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When In Rome:
Helping arrange a chapel veil for Mrs. Clara Weir in Rome are Mrs. Lew Evans and Mrs. Amer McMullen of Crescent, members of The Nonpareil Holiday Tour. Members of the tour had an audience with Pope John this week while in Rome. All the women donned…
What Will Happen To Murals?
In The Corn Room . . . of Hotel Chieftain the Iowa cornfield scene, also done by Grant Wood, covers four walls and is familiar to most residents of Council Bluffs. Corn shocks decorate wall behind Helen Burns, dial chief operator for the Northwestern…
What Will Happen To Murals?
Now That The Hotel Is To Be Sold . . . further effort on part of Sam Brown, president of Bluffs Homes Inc., purchasers of the hotel, will be made to place the paintings in responsible hands such as a museum. "We have had several requests for the…
What Will Happen To Murals?
Paintings by artist Grant Wood on the mezzanine floor of Hotel Chieftain have been offered to any organization that will remove and preserve them. Hotel owner Harry A. Wise Jr. is shown here with one mural titled "Entrance To Kanesville" done in 1927…
What happens when you dial 911 in an emergency?
Making a duplicate . . . tape of some of the calls to the 911 center is director William Pierce. All incoming calls and all for the center's radio transmissions are taped and held for a minimum of six months, he said.
What happens when you dial 911 in an emergency?
Keeping track . . . of the city's fire equipment is Don Dinatalli. The locator board in the 911 center shows the location of every fire truck at any given moment. The operator on duty at the fire console is responsible sending additional equipment if…
What happens when you dial 911 in an emergency?
Taking a fire call . . . is Tony Ward, one of the three dispatchers on duty. From his console, Ward is in touch with firefighters going to the scene and with the fire chief.
What happens when you dial 911 in an emergency?
Two of the three . . . dispatch consoles are shown in this picture. Don Dinatalli keeps track of the sheriff's calls, while Diane Hatcher, the center's newest dispatcher, is trained by Jean Walter.
What Europe Needs Most Is A Good Cup Of Coffee
(top) Looking At Map Of Rhine River . . . before boarding Rheinland steamer at Wiesbaden are Mrs. E.H. Woltmann and Mr. and Mrs. L. Chris Hansen, all of Avoca.
(middle) Getting Ready To Pick Up Passengers . . . at Rudesheim,…
(middle) Getting Ready To Pick Up Passengers . . . at Rudesheim,…
Wettengel, Paul J. and Patricia
Paul J. and Patricia Wettengel with 9 of their children, standing next to a trailer/RV.
Wet Cat
A grimacing lion seems to dislike the wet home he received Tuesday as Jim Kenyon of Omaha, an employe [sic] of R & R Construction, positions the sculpture on the rim of the Bayliss Fountain. Eight lions will "guard" the fountain day and night and…
Westminster Presbyterian
Nonpareil engraving
Westminster Marks Golden Anniversary
Checking Clock...for "zero hour" at Westminster Presbyterian Church are three generations of the Bryan Grosvenor family: Grosvenor; his daughter, Mrs. Harold Smith, both members since the early 1950s; her son, Wayne, on the ladder who will become a…
Westminster Church Dedication on Sunday; New $130,000 Structure
Building Committee Members...Rollo Arthur, 3306 Avenue D, the Rev. O. Dixon Poe, and Miss Dorothy M. Jackson, 3549 Avenue B, check over dedication program as they stand behind the new communion table, one of the many memorials to be included in the…
Westfair's roots at McClelland picnic; Started 70 years ago
The Bare Gate still beckons fair-goers this year, but for the first time, they'll be able to see the buildings from the road.