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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Ak-Sar-Ben royalty . . . are Queen Susan Hawkins and King Samuel Greenberg. They were crown Friday night and will be feted at the coronation ball this Saturday night.

All Spic and Span . . .for the start of the 1979 racing season is the grandstand and finish line at Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha. The Ak-Sar-Ben season will open May1 and a good many Southwest Iowans will doubtless be on hand. The track is expected…

An areal view of Ak-Sar-Ben

Photo of balloon mural, by Marcia Joffe-Bouska, on side of furniture building. Scanned from 35 mm film strip with 6 of same image

Balloon Mural
See also: Hite Center (2)

Suspect (Lee Farmer) held against Mustang car outside Council Bluffs Savings Bank on Pearl St. Four uniformed police officers, two with handguns drawn, one with rifle. Two men not in uniform.
(Information from photos taken at the same scene,…

Suspect [Lee Farmer] held against Mustang car outside Savings and Loan on Pearl Street. Four police officers, two with handguns drawn, one with rifle. Two men not in uniform, one with walkie-talkie. Duplicate of Bank_Robberies_01, but with names…

Suspect [Lee Farmer] held against car; three uniformed police officers, one with handgun drawn, one with rifle; off-duty police officer [Dan Larsen]
(Information from photos taken at the same scene, reported in Nonpareil 2-23-1974)

Omaha, Neb., Feb. 15 -- HELD IN BANK HOLDUP -- John Paul Budrevich, 58, San Francisco, was being held in Omaha today under $15,000 bond in conncection with the Feb. 8 holdup of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Savings Bank. (AP WIREPHOTO) bd31410fbi '66

Police And Ambulance Officials...remove the body of Lt. C.E. Moore from a home at 3113 Ave., where a bank robbery suspect shot it out with police, a private citizen and FBI officials. Nonpareil Photos by Joe Cavallaro

Bullet Hole...in the side of police cruiser resulted from a shootout Wednesday forenoon with a bank robbery suspect. One Council Bluffs patrolman was injured by flying glass when a robber's bullet crashed through his police cruiser car.

First National Bank Westside Office...was robbed of an undetermined amount of money by two masked bandits one of whom was still at large in Omaha. The other was wounded and under police guard at Jennie Edmundson Hospital. One policeman was killed,…

Where Gunman Died...is a corner of the small waiting room of the doctor's office-home. Hole in the wall is where police dug out bullets from a battle with the gunman Wednesday morning. Dr. Hombach's daughter was standing near the corner when the…

Slain Suspect...has been identified as Steven F. Scott, 29, of Galva, Ill., who was recently released from the Colorado State Penitentiary.

The Patio Office of the Council Bluffs Savings Bank, Twenty-seventh Street and West Broadway, was the scene Wednesday of the second bank robbery in less than six weeks. Police arrived on the scene moments after a well-dressed man took $4,000 from a…

Spectators Gather...outside the Minden branch office of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank Saturday morning following a robbery just before noon. A young gunman took an undisclosed amount of money and fled. Authorities were searching for three…

Discussing the robbery...is Lorance White who shows reporters a pair of shears he intended to throw at the suspect if he got close enough.

Bank Robberies
Also see: Ind files of accused
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