Fort Randall Dam . . . at Pickstown, SD, will be dedicated with considerable fanfare Saturday. The program will mark the completion of the 200 million dollar project designed to help control the Missouri River. Intakes for the power generating…
Standing In A Former Earth Lodge . . . are young men from the Glenwood area who are helping John Hotapp, left, rear, excavate the remains of an Indian family home which stood here more than 700 years ago. Hotapp said workers on the nearby…
Standing Silent . . . in the museum is a cylinder phonograph, part of a largely-loaned collection ranging from toys to guns. Restorers hope to preserve building's patterned ceiling, a leftover from its days as a bank.
Checking The Collection . . . of items at Griswold's Cass County Museum are historical society members Velma Powers (left) and Helene Forsythe. Museum's collection, mostly of old-time everyday items, is now available for inspection only by…
Drumming Up Interest . . . in revitalizing the Cass County Museum, historical society members Velma Powers (left) and Helene Forsythe check a visitors' roster. At top is an old farm forge bellows; on wall a drum once used by Civil War veterans of the…
(top) Room For The Family . . . in this little 1900 bedroom. At night the trundle bed was pulled out for the children while mom and pop had the big feather bed to themselves. Baby was placed in the 190-year-old cradle which can ingeniously be rocked…
Brightening the activities room of the Council Bluffs Care Center, 2452 N. Broadway, is "Rural Iowa," one of two new 24-foot-long murals created by residents during a 16-week-long Living Arts Program. The murals, painted on Masonite panels, were…
With Plans In Hand . . . Fred and Dee Hite are turning the old J.C. Penney building into a mini shopping mall. The owners of O.G.Craft Shop, 540 W. Broadway, are doing much of the work themselves.
The Council Bluffs Municipal Airport has kept pace with the progress of the city. Some 55 airplanes are kept at the airport now, compared with about a dozen in 1950. Two new hangars have been constructed in the past five years and new tie-down…