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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0220]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Forty-five new trooper are scheduled to graduate Nov. 6 from the 27th Oklahoma Highway Patrol Recruit Training School. The course for patrol cadets, lengthened to eight weeks and expandedto include water safety instruction with this class, opened Sept. 13. Bob Lester, state public commissioner, said the new class of cadets includes 13 with prior police service and 27 with military service behind them...The cadets … more
Date: October 8, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3628]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This ia an Oklahoma Highway Patrol's safety exhibit trailer which is to visit every section of the state this summer as part of a campaign to keep down traffic accidents. The trailer, containing posters, photographs and literature on highway safety, was opened officially Thursday night by Gov. Turner durning special ceremonies on the south portico of the capitol. Valued at $18,00, the van and its furnishings were donated … more
Date: 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3626]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Capt. John E. Hinds of the highway patrol inspects radar speed meter near the Oklahoma City urban bypass as an automobile approaches. The device registers the exact speed of the vehicle when it passes a given mark. It is controlled by radio waves and was tested by the patrol Tuesday. (O-6-24-56: This is the way the radar speed checking setup looks at the roadside, as demonstrated by and Oklahoma highway patrolman, clock… more
Date: November 18, 1952
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0211]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A diagram on the ground is drawn by Lt. Gene Frusher as a part of the puruit driving class being taught at the highway patrol's training shool. Looking on are Lt. Jim Ury, co-instructor with Frusher, and Cadets George Haugen, Route 8, Oklahoma City, and Bob Shaw, Frederick."
Date: May 19, 1964
Creator: Brown, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3630]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is a touch of modernism to mix with settings of natural beauty elsewhere on this page. The highway patrol station is a mile south of Coalgate in Coal County. The radio tower is 250 feet high. An infra red camera filter made the unusual cloud effects overhead."
Date: May 16, 1946
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3625]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Two patrolmen on the shoulders of the road, one near and one on the other side away. The near has a radar/something alse out of case on top of his patrol carwatching a device/reader to see the speed with a semi-tractor/trailer driving by.)"
Date: November 18, 1952
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0212]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Applying pressure to cadet Larry Owen's arm is tropper Jerry Horton, self defense instructor at the 24th Highway patrol recruit training school. The school began July 28 and ends September 14 at the army reserve armory, NE 36 and Eastern."
Date: August 14, 1968
Creator: Hammett, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0214]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It's 2 p.m. as Ronnie Johnson hunkers down behind the wheel, instinctively straps himself in and heads for Draper Expressway. Johnson pulls a cigarette from his shirt pocket, the first of many he will consume during his eight-hour shift. Johnson grips the filter in his teeth lighting while he talks. Trooper Johnson's black and white automobile, unit 134, moves out, easily meshing with traffic on I-35. The inters… more
Date: July 20, 1970
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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