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End near for Kennedy school? Handicapped may be integrated
Rose Kennedy School...may be closed due to high costs, declining enrollments and legalities, Council Bluffs School officials say. The building at 1414 W. Broadway is school for 24 severely and profoundly mentally handicapped students.
End Of Buidling:
The old laundry building at Jennie Edmundson Hospital was being torn down Wednesday. The laundry has been moved to the new hospital building and is now in operation. Champney Wrecking Co. of Topeka, Kan., is doing the work. Champney is a…
End of Landmark:
The 107-year-old James Block at the southeast corner of Main Street and Broadway poses for its last portrait as it awaits a wrecking boom. The structure, which consisted of two sections housing the Picky Nicky Cafe and Herman's Clothes Shop, was…
End Of Landmark:
Dust Cloud Rises . . . above pile of rubble as the demolition nears completion. The debris holds memories dating back to pre-Civil War days. Stanley Katelman, who owns the lot adjoining Main Street, plans to erect a one-story building there. Ben…
End Of The Line
Pacific Junction is becoming the end of the line for many of the Burlington Railroad's old steam locomotives which have been crowded off the road by modern diesel units. The steamers are brought to the marshalling yards at Pacific Junction where…
End Of The Line
Interstate 80 will soon be stretching further north with recent contracts led by the Iowa Highway Commission. Doted [sic] lines show the graded route of the superroad. Completed pavement (1) extends from near Weston (2) to Highway 375 in Council…
Engine Donated For Bicentennial
Used as a working locomotive and a symbol of America's approaching 200th Birthday, this Illinois Central engine stopped in Council Bluffs Friday night and Saturday. Mrs. Cleo Hardymartin, 542 Franklin Ave., and her family were among those inspecting…
Engineer dies in train crash
Scattered At Impact...in fatal train wreck near Pacific Junction, empty coal cars of parked train lie jumbled with those of northbound train that hit it. Five units of the 100-car parked train and 12 of the 110-car northbound train derailed in the…
Engineers Hope To Start Soon - Plan Levee Bids Early In February
Where The New Levee Goes - This map designates the location of the Missouri river levee south of Council Bluffs and the three governing bodies under whom it will fall. These bodies have the responsibility of providing land for levee right-of-way and…
Engineers Plan To Build Underpass From Top Down
Detour Routes...will be constructed on either side of the Union Pacific's tracks at this location to allow train passage while Iowa Highway Commission contractors build an underpass for Interstate 29--from the top down!--Nonpareil Photo.
Engineers to be finished in 1960. DeSoto Bend time-table advanced 2 years
Now ice bound . . . this section of the Missouri River will become a part of the DeSoto Ben Lake after a new river channel is cut by Army Engineers. Timbered area to right will become a wildlife refuge. --Nonpareil Photo.
Enough For Everyone At DeSoto Refuge; History, Nature, Recreation,
Jim Frates...manager DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, demonstrates giant bellows removed from the hull of the steamship Bertrand. Frates said the bellows were used to create extra heat in the boilers of the vessel, which sank more than 100 years ago…
Enthusiasm Inspires 5 Men To Organize Church Here
Studying The Bible...are the five trustees and founders of the Church of Christ at 2310 Fourth Ave. They are, standing, from left: Ray Hansen, Paul Clark, Lauren Kersten, and Leon James. Robert York is seated.
Entire Hennessy Family Brushes Up On French - C'est La Vie! . . .
Conducting French Class . . . using flash cards is Mrs. J. D. Hennessy. "Pupils" are Michael, Brian, Jimmie, Lynne, Pat, Dr. Hennessy with Karen on his lap, Laurel and June.
Eppley Airfield Casting Darker Shadow On C.B.
Danger Lurks . . . in the air over Council Bluffs in the form of both large and small aircraft landing at nearby Eppley Airfield, say some city officials. They are concerned with the possibility of a mid-air collision over the city, similar to the…
Eppley Crash Kills 4 S.W. Iowans
Wreckage . . of the plane which carried five persons to their deaths late Sunday night at Omaha's Eppley Airfield lies covered with snow just south of several relay stations. The plane apparently struck a Missouri River dike while on approach to the…
Epworth Methodist Church
Congregation of Epworth United Methodist Church, 2447 Ave B, Council Bluffs, Iowa
This is the 2nd church building, occupied from 1909-1964.
Church historian is Fern M. Brown, 2709 Ave D, Council Bluffs, Iowa
This is the 2nd church building, occupied from 1909-1964.
Church historian is Fern M. Brown, 2709 Ave D, Council Bluffs, Iowa