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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.

Crumbling Walls . . . around the Civil War veterans' memorial in Fairview Cemetery detract from the appearance of the monument.

A woman holding a bundle of newspapers.
(top) Newsgirls Are Pretty In Paris . . . as you can see. This girl is selling the New York Herald-Tribune.

(bottom) European Holiday Tourists . . . at sidewalk cafe on Champs Elysees in Paris, with big Arch de Triomphe in background at left.

Above is the camera man's view of one of Avoca's pleasant residence streets.

Judy Hall . . . will be a princess in the Ak-Sar-Ben coronation court and ball.

The cows and hogs are gone, but the cleanup remains. Kyle Goodman, 7, Council Bluffs, pushes a shovel around the cattle pens at Westfair scooping sawdust and other debris left after the fair.

Fishtail motion...is evident in derailed cars of Overland Limited passenger train. Several hundred feet of train is damaged.

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.

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…

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.

A crane demolishing a building.
Crews were busy Tuesday on demolition of the Nonpareil Court Building to make way for a new addition to The Nonpareil. Baled hay was placed on top of the adjoining building to the south to prevent debris going through the roof.

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.…

Two people looking at an ornate tomb.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Stinard of The Nonpareil's European holiday group view one of the many tombs in Westminster Abbey.

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.

Omni Center - South 4th Street and Broadway

Photograph of the exterior of the Omni Center, Council Bluffs.

Pat Landis of Omaha ... has been affiliated with women's basketball for more than 20 years.--Nonpareil Photo.

Photograph of the city of Omaha, Nebraska taken from south 11th street.
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