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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4503]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What some folks have already heard about atomic energy and its related scientific effects would make a person's hair stand on end-but Galen Philips, University of Oklahoma electric enginnering major, found a literal example at the atomic energy display at the Oklahoma State fair. He put hand on a small model of Van De Graaf electrostatic generator, was charged with 250,000 volts and felt his hair rise up, but the low amperage prevented him from being needled any more than a machine in a penny arcade would do. Carried to millions of volts such a machine could smash an atom. Phillips is one of the 35 science majors at the university who are acting as demonstrators and guides at the atomic energy display this week at the fair, in the old "baby building" at the northwest corner of the grounds. The science services of the university , direscted by Dr. H. H. Bliss, was instrunmental in getting the exhibit here from Oak Ridge, Tenn, W. C. Rinearson accompanied the display here, it is a free exhibit."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8344]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Lincoln Park zoo director, Julian Frazier hung the "at home" sign on Freida's giraffe house Thursday and happily announced she is ready to welcome "all the people that can gather 'round." The new lady giraffe - a dream come true for hundreds of Oklahoma youngsters who bought her with nickels and dimes - was up and around early, after a peaceful first night in her plush palace. Freida had paraded through Oklahoma City Wednesday afternoon, on the last leg of a journey from the San Francisco zoo. In a rainy, but triumphant introduction, she peered from a trailer emblazoned, "Thanks, Kids, this is freida your new giraffe.........Although the paralysis remains a mystery, zoo medics are positive the feed wasn't to blame. Freida will dine on the same cuisine previously considered standard for giraffe gourments. The entire giraffe house has been disinfected, as has the outside pen. The ground also was "all torn up" with rototillers to banish any possible lingering infection."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3542]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "From a "cow path" to a super highway will be the story of this stretch of the Turner Turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa within the next two months. This picture of 10 early four-footed users of the toll road was taken on an upgraded section og yhr highway northeast of Bristow. In the background, heavy roller smooths out the sub-basesoil in preparation for paving crews. On April 17. the cows and the roller will be replaced by the first automobiles to use the finished turnpike. Although Turnepike service stations will be in operation for the highway's opening ceremonies, there will be no retaurants or permanent rest room facilities. the Turnpikes authority learned last week that contractors will not be able to complete that work before the opening. (T-3-13-58-NW: Cows to cars could be the title of these two pictures dramatizing the changes that have been made since the Turner turnpike was laid through peaceful pasturelands five years ago. The cow walk has become a modern motorway, leading thousands of tourists to the bypass. Tourists rang up about $2 million for bypass business tills last year."
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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "For the past 10 days some mighty peculiar smells have been detected belching from the general direction of the state capitol. At first the odor was only faint, like a whiff of burning rubber on a damp day. But each succeeding day since June 19 the intensity of the odor has increased until now it is strongly discernable in all sections of Oklahoma. The odor can be sniffed from the North Fork of the Red in western Oklahoma to the banks of the scenic Arkansas in eastern sections...The smell is particularly noticable to those with politically sensitive noses and it smells for all the world like just one think: Burned legislative feet. Legislative Hot Foot Ever since a three-judge federal court ruled 10 days ago that the Oklahoma legislature must be reapportioned according to U. S. constitutional standards of equal protection under the law, legislative feet have been held to the judicial fire...Each drawn the lawmakers rise to face a new day, hoping against hope that it has all been a bad dream."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10107]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Preachers and lay delegates of the Penecostal Holiness church will come for five continents to attend the denomination's quadrennial general conference in Oklahoma City next month. This marks the third time the denomination has selected Oklahoma City as a meeting site for the general session. A total of 249 voting delegates and several hundred observers are expected to be on hand. Nightly worship services are part of the conference program, and will be conducted in the women's exhibit building at the state fairgrounds....The 13th general conference opens at 9 a.m., October 17, and will be presided over by the denomination's two general superintendents, Bishop J. A. Synan, Honeywll Va., the presiding bishop, and bishop Oscar Moore, Shawnee......Its members include the two bishops, associate general superintedent T. A. Metton of North Carolina, general treasurer W. W. Carter of Roanoke, Va., and general secretary Dr. R. O. Corvin, president of Southwestern Bible college here. Dr. Corvin, one of the denomination's top leaders, is officialhost for the gathering, which will continue for seven days."
