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[Photograph 2012.201.B0103.0115]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rep. W. D. Bradley, D-Waurika, is the House Member with the longest continuous service, having entered the legislature in 1953."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1255.0419]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Left behind because they'd made the Chicago trip before, were this year's Oklahoma 4-H club Hall of Fame winners, above, Sharon Southard, Ryan, and Bill Doenges Jr., Bartlesville."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0260]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Like sister's was the honor won by Ricky Long, 11-year-old Duncan area boy at the Youree Youth Horsemanship camp at Addington. Ricky and Missy Long, who won all-around championships and got saddles he this year and she in 1967- inspect the trophy she got for place second in the 1969 competition."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0307]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Despite the fact that he has two artificial legs and one artificial arm, Elmer Morriss drives this car, which was a gift of a Fort Worth automobile dealer."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0308]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elmer Morriss and his fawn colored cocker spaniel, "Sarge," a gift from friends at an Oklahoma City kennel club."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1122.0392]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. J. Redford, vocational agriculture instructor at Waurika High School, is watching every step of construction on the $25,000 building being erected for his department."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1306.0159]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A Waurika preacher, who admits ha has a "weakness" for taking on community resposibilities outside his normal church work, finds himself in a new role these days-that of a judge."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0444]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An early portable drilling rig, used in the Healdton Oil Field in 1919, owned jointly by Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. and Gypsy Oil Co., the unit was in almost perpetual use because it could move quickly and permitted handling of a variety of equipment."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0304]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Seven members of a Waurika Family who died Wednesday in a grisly traffic crash are buried in Waurika Perpetual Care Cemetery."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0302B.0134]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "No longer an enemy alien, the former Brunhilt von Heister of Dusseldorf, Germany Sunday afternoon was married to James H. Ivy jr., Waurika attorney, in a ceremony performed by Rev. G. Lyle Smith, pastor emeritus, in Waurika's First Christian church."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0103.0121]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Heading line of candidates on hand early Monday to file the various offices at state election board in Oklahoma City was W. D. Bradley, (D-Waurika)."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0138]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This happy group from Addington really had something to smile about Saturday as they won the class C trophy by defeating the Rocky Buffaloes, 37-25, in the finals of the state tournament at the Municipal auditorium."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0103.0122]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smiling broadly, Bill Hager, president of the Waurika Jaycees, receives a check for $250 from State Rep W. D. Bradley, D- Waurika."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0103.0123]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At a Pickens County Cowpunchers association reunion were the three presidents who have headed the group, introduced here by W. D. Bradley, left."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0318]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elmer Morriss, who has made a fast comeback from war injuries, gets around with the best of them now as he supervises remodeling work on his new home in Ringling."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1126.0145]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Arnold Reynolds, a junior at Ringling High School, has been chosen as their representative to Boys State this year by the local Business and Professional Women's Club. He is active in football, basketball and track, as well as music and drama productions at the school. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Reynolds, Ringling."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0411.0200]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Who wouldn't like to own a saddle that proclaims its owner to be the 1959 National Barrel Racing Champion? Three of the four top contenders for the prize gaze wistfully at it. Miss Long, Duncan, right, is in first place going into the NFR. She is being challenged by Mildred Farris, Addington, left, and Joyce Burk, Duncan, center."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0267.0802]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Duron Howard, Waurika FFA member, raised this lamb himself from his own purebreds, but he was quite willing to part with the grand champion Thursday night at the livestock show auction for $5 a pound of a total of $425."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0246.0015]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ryan- Singing and football don't usually go together, but they do for Jerry Craig"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0068]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "J. T. Daniel, Ryan newspaper publisher, has been listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest for the third consecutive year by the A. N. Marquis Co., publishers of Who's Who in America."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0323]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elmer Morriss and his wife, Velma Lee, have a lot to be happy about these days as they plan for an addition to their family. Elmer is making a fast comeback from his disabling war injuries, and has begun remodeling work on their new home in Ringling."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0309]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "W. W. Woodworth, Ringling, banker and one of the trustee group which raised the Elmer Morriss fund, chats with Elmer and his wife, Velma, at the gate of the new Morriss home. Meanwhile, he's tugging at the toe of Danny Jay, the Morriss' 6-month-old son."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1044.0217]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rev. Leonard Payne, pastor at Waurika, warns Mrs. Beth Manire, route 11, about the dangers of electric drills after she cut her thumb."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0246]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Winner Prece Denney, Waurika, left, is congratulated by dr. Charles Schwartz, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at Southwestern State College after Denney has been accepted for a commission in the federal public health service."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0325]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A shame and a disgrace" is the way Elmer Morriss describes the U. S. conduct of the war in Vietnam. He sees the action as a stalemate. "When you're in a fight, you either fight to win or you get out," the vet from WWII said Sunday, as he is pictured here in his Ringling home with wife, Velma Lee."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0466]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "WAURIKA, Nov. 12. --- (Special.) ----- Victor Eckler, county attorney of Jefferson county, said Tuesday that manslaughter charges will be filed against Truman "Monk" Izard, 24-year-old driver of the truck which crashed Monday night into an automobile near Waurika, killing four persons and injuring seven, two of them probably fatally. "My information will allege that Izard was driving recklessly and at a high rate of speed," said Eckler. The charge will be filed late Tuesday or Wednesday, he said. At the Waurika hospital, where the seven injured passengers were taken, Dr.s D. B. Collins and J. R. Hollingsworth said two of the injured, both small girls, are near death. They are not expected to survive the day. Bodies of their mothers and of two other children, battered and mangled, lie in the Earl C. Morris undertaking establishment. The accident, Oklahoma's greatest single highway catastrophe this year, occurred early Monday night on U. S. No. 81 eight miles north of Waurika. As nine persons sat huddled in the 1929 model car and two stood on the running board, the truck roared into it from behind, killing the four instantly. As Jefferson county authorities sought to establish a complete case before filing the charge, a controversy was raging over whether the tail light of the automobile was burning. The dead are: MRS. W. V. GRIFFIN, 35 years old. MRS GEORGE GRIFFIN COWART, 18 years old, daughter of Mrs. Griffin. JUANITA GRIFFIN, 4-year-old daughter of Mrs. Griffin. JOYCE GRIFFIN, 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Griffin. The two who are not expected to survive the day are: Rose Griffin, 9 year old, daughter of Mrs. Griffin suffering from a skull fracture and broken leg. Frances Nadine Cowart 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Cowart, suffering …
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