Browse Items (5700 total)
- Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives
Sort by:
New IPALCO Plant to Open This Week - Ipalco To Use Coal, Gas In Producing Electricity
This Giant Pulverizer . . . will reduce coal to a fine dust capable of producing a 2,000-degree heat necessary to make steam in the plant's boiler. Coal comes down pipes at top from hopper on roof. There are four such crushers, but only two or…
New IPALCO Plant to Open This Week - Ipalco To Use Coal, Gas In Producing Electricity
Switching Structure . . . as viewed from inside the control station. Power can be sent to 56 Soutwest Iowa towns by throwing small wall switches. Don Snyder of 3539 Fourth Ave., a dispatcher, is at left.
New IPALCO Plant to Open This Week - Ipalco To Use Coal, Gas In Producing Electricity
Power Source . . . is this combination turbine-generator located near the top of the building. The turbine, left, turns a shaft which protrudes into the generator at right. Both units were not entirely assembled when this picture was taken. Total…
New Jail Will Mean Efficiency
A New Cell Module . . . in the Pottawattamie County Jail is viewed by Sheriff Lynn ford. Each of the cellblocks will be color-coded for easy identification in case of emergency. At night, prisoners will move from their common areas to individual…
New library for school; Carter Lake expands
Carter Lake School...will have room to expand this fall because the seventh and eighth graders will be going to Wilson School. Officials hope to use several of the rooms for a library and others for expansion of the special education programs. it…
New library still on 'wish list'
Computers are a part . . . of the Council Bluffs Free Public Library now, but may be more visible in the future. Dan Kubick uses a computer to list books in the library's card catalogue. The card information is sent to Ohio via computer and the…
New Look For Fairmount Lodge
The Fairmount Lodge, heavily damaged by fire last year, has been remodeled into an entirely new-looking structure. The top portion of the lodge has been made into an open-air patio with fireplace. Iron railing has been added. The lower level was…
New Look For Fairmount Lodge
Park Commissioner Charles Hannan . . . strides past KOIL Point in Fairmount Park where the Park Board hopes to construct another lodge. The new lodge, to be built with a gift from a Council Bluffs woman and insurance money from the old lodge, will…
New Machine Does Blood Count Tests
Operating Machine . . . which makes complete and accurate blood count is Dr. M.H. Kulesh and Miss Rannells Phyliss at Jennie Edmundson Hospital.
New Minister Arrives At First Christian Church - First Sermon Sunday
Admiring End Table . . . is Pastor Richard D. Hogan, his wife, and children, David, Dan and Diane. The table was made for them by Mrs. Hogan's father.
New Ministers At Two C.B. Churches
The Rev. Lowell L. Lubben . . . and wife Dorothy are noting duties at their new church, Faith Lutheran.
New Offices
Motive power and car shops offices have been combined in new quarters at the Chicago and North Western Railroad diesel shop building on Avenue G. Miss Letha Wadley, general clerk, works at her desk. Former quarters occupied by the two offices were…
New Outpatient Concept For Patients At Jennie
Serving Coffee . . . in lounge to an oncology patient's husband, Arthur C. Woolman of Oakland, is Wanda Hessel, a Jennie Edmundson Hospital volunteer.
New Plant: 450 Workers, Payroll Of $7.5 Million
Welcoming . . . Ben Goehring, president of Goehring Meat Inc., to Council Bluffs is Mayor David Christiansen, standing. Gov. Robert Ray also attended the press conference held at Lakeshore Country Club.
New Plate Features Dodge
A Dodge House Collector's Plate . . . is now available in the gift store at the Gen. Dodge House. The plate features pictures relating to Gen. Dodge, his life and his work.
New Pool, Fountain May Bubble By Fall
Bayliss Park Fountain...will send a frothy film of water 40 feet into the air, then decorate it with lesser jet streams and bubblers. This is an artist's concept of how the project will look when plaza, planters and walks are completed. Park Board…
New Power For CGW
Edward T. Reity, president of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company, accepts delivery of one of eight powerful new diesels the line is placing into service this month from R.L. Terrell (on left), vice president of General Motors and general…
New Rest Areas
Travelers along Interstate Highway 29 just south of Council Bluffs take a breather during their driving at one of the two newly opened rest area facilities. Each includes restrooms, picnic areas and a tourist information guide, showing travelers…
New Rest Stops Thoroughly Modern - Loveland Spot On Interstate 80
Inside Looking Out . . . is attendant Bob Millett, who checks tourist information on folding display board at the Loveland rest stop on Interstate 80. From this workshop he can view the parking area, still coated in winter white, through the window.
New Restaurant Opening Planned
Ready To Open . . . is King's Food Host, which has done extensive remodeling on it s building, an old theater.