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Roosevelt School Fire: Over $500,000 Loss; Some 600 Students Get Holiday
Extreme Heat...from the fire that did between $500,000 and $600,00 damage to Roosevelt School left the interior of the old section twisted. A newer section, completed in 1953, suffered extensive smoke and water damage.
Ross Elected By Industrial Group - Foundation Pledges Mount To $98,800
Checking Pledges . . . to Industrial Foundation are Carl Stephens and L.W. Ross, seated; Howard Bessire and Harold Beckman.
Royal Denmark Couple Plan Omaha, Dana College Visit
Queen Margrethe II
Royal Family . . .
Queen Karen and King Gerald receive congratulations from the king's daughter, Mrs. Lester Roberts; Mrs. Kirn; and sons Dr. George J. and Harald Kirn.
Rue renovation will bring school up to date
Rue Elementary is slated to undergo $887,000 worth of renovation including construction of an addition on the west side of the building over the next two years. The proposed addition is shaded in this architects' drawing. Bloomer, Walnut Grove and…
Rural Church Addition To Be Dedicated
New Addition Of A Narthex . . . at St. John's Lutheran Church of rural Hastings is to be featured in special services there Sunday. The Rev. R.E. Bloemker, the church's pastor, is standing in the foreground.
Rural Silver Creek Church Dedicates New Parsonage Sunday; 'Far From Dead' - While Many Country Churches Stand Vacant . . .
New Parsonage, Old Church . . . were crowded Sunday as the Silver Creek congregation visited the new home of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Henry, shown here with trustee Clayton Young, left.
S. Omaha Bridge Gets New Surface
Work continues Friday on the South Omaha Bridge where employees of the Eby Construction Company of Omaha have been contracted by the State of Nebraska to resurface and paint the span. Work began six weeks ago and Supervisor George Brower says it will…
S. Omaha Bridge Gets New Surface
Iron Workers . . . Conia Halterman, Route 4, and Paul Hodges, Omaha, perform welding chores on expansion channels for the South Omaha Bridge resurfacing project.
S. Omaha Bridge Gets New Surface
Checking Placement . . . of steel reinforcement before concrete is poured is George Brower, project supervisor.
S.W. Iowa Nearly Buried By Paralyzing Snowstorm
Happy Youngsters...spend their "emergency' holiday from school by trying to clear broken tree branches off of Keeline Avenue. Tugging at a limb are Robert Parrott, Richard and Marshall Collins and Marcia Martin. All live on the street. City street…
S.W. Iowans getting paramedic training
Practicing paramedic skills . . . are five members of the Council Bluffs Emergency Care Division. The "patient" is Director Wayne McCunn, who is being worked on by Larry Hazelwood, Dick Christensen, Terry Mulvania and Ronnie King (standing).…
S.W. Iowans relive history; A look back at looking back
Taking Rubbings...of a headstone in the Malvern Cemetery are Lois Woodfield and Betty Wilson, members of the Hastings Federated Women's Club. The club indexed as many graves as they could throughout Mills County. There were some they could not find…
SAC Command To Dougherty
Meyer
Safety Vault Is Most Modern; Rates High With Insurance Group
Emma Louise Spetman and customer...custodian of safety deposit vault.
Sailor, Hitchhiker Killed As Car Plunges In Creek; One Man Escapes With Scratch
Death In The Snow...Under a Highway 6 bridge 6-1/2 miles east of Council Bluffs, the body of Larry Jessen, Wiota, lies alongside LIttle Mosquito Creek. W.F. Coules with Jessen also was killed. A Highway patrolman and Chief Deputy Sheriff Roy…
Sailor, Hitchhiker Killed As Car Plunges In Creek; One Man Escapes With Scratch
At Crash Scene...an ambulance crew removes the body of Larry Jessen, far right, while traffic officers view the spot where the car he drove broke through the ice. Arrow points to the body of W.F. Coules, pinned under the car. [second photograh of…
Sainte Trio A Sporting Clan - Triplets Raised On 'Kick The Can'
Simple Game . . . of "kick the can" helped spur interest in sports for Jane, Jeanette and Judy Jerkovich, pictured here with their basketball coach Dick McMahon. The triplets, who comprise one-half of St. Albert's team, have helped in the Saintes'…
Sale of books to aid library
Friends of the Library will sell books and records donated by the community May 14 through 17 at the Public Library. Looking over one of the older books on sale are Susan Klohn, Walter Pyper, Helen Kistle and Doris Nachman. The group will have a…
