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Finishing Touches...on painting are applied by Mrs. Brown.

Checking Over Paintings...Mrs. Brown decides which ones she will display at her show in August.

Climbing aboard . . .for a practice flight at the Council Bluffs Airport is flight instructor Harry Dirgo. -- Nonpareil Photo.

side of large outdoor statue of an angel
Waiting For The Touch...of repair crews is the Ruth Ann[e] Dodge memorial, better known as the Black Angel. Downing said the city will spend about $3,000 to spruce up the memorial fixing the lights and possibly reconnecting the fountain that once…

Postcard. Upper lake, Hanscom Park, Omaha, NE.

What's more cuddly, soft and loving than a baby chicken? Not a thing, implies pretty Elizabeth Allred, 4, daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Raymond Allred of Greenbriar Apartments. The young chicks appear ready to flee to the dismay of Elizabeth. She was…

It was the 20th birthday for Jeannine Kay Stratton, center, of Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday as she and other Miss Universe hopefuls paid a visit to Columbia Studios at Hollywood. With Miss South Dakota are Kay Nielson, left, Council Bluffs, Miss Iowa,…

Happy Cabs go anywhere . . . and sometimes after running their course, like other retired autos, end up in the junkpile. Tom Hale, account executive for Alter Co., looks over one of several retired cabs in a pile.

Distinctive Interior . . . is enhanced by blond wood blocks, ceiling beams and pews. The Rev. Mr. Turner stands near the pulpit.

Hardin Church . . . marks its seventy-fifth anniversary with special historical services Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Fifth generation descendants of the original founders will attend.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, addresses a group of senior citizens Tuesday morning at Community Hall. Harkin supports a bill that would restore some Social Security benefits to those born in the years 1917 to 1921. About 150 people attended the meeting.

Neither Ice Nor Snow . . . could keep Rep. Harkin from making his mail deliveries in southwest Council Bluffs. He wore a Navy "P" coat, heavy boots and borrowed a cap from his "boss", Letter Carrier Allen Beck. -- photo by Phyllis Gillespie.

Checking The Oil . . . Friday morning at Bob's Texaco Service Station, 1305 N. 25th St. are Robert Johnson, station proprietor and Tom Harkin of Ames, Democratic candidate for the Fifth Congressional District.
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