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Readying The Nature Office...for the influx of 1, 300 Boy Scouts expected at Camp Wakonda this summer are Camp director Dale Smith of Omaha and Program Director Harvey Marshall of Mount Ayr. Nature and ecology study, field reports, and aquatics will…

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Standing At The Platform...at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch following dedication ceremonies of the camp are scout official Stan Michael, Ernest Hundahl, who donated 1, 200 acres for the camp, camp chief Ken Nickerson and Toshiji Inamori and Toshisada…

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Eagle Scout Michael Howard of Avoca leads the retreat ceremony Thursday night by lowering the flag at the dedication ceremonies of the Little Sioux Scout Ranch. More than 2,000 persons attended the ceremonies at the camp which hosted its first…

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Scoular-Bishop Grain Elevator 3th St. & 1st Ave.

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Scientific Illustrator...Jerry Livingston and writer-editor Jerome Petsch look over photographs and drawings to piece together a diagram of the Bertrand.

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Reading Up . . . on current trends in education is Dr. Leonard Gregory, superintendent of Council Bluffs schools. He notes a trend toward more vocational skills.

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Harrison School...received this addition in December 0f 1950. It was one of the first buildings under the expansion program.

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Selling Emerson School . . . are board secretary Elmo Hites and auctioneer Art Fritcher as Nishna Valley Supt. Lewis Doubleday and board president Frank Durbin confer.

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New Hoover School--First Step in modern building program.
[On back of photo: COUNCIL BLUFFS< IOWA -- Herbert Hoover School was the first completed under a program to modernize educational facilities for 11,000 youngsters.

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St. Albert Central Catholic High School was dedicated Sunday afternoon by Bishop Edward C. Daly, O.P. of the Des Moines diocese. Shown in the main entrance hall, left to right: the Rev. Daniel Delehant, school superintendent; Mark Wanning, altar…

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Razing Operations . . . on old administration building call for the right portion to be cleared away within two weeks.

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Pierce Street Frontage...for the high school site proposed by the City Planning Commission is partially shown here. North Avenue (not pictured) is at left. Altogether seven homes line Pierce Street.

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Washington School...would be abandoned by Hare and Hare plan but will be rebuilt by the School Board.

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Steam Pipes...run through one first grade room in the basement at Roosevelt School. Plaster is cracking in several spots along the floor.

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With a wide grin, William M. Jeffers looks up while inspecting this "magnificent" iron lung which was presented to him at the banquet in his honor at the Ak-Sar-Ben coliseum, Saturday evening. He will later present it to a Salt Lake City hospital.
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