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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A forst fire in the tinder-dry timberlands north of here was brought under control by about 100 men late Thursday afternoon. Only a small area was burning free Thursday night, and it was expected to be under control by Friday morning. "If it doesn't break out again some place, we should be able to control it," Sheriff Lawrence Wade of Pushataha county said. "The wind could get it started again, and it will be two or three days before it is safe." Wade said volunteer firefighters, mostly farmers and ranchersin the area, were at the scene Thursday night, and would remain on duty Friday in case a new fire started...While the volunteers were fighting the flames northwest of Antlers, another small fire reportly broke out near Finely about 12 miles northeasr of Antlers...The big fire northwest of Antler reportedly started Wednesday of the Bernie Longbotham rance in John's Valley. Fighting side by side with the five dozen prisoners were state highway department and county workers."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0476]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 65-year-old Midwest City man was killed instantly Saturday afternoon when his car was crushed beneath a giant earth mover near downtown Moore. Charlie B. Story, 302 E Ercoupe, was fatally injured when the left front of a road construction machine's trailer passed through the cab of his car nearly decapitating him, police said. Officer Larry Self, who investigated the accident at the scene, said story was driving north on Broadway when he neared the intersection of southeast 4 where the earth mover, driven by Marlin Dean Reams, 33, Norman, was approaching from the east. Story apparently disregarded a flagman at the intersection and turned east onto southeast 4 into the path of the oncoming earthmover, Self said. the victim, apparently realizing his mistake, then backed up to the intersection and around the corner -- then headed north again. the car hit the left side of the earth mover at a point somewhere near the front of the giant machine, Self said. The front end of the auto was crushed beneath the mover's trailer as it passed over the car. Story was not pinned inside the auto although a wrecker was needed to disengage the vehicle from the earth mover, the officer said."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4485]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bigger and better is the outlook for the 1963 State Fair of Oklahoma. The huge exposition, which set an all-time record attendance last yearwith 725,000 persons, is currently in its second day with what appears to be another record-breaking fair in prospect. From high above fair park at NW 10 and May avenue, one views the grounds on a typical day during previous fair. Looking west in the upper left is the grandstand, scene of this year's rodeo and International 3-Ring Circus. May avenue is at the extreme left. In the center is the Arrows to Atom plaza. Directly to left, the circular building, is the Oklahoma Arts Center. Just above the center can be seen several of the major exhibit buildings, the bandshell and the Oklahoma Science and Arts Foundation, the building with the white dome (actually blue) where you can view plantarium shows daily. the big buildings in the upper right make up the hub of livestock activities at the fair. Northwest 10 street runs along the bottom of the picture. Just out of the picture, at the right, is the All-Sports Stadium, home of the Oklahoma City 89ers. If one were high in the air for the current fair, the picture would include several new buildings, principally additions to the livestock pavilions and a huge area where a new 7,500 seat arena is going into place. It will be the major new look of the 1964 State Fair of Oklahoma."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7673]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In a public housing project which has been classes as too big, too crowded and a trouble spot, things are beginning to happen which might polish up its image. Hamilton Courts, at SE 15 and Grand blvd., has developed a reputation during its first two years of operation that housing officials, tenants and various agencies are trying to change. And for the first time since it opened in September, 1969, the people involved are expressing more hope than discouragement. With 400 units, Hamilton Courts is the city's largest public housing project. Only 315 of the units were occupied at last count and housing officials see the low occupancy rate as a reflection of some of the problems which were built in or have developed there............Joe Whorton, public housing director, said he hopes to overcome at least two of these problems with conversion of a fire damaged apartment in the project to a combination grocery story and laundry. The hosuing authority recently approved the conversion with prior approval Federal Housing and Urban Development Department...Whorton has proposed negotiating a contract for operation of the store and laundry by a minority enterprise group on grounds such operators could work more harmoniously with the tenants. he also said such a group could provide work opportunities and some training in retail sales for tenants."
