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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Standing before lecturns [sic] ...in the new Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) in the Twinn City community are the Rev. Jose Ventilacion and wife, Esther. They are natives of the Philippines. Nonpareil photo by Virginia Pendgraft

City's Furniture Industry . . . includes Canar Manufacturing Company. Employees Stanley Oliwecki and William Wagner (foreground) are upholstering couches.

Future Home . . . of Central Woodworking Company of Omaha is being built at Thirtieth St. and First Ave. The $22,500 structure will be completed in about a month.

What do you know about Council Bluffs industry? The 37 insignia on this page represent a big share of the variety of products which might bear the label: "Made in Council Bluffs." How many do you recognize?

Viewing Riverfront Site . . . ideal for industry are John Whittaker, Chamber of Commerce president; Millard Krasne, a trustee of the Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation, and John Duncan, chamber manager.

This Brick House...is the new parsonage of the Church of God of Prophecy. It is next to the church at Seventeenth St. and Avenue E.

Discussing Markers...visible in painting of Fields of the Wood, a historical setting created by their church denomination, are Past Robert Brown of the local Church of God of Prophecy, and Earl Clemens, a member of its congregation.

Pat Edie, a volunteer for Citizens for Community Improvement, and CCI President Darlene Stevens display book covers bearing photos of missing children in the group wants to distribute to students at schools in the Omaha-Council Bluffs area. CCI has…

People's Natural Gas representatives Bill Schaffart (left) and Mike Theisen met Wednesday with 15 demonstrators from Citizens for Community Improvement are protesting new deposits required for customers who have been late in paying bills and have…

Broken Curbing . . . is first step in resumption of work on widening and resurfacing of Highway 275 just east of the South Omaha Bridge Road.

A Transformation . . . from bare land to industrial complex took place on this site in just a few years. Firms located on the Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation plot are, from left, Werner Enterprises, Pure Oil Co. and G & E Transportation Co. The…

Lt. Col. Mathew A. Tinley, indicated by the arrow, is shown leading the 168th infantry, of which Company L of Council Bluffs was a part, on the march in France. In the foreground is Sgt. Oliver W. Holmes of Council Bluffs, who later was killed in…

The West End . . . of the initial Interstate Highway 80 construction in Pottawattamie County will be in Minor Nelson's backyard. Nelson points to the approximate spot the road will terminate.

The East End . . . of the Pottawattamie County stretch of the highway will stop somewhere in this general vicinity on the Albert Mc Crickard farm.

An earth fill, towering 30 to 40 feet above the floor of this valley in Rockford Township about three miles east of Loveland, will carry Interstate Highway 80 across the valley and over the concrete drainage chute shown under construction. Looking…

Hills Are Leveled . . . by workmen and equipment of the S.E. Gustafson Construction Co. of Sioux Falls, S.D. The huge dirt movers will move over 2 million cubic yards of earth from the hills in construction of the two-and one-half-mile strip of…

Heavy Black Line . . . across center of map indicates segment of Interstate 80 that will be opened to traffic Labor Day from a point east of Dexter to an interchange on Highway 71 northeast of Atlantic.

End Of Line . . . for the moment on westbound Interstate 80 is a quarter mile west of Highway 71, north of Atlantic. Paving reached this point in 1959.
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