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Ada News Photographer Cook Repeats as Oklahoma Photo of the Year
Oklahoma City AP reports Ada News photographer Don Cook won the 1971 Photographer of the Year award from the Oklahoma Press Association for his portraits of Gregory Colbert and Welborn Hope among multiple category wins. The Ada News earned a sweeping set of honors, with other staff accolades and the No. 1 non metro paper in its class. Pryor businessman Clomer E. Cooper was appointed to a seven year term on the Grand River Dam Authority by Gov. David Hall.
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Don Cook
Ada News
Oklahoma
Cook
Ada
Welborn Hope
Gregory Colbert
Adan
Oklahoma Press Association
Oklahoma City
Ernest Thompson
George Gurley
Gurley
Thompson
Joe Aker
Oklahoma City Times
Jack Weaver
Altus
Dave Heaton
Aker
Pryor
Clomer E. Cooper
David Hall
Grand River Dam Authority
Cooper
Bentley Frayser
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