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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "About 300 Kingfisher residents slept in churches, schools and the city hall Wednesday night in the aftermath of the county seat's worst flood since 1948. Estimates varied greatly but most observers agreed that 100 city blocks and 400 families were affected in some degree in high water rolling out of Kingfisher and Uncle John's Creeks. Among roads closed are U.S. 81, north of Kingfisher and S.H. 33, to the west. The state route was open for short stretches but high water extended almost four miles from downtown. The overflow was the first since a new bridge and channel for Kingfisher Creek was completed in 1952. Residents, although dismayed that the new routing had not prevented the flood, theorized that many more blocks would have been covered if the channel switch had not been made.........Overnight rainfall totaled 7.5 inches here, and about an inch more 10 miles south, at Okarche. A vehicle was stalled for several hours in the U. S. 81 overpass just south of Okarche, but was removed early Wednesday."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7635]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Overcrowding of University Hospital's nursery and obstetrical facilities raised fears Wednesday of a "staph" infection outbreak. Officials reported the hospital's newborn nursery, equipped for a maximum of 30 infants, has had an occupancy of 50 to 55 the last two weeks. Record Month Raymond Crews, superintendent, said August was a record month for deliveries in the University and the birth rate so far this month is exceeding it. The baby census in the newborn sursery alone range between 40 and 44-a-day from mid-august to September, then hit the 50s......Crews said overcrowding newborn and obsterical services has been a factor in severe outbreaks of phylococcal infections in other hospitals. Doctors Alarmed Doctors and nurses at University were reported alarmed for not being able to give patients proper care. Crews warned mothers will be delivered in beds because delivery rooms won't be available and they will be cared for by untrained people because of a personnel shortage...The problem is not confined to the newborn nursery. the premature nursery and children's nursery has had a capacity census of 13 infants the last two months. (photo tag: Some of the babies overcrowding University Hospital's newborn nursery are shown here.)"
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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "State officials will go to work next Monday removing causes for trafic jams between Oklahoma City and Norman before the University of Oklahoma opens its football season September 27. If necessary, the state will build shoo-fly detours around two construction tear-ups which caused miles-long snarls of traffic Saturday night before and after the Detroit-Philadelphia pro football games at Owen stadium. C. A. "Bud" Stoldt, state highway director, said the remedy will be worked out by a team of highway department and highway patrol officials who will inspect the construction sites Monday. "We probably won't be in position to make a definite statement until after that," Stoldt said Tuesday. One portion of disrupted 4-lane U.S. 77 is north of Moore, where the Raymond Gary expressway is being tied in. The other involved a U.S. 77 connections with Norman's Main and Robinson streets. Stoldt said he doubted any of the work would be completed before the football season ends, but that provisions will be made to handle football traffic around all three spots."
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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An auto-station wagon collision at NE 23 and Midwest blvd. Wednesday injured five persons. Mary Jane Hines, 61, suffered critical head injuries, Rosco Walker, 36, lying across seat of wrecked car. A 61-year-old woman was taken to Mercy hospital Wednesday with critical head injuries as the result of a two car collision at N?E 23 and Midwest blvd. Injured was Mary Jane Hines, 2749 NW 22. She was a passenger in a car driven by Earl S. Haynes, 53, of 3233 NW 29, who suffered minor injuries. The Haynes car and a car driven by Roscoe Walker, 36, Spencer, Collided head-on. Trooper Paul McCown said Walker pulled out to pass another car, Walker's car, and the Haynes auto collided on the road shoulder where Haynes had turned in an attempt to avoid collision. Walker suffered and arm injury and lacerations. Two other passengers in the Haynes car were injured. They were Royce Hoorton, 55, of 2504 NW 30, injury to left foot, and Jessie Cl Merideth, 63, of 2220 NW 20 minor injuries."
