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OMAHA, NEB. (goal: $1,194,262) keyed its appeal to last April's flood. At all downtown street crossings appeared sandbag piles and posters proclaiming that "the dikes against despair" and the dangers of "disease, dependency, delinquency and desertion" need sandbags...
...Missouri River. Like a huge inland tidal wave, 20 miles long and moving at a speed of nine miles an hour, the flood crest smashed at banks and levees, swallowed up great stretches of fertile farmland and laid siege to half-empty towns and cities, holding out behind their sandbag barricades (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The critical point last week came at the narrow channel between Omaha and Council Bluffs, where a levee and flood wall system was designed to keep the river in a course only 1,200 feet wide...
...gourds fastened to long poles. The capitol building, which the Reds had fired last autumn in a senseless act of spiteful arson, had its lobby fouled by manure from horses stabled there by the enemy. The Communists had made no preparation for a street fight. There were no sandbag barricades, no new pillboxes, rifle pits or foxholes. But the retreating Reds had looted the city again, although this time the pickings were slimmer. Tables and desks had been taken out of official buildings-but the "In," "Out," and "Hold" baskets had been left in the Eighth Army's onetime...
...fight to Koto, six miles down the road, was the worst. The crawling vehicles ran into murderous mortar, machine-gun and small-arms fire from Communists in log and sandbag bunkers. The U.S. answering fire and air attacks killed thousands of the enemy and held the road open. When the lead vehicles reached Koto, the rearguard was still fighting near Hagaru to keep the enemy from chewing up the column from behind...
...intersection we slowed down to pass a sandbag barricade. The crowds lining the street surged out around us, offered us sesame cookies and handshakes. Farther down the street a South Korean cavalryman put his horse through a victory prance while he waved his rifle aloft, a Communist battle flag impaled on his bayonet...