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Permit Granted For Interstate 80 Span; $5.5 Million Project
This Is A Drawing...of the Interstate 80 bridge which will carry traffic between the southwest part of Council Bluffs and Spring Street in Omaha. The Omaha side is in the foreground.
Pet Chicken Learns To Walk On Wooden Leg; The Whiligig
Wooden Leg...is worn by hen, pet of John Ege.
Peterson School Has 'California' Motif
Light and Airy: Abandoning the customary monumental design of earlier school construction, the new 13-room Peterson grade school was given a "California" motif. The structure at Twenty-sixth Ave. and Ninth St., photographed from the northeast, is…
Petitions Ask Immediate City Action To Halt Odor
Youngsters On Avenue B . . . were stopping motorists Wednesday and asking them to sign a petition which calls for immediate action on odors in the city's west side.
Phone System At Hancock May Go Dial
This Is It . . . all the wires and gadgets needed to run a telephone company, a small one like the one at Hancock. But soon this tiny, independently-owned operation may be part of the past, if its stockholders vote to put in a direct dial system.
Phone System At Hancock May Go Dial
This House In Downtown Hancock . . . includes a small telephone office at the left and an apartment on the right occupied by the night operator. When the night operator goes to bed, she connects a bell that rings in her apartment when someone wants…
Physics Students Learnin [sic] By Doing
St. Albert Physics Students...construct a geodesic dome which will be used like a dome in a planetarium. Their first attempt, to which they used only metal fasteners, collapsed half-way through construction. The second time around hope string will…
Picket IC Railroad
Henry Watkins, 3437 Eighth Ave., a switchman, and K.J. Buhman, 310 Park Ave., engineer, Friday stand picket duty at Thirteenth Street and Avenue G. About 26 members of United Transportation Union Local 520 have joined some 4,000 workers in 14 states…
Pierce Scool [sic]
Pierce Scool [sic]...long a Council Bluffs landmark, is schedule for demolition sometime in the near future. The 70-year old structure may make way for a modern steel cottage-type school building.
Pinochle Players Have Own 'Home" At Elliott
This "Pinochle Palace" . . . in Elliott may well be the only building of its kind. Built by public subscription expressly for the use of the pinochle players, it is maintained by donations.
Pint-Size Park
Newly planted trees, shrubs and flower beds decorate the city's newest and smallest park. It occupies the east edge of the Viaduct parking lot at Eighth and Broadway. The camera points toward the Eighth and Broadway intersection.
Pit bull's owner glad dog is home from pound
Cindy and Amanda Biggs with pit bull, Shooter
Place Of Worship Under Construction - Pastor's Creation
This Modernistic Church . . . is nearing completion, only interior work remains to be done and when weather permits, exterior landscaping. The edifice has a charger waiting for a list of its first members.
Plan 25-Room Grade School at the Second Avenue Site
The Second Floor Plan...calls for 12 classrooms and a large library. The combination gymnasium-auditorium at the east end would be a half=story below the second floor of the rest of the building because of the semi-basement rooms below it.
Plan 25-room Grade School at the Second Avenue Site
The First Floor Plan...calls for 12 classrooms. In addition to the manual training, domestic science and lunch rooms in the east wing. This wing would be constructed in a semi-basement fashion to provide for a boiler room and ease construction…
Plan 25-room Grade School at the Second Avenue Site
The Proposed Second Avenue School...would face Third avenue on the present Second Avenue school site. The 25-room brick structure would connect with the present cottage, shown at right, which would be remodeled and used as a primary unit. The…
Plan Conversion Of Chieftain Into Retirement Home
Hotel Chieftain . . . would be purchased by a non-profit local corporation and renovated to provide 70 apartments for the low-income elderly.
Plan Dredging Of Big Lake; Now A Slough
Just A Puddle...with a lot of weeds is the view of Big Lake north of Council Bluffs. It used to be a favorite fishing spot for Bluffs' residents.
Plans Final For SWI Food Pantry Drive
Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot
Plans For $350,000 Plant Okayed By First Christian - Groundbreaking In April
Architect's Drawing . . . of new educational unit and present First Christian Church at Scott and Mynster Streets.