A Pile Of Bags . . . placed on the steps behind a parked car makes the job as Mechanical Bag Retriever (MBR) operator very difficult for Everett Malone.
Inside The Furnace . . . Charles Sullivan of Omaha works on the 18-inch brick lining which will protect the shell from the 1,800-degree operating temperatures.
Giant Outer Shell . . . of the annealing furnace is in place at the Griffin Pipe Division plant. Workmen with transits, in foreground, are checking levels for installing foundations for other equipment.
The Founding . . . of a home for Iowa soldiers' orphans was one of the goals of Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer of Keokuk. She was known as a "battlefield angel" during the Civil War.
Celebrating Its Centennial . . . in 1965, this is how the Iowa Annie Wittenmyer Home in Davenport appeared. The home was founded in 1865 as a home for Civil Wal soldiers' orphans. Two of its famous graduates included Billy Sunday and Wayne King. The…
With the 10-inch dredge now operating in its third season, Big Lake has been deepened by a minimum of eight feet over approximately 12 acres. water lilies give the dredge operators toruble by clogging the intake of the suction line.
Big Handshake. Gwen Bachman. six-foot eleven-inch center on the Quachita Baptist University women's basketball team is greeted by Larry Anderson of the Council Bluffs Jaycees at a reception held Monday at Holiday Inn for teams and coaches entered in…
A 250-ton Union Pacific Railroad crane lifts the 109-ton sheer head to Alter Co. Friday. When fully assembled the bailer-sheer will consume 800 to 1,000 junk car bodies a day and will weigh 750 tons. Construction of footings for the monster machine…
With five of the 11 piers for the new Interstate 80 Highway completed, and work on the other six piers well along in varying stages, crews for the Jensen Construction Co. of Des Moines have lost no time from weather this past year. Looking toward…