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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A roaring twister slammed into a shopping center at SW 59 and Western at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday damaging five stores and 10 homes. Damage estimates range as high as $100,000. No one was hurt in the storm which hit without warning, moved over a 3-block area and then disappeared. It was accompained by driving rains and lightning. A 90-feet section of roofing was lifted from two business firms, twisted and dropped into the street, flattening four packed cars...The storm caught its victims by complete surprise. "The wind came up a little, and it started raining pretty hard," John F. Brambles, operator of Bramble's Hardware and Feed store at 934036 SW 59, said. "Then it hit like a clap of thunder. I had just closed closed the back door to my store to keep the rain from blowing in. There was a terrible roaring noise." "The next thing I knew the roof was going off my store, and I was thrown to the floor," Brambles said. "The tornado lasted about two minutes." Witness said they pulled Brambles from beneath a pile of rubble in the store. Except for being bruised and shaken, he was unhurt."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2740]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jerry G. Spann never thought he would have to cjhose between his two great loves-chess and football. Chess won. He arrives Monday in Munich, Germany, where he will captain the U. S. Olympic team in world championship matches. Next to being away from his family for six weeks, he regrets most of that will he will have to miss five soccer football games. "I haven't missed an OU home game and very few others since I've lived in Norman (1942)," he said, "But I'll be home for the Colorado game," he brightened.....He wrote the manual of management that was followed in all U. S. Navy ship's service. Most important, he met Alice Sterling, a Wave ensign from Baltimore....Ten months and 26 days after their wedding (they were married April 23, 1944) Jerry and Alice welcomed a little girl. But Toni actually was "an act of Congress."....After Toni, now 14, are Jerry, 13, Susan, 11, and Cathy, 9...After service, Spann went to work for Bissell Builders Supply in Oklahoma City, francised dealer for a mational chain of building specialty factories. He bacme its president in 1955. With John C. Catlett, Spann also owns Roto-Swing Door Co.."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0103]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An auto-station wagon collision at NE 23 and Midwest blvd. Wednesday injured five persons. Mary Jane Hines, 61, suffered critical Head injuries. Roscoe Walker, 36, lying across seat of wrecked car, suffered lacerations. A 61-year-old woman was taken to Mercy hospital Wednesday with critical head injuries as the result of a two car collision at NE 23 and Midwest blvd. Injured was Mary Jane Hines 2749 NW 22. She was a passenger in a car driven by Earl S. Haynes, 53 of 3233 NW 29, who suffered minor injuries. The Haynes car and a car driven by Roscoe Walker, 36, Spencer, collided head-on. Trooper Paul McCown said Walker pulled out to pass another car, Walker's car, and the Haynes auto collided on the road shoulder where Haynes had turned in an attempt to avoid collision. Walker suffered an arm injury and lacerations. Two other passengers in the Haynes car were injured. They were Royce Horton, 55 of 2504 NW 30, injury to left foot, and Jessie C. Merideth, 63, of 2220 NW 20, minor injuries."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9935]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Capitol Hill's fancy sgops and stores are to receive a spanking new addition in about six weeks when the new super-swank Reding shopping center, SW 44 and Western, is open to the public. The modernistic brick building will house some of the fanciest shops and stores in Oklahoma City - and builders of the shopping center believe it will be the largest and most modern in Oklahoma City when completed. Construction on the new giant among shopping centers started back in March. Work bogged down in May when rains came and a brick wall was blown over by gale-like winds. Material shortages also hurt program.........The shopping center is so named - Reding - because it is being built on property that was formely owned by Nick Reding. The one long building now is 750 feet long and 150 feet wide and plans are already being worked into shape to build even more shops and stores in the area......"They have the feeling that this section of the city is going to multiply many times what it is now in a few short years," he said. "So, they've made plans to accommodate these people with the finest shops, stores and other facilities in the city." (photo tag: Here's a panoramic view of the new shopping center at SW 44 and Western that will open its doors to shoppers sometime in October. Builders of the shopping center boast it will be Oklahoma City's largest and most modern center. More than a dozen shops and stores have already erected their neon signs.)"
