Hancock Plant Produces Liquid Fertilizer --- A First - Saw Raw Materials Roll By . . .
Under Thunder Jug . . . is the rest of the Tri-B operation at Hancock, including the control center in shack, left.
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'Fine Tuning' Controls . . . are seen, above, while Bob Emken works on the 'rough' controls.
First Hand Experience In Agriculture, Politics - Will Regret Going Home
AFS Student . . . Terje Froystein, right, and host John Martin pause to pet the Martin's setter, Nick.
Hancock Mayor Russell Griggs . . . wants more equitable taxation for financing volunteer fire departments.
This Is It . . . all the wires and gadgets needed to run a telephone company, a small one like the one at Hancock. But soon this tiny, independently-owned operation may be part of the past, if its stockholders vote to put in a direct dial system.
This House In Downtown Hancock . . . includes a small telephone office at the left and an apartment on the right occupied by the night operator. When the night operator goes to bed, she connects a bell that rings in her apartment when someone wants to place a call.
Hancock Plans Election On New Town Council - Fire Hall
Checking Insulation . . . in the Hancock Fire Hall are Mayor Russell Griggs and Fire Chief Lyle Neve. Hancock voters will be asked to approve construction of a new Fire Hall-Town Council Building this summer.
Hancock Mayor Russell Griggs . . . displays equipment of the Hancock Volunteer Fire Department. This spring the town will make a second try to get rural people to help pay the costs of fire protection for Valley Township. Last fall a vote to levy a one-half mil fire tax in the township failed.
Officials Learn First Hand Problems Of The Handicapped
Crossing A Busy Intersection . . . isn't easy for a handicapped person. And to prove the point and promote community awareness of the handicapped, Police Chief Nick Sulentic attempts to cross the street as a blind person while Mayor Joseph B. Katelman, with a real cast on his leg, pushes his wheelchair across. Fire Chief Norm Elgan also feigned a handicapped person and attempted to walk up the steps and into City Hall as a cerebral palsy victim.
Parenting The Handicapped The Challenges And Rewards Of Raising The Handicapped
At left, a walker adds stability to the steps of Katie Nourse, daughter of Cathy and Denny Nourse. Above, Katie learns independence and decision-making skills by choosing which toy she wants to play with that is pictured in the cards her mother is holding.
Glenda Larsen helps her son Chris, 16, improve his speech through the use of speech exercises.
Bruce Hangen, new conductor of the Omaha Symphony, conducts during a Sinfonia Community Concert Friday in Midlands Mall.
Elderly Seamstress Found Fatally Beaten - 'Looks Like Murder, A Tough One'
Investigating Fatal Beating . . . are, left to right, Detective Leon Nelson, Deputy County Atty. Ross Caniglia, County Atty. Peter J. Peters and Detective R.R. Betchel (in background). Victim's leg is shown in right foreground. Intruder entered the victim's apartment through a hole in the ceiling.
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Police Search For Shoe Clues - Sift Through Ashes From Incinerator
Sifting Through Ashes . . . for remains of shoes are, from left, Detective A.R. Danielsen, Lt. George Jorgensen, Sgt. C.E. (Pat) Moore and Detective F.A. (Mike) Kerns.
Charged In Murder Of Seamstress - 20-Year-Old C.B. Youth
Preliminary Hearing For Hansen Postponed
Aiding Accused Slayer Jerry Hansen . . . back to city jail after his arraignment Tuesday in Municipal Court are Police Sgt. Clarence Capel and , out of the picture, Patrolman Corwin Gray.
Jurors Find Jerry Hansen Guilty Of First-Degree Murder