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…
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…
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.
A Lively Welcome . . . is promised by Maxime Vitu when The Nonpareil Holiday group visits Paris. He is thrilled by the seven-country itinerary. Next to him is a replica of the Eiffel Tower.
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.
Council Bluffs Police Chief Ed Dinovo shakes the hand of Richard Johnson, one of six men sworn in as officers by acting deputy City Clerk LuAn Overgard Monday morning in Dinovo's office. Dinovo told the six they would be "a big help" to the city by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mr. G.W. Kirn, former Council Bluffs school master, attests to his signature on a will of the late Drew Pearson, Washington newspaper columnist who died last month. Pearson, who spoke before Southwest Iowa Teachers here on Oct. 13, 1938, died leaving…