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Up too 800 a day. Hungry monster eats old autos
Junker autos . . . are baled and sheared at the rate of 800 a day in the new giant machine that just went into operation at the Alter Company yard, 2603 Ninth Ave. An auto, minus motor and wheels, is loaded into a hopper. It will hold four cars.
The finished project
The finished project . . . comes down an endless belt in given size bales, ready for loading onto rail cars and shipment to steel mills for reuse.
Like pulling teeth
Like pulling teeth . . . this oversized machine called a motor puller just reaches under the hood to extract the car motor in one bite. Operator is "Shorty" Campbell who has jerked thousands of motors. New heavy machinery is currently being installed…
Happy Cabs go anywhere
Happy Cabs go anywhere . . . and sometimes after running their course, like other retired autos, end up in the junkpile. Tom Hale, account executive for Alter Co., looks over one of several retired cabs in a pile.
Auto junkpile has memories
Auto junkpile has memories.
Alter Company
Left, Harold Coyle. Right, Jerry Katz
Alter Company
Alter Company
Alter Company
Bob Miller Photography
4302 Dodge St.
Omaha, Nebraska
4302 Dodge St.
Omaha, Nebraska
Bayh says many have lost faith
Local labor Officials...met with Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Birch Bayh in Council Bluffs Saturday at the Holiday Inn. Pictured are Robert Leuck of the Central labor Union, Frank Jacobsen of the Amalgamated Meat cutters and Sen. Bayh.
Council Bluffs' has own 'jaws'
A giant shredding machine at Alter Co., 2603 Ninth Ave. capable of tearing up more than 1,000 old automobiles a day is ready for operation. Looking into the heart of the machine workmen are installing the 22 hammers that do the shredding, each hammer…
Finished product . . .
Finished product . . . of big shredder is shown by Tom Hale, account executive at Alters. Old autos are reduced to clean metal more or less the size of baseballs, and read for steel mills and foundrys over the United States and abroad to be recycled…
To feed machine . . .
To feed machine . . . an all hydraulic gantry crane sits high above wheels and rails to keep the hungry shredder's hopper full. Big jaws on the crane easily grab an auto off the pile of thousands on hand. The bodies are fed into the Alter yard from…
Aidex cleanup completion
Three people standing outside on Aidex property. Left to right, one man in a hard hat, a woman, another man in a baseball cap.
Aidex cleanup to gear up in summer
This is the Aidex Corp. plant site in the summer of 1983. Removal of hazardous wastes, many of which were contained in barrels on the site, began in the spring of that year. -- Nonpareil file photo.
Aidex Corp. I29 & HWY370
Officials discuss the completed of the Aidex Corp. plant Tuesday while standing near a ground water measuring well that reads ground water contamination levels. From left, Jim O'Neil, United States Corp of Engineers of Fort Crook, Neb. ; Jean…
Aidex finishes toxic cleanup
The Aidex plan in 1983 when the cleanup project began. --Nonpareil file photo.
On back of photo - 1983
On back of photo - 1983
Bayliss Park Fountain
photo of Bayliss Park Fountain, lit, at night
Bayliss Park Fountain
Bayliss Park Fountain (brick, with lions); 2 children sitting on wall near it
Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning....The Bayliss Park Fountain is undergoing its initial stages of spring cleaning Wednesday, as park employee Norman Hensley[?] works on the top level. The fountain will be given a fresh spray coat as soon as a clean up is complete. …
Touch-Up Time
The fountain in Bayliss park gets a new coat of paint from city park employee Robert Hemmingsen. Plans to replace the landmark with a modern centerpiece have been set aside for this season. [accessed from NewsBank search of Council Bluffs Daily…