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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Numbered Districts...show how Council Bluffs was divided for the 1960 population-housing survey.

Scattered wreckage...of car-truck crash which claimed two lives is examined by Iowa Highway Patrolman Larry Torrey, left, and Deputy Sheriff Ed Christensen, far right. The two vehicles came together at the dark spots at right hand corner of picture.

Inspecting Bedroom...at 3207 Sixth Avenue where the bodies of the fours children of Mrs. Richard M. Allen were found is Fire Capt. Earl Foster. The young brothers suffocated. Other Nonpareil Photo on page 12.

Warning Signs...tell motorists of approaching dangerous underpass.

Railroad Underpass...has claimed at least two lives this year.

(top) Janice Brummer, Mary Eatherton, Janet Dickerson and Vicki Hough were members of the last graduating class at Mount Loretto High School in Council Bluffs in 1965. Former students at the all-girl Catholic high school are attempting to locate…

Checking A Diploma . . . at the Mount Loretto commencement exercises are Janice Brummer, Mary Eatherton, Janet Dickerson and Vicki Hough.

Saying Goodbye . . . to Lake Manawa by taking a walk along its shore are Park Ranger Gary Silver and his three daughters, Amy, Rachel and Cindy. Silver is being transferred to Ledges State Park near Boone after six years of managing Lake Manawa State…

Looking As It Did...when placed in 1919, file photo shows memorial statue with water rushing from bowl. Fountain may be repaired this year. Sculptor Daniel Chester French once said the sculpture was his finest work.

Covered With Paint . . . is one indignity memorial statue has sustained at hands of vandals. Inaccessibility and vandalism are reasons sometimes cited for moving Dodge Memorial from present location near Fairview Cemetery. But city officials hope…

David Mitchell: The story of his articles on the Synanon group is the basis for a movie. (1970 photo)

Cleaning And Checking . . . film breaks before sending it out on loan is Janet Kellenberger, Deaf Missions librarian. She helps with the technical aspects and cares for the more than 750 materials in the mission library.

John Nelson
John Nelson . . . at his insurance office at the Midlands Mall. He plans to move out of community work and spend more time with his business.

It's a big job moving a factory from one location to another. Movers prepare to lower a 110-ton punch press in the new Giant Manufacturing Co. plant at 3211 Nebraska Ave. The move started Sept. 1 and will be completed before Oct. 1, says Don L.…

Interstate 80N continues to be pushed west across Pottawattamie County with work on the super-road now under way at Loveland. Thousands of cubic yards of dirt are being moved by Treiber Construction Co. of Danbury from bluffs to the bottomland to…

The Church of the Brethren...at 810 Avenue E was established 40 years ago.

Mr. Silhouette: Harold Beckman, 600 Roosevelt Ave., is an attorney and chairman of the Pottawattamie County Central Republican Committee.
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