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Two people holding newspaper items.
(top) There's Quite A Contrast . . . between the old-style press plate which weighs 60 pounds, held by pressman Dick Petersen, and the new plastic style which weighs only a few ounces. It is held by Judy Gurney, assistant circulation manager.…

A man holding a piece of paper on a table under two lamps.
Checking The Results . . . of the drying lamps he installed is Gerald Goeser.

Two men looking at a piece of paper on a piece of equipment.
Learning New Methods . . . for printing newspapers is the objective of an adult education class at Iowa Western Community College. Teacher George Peterson shows Harvey Christensen a phase in offset printing. Christensen is The Nonpareil's composing…

Four men looking at messy desks.
(top) New desks are a nice thing - until it comes time to move the accumulation of years of toil. This is how the Nonpareil's newsroom looked before the transformation. Some of the desks had been around for longer than most want to admit…

A man and two women viewing a telephone.
The New And The Old Phone Systems . . . are seen in this photo. Nonpareil Publisher A. Richard Gross watches as Patty Osterlund, Belle Telephone business instructor, shows the operation of The Nonpareil's new phone call board to Nancy Cihacek,…

A man stands next to a large computer.
Inspecting new computer . . . is Robert Fischer, superintendent of The Nonpareil's mechanical department.

A large piece of machinery swings on a crane as a man standing next to a truck looks on.
One of the 4,000-pound type-setting machines is hoisted from the second story Saturday as The Nonpareil moves its mechanical department into new ground-floor quarters. The heavy equipment is being moved by Leroy L. Wade & Sons, Inc. of Omaha.

A man stands atop a steel grid structure as another man looks on.
Erection Of Press Units . . . in the new Nonpareil building gets underway. Here is the substructure that will hold the five press units with capacity up to 80 pages. Once these frames are leveled, they will be imbedded in concrete. Almost a fifth of…

A crane demolishing a building.
Crews were busy Tuesday on demolition of the Nonpareil Court Building to make way for a new addition to The Nonpareil. Baled hay was placed on top of the adjoining building to the south to prevent debris going through the roof.

Architectural drawing of a building.
(top) Remodeled and Expanded . . . The Nonpareil building will look like this architect's sketch. This is the Pearl Street side, showing a new entrance where a private street now serves the newspaper. The addition, to the right, will house mechanical…

A large piece of equipment atop a hoist in front of a building.
Heavy equipment movers had 1.5 inches to spare as they hoisted a new engraving unit through a window at The Nonpareil Wednesday afternoon. It provided a good show for spectators on Pearl Street. The Vario-Klischograph, an electronic machine, weighs…

Small chapel building with steeple, in cemetery
Secretly Nestled Among The Trees...of Westpahlia's St. Boniface Catholic Church Cemetery is a small prayer chapel, unused for the past 90 years. Relatives of those buried in the church cemetery once used the chapel for prayer services.

Tiny, square clapboard building with double wooden doors
This Tiny Chapel...is one of four located at each corner of the St. Boniface Cemetery. The smaller chapels are opened annually for parishioners to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, and the chapel altars are decorated with flowers and candles.

A young man stands on stepladder next to a clock, four people look on.
Checking Clock...for "zero hour" at Westminster Presbyterian Church are three generations of the Bryan Grosvenor family: Grosvenor; his daughter, Mrs. Harold Smith, both members since the early 1950s; her son, Wayne, on the ladder who will become a…

A woman and two men stand behind an altar faced with carving of the Last Supper; on altar are open book and two candlesticks.
Building Committee Members...Rollo Arthur, 3306 Avenue D, the Rev. O. Dixon Poe, and Miss Dorothy M. Jackson, 3549 Avenue B, check over dedication program as they stand behind the new communion table, one of the many memorials to be included in the…

Three men in suits gather around a cornerstone reading "1956".
Inspecting cornerstone laid Sunday at the Westminster Presbyterian Church and Thirty-second St. and Sixth Ave. are the Rev. Robert F. Howard of Bethany Church, Dr. Henry C. Schneider of Des Moines, and the Rev. William F. Puls of Glendale Church. …

Man in suit lifts shovel of dirt, with five other people watching.
First Spade of Dirt...for new Westminster Presbyterian Church is turned by the Rev. Ellis Butler, pastor. Watching are Rollo Arthur, Wendell Wright, Vern Welch, Miss Dorothy Jackson and Mrs. Emma Anthony.

Five young men sitting at desks in a newsroom.
These energetic young men with high collars were members of The Nonpareil's staff many years ago when the photograph was taken. Later several of them attained considerable prominence. Left to right, they are: Tracy Garrett, who is now editor of the…

Joe Durick, 9, Council Bluffs, strains under the weight of a bale of bedding material for his hogs at Westfair.
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