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Old volumes need care, books in danger
Retracing the past . . . in library's historical room, staff members and researchers can use references including Gen. Grenville Dodge's personal letters and autobiography. Room's books on early Midwest have been used by scholars, authors. Another…
Old World Charm Prevails Inside Margules Home
(top to bottom)
Empire Chairs . . . grace the living room of Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Margules, 203 Bluff St. Heavy velvet curtains add to the French decor. The China closet contains several antiques of the First Empire period.
Majestic Built-In…
Empire Chairs . . . grace the living room of Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Margules, 203 Bluff St. Heavy velvet curtains add to the French decor. The China closet contains several antiques of the First Empire period.
Majestic Built-In…
Oldtimers Reveal Story Of Mineola's Street Car
No Trace Of Tracks . . . or street car can be seen in this picture of present-day Mineola. Although taken from a slightly different angle, the photograph does show some of the same buildings that appeared in the older view on page 1.
Olivia, Henry Open In Drama
Actress Olivia de Havilland and actor Henry Fonda are shown in dressing room after Thursday night's opening performance of the drama "A Gift of Time," at Broadway's Barrymore Theater. - AP Wirephotos.
Omaha Taxicab Driver Shot In Head, Robbed, Run Over - A Bullet Also Grazes Carson Man
Cab Driver's Glasses . . . are tagged for evidence and the blood stains examined by Sheriff Roy Wichael, County Attorney Noran Davis and Deputy Sheriff Howard Nelsen. Other items found with the victim's body are in the foreground.
Omaha Taxicab Driver Shot In Head, Robbed, Run Over - A Bullet Also Grazes Carson Man
Held By Captors . . . at Sigourney Sunday is Robert Kenneth Hammond, 18, with Keokuk County Deputy Sheriff Keith Bryant and Highway Patrolman Donald Woods. -- AP Wirephoto
Omahan Coordinates Women's Basketball
Pat Landis of Omaha ... has been affiliated with women's basketball for more than 20 years.--Nonpareil Photo.
On Display
On Display ....in the Iowa Power and Light Co. window are artifacts recovered from the sunkrn riverboat Bertrand. The boat was uncovered in the old Missouri River channel at DeSoto Bend.
On international scholarship French girl will attend classes at A.L. next year
Miss Monique Cuggia
On Summer Training Cruise
Ronald E. Narmi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Narmi of 3500 Avenue D, is a gun trainer on a 40 mm gun mount aboard the destroyer USS Ingraham during the current midshipmen cruise to Europe. Narmi is a member of the naval ROTC unit at Iowa State College.…
Once Too Big, Harlan Hospital Facilities Now Overcrowded - 10 Per Cent Jump In Patient Load In 1961
Hospital Hallway . . . is used regularly at Myrtue Memorial Hospital in Harlan when rooms are full. Mrs. Emil Nelson's temperature and pulse are being taken by Yvonne Musich, Portsmouth.
One bolt at a time
For a cutting torch man, working your way to Omaha from Council Bluffs is a slow one-bold-at-a-time pace. As the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge is chopped up for scrap, traffic continues to roar across the shiny new I-480 bridge to the right. Demolition of the…
One hearse carried 4 caskets to Oaklawn Cemetery Sunday
Roses for mother. . . of the four Allen boys buried Sunday in these white caskets are plucked from the sprays at her request by the Rev. Raymond Lott at the cemetery near Oakland. --Nonpareil Photo.
One Hurt In 11-Car Derailment of Train
Fishtail motion...is evident in derailed cars of Overland Limited passenger train. Several hundred feet of train is damaged.
One Of 12 Princesses Will Be Judith Hall - In Ak-Sar-Ben Court . . .
Judy Hall . . . will be a princess in the Ak-Sar-Ben coronation court and ball.
One of Town's Pleasant Residential Streets
Above is the camera man's view of one of Avoca's pleasant residence streets.
One War Memorial Could Stand Some 'Sprucing Up'
Crumbling Walls . . . around the Civil War veterans' memorial in Fairview Cemetery detract from the appearance of the monument.
One-lungers still chug at Crescent
Checking Over...one of his many old "one lung" gasoline engines is Glen Osborne of Rural Crescent. Osborne, who has farmed all of his life, began collecting the engines a few years ago, and has put many of them back into operating order.
Open house at DeSoto Refuge
Looking over a marker designating the excavation site of the sunken steamship Bertrand at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is refuge staff member Ed Loth.
The maker is one of the projects created by the Youth Conservation Corps and was on display…
The maker is one of the projects created by the Youth Conservation Corps and was on display…