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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0080]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Altus-Lugert Dam at Quartz Mountain State Park near Lone Wolf has been proposed by the Bureau of Reclamation to raise the spillway by 6 feet and increase the capacity of the reservoir by 47,000 acre feet."
Date: November 16, 1971
Creator: Long, Paul
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0418B.0424]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mountain Park, Okla., grocer George Mathey had been blind in one eye for 30 years and the other was failing badly as he scanned an article in The Sunday Oklahoman 12 years ago. He was 51 at the time, and had a wife and three children, the youngest of whom was only 12, and his vision was fading fast. He would later receive a corneal transplant, and has been thriving in this Southwest Oklahoma community since."
Date: August 8, 1971
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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