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Local Officials Seek Parents Of Child Abandoned At Hospital
Abandoned Child: This photo is from a picture taken by Council Bluffs police when the child was hours old.
Ten Months Makes Huge Difference For Mercy
Bruce Hopkins
Program Finds New Home - Chemical Dependency Unit
Planning Material . . . to be used in a therapy session are Denise Meyer and Kathy Jasper, therapists and counselors for the Mercy Chemical Dependency Family Program. The program has chosen a home atmosphere for its outpatient services and offices.
Things Are Happening
A few months ago, there was a high embankment at this location at Harmony and Frank streets. The older section of Mercy Northeast stood here. Today, with the building removed and thousands of yards of earth distributed to various parts of the city,…
Cash Taken From Defiance State Bank Is Still Missing; Nebraska Trio Charged With Robbery
All Smiles...as they are taken to the Missouri Valley j ail after their capture are left to right, Donald Gene Brophy, Donald Wayne Eblen and his brother, Ernest Eugene.
Cash Taken From Defiance State Bank Is Still Missing; Nebraska Trio Charged With Robbery
Showing Wrists...as they were bound by two bandits is Mrs. JoAnn Walker, with other Defiance Bank employes, John Wells and Joan Wilwerding.
They're Eager To 'Work' Strawberries; At Defiance, Treat Instead Of A Treatment
Cleaning 150 Boxes Of Strawberries...is an arduous task, these members of the Defiance EUB Church Ladies Aid will agree. They prepared the berries for the annual strawberry festival, inaugurated three years ago by the Rev. Robert Dragoo. From left…
Over 2,300 Deer in 3-county Area; Responsible for Much Crop Damage
Iowa Deer Caught Grazing on the Elmer Svendsen farm, four miles northeast of Harlan. Thirty-eight deer are in this airphoto by State Conservation Office Jerry Jauron. Note how close they are to the farm home.
Dear-Blind Dept. Like A Lad Of 8
The Severely Handicapped Need Parties...to pep up their spirits for the strenuous routine of their daily training. Al east the children think it's a party they have for an hour every Friday afternoon. Actually it is just another tool the staff uses…
Deaf-Blind Dept. Like A Lad Of 8
Peeling An Apple...the second time she has held a knife is Linda McNair, 7, of Cheyenne, Wyo. Lind is in her first year at ISD. Like other children from outside of Iowa her home state pays $3,300 a school year for her training.
National Prominence For Deaf-Blind Class; Started Six Years Ago At ISD
The Word Game...of matching the real object with the spoken word through the touch system is played by Miss Mabel Talbot and Michael Temeyer. The word of course is "ball."
Authority Praises Work Of ISD Deaf-Blind Department
A Deaf-Blind Child...Joan Peterson, 9, of Chicago, hears the strains of a beautiful old English ballad, "Scarlet Ribbons in Her Hair" while a visiting authority, Edward Waterhouse, takes notes at ISC. Instructor at right is Mrs. Rosalie Haycock of…
Deaf-blind Girl, 8, From New York Is Finding 'Whole New Life' at ISD
Miss Mabel Talbot and Barbara Schultz...practice formation and making of sounds through use of the throat and by manipulation of the mouth and lips.
Unknown Tie Binds Jo Ann Walton, 14, To the 6 Deaf-blind Children at ISD
Playing Together...are Mark Mathias, Virginia Ver Helst, Jo Ann Walton and Bobbie Shaw, with Eddie Howard in the background.
Hundreds open DeSoto center
Guests Examine...the entrance to the new Visitor Center that was opened Saturday at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. The center houses artifacts from the steamboat Bertrand that sank in the Missouri River in 1865 and recovered in 1969. Gov. Robert…
Center takes shape
The new visitor's center at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is taking shape, with about 80 percent of the major concrete work now completed. Jack Wilson, construction manager, said work has started on the roof and interior, and there should be…