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Mayor Carl VanFossen...stands along Highway 71, where a tornado spent most of its destructive force in the town in Braddyville last March. Few buildings have been rebuilt along main street.

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The fountain in Bayliss park gets a new coat of paint from city park employee Robert Hemmingsen. Plans to replace the landmark with a modern centerpiece have been set aside for this season. [accessed from NewsBank search of Council Bluffs Daily…

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First Stop On Omaha Tour . . . is the Joslyn Art Museum at Twenty-second and Dodge Streets. The museum is valued at more than $4,000,000.

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Honoring The War Dead . . . is the World War II Memorial west of Underwood and Happy Hollow Blvd. The names of Omaha war dead are inscribed in plaques set in the pillars. Erected on what was an unkempt empty tract, the Memorial is now in the center…

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Veteran's Hospital . . . is often called the most impressive building in the city. The 486-bed hospital is located at Forty-second and Center Streets.

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Council Bluffs Jaycee members promoting the National Women's AAU Basketball Tournament at Abraham Lincoln field house march 30 to April 3 wanted everyone to know about it, and recruited the aid of the Council Bluffs Fire Department and police to hang…

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Aerial photograph of a Towboat in the Missouri River

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Greyhounds round the bend at the Dubuque Greyhound Park. The dogs, which reach speeds up to 45 miles an hour, are muzzled to prevent them from injuring each other. In the foreground is the lure, controlled by an operator in a booth. - Photo courtesy…

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Union Pacific Railroad trackage now serves the Iowa-Nebraska River Industrial Park in the Southwest part of Council Bluffs. Peavey Elevator Co. can be seen in the background.

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Kimballton's Old And Young . . . are represented by Einer Rasmussen and Drauda Norby. Rasmussen, 76, still speaks "Dane" at home. Drauda is a kindergarten student.

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Equipment . . . in the Pottawattamie County Ambulance is demonstrated by Matt martin, on stretcher, Keith Harris and Director Wayne McCunn. --Nonpareil Photo.

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Interstate 29 Roundup...turns highway patrolmen into cowboys as 69 cattle are herded down the super-road.

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Piles Of Rubble . . . remain after a Christmas Eve explosion leveled the First Federal Savings and Loan building at 32nd Street and Broadway. Two men died in the explosion and several people were injured.

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Hasty Evacuation . . . is made by Earl R. Andersen, 207 West Washington Avenue, as he carries belongings from the apartment of his mother, Mrs. Carl O. Anderson, 98 Fourth Street. Scores of apartment dwellers fled the flames.

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Trailor City 28 W. Ave - J. Moore, D. Baxley, J. Foust

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Photograph of train area at Playland Park

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Two photographs of train ride at Playland Park.
Train Ride and Tunnel, Maintenance Shop in background
Switch House

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The Union Pacific's...8444 steam locomotive will be on display at the Golden Spike Monument in Council Bluffs Sept. 27 and 28 as part of the River City Roundup festivities. Crew members will be at the monument from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 28 allowing…

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Training for State Tournaments. At Council Bluffs Fair Grounds, north of Ave G and 19th St. Frank Hitchcock, Bill Grote, Frank Parks, Ed Wright and Jim Cotter

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Photograph of soldiers at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition.
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