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Municipal Airport
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…
Municipal airport is paying its own way
Airport commission members. . .Nick Sulentic, Howard Shortley Sr. and David Stuart discuss the new hangar planned here. -- Nonapreil Photos
Mural Future Uncertain At Soon-To-Be Mini Mall
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.
Mural is dedicated at C.B. care center
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…
Murder Suspects Visited Bars AT Missouri Valley - While Posse Searched City . . .
These Two Pistols . . . being examined by Police Capt. Bernard Land were taken from Charles Noel Brown and Charles Edwin Kelley.
Murray Hill Claims View, Area's Only 'Mountain' Road - Four-Way Vista For Energetic Sunday Drivers
View From Top . . . of Murray Hill between Little Sioux and Pisgah looks across other hills, farms and the Little Sioux River running north into the horizon.
Murray Hill Claims View, Area's Only 'Mountain' Road - Four-Way Vista For Energetic Sunday Drivers
'Mountain' Road . . . complete with "Slow" and "Danger" signs winds south across the side of Murray Hill.
Museum Gets A New Addition - In Glenwood Lake Park
The Brick Exterior . . . of the new two-story addition to the Mills County Historical Museum is a perfect match for the main museum building. Members of the county historical society are busy cleaning up the new addition and unpacking Indian…
Museum Is Park Feature - At Glenwood Lake
(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…
Museum Restoration Sought
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…
Museum Restoration Sought
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…
Museum Restoration Sought
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.
Music at Lake Manawa
Photograph of a band of musicians at Lake Manawa.
Mynster Spring postcard
Postcard depicting the Mynster Spring Valley on Rainbow Drive.
Mysterious Numbers Show Boats How Much Clearance
These numbers...on supports underneath the I-480 bridge don't show the depth of the Missouri River.
Mystery Of Primitive Indians Still Unsolved At Glenwood
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…
N. Main fire
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