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Tour Of Omaha Is Interesting - How To Spend A Wonderful Day
Honoring The War Dead . . . is the World War II Memorial west of Underwood and Happy Hollow Blvd. The names of Omaha war dead are inscribed in plaques set in the pillars. Erected on what was an unkempt empty tract, the Memorial is now in the center…
Tour Of Omaha Is Interesting - How To Spend A Wonderful Day
Veteran's Hospital . . . is often called the most impressive building in the city. The 486-bed hospital is located at Forty-second and Center Streets.
Tourney Banner Goes Up, Up
Council Bluffs Jaycee members promoting the National Women's AAU Basketball Tournament at Abraham Lincoln field house march 30 to April 3 wanted everyone to know about it, and recruited the aid of the Council Bluffs Fire Department and police to hang…
Track Makes Dubuque City Of Believers
Greyhounds round the bend at the Dubuque Greyhound Park. The dogs, which reach speeds up to 45 miles an hour, are muzzled to prevent them from injuring each other. In the foreground is the lure, controlled by an operator in a booth. - Photo courtesy…
Trackage In:
Union Pacific Railroad trackage now serves the Iowa-Nebraska River Industrial Park in the Southwest part of Council Bluffs. Peavey Elevator Co. can be seen in the background.
Tradition Is Not On Way Out - For Kimballton's Danes
Kimballton's Old And Young . . . are represented by Einer Rasmussen and Drauda Norby. Rasmussen, 76, still speaks "Dane" at home. Drauda is a kindergarten student.
Traffic a big problem for ambulance unit
Equipment . . . in the Pottawattamie County Ambulance is demonstrated by Matt martin, on stretcher, Keith Harris and Director Wayne McCunn. --Nonpareil Photo.
Traffic At Standstill As Cattle Take To Superroad; Stock Truck Overturns
Interstate 29 Roundup...turns highway patrolmen into cowboys as 69 cattle are herded down the super-road.
Tragedies Cast Shadow Over Holiday
Piles Of Rubble . . . remain after a Christmas Eve explosion leveled the First Federal Savings and Loan building at 32nd Street and Broadway. Two men died in the explosion and several people were injured.
Tragedy, Pathos And Humor Sidelight The Morning Fire
Hasty Evacuation . . . is made by Earl R. Andersen, 207 West Washington Avenue, as he carries belongings from the apartment of his mother, Mrs. Carl O. Anderson, 98 Fourth Street. Scores of apartment dwellers fled the flames.
Train Ride for Mayor
The Union Pacific's...8444 steam locomotive will be on display at the Golden Spike Monument in Council Bluffs Sept. 27 and 28 as part of the River City Roundup festivities. Crew members will be at the monument from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 28 allowing…
Transit Plans Service Change; Seven Old Buses Will Be Replaced.
New equipment...is inspected by bus company officials James Kiger and his son, Ronald. Seven buses will replace old units.
Treasure Hunt Near End? Searchers Probe Riverboat
Most Of The Exposed Deck...of the old steamboat being unearthed at De Soto Bend is covered with plastic. Part of the boat's engineworks are in foreground. Hole is where cargo is being sought.
Treasure Ship Tapped
Newsmen loot at theo pen bow section of the sunken riverboat believed to the Bertrand which went down in 1865 after hitting a snag near what is now De Soto Bend wildlife refuge. Four cylinders of mercury, believed part of a 20-ton shipment, were…
Tremendous Interest Shown Industrial Tracts - 'In Heart Of Metro Area'
Checking Map . . . of Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation land is Ted Poteet, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce. Sale of the industrial land is moving rapidly.
Trial Run for Compactor
Testing the Maxon Shu-Pak refuse loader Friday at the City Garage are Jack Bowen, Public Works mechanic and Bob Martin, city sanitation director. The city is using the $33,000 machine on a week's trial basis. It is operated from the right side by the…
Tribute To Photographer Jack Kennedy
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'Out for a good time'
'This weather . . . not fit for a dog'
Jack Kennedy
'Yankee Doodle Dandy'
'Fountain of youth'
'The jumper'
'Out for a good time'
'This weather . . . not fit for a dog'
Jack Kennedy
'Yankee Doodle Dandy'
'Fountain of youth'
'The jumper'
Trinity Baptist closed its doors
This Brick Structure...will always be known by a number of families as Trinity Baptist Church's educational Unit. However, the church's senior members have disbanded, and the denomination has sold the facility to a Council Bluffs couple who plan to…