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Scheduling New Programs . . . for Radio Station KSWI are Earl Mullin, Mrs. Marge Morris and Robert Hallgren.

Kwik Shops
Convenience Food Stores

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Omaha, NE, April 18 . . . Night falls on a chain of volunteers as they pass sandbags in an effort to contain the water in several sand boils which uprooted the pavement on Pershing Boulevard in the north section of the city. Floodlights light the…

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Lace Trimming...furnished by the cold weather gave a touch of beauty to a lowly drainage ditch at Twenty-third Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street Friday. The effect was created by hoarfrost on the dead weeds. Nonpareil Photo by Jack Kennedy.

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Standing By A Grain Elevator...are a number of hopper cars to haul grain. But there are not enough cars to haul all the grain that needs to be moved and a Rock Islan strike of the past few weeks have made the situation worse.

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Waiting In Line...are farmers hauling grain to the Pillsbury elevator in Council Bluffs. Long lines of grain trucks have been a common sight in the area as farmers try to make room for the coming harvest, estimated to be the largest in Iowa history.

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Raising His "Dukes"...to show his cousin Terry Hansen his bandages is Richard Turpen.

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Shopping For Rugs . . . during a one-day visit here Friday are Mr. and Mrs. Percy Lainson.

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Work of laying the big four-foot concrete pipe that will eventually connect Mosquito Creek with Lake Manawa is now under way. Workmen for Larsen Brothers, contractors, lower the second 10-foot long, five-ton section of pipe into place. The project…

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Million-Dollar Facility . . . on the shore of Lake Manawa is seeking new members. Roger Demory, temporary president of the newly named Lakeshore Country Club, walks past the facility.

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Tracks make a noticeable pattern as they lead to and from the water's edge at Big Lake Park, north of Council Bluffs, as the seasons first big snow remains in the area Wednesday. Reflections of the trees can be seen in the edge of lake. Nonpareil…

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The Samuel F. Martin House . . . in Atlantic will one day be a country inn if Michael Audino and his wife, Donna Beason, have their way. The couple plans to replace a tower that once extended from the attic.

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The 26-room, three-story house at 120 So. 6th St., was being wrecked Thursday to make way for the new office of Robert Swassing, accountant, who has purchased the property from the Dr. McMicken Hanchett estate. The house has been unoccupied, except…
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