jeffries champion as 106-pound titleholder Jerry Bagely of John Marshall discovers in his Class AA regional semi-final bout with Sam Jeffries of Norman. Bagley, however, defeated Jeffries, 10-0, and went on to the title."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6360]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of people setting at desk chairs and some standing in a large room)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3534]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Waiting for the sonic boom, Arnold Palmer scans the skies before putting his putter to use."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10755]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Giant steel towers like these cris-cross Oklahoma in two areas."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7650]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Moving Ahead In A Hurry, contruction of the Baptist Memorial hospital on Northwest highway at Grand blvd., is nearly back on schedule. Put about eight weeks behinf by spring rains, the project is now about where it should be. Tuesday, workers were half through with the concrete work. They were finishing pouring concrete for the third floor and framing colums for the fourth floor of the building, which will have six floors and a basement. the 200-bed hospital is to recieve its first patient in January, 1959. The water filled hole at the top of the picture above the hospital is the foundation of the service building, which will house the laundry, maintenance shop, storage, heating and air conditioning equipment."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9408]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(map drawing showing the proposed highway, "Smith Village" and "Carter Park" at middle left, "Del City" at bottom right, "Fair Park" at top center, in-town roads, and more)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6300]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-six New York and Washington visiting newsmen wound up their tour of Oklahoma city's Federal Aviation Agency Aeronautical Center Friday. Here they get a last-minute briefing from Mark weaver, FAA, before heading for the last leg of the tour. They were to board a plane late Friday for the trip home."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9897]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The T-6 may be a poor country cousin to the flashy F-51 fighter plane of the Oklahoma air national guard, but these men of the 125th fighter squadron, Tulsa, depend on them and the big C-47 cargo plane in background to do routine work neccasary to keep men and supplies moving for the fighters. The men are R. N. McClelland, left, James A. Simmons and C. F. Cranford, all staff sergeants from Tulsa. They are on air maneuvers at San Marcos, Texas."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10354]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The rampaging Washita river, which has brought floods to Oklahoma for decades, was at it again Saturday. Here the flooding stream has cut a new channel across SH 19 about five miles north of Lindsay. Other points downstream were bracing themselves Saturday night for trouble."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10342]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a convient store with "Food Milk Open 7 til 12" and "Beer-Ice" signs, place all burned with white stuff/foam/snow/ice all over, car up front covered with the same, and more.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4761]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "ture an overview of the wheelbarrow race, right, where the passengers guide the blindfolded driver. Several thousand visitors turned out for Harrah Day event, organizers said. (much handwriting on backside)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0462]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Complete breakup of a C-124 that crashed at Tinker airforce base Wednesday is shown by locations of parts. At left is the center section of the aircraft; in the center is the nose that housed the cockpit, and at right the tail section, wreckage of the huge plane was scattered over a large area. Eight men were injured in the crash. Tinker hospital attendants said four of the men are considered in critical condition while the other four are in "good condition."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7681]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Tenants Mr. and Mrs. Harold Early keep old Victorian house secure."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6307]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is thre way Municipal airport appeared from the airplane Tuesday. Signs of major face-lifting can best be identified by the numbers. No. 1, on the west side of airport, is the $1,458,828 army bombing base which, when completed, will be comprised of 121 buildings. A request for $550,000 for additions to the base is pending in Washington. No. 2 is runway work and No. 3 designates grading and drainage, for which items a total of $766,403 of work projects administration funds have benn appropriated. The black line marked No. 2 in the foreground is a temporary runway being constructed to handle traffic while the main north-south runway is being relaid and lengthened. Present concrete runwayscan be identified as the white lines in the picture. Dotted lines showed proposed extensions. When completed there will be a north-south runway 4,460 feet long, and east-west runway 3,800 feet long, a southwest-northeast runway 4,000 feet long, and a northwest-southwest runway 4,155 feet long. No. 4 is the administration building on the east side of the field."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1379]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a burned acreage/yard still with smoke, burned up trees, and more.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2744]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Several local roundup clubs were among the many parade participants at annual Spencer Day activities recently. The Spencer Roundup Club shown here, leads the clubs down 50th st. back to Kringlen Park where annual carnival was help to raise money for the Chamber of Commerce."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4143]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Civil defense leaders and industry representatives met here Thursday for a course in fallout shelter management."