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Southwest Iowans look forward to Ak season.
All Spic and Span . . .for the start of the 1979 racing season is the grandstand and finish line at Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha. The Ak-Sar-Ben season will open May1 and a good many Southwest Iowans will doubtless be on hand. The track is expected…
Sparkling Holiday
Sue Young, 2527 Avenue H, spells out the holiday with a sparkler for this Independence Day picture. Photographer Joe Cavallaro made the picture by taking a time exposure while Miss Young did the spelling. Then he added her picture with a flash…
Special Design:
This structure is the new First Lutheran Church at Missouri Valley, a $120,000 building specially designed for the congregation by Donald R. Hollis, architect of Kansas City. The church will seat approximately 300 and is complete with kitchen,…
Special Treatment For Beefland Plant's Waste
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Dehydration Plant - This large piece of machinery at Beefland International will dry and sterilize paunch manure from the plant's operation and turn it into a commercial cattle feed. The equipment, after it is installed, will be enclosed in a…
Dehydration Plant - This large piece of machinery at Beefland International will dry and sterilize paunch manure from the plant's operation and turn it into a commercial cattle feed. The equipment, after it is installed, will be enclosed in a…
Spite House Bite Taken
The wrecker's hammer dealt the first blow to the "spite" house opposite the Historic Gen. Dodge Home at Story and Third streets Tuesday morning. The large old home will be removed to make a small park. Legend has it that the frame Squire house was…
Sports, Music And Baking Are The Interests Of Look-A-Likes - Pets Their Great Love
The Melodies Would Have To Be Pretty . . . coming from the light touch on the keys of the pretty and petite Jerkovich triplets. Judy and Jeanette are at the keyboard as Jane pleasantly awaits her turn on the 88.
Sports, Music And Baking Are The Interests Of Look-A-Likes - Pets Their Great Love
Ready, Set, Go . . . the same lineup, Judy, Jeanette and Jane are fleet as deer. they ran in the city track meet Monday on relay teams and the medley 400. The girls did well in track at Gunn School in sixth grade. Prior to that they attended St.…
Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning....The Bayliss Park Fountain is undergoing its initial stages of spring cleaning Wednesday, as park employee Norman Hensley[?] works on the top level. The fountain will be given a fresh spray coat as soon as a clean up is complete. …
SS Council Bluffs Launched
Mrs. Earl Warren, wife of California's governor, christens the 10,500-ton Victory ship Council Bluffs Victory, named for the Iowa City. Launched at Wilmington, Calif., it was the last vessel of its kind built by the California Shipbuilding…
St. Alber principals organized for school
St. Albert High School's...new principal and assistant principal organize for the start of the school year. Principal Michael Avise, right, and Assistant Principal Tony Jaworski, Left, both began their jobs this summer.
St. Albert extends C.B. victories in Brain Bowl
Brain Bowl Winners...are from St. Albert High School this year. members of the winning team are, from let Lori Larsen, Mark Elliott (captain), Jim DeMott (coach), Tom Oberdin, and Barb Simon.
St. John's Lutheran Church
Mirrored in the backwash...from a leaf clogged storm sewer, St. John's Lutheran Church transforms an autumn water hazard into a scene of beauty.
Stabilized River Seen Within 10 Years - Will Cost 62 Million . . . . April 17, 1955
Looking Directly Downstream . . . from the present pilot channel in the Missouri River the viewer looks across the area where the river will be channeled to take directly under the Decatur Bridge in the distance.
Staffers tackle knowledge glut
Serving readers - is a growing task for library Mildred Smock and her staff. A library staff member since 1941, Miss Smock said users' needs have changed over the years. The library has added new technology and expanded its services, she said, but…
Stained Glass Windows Adorn Churches - History Along With Beauty
First United Presbyterian Windows . . . date back to 1889.
Stained Glass Windows Adorn Churches; History Along With Beauty
Broadway United Methodist Window...was imported from England.
Stained Glass Windows Adorn Churches; History Along With Beauty
Dodge Memorial Window...installed 1925 namesake.
Stand Up And Be Counted - Guest Editorial
Gerald W. Kirn
Standing Guard
Weathered and eroded by the timeless waters of the Missouri River, these old boat pilings south of the Union Pacific railroad bridge, patiently stand guard on the muddy beach waiting the onslaught of the spring thaw. Only the occasional clunk of ice…