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CROP event set to go on Sunday
Signing Pledge Sheet...is the Rev. Clifford Ruff, pastor of Peace Church of the Brethren for Wanita Green, 14m and Mike Green, 15, for the Sunday CROP bike and hike for world hunger. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Junior Green, 2205 S. 10th…
Great Plains Beef To Build $2 Million Addition
Construction Of A New Facility . . . for boxed beef storage and handling, shown at the far left of this artist's conception, will begin Monday at Great Plains Beef. The $2 million facility, when completed in January, will employ about 50 people and…
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.
Victor Iowa Pack To Close Plant - Announcement 'Shocks' C.B. Officials
Scheduled To Close . . . is the Victor Iowa Pack pork plant at 2700 Twenty-third Ave. Company officials say operations will cease next week. The photo shows the back of the plant where trucks unload hogs.
Mid-June Start Set For Pork Plant
Robert Peterson, IBP Inc. chairman, shakes the hand of Gov. Terry Branstad during a Saturday press conference. Branstad was on hand for the plant reopening announcement and subsequent tour.
Bluffs Plant Reopens As 325 Report To Work
IBP Inc. employees were ready for work Tuesday morning. About 200 reported for hog slaughtering operations at the plant, located at 2700 Twenty-third Ave. IBP announced reopening plans in March, but a targeted mid-June starting date was delayed to…
Lawmakers Restrict Grants To Companies
A worker at the IBP pork plant in Council Bluffs processes meat. State legislators have been critical of a grant to the firm for the plant.
Lottery Grant Provides 200 New IBP Inc. Jobs
The IBP plant at 2700 23rd Ave. in Council Bluffs is one of the company's three pork slaughtering and processing sites in Iowa. IBP officials used a $738,000 Iowa community economic betterment account grant to increase the work force at the plant by…
Culver's Oil Check Plan Is Approved
John Culver
Culver Would Offer Refuge To Novelist
Rep. John Culver
Senator's wife has two reasons for visit
Mrs. Culver
Culver: Farmer can't bear conservation load
Discussing The Need...for more government support of farmers who take part in soil conservation programs are Robert Young, Pottawattamie County farmer, and U.S. Sen. John Culver, D-Iowa. Culver and area soil conservationists met at Young's farm to…
Voters to face many choices Tuesday
John Culver
Crowl, Richard D. "Rick" Jr.
Crowl, Richard D. "Rick" Jr.
attorney
attorney
Crowl gives staff wish list to supervisors
Richard D. Crowl
Harlan Wants New Business - And Goes Out To Get It -'Operation Pork' Launched Thursday Morning
Turning Into Lane . . . leading to the Robert Lansmann farm east of Harlan are 'Operation Pork' canvassers Leon Emory and Bill Lewis.
Hulking Pork Plant
The Western Iowa Pork Inc. plant is becoming a massive hulk against the rural horizon east of Harlan. While the building is well along, there are a few loose financial ends in the Shelby County project. Efforts to attract local investments are in the…
Western Iowa Pork Nearing Operational Stage At Harlan - Will Train Shelby County Men For Jobs . . .
Western Iowa Pork . . . will begin operations in this new plant east of Harlan in late March.
Western Iowa Pork Nearing Operational Stage At Harlan
Production Line . . . equipment is fast moving into place at the Harlan plant, which will be able to process 2,400 hogs daily.