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2746]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hundreds of cars jammed into the State Fairgrounds as a near-capacity crowd showed up Monday night at All Sports Stadium to watch the Oklahoma City 89ers battle the Philadelphia Phillies."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7515]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Possible Death Scene at Lake Overholser is covered with ice, delaying the search for a Warr Acres woman, Mrs. Margert Elston, and her daughter, Melinda, 18, missing since Novemebr 21. A lake ranger reported Monday that he saw what he thinks my have been the Elston car speeding along the road beside the channel on the night the Elstons disappeared. Police found the mound of earth which could have been flattened by a car going into the channel. Police and firemen tried to drag the channel, but could not break the ice. Police said they will wait for warmer weather before making a second try."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0142]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Just a shell of its former self is the old Sturm's Clothing Co. building, 127 W Main, which Manhattan Construction C. crews are dismantling to make way for a giant bank parking garage. This view was taken from high up on the First National Bank and Trust Co. building. Next in line for the wrecker's ax is the old Pettee Hardware Co. Structure."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6265]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dedication will be Monday for new Hangar No. 10 at Tulakes airport (1) built at a cost of $114,834. Other buildings include (2) the Aero Design & Engineering Co. plant just south of the field; (3) new hanger No. 2 recently completed for $117,900 to replace one destroyed by fire; (4) new $277,670 terminal building to be completed around January 1, and (5) four T-hangars costing $32,000 each. Another step in the development of Tulakes airport as a major unit in the Oklahoma City airport system will be Monday at 9:30 a.m. when new hangar No. 10 on the northwest field is dedicated. The hangar was built by the city under the Oklahoma City Development trust. Funds came from the trust, insurance from a fire that destroyed old hangar No. 2 and from the Aero Design & Engineering Co...Cost of the new hangar was put at $114,670 by William O. Coleman, Oklahoma City airport manager. Other improvements just completed at Tulakes include new hangar No. 2 built from city bond money for $117,900, and four T-hangars at a cost of $32,000 each. Under construction is a terminal building costing $277,670 of bond funds and federal aviation agency matching the funds. When completed it will house an FAA tower, other FAA offices and airport control offices. Taking part in the dedication Monday morning will be Mayor Norick; Sheldon Stirling, city manager; Gov. Edmondson; Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Gerrity, commander of the Oklahoma City air material area, Tinker air force base, and George T. Pew, president of Aero Design. More than civic and aviation leaders have been invited to the ceremonies. Tours of the new hangar and of the Aero Design plant where Aero Commanders are manufactured are planned during …
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10239]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Just how B-I-G is that sprawling giant of Western Electric's that occupies a huge chunk of real estate 5 miles west of May on W Reno? The main structure measures 1,500X680 feet, not including adjoining structures and the two 950X440-foof parking lots. Bringing the plant downtown with help of staff photographer Jim Lucas' camers, it would stretch from Grand avenue at right to near Second street on the left and run from near Wlaker at bottom of picture to a little past Broadway. The parking lots would reach across the Sante Fe tracks at top and take in part of Municipal auditorium at lower left. The areial comparison was made from 2,300 feet."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9892]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "NW 10 and Broadway is always a busy intersection, and it has its full share of accidents. According to figures compiled by the police accident investigation division, there were 55 major accidents here between Jan. 1, 1948, and June 30 this year. The most common type was the rear-end collison as shown by the arrow near the southeast corner. Others are indicated. This picture was taken from the fire department's 100-foot aerial ladder truck and is printed at the request of the Oklahoma City Safety council in an effort to reduce accidents and injuries."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6686]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sand flies as Southwest Conference champion Tom Kite Jr. of Texas explodes froma bunker"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2386]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "New courthouse…Red ink may be blotted out."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7367]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Tornadoes Often leave damage in their wake that resembles the aftermath of a heavy bombing. This Konawa night street scene shows a heavily damaged store on the left and the First National Bank building on the right. Note how the power lines in leaning toward the bank building."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1284]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Falling wall at Armour and Co.'s vacant packing house sent spectators and firemen running for cover Wednesday, but Time photographer George Tapscott stood his ground and snapped this photograph."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8291]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Charlie Daniels, operator, mans control board which operates all pump stations by remote control."