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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Junior Chamber of Commerce at Audubon has completed construction of "Albert the Bull" at the outskirts of the city. "Albert," weighing 45 tons, is a giant statue of a Hereford bull, designed to salute the area's cattle feeders and as a tourist…

Alberta Lee Cox .. is chairman for the 1971 Women's National AAU Basketball Championship which will be held at Council Bluffs Fieldhouse March 30 - April 3.

Alcatraz features stony features . . . from the Golden Gate bridge in the background, or Fisherman's Wharf. --(AP) Wirephoto

Alcoholism
Recovery not easy for women alcoholics. October 14, 1984
Women alcoholic problems unique. No date.

All but gone. The bare bones of the last remaining span of Ak-San-Ben Bridge, which for 79 years served motorists between Council Bluffs and Omaha, were scheduled to be blasted into oblivion Saturday afternoon by experts subcontracted to Allied…

All but gone . . . is the section of bridge from the Iowa side, out to the first pier in the Missouri River. These large barges will be used in the salvage work. The pier will be saved to serve as a foundation for a proposed two-story office building…

All That Is Missing...from this Halloween picture is a witch with a broom. As small goblins go forth Friday to collect goodies from their neighbors, Police Chief Nick Sulentic urged a campaign of safety and citizen alertness. Nonpareil Photo by…

"The Star Spangled Girl"...lectures two pursuers in a rehearsal for the play at Chanticleer Community Theater. Ann Lincoln-Wattles stars as Sophie, and Bryan Schmoldt and Don Jensen portray the publishers of a "protest" magazine. Photo courtesy of…

Allen, Richard M. & Eilene
Mother saves baby as four sons die in fire. January 16, 1964
Site of Blaze. January 16, 1964
Fund drive started for mother of fire victims. January 17, 1964
Roses for mother. January 20, 1964
The Allen Fund Group…

Country School Conversion...by Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Allen Jr., Crescent, is nearly complete. The next question: What to do with big school building, partially appearing at the left?

Female child sitting with her dog, a chow chow.

Two cranes . . . are needed to set up king-size baling shear at the Alter Co. scrap-metal yard here. --Nonpareil Photo.

Processess various metals. Alter Company leases 10-acre site in Bluffs for a new plant. October 3, 1962
Halt work on Alter Co. Plant. November 23, 1962
Talking business . . . Alter Company in operation. January 20, 1963
Modern salvage. May 5,…

Left, Harold Coyle. Right, Jerry Katz

Alter Company

Bob Miller Photography
4302 Dodge St.
Omaha, Nebraska

The Open Courtyard...at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School would be enclosed with an overhead bubble and used for instructional purposes. That's one alternative School Board members will consider when they hear the report of the Project Improve…

Rod Christiansen . . . and Robert Hazelwood, attendants for the Pottawattamie County Ambulance Division, check the equipment on the inside of one of the units. last year the division made 2,554 runs and assisted 2,418 patients. --Nonpareil Photo.

A staff of 13 trained emergency medical technicians man the two units of the Pottawattamie County Ambulance Division on a 24-hour basis to provide emergency ambulance service over the entire Western end of the county.

Receiving a message . . . on a new high frequency two-way radio system at jennie Edmundson Hospital is Mrs. Rita Pierson, supervisor of the hospital's emergency room. She is talking directly to a technician from a Southwest Iowa ambulance en route to…
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