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Drawing of Sioux City Iowa, 1856.

Tobolsk Mayor Arcady G. Yelfimov (left) shares a few private moments with Council Bluffs Mayor Thomas P. Hanafan and interpreter Sergei M. Ageyev after the Sister City charter signing ceremony held at Community Hall this morning as part of a visit by…

Emanuel Lutheran Church . . . located at North Seventh and Mill Streets.

Alma Mater To Many...is the old St. Francis Academy, which finally came down in the 1960s when St. Albert High School was built. The school was located at the corner of Seventh Street and Fifth Avenue. The sisters of Charity, who founded the…

City Electrician L. W. Roper, rear, and Fire Chief Waldo Merrill enter the burned out home of Mrs. Richard M. Allen at 3207 Sixth Ave. after the fire was extinguished. Four of Mrs. Allen's five children died in the blaze Wednesday night. Story on…

Site Work Is Continuing...at the location of the new Franklin Elementary School which will house 425 students. The structure, which is being built, at Thirty second Street and Avenue C, south of the present building, is expected to be ready for…

Showing Off Their Trophy...are Glendale teacher Yvette McCulley and four of her students who won the elementary school division of the state Problem-Solving Bowl. They are Michelle Smith, Kelly Groce, Todd Pettepier and Linda Benton.

Looking Down...the ski run being built at Crescent, one can get an idea of the height by the cars parked at the bottom of the hill. And electric tow will bring skiers to the top. A ski lodge is planned in the clump of trees on the opposite slope.

Checking radio . . . of their emergency unit's monitoring equipment are Don Spencer, Wayne McCunn and Bob Hazelwood of the Pottawattamie County Emergency Care Division. The unit allows the paramedics to keep hospital staff alerted to a patient's…

Skimming The Waves...on North Fortieth Street near Avenue G is George Vogel, Jr., 13, hitched to his father's car. The Vogels, 622 N. 40th St., hauled out a makeshift surfboard when the Memorial Day storm created a pond 2 feet deep in the street and…

Photograph of Sky Fighters ride at Playland Park

Photograph of children on slide at Lake Manawa.

Photograph of a slide at Lake Manawa.

Dick Dekker, acting works manager at Griffin Pipe Products here checks a new 400-horsepower electric motor designed to increase the fan capacity on the plant's cupola from 75,000 to 93,000 cubic feet-per-minute. The addition is part of efforts to…

"Stewpot Annie"...as her co-workers jokingly call Mrs. Annie Calton, 3107 Avenue C fills two vacuum jugs from a huge food vat at Roosevelt school kitchen. Soon the jugs will be on their way to feed hungry students.

Signing Her Name... to the balloon mural at Sixth Street and Broadway Saturday is Council Bluffs artist Marcia Joffe-Bouska. She won the $500 for the best design in the contest, which was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.

Council Bluffs mime, Jay Cady, entertained the crowd at the Sixth and Broadway Balloon mural dedication ceremony.
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