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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A long-awaited dream comes true for some 3,000 residents here when a $400,000 hospital and public health center will be completed. The people of Sayre and Beckham County agree the new hospital and health center has been needed in the area many years. They also agree it will be quite a business booster. Sayre's old hospital could be only 22 patients - even with two beds in each room. the only new equipment the hospital has bought in a number of years is X-ray equipment...Sayre's new hospital will bed 32 patients. More could be accomodated without crowding. All equipment, except X-ray facilities will be new.........At the present time only two registered nurse are available for duty at the old hospital. Three more will be added at the new one...Dr. H. K. Speed, has practiced medicine in Sayre for 51 years. Dr. T. J. McGrath, and Dr. P. J. Devanny have had offices in Sayre for 30 years. The newest addition is Dr. K. E. Whinery who opened an office last year...Dr. Devanny said, "I feel that our new hospital will make our new hospital will make Sayre more attractive to doctors. I hope and feel that maybe now we will get some new ones and some of the load will be taken off our backs." Dr. McGrath said, "The new hospital will give us better facilities to operate with and we will now be able to serve our patients better. The new hospital is a wonderful thing." M. E. Farris Construction Co. is building the hospital. Sayre's old hospital will be turned into the public health center for the aged. Here's an architect's drawing of the new hospital and health center being built at Sayre."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6939]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Out Council Grove way yhere are a group of stubborn parents. Stubborn insofar as they want their kindergarten-age youngsters to have an equal start in schooling with their city cousin. By name, they are the Council Parent-Teacher association. At this time, by avocation, they are carpenters, painters and repairmen. they are in the process of re-decorating a schoolroom, building and repairing furniture for it so that 20 youngsters in the area may enter kindergarten next week.It was at census-taking time in school district No. 41 when Mrs. Ned Jones asked the takers, Mrs. Dan Cavaness and Mrs. Sam Drilling, to make a list of kindergarten age children. She wanted to organize xar pools to take the children to existing private kindergartens. A committee composed by Mrs. Cavaness, Mrs. R. P. Bogle, and Mrs. Eddie Lightner contacted the school board and obtained Principal H. W. Quattelbaum's approval to use a room. Dozens of posters publicizing the pre-school plans were posted in the area by Mrs. Henry Clark and her committee. As it turned out the school has room for only 20 students and now has a waiting list......All work was suoervised by the new teacher, mrs. gerald Sladek, with the added help of her husband. the unit will pay the teacher's salary also. Council Grove school is located on the corner of Council road and Melrose Lane. Parents with a purpose, Council Grove P-TA member's shown at a "social" getting their new kindergarten room ready for service. Seated in front, left to right, are Mrs. Ralph Floyd, Mrs. Henry Clark and Mrs. Charles Crouch, In the back are, left to right, Mrs. Jean Sladek, Mrs. Virgil Smith, Gerald Sladek and Mrs. Ned Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Don Hukill."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0154]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This Just isn't possible! But that's how it turned out. DRIVER IS PARKING, CAN'T DODGE 3-CAR TANGLE: One minute he was parking his car and the next minute he found a Pontiac in his lap. David Jones, 5006 S Blackwelder, was just one of the confused people at NW 5 and Broadway, Monday, but he probably came out on the short end of the deal. Witnesses say a rather strange three-car smashup happened this way. The Pontiac, driven by J. M. Martin, 1144 NW 95, was crossing the intersection, headed east. A 1949 Ford, driven by Mrs. J. A. Penny, 622 SW 6, was headed north on Broadway and made a right turn onto NW 5. Both drivers claim the other ran the light. At any rate, Mrs. Penny's Ford make a one point landing on Martin's left rear fender, Martin's Pontiac spun around the street a while then headed for the sidewalks. Jones had just parked his 1951 Ford on a meter when he heard the crash looked up, and there came the Pontiac. Try as he might, Martin couldn't quite steer through the three-foot wide space between cars so he landed on Jones front fender. The ford was neatly shoved over the curb and the noise was all over. The end result: Mrs. Penny had a few dents on the front end of her 1949 model; Martin had his left rear fender bashed in and the right front fender and part of the grill mashed up. Jones, the fella who was just sitting there found his 1951 Ford knocked practically off its foundations."