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J. F. Wilcox & Sons Inc.
Photograph of J. F. Wilcox greenhouses showing damage from a cyclone.
J. B. Atkins, Druggist
Photograph of J. B. Atkins, druggist. Millinery shop to right. Broadway opposite Bryant
IWCC's First Employee Retires
Dr. Robert Looft, Iowa Western Community College president who retires Thursday, shows off a plaque honoring him for 21 years of service that will be mounted inside the college's continuing education building. The building has been renamed the Robert…
IWCC Considers Old Base For Model Farm Or Nursery
A Sign . . . at the old Missouri Valley Missile Base, now owned by Iowa Western Community College, gives an ominous warning to anyone entering the gates. Since IWCC obtained the base about a year ago, little has been done with it other than the…
IWCC Begins Search For Superintendent
Robert Looft
It's Time For 'Auld Lang Syne'
Plugged Entrance . . . to underground tunnels at 1027 E. Pierce St. is examined by Walter G. Hall. Below the patch, an iron ladder descends into a labyrinth extending as far as the Jennie Edmundson Hospital parking lot.
It's Old And Noisy But It Still Does Its Job - Mustard Mill In Use since 1800s
The 'Old Jalopy" . . . may not look like much but it does the job, declares Garth Fuller and his daughter Corene. Fuller regulates the vinegar vat as Corene places black mustard seed in the hopper. The ingredients mix before entering the stone burrs.…
It's Nixon
A bust of Richard Nixon has been carved out of a walnut tree by former U.S. Congressman Ben F. Jensen of Exira, and he hopes to present the image to Nixon. Jensen, shown here with the bust, served 26 years in Congress before his defeat in 1964, and…
It's just about gone
Truman Furgeson, superintendent for Allied Structural Steel Co., Hammond, Ind. watches as crews continue whittling away at the bones of the Ak-Sar_Ben Bridge on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River. Bridge portions in the water were fished out…
It's H-Day For the Superroad Program
Hard Surfaced Shoulders . . . will mean greater safety for future travelers on the Interstate. The shoulders will be 10 feet wide on the outside edge of the highway, 6 feet wide on the inside dividing strip. Construction involves almost as much work…
It's H-Day For the Superroad Program
Plastic Sheets . . . are another construction innovation being used on the Interstate project. The plastic us used to simplify the curing of freshly poured concrete. When the new surface is poured, it is immediately covered with huge sheets of the…
It's H-Day For the Superroad Program
Another view . . . of the Interchange site shows the Mormon Trail (parked cars) approaching the new highway from the west. The angle formed by the junction is currently one of the busiest spots in the Interstate project. Machines and men are working…
It's Apple Harvest Time In S.W. Iowa
An Apple A Day...might deep the doctor away, but they also are good eating. Enjoing nice red apples are, left to right: Carole Sue Stacey, Linda Rae Stacey, Mary Williams, Dale Stacey, Anna May Stacey, and Gary Lee Sell.
It's Apple Harvest Time In S.W. Iowa
They Look Good Enough To Eat...Calvin Sell of Glenwood displays a box of apples for Mr. and Mrs. Jens Christensen of Route 2, Council Bluffs, who drove out to the orchard to make a purchase.
It's Apple Harvest Time In S.W. Iowa
Pleasing To Both Eye And Taste...is this box of apples shown by Edwin Carter. The new cardboard packing cases are becoming popular in the trade.
It's Apple Harvest Time In S.W. Iowa
Channeled Into Their Proper Bin...by the grader, the apples are next carefully packed in labeled boxes for storage. After Mrs. Truman Chambers of Malvern has deftly packed them, the cases are moved into the mommouth[sic] storage cave where…
It's Apple Harvest Time In S.W. Iowa
Both Mechanical And Human Means...are used in sorting and grading the orchard fresh fruit. Edwin Carter watches as apples mover over the grader. Mrs. Carl Yates of Malvern watches for rejects.
It's Apple Harvest Time In S.W. Iowa
The Journey...from orchard to the farm plant is a careful one as Stacey and Suhr head for the sorting and packing shed with a trailer load of apples.
It's Apple Harvest Time In S.W. Iowa
First established in 1912...the Carter Orchard east of Glenwood was replanted in 1941. Now covering some 70 acres of the rolling Mills County land, the orachrd containes nearly 2,000 fruit trees...mostly apple. It is presently owned and operated by…