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Washington School...would be abandoned by Hare and Hare plan but will be rebuilt by the School Board.

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Pierce Street Frontage...for the high school site proposed by the City Planning Commission is partially shown here. North Avenue (not pictured) is at left. Altogether seven homes line Pierce Street.

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Razing Operations . . . on old administration building call for the right portion to be cleared away within two weeks.

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St. Albert Central Catholic High School was dedicated Sunday afternoon by Bishop Edward C. Daly, O.P. of the Des Moines diocese. Shown in the main entrance hall, left to right: the Rev. Daniel Delehant, school superintendent; Mark Wanning, altar…

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New Hoover School--First Step in modern building program.
[On back of photo: COUNCIL BLUFFS< IOWA -- Herbert Hoover School was the first completed under a program to modernize educational facilities for 11,000 youngsters.

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Selling Emerson School . . . are board secretary Elmo Hites and auctioneer Art Fritcher as Nishna Valley Supt. Lewis Doubleday and board president Frank Durbin confer.

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Harrison School...received this addition in December 0f 1950. It was one of the first buildings under the expansion program.

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Edison School...was built at Twenty-second St. and Third Ave. in September of 1952. It replaced the old Second Avenue School. Edison has more classrooms than any of the other structures built under the School Board's program since 1950/

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Gunn School Addition...was the last project conspired under the building program. It was completed in January of this year. But school officials say this isn't the end of new school building here, because more is needed.

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Hoover School...was the first new educational building in Council Bluffs since 1939. It was constructed in October of 1950. Soon after it was built, many other schools began going up in the city.

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Reading Up . . . on current trends in education is Dr. Leonard Gregory, superintendent of Council Bluffs schools. He notes a trend toward more vocational skills.

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Area residents are protesting the sale of the old Kirn Junior High School field which sits on a bluff overlooking Council Bluffs. The school will put the property on the auction block Feb. 3. Area residents want the property turned into a public…

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Scientific Illustrator...Jerry Livingston and writer-editor Jerome Petsch look over photographs and drawings to piece together a diagram of the Bertrand.

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Scoular-Bishop Grain Elevator 3th St. & 1st Ave.

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Eagle Scout Michael Howard of Avoca leads the retreat ceremony Thursday night by lowering the flag at the dedication ceremonies of the Little Sioux Scout Ranch. More than 2,000 persons attended the ceremonies at the camp which hosted its first…

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Standing At The Platform...at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch following dedication ceremonies of the camp are scout official Stan Michael, Ernest Hundahl, who donated 1, 200 acres for the camp, camp chief Ken Nickerson and Toshiji Inamori and Toshisada…
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