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0225]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Doctors' Cars Crash On Overpass; 3 hurt. Two doctors and a nurse were injured seriously Thursday about 10:45 a.m. when the two physicians' autos collided head-on on the S Walker overpass over the North Canadian river. One doctor was thrown from his car by the impact, which demolished the fronts of both cars. The wreckage tied up traffic on the heavily-traveled overpass for 20 minutes before wreckers pulled the damaged cars from the scene. Taken to Bone & Joint hospital was Dr. Clarence Oscar Epley, 73 of 3124 N Youngs blvd. He suffered a shattered left thigh bone, broken right wrist and left cheek bone cuts. Driver of the other car, Dr. Presse M. Paul jr., 29, of 830 NW 24, was thrown out of his auto by the impact. He and Miss Pearline Carroll, 29, a passenger in his car, was taken to Mercy hospital. Dr. Paul suffered a possible broken knee, a back injury and severe cuts. Miss Carroll, who told officer Weldon E. Davis she was Dr. Paul's nurse and gave addresses both in El Reno and at 101 NE 3, suffered severe cuts on her head, face, arms and legs. X-rays were being taken to determine if her right knee was fractured. The accident occurred near the north end of the overpass. Davis said Dr. Epley was driving north across the overpass and Dr. Paul was traveling south. The officer said Dr. Paul's auto crossed the center line, into the path of Dr. Epley's car, and the two autos crashed head-on. The officer found an almost-empty half-pint liquor bottle in Dr. Paul's car. Miss Carroll told Davis she and Dr. Paul had been to a tavern in the 600 block S walker a few …
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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Construction will get under way this week on a $202,395 highway seperation project at the junction of U.S. 66 and U.S. 77 bypasses northeast of Oklahoma City. The three overpass bridges will channel south and west bound traffic as it enters or leaves U.S. 77east bypass now under construction along the east edge of the city. Contractor for the project is the Suddreth Construction company of the city. The company officials say the job should be completed with the 160 working days allowed by the contract "unless steel deliveries are delayed." Crews will begin work Thursday or Friday pouring concrete pilings. All three bridges will clear highways by 16 feet, according to specification released by state bridge engineer D. I. McCullough. Flloring and piers will be concrete with supporting steel I-beas. the two-lane, one-way bridges will carry cars above all cross traffic and blend then into the pattern west on U.S.66 and south on U.S. 77 bypasses. The three overpasses are a portion of a mutil-million dollar project which will extend U.S. 77 east bypass southward from the intersection of NE 63 and Foundry along the east edge of the city. Sections of the project now under construction include a $400,000 bridge which will carry bypass traffic across railroad tracks and the Deep Fork Creek near the NE 63-Foundry intersection, and two $120,000 overpass bridges which will span NE 63. A major part of the new bypass is expected to be completed late this year."
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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Unlce Sam's military planes are sort of like Mac Arthur - they don't die, they just fade away and then return. Proof of this can be seen from Douglas avenue bordering Tinker Air Force base on the east. It's here, in the southeast corner, that obsolete planes are lined up waiting the guillotine. Guillotine in this instance is a huge knife-like chunk of cemente used with a cane to demolish old planes and get then ready for the melting pot. Work is done by the redistribution and marketing service at Tinker. It revolves around the defense effort in that planes are melted down in order to demilitarize them...Once, the aluminum is in ingot form, it is sold to dealers and eventually winds up in new aircraft which is sold again to Uncle Sam. "It's sort of like selling a pig - the only thing we don't sell is the squeal," Lloyd Moon explained..Moon estimated there are about five planes in the 30-feet-high pile of wrecked plane parts. The pile takes up a spread of about a quarter of a block..."Ingots are about 92 percent pure aluminum though," Moon explains. Over the years, redistribution and marketing has become so adept at their work, that most of the aluminum is sold by mail order. "We make up a catalogue with the chemical analysis on the ingots and offer them for sale. We recieve orders from regular customers who buy all we have to offer," Moon said. Moon figures his men get about 75 percent recovery on aluminum. Almost all the other metal including the make-up of a plane is removed and sorted. This goes to seperate bins where it is sold at a later date."
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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tuesday night marked the end of a year of loneliness in Lincoln park zoo's lady giraffe and a fitting climax for the animal romance story that stretched from here to east Africa. Roger II, the zoo's new male giraffe, finally reached Oklahoma City Tuesday afternoon. When released from his traveling cage, he immediately bounded across his zoo pen and rushed over to nuzzle Frieda. His waiting lady companion responded with a big smack. Apperently any doubts that the city's giraffes might be an "incompatible" pair disappeared. The new Roger, along with zoo director Julian Frazier and his assistant Marvin Crain, cleared the city entrance to the Turner turnpike about 2 p.m. But a parade through Oklahoma City with a stop at Children's memorial hospital in the University medical center precceded his first meeting with Frieda.........But Louis Gobel, wild animal dealer from Camarillo, Calif., through whom Roger's purchase was arranged, disagreed. Of course she knows what's going on," he siad definitely. "After all, if you hadn't seen a man for more than a year, you'd be excited when one arrived......In addition, Roger seems of a more even and gentle temperment than his lady mate. In spite of having just completed a six day trip from New Jersey to his new home, Roger was calm and much quieter than Frieda...Roger and Frieda apparently made an immediate hit with each other on their intial acquaintance and sentimentally kept rubbing noses. "They're talking to each other," Gobel explained. "They have a regular tongue language." Giraffe's tongues average about a foot long, he added. Roger, who came with a $3,500 price tag from east Africa to join Frieda who arrived the first of September, 1957, and his matewere kept seperated by the fence partition …
