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Reinforcing a door in preparation for Missouri River flooding
April 1952

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Safe from the threatening reach of the flooding Missouri river, these people who evacuated their homes as flood waters climbed to a new crest sleep soundly at the Red Cross shelter in the Abraham Lincoln High School.

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What was once a peaceful farm scene is now a picture of destruction as the Missouri River flooded this farm north of Omaha.

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Piers for a new highway bridge usually standing on dry ground were subjected to torrents of Missouri River water during the flood.

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Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross nurse Mrs. Helen Kruml of Council Bluffs, feeds a bottle of milk to Janice Collier, Council Bluffs at Washington School, which is now serving as a Red Cross emergency shelter. Approximately 195 flood victims are…

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Council Bluffs, Iowa - - Making sure that childred in evacuation shelters remained in good health was the responsibility of the nursing staff assigned to evacuation shelters during the Council Bluffs flood threat. Red Cross nurse Mrs. Gene Barnett,…

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Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross nurse Mrs. Helen Kruml, of Council Bluffs, takes time out from her numerous medical duties to amuse a young flood victim, Elinor Montgomery, in front of an Indian statue at Washington School, which is now a Red…

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Council Bluffs, Iowa - - Red Cross canteens served thousands of sandwiches daily to workers on the dikes north of this flood threatened city. Here, a canteen furnished by the St. Louis, Missouri Chapter of the Red Cross, provides coffee and…

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Council Bluffs, Iowa . . . Red Cross nurse, Mrs. Helen Kruml, Council Bluffs, takes the pulse and temperature of flood victim Lawrence Jaco, Council Bluffs, at Washington School, which is now serving as a Red Cross emergency shelter. Approximately…

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One of the great worries of the flood was sandboils, caused by water seeping under the levees and breaking through the earth behind them. Sandboils near the Douglas Street bridge on the Iowa side are ringed with sandbags.

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A human chain passes sandbags along at the North Levee in Council Bluffs.

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APPLE HARVEST--Autumn time is apple time in Southwestern Iowa. Carefully relieving the bending limbs of their golden fruit is [sic] Archie Stacey and Jack Suhr, both of Glenwood.

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First established in 1912...the Carter Orchard east of Glenwood was replanted in 1941. Now covering some 70 acres of the rolling Mills County land, the orachrd containes nearly 2,000 fruit trees...mostly apple. It is presently owned and operated by…

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The Journey...from orchard to the farm plant is a careful one as Stacey and Suhr head for the sorting and packing shed with a trailer load of apples.

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Both Mechanical And Human Means...are used in sorting and grading the orchard fresh fruit. Edwin Carter watches as apples mover over the grader. Mrs. Carl Yates of Malvern watches for rejects.

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Channeled Into Their Proper Bin...by the grader, the apples are next carefully packed in labeled boxes for storage. After Mrs. Truman Chambers of Malvern has deftly packed them, the cases are moved into the mommouth[sic] storage cave where…

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Pleasing To Both Eye And Taste...is this box of apples shown by Edwin Carter. The new cardboard packing cases are becoming popular in the trade.

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They Look Good Enough To Eat...Calvin Sell of Glenwood displays a box of apples for Mr. and Mrs. Jens Christensen of Route 2, Council Bluffs, who drove out to the orchard to make a purchase.

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An Apple A Day...might deep the doctor away, but they also are good eating. Enjoing nice red apples are, left to right: Carole Sue Stacey, Linda Rae Stacey, Mary Williams, Dale Stacey, Anna May Stacey, and Gary Lee Sell.
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