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Pumping Station Is Secured
Completely sand-bagged against the threat of Missouri river flood water is the Council Bluffs waterworks pumping station, located just a few feet away from the stream. Pumping equipment inside the station is located in deep concrete pits, well below…
Where River Cut Through Road
Several hours after the rising of flood water of the Missouri rolled over a county road at the Narrows, north of the city limits, scores of acres between the highway and the Illinois Central railroad (right center) were inundated. The flood water…
Thomas Jefferson Students Respond
Part of the crew of over 100 Thomas Jefferson high school students who Wednesday responded to the call of the city for volunteer help to aid in filling bags and building up the west-end Missouri river levee. A like number from Abraham Lincoln high…
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Typhoid inoculations at Manawa following the Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Loading trucks with sand
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Hamburg, IA
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Removal of sandbags in order to release flood water in East Omaha
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Sandbagged road near the Missouri River
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Men filling sandbags
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Mr. and Mrs Bill Tyson, flood victims, muse over hat that once was new.
Flood of 1943
Flood of 1943
Build Pile Dike To Bolster Levee - Open Bids This Week On New Pump Houses
Top - Clearing Excess Rock . . . from a Missouri River levee near the Water Works intake station is this barge-based Army Engineers drag line. Rock was dumped on foot of levee during last year's flood fight.
Bottom - New Dike Piling . . . being…
Bottom - New Dike Piling . . . being…
Butz Backs Grain Sales, Standard Packing Bonding
Discussing Farm Issues...during Wednesday's White House Conference in Omaha is Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz. He said the United States is in the final stages of negotiating a long-term grain agreement with the Soviet Union which he said would…
Eddie Butler returns to play at Dodge House
Playing A Square...grand piano in the ballroom of the Dodge House is Eddie Butler, 71, who will be playing General Dodge's favorite songs at the members-only Christmas party Saturday night.