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Two people looking at an ornate tomb.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Stinard of The Nonpareil's European holiday group view one of the many tombs in Westminster Abbey.

Ronald E. Narmi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Narmi of 3500 Avenue D, is a gun trainer on a 40 mm gun mount aboard the destroyer USS Ingraham during the current midshipmen cruise to Europe. Narmi is a member of the naval ROTC unit at Iowa State College.…

A crane demolishing a building.
Crews were busy Tuesday on demolition of the Nonpareil Court Building to make way for a new addition to The Nonpareil. Baled hay was placed on top of the adjoining building to the south to prevent debris going through the roof.

Hospital Hallway . . . is used regularly at Myrtue Memorial Hospital in Harlan when rooms are full. Mrs. Emil Nelson's temperature and pulse are being taken by Yvonne Musich, Portsmouth.

For a cutting torch man, working your way to Omaha from Council Bluffs is a slow one-bold-at-a-time pace. As the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge is chopped up for scrap, traffic continues to roar across the shiny new I-480 bridge to the right. Demolition of the…

Roses for mother. . . of the four Allen boys buried Sunday in these white caskets are plucked from the sprays at her request by the Rev. Raymond Lott at the cemetery near Oakland. --Nonpareil Photo.

Fishtail motion...is evident in derailed cars of Overland Limited passenger train. Several hundred feet of train is damaged.

The cows and hogs are gone, but the cleanup remains. Kyle Goodman, 7, Council Bluffs, pushes a shovel around the cattle pens at Westfair scooping sawdust and other debris left after the fair.

Judy Hall . . . will be a princess in the Ak-Sar-Ben coronation court and ball.

Above is the camera man's view of one of Avoca's pleasant residence streets.

A woman holding a bundle of newspapers.
(top) Newsgirls Are Pretty In Paris . . . as you can see. This girl is selling the New York Herald-Tribune.

(bottom) European Holiday Tourists . . . at sidewalk cafe on Champs Elysees in Paris, with big Arch de Triomphe in background at left.

Crumbling Walls . . . around the Civil War veterans' memorial in Fairview Cemetery detract from the appearance of the monument.

Checking Over...one of his many old "one lung" gasoline engines is Glen Osborne of Rural Crescent. Osborne, who has farmed all of his life, began collecting the engines a few years ago, and has put many of them back into operating order.

Council Bluffs Patrolman G.D. DeBoer waits Thursday afternoon for three youths to leave Bayliss Park after they apparently mistook the fountain for a self-service laundry. The youngsters were told if they wanted to "camp out" to use the facilities of…

Looking over a marker designating the excavation site of the sunken steamship Bertrand at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is refuge staff member Ed Loth.
The maker is one of the projects created by the Youth Conservation Corps and was on display…

Looking over a marker designation the excavation site of the sunken steamship Bertrand at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is refuge staff member Ed Loth.
The marker is one of the projects created by the Youth Conservation Corps and was on…

Central Supply . . . houses the autoclave which is in continuous use processing sterilized materials to supply the entire hospital. Mrs. Marguerite Stephens and Mrs. Dollie McQuinn, both nurse aides, are shown removing surgical packs from the heated…

Built-In Cameras . . . are featured in the overhanging lights directly above the operating tables. Pictured in one of the seven operating rooms located in the new wing are Miss Carol Scott of Avoca, a junior student in the hospital's school of…
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