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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

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Big Sign Tells Motorists...where to turn from eastbound Broadway to reach Second Avenue via new connection near Thirty-sixth Street. Nonpareil photo by Jack Kennedy.

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The Second Baptist Church, Avenue B and Twenty-second street, began as a mission in 1889...
[Photo retouched]

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This section of East Omaha, just east of the Pottawattamie county line, looked like a scene from Venice as the Nonpareil's aerial photographer swept over it Saturday afternoon.

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Beefland International will keep guards on duty at the plant on a 24-hour basis. All vehicles are checked at the main gate of the $4 million plus beef processing operation here.

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Making Transparencies . . . for overhead projectors is discussed by Richard Fetrow, director of the Iowa School for the Deaf media center, and student Robert Sly, a senior from Des Moines. Students from art classes help out at the center, which is in…

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Sketch Of Plans . . . for the Golden Spike monument. The drawing at left shows how the Junior Chamber of Commerce will beautify the grounds. The sketch at right is a perspective of the monument.

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Talking Politics . . . are Harold Beckman, Pottawattamie County Republican chairman, and Rep. Ben F. Jensen.

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Independent Insurance Agents Wednesday presented a defibrillator unit to the Council Bluffs Emergency Care Division, in memory of the late Ben Seldin, a longtime agent. Larry Hazelwood and Wayne McCunn, paramedics, examine the equipment with Ted…

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En Route To Court . . . is Mrs. Marian E. Keller, accompanied by Sheriff Roy O. Wichael.

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George Steinberg has announced sale of Steinberg grocery at 1428 West Broadway to the state to make way for the Broadway viaduct. Sale pdice[sic] was $24,500, the figure set by the viaduct appraisal board;.

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Bourke B. Hickenlooper . . . former Republican senator from Iowa who had spent 24 years in the Senate, died Saturday in New York.

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Dee Jepsen . . . wife of U.S. Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa, signs a copy of her new book for John Hartog of Carter Lake at the Living Word Wednesday afternoon.

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This Famous Home . . . at 605 Third St. still looks much the same on the outside as it did when Gen. Grenville M. Dodge moved in 89 years ago. Now it is an apartment house.

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Reception Room Today . . . shows little resemblance to the past. Only one piece of the original furniture remains, the long, low buffet with its immense mirror that covered nearly half a wall.

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In Former Days . . . the main reception room entertained many of the most prominent figures of the nineteenth century - U.S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley - to name a few.

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Acting Postmaster Thomas Healy represents Council Bluffs postal employees in paying tribute to Gerald W. Kirn. He vacated the postmaster's job Dec. 29 after 21 months of service. Kirn received a briefcase and scroll signed by employees in a ceremony…

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Old Pierce Street School...what should be done with it? Noting broken windows and general disrepair, one Board member says it has "become an eyesore."

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About 8,500 of sand was packed around the six dynamite charges on the bridge as a precaution against destructive concussion. Workmen were hoisted to the top of the west end of the span to complete the packing shortly before the detonation.

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Finishing Touches . . . require more care and are slowing down progress. Four of the builders, Lynell J. McIntosh, Bill Jorgensen, Earl Christiansen and George Jorgensen, were at work Saturday.

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The "Boss" . . . active Mrs.…
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