This 103-Year-Old Copy...of the Crescent City Oracle provides a human interest highlight in the booming town of 1857. Although platted at that time the town has only recently become incorporated.
An Original Plat...of the town of Crescent is studied by a group seeking to incorporate the 103-year-old town. In the group are Will Rief, Ross Hough, William Glennie and Ray Brewer.
Taking It Easy...during Saturday's Crescent Fun Days Parade is an unidentified big-wheel cycler. His ride in the back of a pickup wa part of what is called the biggest small town parade.
This stray ivy plant has taken root near the top of the clock tower at Broadway Methodist Church, First Street and Broadway. And you can credit the birds, who probably carried a seed or piece of vine to the tower. The plant, on the north side of…
Director Nels Hanse, Treasurer Lucille Morris, and Deputy Glen Haynes, team up to perform duties that previously required the servies of five employees.
Crash scene...spectators view the damaged two-seater airplane. Note the piece of wing, ripped from the plane. The craft hit the power pole before crashing to the ground.
City Hall saw a little activity Friday morning as a crane owned by Paulson Construction Company of Council Bluffs lifted an air conditioning unit into place atop the "penthouse."
Manning School District Voters . . . will go to the polls Wednesday to vote on a $985,000 bond issue to build a new addition to the elementary-junior high school. In September state engineers declared about half of the present school "structurally…
Preparing A Cap . . . to stop the steel flowing from the cupola into the ladle is Willie Riley, Omaha. The steel worker uses a sand mixture similar to what the molds are made of to stop the molten steel flow each time the ladle is ready.