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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • 5

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Des Moines, Iowa
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5
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June 20, 1974 DES MOINES REGISTER Ankeny rae Day After 11 Wieyaapyi Aerial view shows how Tuesday's tornado heavily damaged dwellings in a residential neighborhood on the southeast edge of Ankeny. It was in this part of town that Mr. and Mrs. Wallace L. White were killed.

Gov. Robert Ray, third from right, stands in the remains of a state liquor store in Ankeny and thanks Iowa National Guardsmen for the cleanup job they are doing. Ankeny Mayor Ollie Weigel is next to the governor. rr XP 'J -SEES 1 J- t-anj a otcicu xiuixi jji ulc xciiLai iiiciiiucx UJ. uic xuvva iciuuuai uuaiU; Xiao ucui home which' was destroyed when the tornado undergoing summer training at Camp Dodge.

Regiser Photos by George J. Ceolla, Jervas Baldwin, Chuck Anderson, Frank Folwell, Bob Modersohn and Carl Voss ''On I Francis Sapp, an Ankeny volunteer examines a splinter that was blown through a wall of the J. W. Janssen home during the height of Tuesday night's tornado. 'ifM This mounted elk's head is one of few items remaining intact after the tornado shattered the Elks Lodge in Pleasant Hill just east of Des Moines.

1 Pleasant Hill police Lt. L. E. Gibson, left, and officer R. E.

Green check through the ruins of the Des Moines. Police Burial Association Building in Pleasant Hill. Ed Sease removes rubble from the remains of his The couple moved into the new home June 1 and their home at 1105 Cortina St. in Ankeny as his, wife looks on. first house payment was due in two weeks.

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