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Looft Sees Risk As Opportunity
Dr. Robert Looft, president/superintendent of Iowa Western Community College, stands on the bridge connecting the main campus with the Continuing Education Building. After 20 years helping develop the college, Looft said he still views his position…
Looft To Receive College Award
Dr. Robert Looft
Look homeward, angel? Move still a possibility
Looking as it did . . .when placed in 1919, file photo shows memorial statue with water running from bowl. Fountain may be repaired this year. Sculptor Daniel Chester French once said the sculpture was his finest work. --Nonpareil Photo.
Looking Beautiful At 7:30 a.m. Tough
Happily Relaxed...after their announcement as finalists in AAU National Women's Basketball Tournament are Mary Zimmerman, Vicky Porter, Sandy Konrad and EaVon Almquist. Cathy Wilson, the fifth finalist, has to leave for an early game and was not…
Looking For Trouble
Tons of diesel locomotive above him doesn't bother this Burlington Railroad yard man as he checks the alignment of the engine's wheels. The lead wheels on the three trucks of a double diesel unit dropped off the track near Main Street and Eleventh…
Looking up Broadway
Reproduction of a postcard looking up Broadway from 4th street
Looking up Broadway
Reproduction of a postcard of Upper Broadway.
Looking West on Broadway
Reproduction of a postcard looking west on Broadway below 4th street.
Loretta Fischer
Photograph of Loretta Fischer.
Lost records baffle clerk; Seemed to have vanished
People Still Care...about Reels Cemetery in Boomer Township. The cemetery is well kept although no one has been buried there in years. However, the township clerk, Billy Walters is baffled as to what happened to the records for the cemetery.
Lot Of Pieces Left To Pick Up
Covered With Debris . . . the First Federal Savings and Loan West Broadway sign lays as mute evidence of the explosion's destruction.
Lot Of Pieces Left To Pick Up
The Night Deposit Box . . . from First Federal Savings and Loan's West Broadway office survived the explosion. It was removed from the rubble and transported to the savings and loan's main office, a bank official said.
Lot Of Pieces Left To Pick Up
Peering Through Broken Glass . . . is Beverly Paben, restaurant manager at the Burger King just west of the decimated First Federal office. Employee Pearl Franks handed a food order to a drive-up customer seconds before the blast. Paben said Franks…
Lot Of Pieces Left To Pick Up
Taking Notes . . . on Christmas Day amidst the rubble of the First Federal building is Fire Chief Delbert Burdick. To Burdick's left is the gas meter that supplied the natural gas to the savings and loan office.
Lot Of Pieces Left To Pick Up
Fighting The Remnants . . . of Friday's fatal explosion, firefighters quickly contained the blaze that followed it and gas company employees checked surrounding gas lines for damage.
Lots Of Interest In The Fate Of 4 White Pillars - Problem: Getting Them Down Intact
Contemplating Columns . . . at the old Hastings School are Kenneth Grindle, Hastings, and Lowell Mooney, Shenandoah.
Lottery Grant Provides 200 New IBP Inc. Jobs
The IBP plant at 2700 23rd Ave. in Council Bluffs is one of the company's three pork slaughtering and processing sites in Iowa. IBP officials used a $738,000 Iowa community economic betterment account grant to increase the work force at the plant by…
Lou and Herb
Lou and Herb in front of Central Station. Cotter, Stevens, Scofield, and Telpner.