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5407]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo in a fisheye style looking down from high view at the christmas tree in the rotunda, a couple of people on the bottom left, and more))"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9091]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the largest and most important line improvement projects ever carried out by the Santa Fe railway in Oklahoma is just being completed between Edmond and Guthrie, it was announced Saturday. The cahnges, which take numerous "kinks" out of the rail route over the distance of about 12 miles, will make it possible to remove all speed restrictions over that section of the railroad. H. C. Willis, division superintendent, Arkansas City, said the improvements will mean saving of considerable time since the trains can maintain much higher speed. Besides taking out the curves, the maximum grade over the route has been reduced from 1 to .7 percent by construction of a series of cuts and fills in the rolling hills and defiles.........The undertaking invovled the construction of one 100-foot steel span bridge, four timber trestles, numerous pipe openings and other drainage outlets and two highway overpasses. (photo tag: A Santa Fe streamliner speeds over the new laid over a 12-mile stretch north of Edmond. The old rail bed can be seen in foreground.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5820]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The sophisticated equipment firemen had in their arsenal in 1962 when fire gutted the Chastain Hotel on N Robinson is a far cry from the bucket brigades that battled fires in early-day Oklahoma City."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0575]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a bus/train boxcar off the road/derailed and leaning onto a smashed semi-tractor/trailer(?), three vehicles on the road in the background, and more.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6378]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dumping can get a guy down in the dumps."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7977]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Gleaming towers, right reach represent a finished product - propane, butane, raw gasoline, and natural gas - stemming from Short-Junction's casinghead gas output."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6685]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Mahaffey, the National Intercollegiate champion fron University of Houstonm sits on his golf bag during a break in the action."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10516]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "With perhaps the state's finest kitchen still just a little out of reach, Oklahoma's first lady will move her family into the governor's mansion Tuesday. Smartly clad in slacks, but refusing to be photographed because of them, Jeanette Edmondson showed a reporter through the historic old home on NE 23 into which she'll move her husband and three children. The kitchen won't be quite finished, although it undoubtly will be a culinary showpiece when completed, And a considerable amount of renovating the rest of the mansion also will have to be done after the Edmondson's arrive. "We'll be at it until Christmas," Mrs. Edmondson pessimistically forecast as the led a reporter on a tour of all three floors of the structure. The upper two floors of the mansion will be finished except for minor touches here and there. This is where the family will live................"The movers are coming Tuesday," Mrs. Edmondson said firmly. "I'd just better be ready." Since inauguration day, Gov. Edmondsonand his family have been living in a leased house in the northwest part of the city......The other is that the third-floor "ballroom" has been junked as such and has been turned into a huge playroom for the children, a boy and two girls ranging from 7 through 11, (photo tag: Finishing touches are put on the grand stairway in the governor's mansion.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10528]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A young Wichita, Kan., couple, charged with robbing the First State Bank of Billings, waived a preliminary hearing Tuesday night when they appeared before the U.S. commissioner for arraignment in Oklahoma City. Commissioner H. A. Leatherman set bond for the 19-year-old husband, Richard Gary Steinmetze, at $25,000. No bond was set for his wife, Sharon Sue, 20, who took along her four-month-old baby on the ill-fated foray against the bank. The girl may be released later, Leatherman said, so she can be with her daughter, who is now being cared for by her parents-in-law......The money, in a brown paper bag, was recovered from the car driven by Steinemetze, who was captured by Tropper George Brown five and one half miles west of Tonkawa on a country road. (photo tag: A crowd of curious townspeople clusters, around bank entrance soon after the robbery, awaiting news of bandit's capture and recovery of the money.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6776]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The head-on charge of East Central linebacker Butch Smith stops Jim Quick of Northeastern for no gain."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6167]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This derailment near Carney is one of three being repaired in the state."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1145]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of two fireman with a firehose in their hands, both are looking towards the left, the one the left holding the nozzle, the one on the right holding the hose, and more.)"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2697]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Motorists all over Oklahoma faced scenes like this on I-240 and NW 27 Friday as snow continued to wear out its welcome. (Backside Handwriting: "I-240 - North from N.W. 27th bridge.")"
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1143]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Ladder-borne figherfighters spray towering smoke and flames in three-alarm lumber yard fire."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1381]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smoke envelopes rural northeastern Oklahoma City as the blaze rampages from southwest fed by 30m.p.h. wind gusts Tuesday afternoon and evening."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2876]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The familiar sounds he heard all his military life surrounded the remains of Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain here Friday as Oklahoma paid him his last tribute. There were the noises soldiers make at the changing of the guard - the even tread of the approaching combat boots, the slap of hands on rifle butts and eventually the dwindling sound of boots retreating to rest...Then the flag was pulled half-way back, the casket opened and this was cleared for the procession of admirers who came for their glimpse of the general in his dress uniform with its three stars."
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