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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Take a look some time at Lake Hefner - big, broad, fish-filled, mud-bottomed, various weeds and big chunks of rocks - and wonder how that mess manages to come out the clear liquid in your tap? It's a long process and a thankless one for the Oklahoma City water department. When inourities cause them to raise the chlorine contentm hall's phone start ringing. When the current strange taste sneaks into the taps, there are more complaints. Did you ever wonder just what the city does to water from the time it leaves the lake till it arrives in the tap? Quite A Bit. Look down from the big rolled earth dams at the collection of ponds and buildingsjust north of the lake. This is the Lake Hefner water treatment plant. It's an efficient place, and awesome to see when you're inside. You wander in the front door and get the impression you're in a cathederal.........To begin with, where does the water come from? Every drop (except rain taht hits the lake) comes from the North Canadian river. Surface runoff in the vicinty of Lake Hefner doesn't enter the lake. It's diverted by means of a ditch surrounding the lake. The water enters the lake via the long-familiar channel from NW 39 and Overholser drive cross-country...Following chlorination, the water gets a dose of activated carbon, lime and alum. Lime is a softening agent. The North Canadian flows through some strange country, picking up some strange minerals along the way. Lime takes care of them. Alum (which, rest assured, doesn't stay in the water) removes crud. The mouth-puckering chemical has a tendency to collect solid matter suspended in the water. Then the whole mess is tossed into a big mixer, …
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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Haskell Campbell moved his family to a farm near Konawa three years ago, his first project was to build a storm shelter. Returning to his native community from a stay in California, Campbell remembered the violent Oklahoma weather and took steps to protect his family. A scant 25 steps from the front door of the farm home five miles northwest of Konawa, he constructed a strudy underground concrete shelter "just in case we ever need it. Apparently, the Campbells, like other residents in the disaster area, didn't hear the funnel coming. the usual reports of "I heard coming, roaring like a frieght train" were virtually non-existent. Lonnie Smith, a farmer living three miles west of Konawa, explained it this way: "There just seemed to be a continous roar all during the storm, and it was here before you could think about it."...That was what happened at the A. G. Demtner farm just down the road from Smith. Fifty-six-year-old Semtner, his wife, Hilda, 48, and her sister, Mrs. Kathryn Enchoff, 63, Denver, Colo. were injured when the Semtner house was demolished by the funnel. They were in the home and weren't planning to go to the cellar, because "we have storms like this all the time." They didn't see any funnels either. Allie Geuin, 66, who lives just 100 feet north of Smith, got caught the same way, but he came out luckier than the Campbell and Semtner...............The Campbells, who had two sons in the service in addition to their daughter, had moved back to Konawa about three years ago from California, where Campbell was in a profitable farming business with a younger brother, Delano Campbell. Campbell had returned to go into the registered Angus cattle business and had …
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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Catapulting 240 feet down a roadside ditch, this old sedan rammed into a bridge abutment near Wheatland early Saturday, resulting in critical injuries to two persons." Two Oklahoma City residents were critically injured, and a highway patrol trooper narrowly escaped death early Saturday in related incidents connected to a one-car crash near Wheatland. Being treated at Mercy hospital are Lee Edmond Moore, 39, of 1101 SW 17, and Georgia Harding 31, of 2122 SW 11. Moore and the Harding woman were injured when their 1949 sedan shot off SH 152, careened 240 feet out of control down a bar-ditch and rammed head on into a concrete bridge. They both suffered head and chest injuries, multiple lacerations of the scalp and face and internal injuries. X-rays were being taken to determine extent of injuries. Both were pinned in the car, although Moore managed to extricate himself, and climb back to the road. He said that several motorists passed him before he could get one to stop and then call an ambulance. The Harding woman was rescued from the car by Oklahoma scout car officers Ray LeGrande and Larry Frankford, who offered assistance when they intercepted a radio massage that a patrol had crashed into a ditch. Highway Patrol trooper Red Arthur, en route to the crash scene, was forced to steer his patrol unit headlong into a ditch to avoid crashing into a drunk driver riding down the middle of the highway with his bright lights on. "It was either hit the ditch or be killed," the veteran trooper said at Mercy Hospital. "I was traveling code 3 (red lights, spotlight and siren working), and that guy was right in the middle of the road. I couldn't have stopped …
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